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Abbas: We won't recognize Israel as Jewish state

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John Carroll8/29/2011 2:09:34 pm PDT

re: #30 Sergey Romanov

> Okay, which lets very little room for NON-JEWS to become citizens of Israel,

That’s Israel’s business.

Perhaps, but their stance is not one likely to make peace with Palestinians. That’s MY business as long as my country is involved in support of Israel.

They’re called Israeli Arabs (among some other groups) and they’re full citizens. If you meant Palestinians on the occupied territories, then it’s not Israel that “has” them.

Which proves my point. It would be laughable to call Israeli Arabs “Jewish.” For Palestinian negotiators to call Israel a Jewish state is to say that Israeli Arabs really aren’t a part of that state, much less the people who would come under a hypothetical “right of return” policy (which of necessity would have to be a rather small group).