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PLO official: Palestine should be free of Jews
Yitzhak Benhorin
Published: 15.09.11, 00:42
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61. PALESTINIANISM IS RACISM
steve ,   usa   (09.14.11)
how's that for that blowhard Abbas' UN resolution?
62. The TRUE Apartheid State
Larry ,   Farmington Mi USA   (09.14.11)
Hmm...lets see...In Israel, Israeli-Arabs serve in the Parliment, can vote, own property, go to University, serve as professionals in healthcare, get full police and IDF protection, can travel and worship freely...just to name a few...and in a future "state" of Palestine, NO JEWS would be ALLOWED ANYWHERE...I see..so, which is the APARTHEID STATE?
63. What are you talking about?
Oleg ,   USA   (09.14.11)
What state? What palestine? What nation? those bunch of criminals are arabs and should live in arab land: Saudi Arabia, Egypt whatever. Who cares! Then and only then the peace will be achieved with arab world.
64. Pals.
Danny ,   Chile   (09.14.11)
Does this mean in german JUDENFREI, and the world will give them a country?? Hypocrats.
65. Send them a million more Arabs from Israel
Steve from Raleigh   (09.14.11)
Seems reasonable.
66.  this mean that they will release Gilad Shalit ?
israeli ,   israel   (09.14.11)
67. @ 19, the usual bigotry
Beauchard   (09.14.11)
What gibberish. I will give you a few hints. Ever heard of the old Yishuv during the Ottoman empire? Ever heard of the new Yishuv? Ever heard of the Hebron massacre? There was an account in 1929 in Haaretz. Then it was a real newspaper. Ever heard of the Jewish quarter in Jerusalem? Did you know that the PLO charter refers to "Palestinian"Jews? No, of course it does not interest you. You just want to justify any anti-Jewish act. BTW the translation of your "breathing space" in German is lebensraum. Remember, that is what Hitler wanted? I wonder why you used that term?
68. to#44 "Sam"
Marcelo ,   Berlin / DE   (09.14.11)
no moron, to get the israeli natioanlity you have to be jewish from birth, be converted or have at least one great-parent who's jewish, as the Nueremberg laws established to kill non-arian people...Your anti-israeli comment depicts how ignorant you really are...
69. What would be fair and practical from a Zionist perspective
Avramele   (09.14.11)
What he should have said is that once new borders are agreed upon settlers wishing to maintain Israeli citizenship will be repatriated to Israel and that others may apply for Palestinian citizenship to be granted on a case by case basis by the Palestinian government. The obvious trade off is that returning Palestinians can return only within the borders of Palestine. Israeli Arabs are citizens of Israel and are not subject to any change in status under an agreement and allowing dual citizenship for Arabs or Jews invites future conflict. So let's be honest and admit that the Retention of settlers in place is as unworkable as a Palestinian right of return to Israel or the expulsion of Israeli Arabs. We must seek fair compromise not some absolute justice.
70. good riddens
bari ,   nyc usa   (09.14.11)
who wants to live with them anyway? pack up all the arabs in israel and send them on their way. these people are a joke with their national identity. they don't have one because they are not a nation. they're descendants of arabs from all over the middle east. woe to the jews that some of them landed in eretz israel. i'm sick of all of them, of the european know-nothing anti-semetic politicians, jimmy carter, hillary clinton, bho, zbigniew brezinski all of them. go away and leave the jews the hell alone. got it?
71. Avramele still doesn't get it (69)
sk ,   USA   (09.15.11)
I don't stop by here much, but having seen Avramele's latest, I do need to reply. "Israeli Arabs are citizens of Israel and are not subject to any change in status under an agreement ..." There is an is/ought confusion here. Do you, Avramele, seriously suggest that a partition (which I don't support at all) based on the Jew-hatred of the Fakestinians (they can't live with any Jews in "Fakestine") should NOT be accompanied by an Israel without Fakestinians? If the Fakestinian identity requires no Jews around--if it is so full of Jew-hatred that it cannot tolerate Jews--how can you justify allowing Fakes in Israel to remain? The very logic of have no Jews in Fakestine points to the requirement to have no Fakes in Israel. Of course, I personally think there should be no Muslims in Eretz Israel, for the exact reason that "explains" why there should be no Jews in Fakestine. Get it now, Avramele?
72. 2 states my rear end
alexi   (09.14.11)
abbas and all arab idea of 2 states is one pure arab state, the other state with 20% arab with right of return to flood israel with arabs and then eventually it becomes arab state and then 2 arab states might merge or murder each other like hamas and fatah do. it depends on the whether and who allah favors that day. This is the peace that livni desires, a totally 100% untrustworthy adventure. Yet she feels that israel could trust arabs ins pite of the last 60 years of evidence that they are untrustworthy by nature. really, the next election must decimate kadima and send her back to her nondescript law firm where she can do damage to the state.
