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By David Singer, published 22/1/2014According to Mahmoud Abbas 'Israel's problem is that the Palestinians know more than the Israelis about history and geography...We talk about what we know.'
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Posted by david singer, Thursday, 23 January 2014 12:46:12 PM
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Israel does not need to wade through all written agreements since 1922. The Arab world needs to wake up to their reality and accept them as binding in international law.
#Prompete
Israel's insistence that it be recognised as the Jewish State by the PLO is specifically demanded because the PLO refuses to recognise that Jews are entitled to reconstitute the Jewish National Home in former Palestine - as unanimously endorsed by the League of Nations and the United nations Charter.
#Mac and #Yuyutsu
No better definition exists of a Jewish State than that given by David Ben Gurion to the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine at Lake Success New York on the 7 July 1947:
“What is the meaning of a Jewish State? As I told you before, a Jewish State does not mean one has to be a Jew. It means merely a State-where the Jews are in the majority, otherwise all the citizens have the same status. If the State were called by the name “Palestine,” - I said if - then all would be Palestinian citizens If the State would be given, another name - I think it would be given another name - because Palestine is neither a Jewish nor an Arab name. As far as the Arabs are concerned, and we have the evidence of the Arab historian, Hitti, that there was no such a thing as “Palestine” at all: Palestine is not an Arab name. Palestine is also not a Jewish name. When the Greeks were our enemies, in order not to annoy the Jews, they gave different names to the streets. So, maybe the name of Palestine will be changed. But whatever the name of the country, every citizen of the country will be a citizen. This is what we mean. This is what we have to mean. We cannot conceive that in a State where we are not in a minority, where we have the main responsibilities as the majority of the country, there should be the slightest discrimination between a Jew and a non-Jew.”