Posted on 11/11/2012 5:07:22 PM PST by Eleutheria5
In response to statements by Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas that he would not demand the “right of return” for PA Arabs to the homes that their grandparents and great-grandparents abandoned in the State of Israel – statements Abbas later reneged on – Hamas has issued its own document on the matter. Even if the PA as a matter of policy were to agree not to demand that nearly all the Jews of Israel be thrown out of their homes to accommodate the descendants of “refugees,” Hamas said it wold never agree to such a plan – and any concessions Israel makes in return for the removal of the “right of return” from PA demands would be irrelevant, as far as the Gaza terror group was concerned.
In an interview with Channel Two, Abbas said last week that he was “a Palestinian refugee from Tzefat. I would like to visit there but I don't want to live there. All we want is to establish an independent Palestinian state in the areas Israel occupied in 1967 with East Jerusalem as its capital.” The statement raised a firestorm in Arab media for its implied concession on the “right of return,” the demand that PA Arabs be allowed to return to the homes and land their ancestors abandoned in 1948, when the State was established. Abbas later backtracked, saying that the statement was a “personal point of view,” but that he had never intended to give the impression that he was compromising on demands that the descendants of refugees have the right to evict Jews from their homes in Israel and take them over. The Hamas statement said that “the territory of Palestine is 27,027 square kilometers,” an area that takes into account the entire Land of Israel....
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This is the end of Hamas. They are only appealing to the grumpy old Arab guy. They need to embrace gay marriage and a few hundred thousand Guatamalan day laborers in downtown Gaza. They will get nowhere without reaching across the aisle.
Gee, I wonder where they learned that phrasing.....obama?
Gee, Hamas sounds just like Dingy Reid. Wonder who has been giving who lessons?
No more war - they would love that, right? The Palestinians could plant their own trees, build irrigation systems and make the desert bloom with success and beauty.
Or the Palestyinians could squat on their new land, drink tea, beat up their women and complain forever that it's the Joo’s fault.
I have no idea which they would choose... I would hope they would do what the Israelis did ... wouldn't that be wonderful?
Oh well, that’s settled. Weapons free, Israel.
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Saddam Hussein gave Kuwait to the Palestinians but they couldn’t hold it
The areas “occupied” in 1967 are, of course, the heart of Biblical Israel.
LOL - yeah, good one bert.
Behold, He who keeps Israel
Shall neither slumber nor sleep. (Psalm 121:4)
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