73. Saudia-Arabia first, then Gaza-Strip and now the Westbank!
nethanel ,   israel   (09.15.11)
This is a normal decree. Saudi Arabia was declared Jew free from Mohammed times already, and Jews are barred to visit most Arab countries. But what is most disturbing: thee erie silence of the world Media, the German government (just65 years after a similar decree), NGOs, human right groups, honorful Arabs who would be insulted to be associated with this so obvious kind of racism. But on the other hand, Israel is encouraging this racism by making first the Gaza Strip Jew free and then effectively making a crime for Jews to build any new house, including Jews which are not settlers, but native to Palestine/Westbank.
74. PLO official: Palestine should be free of Jews
ISSY DYKMAN ,   ISRAEL   (09.15.11)
BY THIS STATEMENT THE PALESTINIANS WILL WIN OVERWELMING SUPPORT FROM MOST OF THE EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, ANTSEMITISM IS ALIVE AND WELL IN EUROPE !!!
75. Free of Jews, Free of "Refugees", Then...
Dallas ,   Canada   (09.15.11)
... then who are these usurpers planning to live in their completely ethnically-cleansed truly apartheid terrorist state? This is so bizarre, you couldn't make this up!
76. # 70..don't worry, you'll be getting your wish soon...
Edithann ,   USA   (09.15.11)
You and yours will be all alone....anti Israel feeling in the US is rampant... So make sure you have what it takes to live with eachother from now on... I hear Israel is a terribly depressing place anyway..so it should all be to your liking.... . TATA
77. The Nazis Called It Judenrein.
Reuven Brauner ,   Raanana, Israel   (09.14.11)
Dear World, Now you with whom we are dealing. We have known this all along.
78. @ # 44 & # 32
Michael Davison ,   Ra'anana, Israel   (09.15.11)
Both of you are wrong. My wife is not Jewish. Yes, there is a lengthy procedure for non-Jews wishing to live in Israel, but it is no more onerous or unfair than the US immigration requirements, and in some ways much easier. Y# 44: Patently wrong. I can count dozens of friends and acquaintances permanently living in Israel who are not Jewish. Where did you get this idea--from "stormfront.org"? Both of you need to do some homework BEFORE you make @sses of yourselves with such inane statements.
79. No arab/muslim in Israel???
Claudedeparis ,   France   (09.14.11)
The message is clear. No Jew will be allowed to live in this racist place. But the democratic state of Israel has not to act the same way against arab/muslims. Israel is not a racist state.
80. #19 To the delusional Ben Alofs
Mark ,   Lodz, Poland   (09.15.11)
What happen in Gaza when Israel withdrew in 2005. "A cooling off period"...? You're self-prescribing again, Ben Judea and Samaria is disputed, not occupied and was earmarked for the Jews and ratified by the League of Nations in the Treaty of San Remo in 1920 on April 25th. The Brits, prostituting themselves for Arab Oil, reneged on their Mandate for Palestine for the Jews which included today's Jordan. Now put that in your keffiya and think about it. Your post is Pallywood tosh
81. No cries of "racism" coming from the Leftist crazies?
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82. So who's the real apartheid state here?
Nick Sporek ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (09.15.11)
83. There needs to be a palestinian apartheid awareness week.
Nick Sporek ,   Jerusalem, Israel   (09.15.11)
I'm sure they would even help us organize it.
84. Way to go! All Pals to Jew-free Jordan.
Harry Wright ,   UK   (09.15.11)
85. Denied access to our holy places
Norbus ,   Jerusalem   (09.15.11)
will be something we give up if we allow PA to rule west bank We get another rocket base, so Gaza and West bank can take it in turn to bombard us, whilst they alternately talk hudnas, and Hezbullah is waiting to pounce Ashenazi jews have little feel for what Arab Moslems can get up to. Send Palsestinian across to Jordan. and to hell with the UN, a resurgent right in Europe,
86. Jews must have equal right and services in Palistine........
EQUALITY ,   Israel   (09.15.11)
including Jewish MKS and representatives in government just as Arabs have in Israel That's the only way they can prove they want a democracy
87. Do you think
Ralph ,   Caesarea   (09.15.11)
we have the same G'?
88. # 69 - Avramele
Michael Davison ,   Ra'anana, Israel   (09.15.11)
What he SHOULD have said and what he DID say are two different things. What part of what he said don't you understand? He is merely echoing something that Mahmoud Abbas has said publicly, in front of the media, at least 6 times by my count.
89. #44, should try some facts
Danny   (09.15.11)
not only do you not have to be Jewish to get a visa to live in Israel, you can get an Israeli passport without being Jewish. But hey who cares about facts?
90. #68, actually no
Danny   (09.15.11)
You can get Israeli citizenship even if your are not Jewish. For instance thousands of Palestinians got Israeli citizenship when they married Israeli Arabs. The only difference is that it is more expensive if you are not Jewish and it takes longer.
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