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Netanyahu: You can't have Palestinian state alongside bi-national state
Omri Efraim
Published: 04.05.14, 13:20
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1. You Can't Have A "Palestinian" State At All
Yishai Kohen ,   YeShA, Israel   (05.04.14)
Not here in OUR land; the tiny 1/10th of 1% of the Middle East that is the land of Israel. Feel free to make it in the other 99.9% of the Middle East that the Arabs occupy.
2. For the past 66 years it has been clear to us, Israelis...
N.L.Katz ,   Qatzrin, Israel   (05.04.14)
... that the State of Israel has been the liberal democratic and sovereign nation-state of the Jewish people. Some, Arabs and even the Obama White House, have been attempting to undermine this reality. To ensure that legally this is the case, Israel is, indeed, in the need for a Basic Law - the collection of which laws is the equivalent of a constitution - that would state the above directly and clearly, that: The State of Israel is the liberal democratic and sovereign nation-state of the Jewish people. Only those who are eager to undermine Israel's right to be, to exist as such would oppose to such a basic law, and guess who they are...!!
3. Palestinian State
Zechariah   (05.04.14)
A Palestinian State would be a state of Arabs predominantly Islam in Gaza almost 100% Islam yet Israel cannot be a Jewish State according to the Islam and Ultraleft and Neonazis in an Unholy Alliance .Internationalist Socialism has not succeeded due to human nature .
4. Let it be clear to Pals there will be no right of return
Sam ,   Canada   (05.04.14)
Let it be clear to the Palestinians that there will be no right of return and that they will not have Israeli citizenship. Israel is not going to hand the country over to them which is what they are waiting for.Let it be clear to Palestinians that if and when they come to negotiate peace it is not for 2 Palestinian states or 1 Palestinian state over Israel and the West Bank.
5. Stupid politicians..........
Mike Carmel ,   Rishon le Zion   (05.04.14)
Politicians like Bibi are always thinking of their own survival without considering the serious implications of some of their suggestions. This law is dynamite to future generations which will anyway suffer from the large increase in the religious orthodox population. Bibi's empty promises about democratic rights for every citizen will be put to the test when Bibi is about 90 years old, when the ruling orthodox parties decide to throw democracy out of the window because they have this Jewish constitutionary notion to support their anti-democratic behavior. This law will also give them carte blanche to persecute ALL non-Jews, meaning not just Arabs but ALL non-Jews and make people's lives a misery. So why do we need this absurd piece of legislation now? What possible use is it to anyone?
6. Exactly what needs to be done!
Son Of Cyrus ,   UK   (05.04.14)
Jerusalem is the eternal and undivided Capital of the State of Israel. All Jews must be allowed to become Israeli Citizen on demand. Israel must ensure the survival of Jewish Heritage, Culture, Civilization and way of life and values.
7. True face of Netanyhu finally revealed: expel Palestinians
EUgirl ,   EU   (05.04.14)
Kerry was wrong, Israel will not become apartheid state. Israel ALREADY IS apartheid state.
8. What are the borders of our "Democratic" Jewish State?
Houston Jew ,   Houston, Texas   (05.04.14)
Active distraction from making necessary real decisions, hence our current unsustainable status quo quickly becomes our shameful history. Not consistent with Judaic or American values, hence not smart ...
9. Jewish Character
James ,   USA   (05.04.14)
Failure of the Arabs to recognize Israel as a Jewish state during negotiations simply led to the obvious. If they fail as a third party to recognize Israel as Jewish, than the first party, in control of the lands will simply take control of defining itself. The question that must be asked is, what took so long? If there are Jews in the government that object, then they are not Jews at all and should return to slavery.
10. When Israel will become a Jewish state
Chaim ,   Israel   (05.04.14)
run according to Torah, like Jews ought to live by, the Arabs and the Livnis and Lapids and even the UN will finally recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Until then, Bibi's talk and "basic law" is nothing but hypocritical and had no right throwing the Arabs out of the land. Regarding democracy, well as far as we all know, Israel is supposed to be a democracy but it never was according to the majority of the public. In short, Israel at the moment is neither democratic nor Jewish.
11. #3 Palestine is a pluralist entity, always has been
Lynx ,   Palestine   (05.04.14)
Zakariah Your statement that Palestine or even the Gaza strip is 100% Muslim is completely false. 20% of Palestinians are either Christians, Druze, or Samarian Jews. Therefore no Palestinian leader can ever muster any political support to declare Palestine an "Islamic" state or otherwise, for that would jeopardize and insult the other religions among our people, and that is not in our tradition, we are ALL Palestinians regardless of religion, creed, or sex. Alas, Israel's Zionist founding cannot reconcile with the indigenous people, and safeguard their full national and political rights. And that is precisely the problem with Zionism - its notion that a state can be built on religious grounds, a foolish exercise in the context of the 21st century.
12. World collapsing, my latest prediction proven wrong again!
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (05.04.14)
13. "Jewish State" with 6M Jews, 9M Arabs, not going to happen
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (05.04.14)
14. Big myth
Robert   (05.04.14)
Jews as a race or ethnic group.
15. Call your state: the apartheid state of israel os that it
Why?   (05.04.14)
becomes racist BY LAW and critics will end since it is BY LAW. A democratic and jewish LAW.
16. South africa used to be the white afrikaners state.
Why?   (05.04.14)
Now the most racist of them have gone back to their countries. Nothig new here.
17. Let it be clear to Pals there will be no right of return
Sam ,   Canada   (05.04.14)
Let it be clear to the Palestinians that there will be no right of return and that they will not have Israeli citizenship. Israel is not going to hand the country over to them which is what they are waiting for.Let it be clear to Palestinians that if and when they come to negotiate peace it is not for 2 Palestinian states or 1 Palestinian state over Israel and the West Bank.
