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Abbas: We won't recognize Israel as Jewish state

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John Carroll8/29/2011 2:13:12 pm PDT

re: #32 Dark_Falcon

Okay, though the fiddly bit is when people like Avigdor Lieberman question whether Israeli Arabs should be citizens. This isn’t just some quack ranting on the web…this is the current foreign minister.

Calling it a “jewish homeland” still grates to those who view that land as their home as well. It certainly was - demonstrably - for thousands of years, even though 2000 years ago, it was clearly a jewish homland.

Some kind of middle ground needs to be reached, and sorry, making displaced people declare their support for the notion of a jewish homeland on land that was THEIRS for thousands of years is ridiculous.

That, quite frankly, is the original point of my post at the very top of this thread.