Indeed, the Palestinians deny that the Jews ever lived in Israel. That is why Yasser Arafat could not even admit that Jesus was a Jew; rather, according to Arafat, “Jesus was a Palestinian.” To acknowledge that Jesus was a Jew would mean that Jews lived in Israel thousands of years ago, in a Jewish state, moreover — long before Muslims existed, long before Arabs moved there, and millennia before anyone called himself a Palestinian.
In the Palestinian president’s speech to the United Nations last week, this denial of Jewish history was reaffirmed. Thus, in a speech about Israel and the Palestinians, he never once uttered the word “Jew” or “Jewish.”
Here is an example of Abbas’s Jew-free view of the history of Israel/Palestine:
“I come before you today from the Holy Land, the land of Palestine, the land of divine messages, ascension of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and the birthplace of Jesus Christ (peace be upon him) …”
No mention of Jews. Apparently, only Christians (Does Abbas know that Jesus was a Jew?) and Muslims have lived in “the Holy Land.” And for Abbas, the Holy Land is not Israel, it is Palestine. That it was the Jews who made that land Holy is a fact of history denied by the Palestinians.
Israel, in the Palestinian view, is an Israeli state, not a Jewish state.
As Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, wrote in The Washington Post this past Friday:
“Two Israeli peace proposals, in 2000 and 2008 … met virtually all of the Palestinians’ demands for a sovereign state in the areas won by Israel in the 1967 war — in the West Bank, Gaza and even East Jerusalem. But Palestinian President Yasser Arafat rejected the first offer and Abbas ignored the second, for the very same reason their predecessors spurned the 1947 Partition Plan.
Each time, accepting a Palestinian State meant accepting the Jewish State, a concession the Palestinians were unwilling to make.
That is the issue. Not settlements. Not boundaries. The Palestinians, like most of their fellow Arabs and like many Muslims elsewhere, have never acknowledged that the Jews came home to Israel because they have never acknowledged that the Jews ever had a national home there. And they don’t even acknowledge that the Jews are a people.
Do the Palestinians want peace? I have no doubt that they do. Just not with the Jewish state.
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This should put the final nail in the coffin of the Philistine Pals!
This is astounding! The ignorance – ance of the lineage of Jacob makes it so, Number One??? This is the winner of stupidity, unsurpassed by any other in our century, out there for all to see. Who is left who would willingly associate themselves with this, well, delusion?
The lineage of the Twelve Tribes of Israel is the embodiment of Judean and Christian way of life and thought! So, in my opinion, this kind of denial represents a mental illness.
these types of arabs are quasi medieval and murderous …the females are just as bad as the men …if not worse ..they're all potential throat cutters
I think you need to get in touch with the Jewish Virtual Library, because they think Mahmoud Abbas is awesome: http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Abbas.html
Any country supporting or recognizing Palestine amounts to recognizing that Israel has no right to exist.
Oh, who the hell cares what the Palestinians think of the Jewish state. We know most of them will never truly accept it. The only important thing is making it not matter. So let them become yet another miserable, corrupt "state" to join the legions of others in the ME. Israel still has the big guns, and that's as it should be. All those miserable Arab states know deep down that if they try to seriously f**k with the Jewish state they will get what's coming to them. Also as it should be. Neighbours don't have to love each other. In the end what keeps the peace is the better neighbour having bigger and better firepower. We forget this at our peril.
Palestine is seeking recognition as a state. They are already recognized as a nation under international law; however, they do not have any land to call their own. Under Resolution 242, Israel has already withdrawn from more than 90% of the land they seized by winning in war. The Arab League, starting in 1967 continuing on today, refuses to allow any land for the Palestinians, refusal, not just in violation of Resolution 242, but in violation of decent human dignity and of the Palestinian people themselves.
http://msmignoresit.blogspot.com/2011/09/palestin…