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Abbas: We won't recognize Israel as Jewish state

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Bob Levin8/29/2011 1:30:23 pm PDT

Ladies and gentlemen, I believe we have someone in the discussion whose knowledge of the Middle East is based on learnin’ from the BBC.

How can we tell?

1. There is a twisted concept of the way that Americans think.

2. Mercury-like definitions of Jewish. Is it a religion, it is an ethnicity? Depends on the point that you’re trying to make.

3. A virtual complete ignorance of Jewish history (in which oddly, Europe played a large role).

4. An almost blissful ignorance of Antisemitism.

5. And the same blissful ignorance of the history of the Middle East, outside of a few bromides about the exiled Palestinians.

6. He’s a half-step away from saying that the State of Israel is based on the theory of Eugenics.

7. And it’s pointless to argue with someone who has rolling definitions and blissful ignorance.