18. Israel Jewish State
Steve Gure ,   Coconut Creek, USA   (05.04.14)
The 'Law of Return' is the basis under which Israel was created. It specificaly states that Israel is a state for the Jews and therefore it is a Jewish state. Nothing more is needed.
19. # 1 Yishai Kohen News Flash
Nancy   (05.04.14)
Your going to be living in one soon -Enjoy
20. Israel is Jewish state as long as it is Jewish
Harri ,   EU   (05.04.14)
If you annex West Bank, there will be Muslim Arab majority in Israel in less than 30 years. Then Israel is no more Jewish no matter what your law says. ...But for your current government, it is problem of your children. And maybe your next generation will be wiser and learn to live in peace with the native population. Who knows.
21. # 1 Amen to that!
BUILD BABY BUILD !!!   (05.04.14)
Israel is for Jews period. All others are either invited or uninvited guests. Annexation of all disputed areas and... Repatriate all pals to Jordan. ALWAYS BUILDING JEWISH HOMES!!!!
22. Dozens of ethnic nations states exist across the globe...
Alexander ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (05.04.14)
...and they encompass Russia, most European countries, Israel, Turkey, Iran, most Arab states, China, Mongolia, both Koreas, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam - just to mention a few examples. ALL of these countries - including countries such as Germany, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Ireland, Finland and Netherlands, have ethnic and cultural minorities - yet the host nations are never required to sacrifice their ethno-national character to cater to the democratic rights of the minorities. Their ethno-national character is not considered to be "undemocratic" and it is implicitly understood that the foreigners aren't really real Germans, real Dutchmen, real Swedes or real Danes. And it is implicitly understood that the minorities are required to accept their status as foreign nations and cultures living in a host nation which is neither their national homeland nor the home of their ancestors. Only Israel is required to commit suicide because we are a Jewish state. It's hypocritical of Israel's and the Jewish people's enemies to require Israel to commit national suicide - yet more than 2 billion people across Asia, Russia, Middle East, Africa and Europe can live DAILY in ethno-nation states, where the host population - and majority population, OWNS the land, SETS THE TONE and IDENTITY of THEIR country, SINCE ITS THEIR ANCESTRAL HOMELAND, and this is FULLY ACCEPTED by the "world community" and yet Israel's character as a Jewish/Israeli/Israelite/Judean/Hebrew nation state is regarded as "racist". The only racism is denying the Jews a state of their own (where non-Jews are eternal guests and foreigners - even those with Israeli citizenship - just like I was an eternal guest and foreigner in the European country I was born in - but Israel's enemies apply double standards)- a Jewish state in OUR ancestral JEWISH homeland which belongs only to us and not to anyone else. The EXACT same conditions apply to the national character of Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands, Austria, Italy and Greece - just to mention a few examples. Israel's existence isn't the conflict but the racist hatred and racist opposition to our right to exist - is the real conflict. As if Israel's existence needs to be "sacrificed" to achieve "world peace". Strange that 2billion people living in ethnic nation states across Asia, Africa, Middle East, Russia and Europe aren't required to commit national suicude for the sake of "world peace". The political, ideological and diplomatic pressure against Israel as a Jewish State reveals that the intentions of Israel's enemies stink to the high heavens. But they "aren't anti-Semitic" and Jewish charges of anti-Semitism is a way of dodging "criticism" - that is harsh racist anti-Semitic hatred aimed at destroying the Jewish people - right? Tanks, fighter jets, missiles, concentration camps, Holocausts, Spanish Inquisitions and Russian pogroms and Arab wars, were used to undermine Israel's existence as a Jewish state and the very existence of the Jewish people in the past. Today, Israel's enemies engage in pseudo-intellectual debates at universities and "cultural institutions" of Israel's right to exist. Words or weapons - what difference does it make? The goal of the EU, Russia and the Moslem World and of the Obama Administration is to destroy and undermine Israel and the Jewish people. It won't happen of course, but it needs to be stated nonetheless.
23. nation-state of the Jewish people
chris (munich)   (05.04.14)
Would it not be polite to ask the world's Jews first if this is OK?
24. 12 not mine.
Steve Benassi ,   Silver Bay, MN USA   (05.04.14)
25. #14 Even bigger myth
A ,   Belgium   (05.04.14)
Robert being a member of the human race, perhaps the bonobos would care to adopt you as one of their own.
26. #11 "Palestine is a pluralist entity" LIAR! Druze in Gaza?
A ,   Belgium   (05.04.14)
You may as well claim that Hindus and Buddhists and Homosexuals live peacefully in Gaza too. What a bunch of crap! Which moslems in your "national unity" government are going to be tossed off of the rooftops this time?
27. Netanyahu is right
M.Ludwig ,   Belgium   (05.04.14)
The Palestinians want the cake and also to eat it.A Palestinian State that in die history never exist and from Israel so much as possible.
28. #14 a bigger myth
(05.04.14)
Robert as a human being or any form of intelligent life
29. In lieu of a formal constitution
bill ,   skokie usa   (05.04.14)
The negotiating teams should be drawing up a constitution, led by justice minister Livini this falls under jurisdiction I think. There is never going to be two states we all know this so its time to start drawing up a constitution that both sides can live with, assure their aspirations and equal rights.
30. To nr 23 Ok to do what? To exist? LOL!
Alexander ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (05.04.14)
Wouldn't it be polite to ask all exile-Germans across USA and Latin America whether or not Germany should be the nation-state of the German people? Maybe exile Germans and others will feel offended that Germany is the nation state of the German people.
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