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Abbas: We won't recognize Israel as Jewish state

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John Carroll8/29/2011 2:24:36 pm PDT

re: #31 Sergey Romanov

Missed this post in the midst of my responses:

You’ve repeated that strange idea that someone here suggested to Arabs to call themselves Jewish several times already. That’s a stupid strawman.

So what, then, is the point of asking Palestinians to call their former homeland a “jewish state”? You’re right, they aren’t asking them explicitly to call themselves jewish. But living in the Jewish homeland for people who felt like they were shoved off their own homeland is, again, a heck of a lot to ask for.

It’s one thing to ask that they accept the right to exist of Israel. For them to call it the Jewish homeland is an insult.