Opinion  Ben-Dror Yemini
The new Palestinian people
Ben-Dror Yemini
Published: 15.02.16, 13:16
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1. People ?
Xplay   (02.15.16)
There is 10 millions of palestinian refugees and you are living on their land. You came from around the world and you stole their land. Call them what you want.
2. Truth is rarely heard.
Gabe ,   Canada   (02.15.16)
The present Government of the State of Israel should brake from weaknesses of the past and affirm the historical rights over the Land of Israel. It is the duty of the Government to protect the rights of the Jews.
3. AIDS is a 'new' disease too
BUILD BABY BUILD !!!   (02.15.16)
doesn't make it any less deadly as with the pals delusional notion that somehow, they own Jewish Israel. Arab pals belong in Arabia. Jews belong in Jewish Israel. KEEP BUILDING !!!
4. 3 states for 2 peoples is more than enough
Jake ,   USA   (02.15.16)
The former territory of Palestine consists of 3 present day entities. Jordan=Arab state Gaza=Arab state Israel=Jewish state So there is a new Palestinian people. Their claims surely do no supersede the ancient Jewish claim. Their state need not exist West of the Jordan, only perhaps an autonomy linked to the East Bank. This is if we want peace rather than Israel under fire for the next century. The One State Solution is not crazy, it could work if Israel finds resolute leaders to implement it. The best possible scenario is a 2 state confederation between Israel and Jordan. One grants Jews citizenship the other grants Arabs citizenship. Both citizen groups are permitted to live anywhere in the confederacy. No population transfer needed, only an Arab willingness to actually make peace.
5. Hasbara
James   (02.15.16)
No Palestine? What does the torah say? Exodus 15:14-16 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina The peoples have've heard, They tremble; pangs have taken hold on the inhabitants of Philistia. Isaiah 14:29 Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent. Joel 3:4 What have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Sidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? The first clear use of the term Palestine to refer to the entire area between Phoenicia and Egypt was in 5th century BC Ancient Greece,[7][8] when Herodotus wrote of a "district of Syria, called Palaistinê In the treatise Meteorology c.340 BCE, Aristotle wrote, "there is a lake in Palestine” c.150 BCE: Polemon of Athens, Greek Histories, quoted by Eusebius of Caesarea in Praeparatio Evangelica: "In the time [reign] of Apis son of Phoroneus a part of the Egyptian army was expelled from Egypt, who took up their abode not far from Arabia in the part of Syria called Palestine"
6. There is a need for Palestinian people, therefore they exist
Michael ,   California, USA   (02.15.16)
7. To no 5
Brett ,   Florida   (02.15.16)
My Torah says Philstia. As in Philistines, the enemy of Israel.
8. People: STOP this nonsense! Only a decisive war will finally
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(but only temporarily) put Arabs in their place & on a "path to peace". All the musings about this or that gesture made towards Islamofascists are void of any real-world values.
9. End mad Israeli support & "Palestine" is toast!
Chaim ,   Israel   (02.16.16)
Only the mad flow of Israeli food, money, electricity, work permits, materials etc. keeps the evil fiction of "Palestine" alive. End this mad Israeli support and "Palestine" is toast within a month.
10. Erasing Peoplehood
David Katz ,   United States   (02.19.16)
There are no Americans because there are no biblical Americans? No wonder they hate you.
11. Wrong. They have ZERO legitimacy as a movement. ZERO
Jake   (07.01.16)
Not all nationalist movements have legitimacy.

When the heroes of a movement murder children in their sleep they have no legitimacy as a movement. Its over. Ben Dror Yemini is an open minded person but this is one case where its black and white. We are legitimate and they are not.
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