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Netanyahu: I’m ready to accept “Palestine,” but they won’t accept Israel

Feb 25, 2014 10:01 am By Robert Spencer

netanyahu_120813Netanyahu is wrong to accept a state for a nationality that was invented in order to serve as a weapon in the jihad against Israel. PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein said this in 1977:

The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct “Palestinian people” to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.

The Israelis were mistaken ever to play along with this charade, but it may be too late to get back to reality on that. Netanyahu’s main point, however, is sound: the “Palestinians” won’t accept the existence of the State of Israel, so how can there be a negotiated settlement? Yet they can never accept the existence of Israel, because of the principle in Islamic theology that land governed at one time by Islamic law belongs by right to the Muslims forever. Barack Obama and John Kerry, of course, either don’t know or don’t care about that.

“‘I’m Ready To Accept Palestine, Why Not Israel?,'” by Ari Yashar for Israel National News, February 24:

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu spoke on Sunday night, emphasizing that the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) refusal to recognize Israel as the Jewish state is the fundamental factor preventing peace. “Recognition of the Jewish state is a necessary condition for peace,” remarked Netanyahu.

Speaking to a German television channel in advance of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Israel visit on Monday, Netanyahu praised US Secretary of State John Kerry’s efforts to push through a peace deal between Israel and the PA.

“The only way to achieve peace is to express support for Kerry’s efforts,” claimed Netanyahu. “Together with the Palestinians, and at their head PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, we have to sit at the table and reach an agreement.”

“I’m ready to accept their existence in their country, why don’t they accept me?” asked Netanyahu, stressing that the refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state is a major roadblock to peace.

“The obstacle of the peace talks is this principle (of recognition), and not the issue of Israeli building in settlements that gets such wide criticism in the West,” argued Netanyahu. He further denied claims that construction is a key problem, saying it’s an issue that “will be solved in the talks’ framework.”

Last Friday, US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro declared the PA will be required to recognize Israel as a Jewish state in any framework agreement, a day after a PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) official claimed Abbas was ready to recognize Israel.

Abbas’s PA has previously said the Arab states “will never recognize Israel,” and as noted has repeatedly refused to recognize Israel. On Sunday, Hamas lawmakers warned that recognition of Israel would be a “death sentence” for the PA.

Kerry’s has reportedly proposed that Israel would be forced to “earn” PA recognition as a Jewish state by obligating itself through guarantees that it will not compromise the status of Israeli Arabs.

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  1. Juliane Toldyouso says

    Feb 25, 2014 at 10:47 am

    No matter how far Israel goes, it won’t be far enough for her enemies until she is destroyed. Netanyahu is a wise man and a strong leader. He knows what he’s doing.

  2. mortimer says

    Feb 25, 2014 at 10:48 am

    Jordan is an invented state, along with Israel. They were created by the United Kingdom through the partitioning of the Palestine Mandate. Further to that, when the UN supported partition of Palestine into one Jewish and one Arab state, King Abdullah I of Jordan was the only Arab leader supporting the partition of the Jewish side. That was so he could annex the West Bank later, which he did. At the time, no other Arab country favored partitioning Israel in order to create a separate Arab state within the borders.

    The ‘Palestine’ idea is a farce created after the Kingdom of Jordan lost the Six-Day War.

    King Hussein of Jordan said, “Palestine is Jordan and Jordan is Palestine.” That’s perfectly clear and perfectly correct. Sending the malcontents to Jordan is the right solution.

    • Danny says

      Feb 27, 2014 at 9:53 am

      Yes Israel is palestine, and therefore palestinians should have some presence in Knesset and mixed schools teaching science and facts not fairy stories, if not then it is apartheid and against international law! nevermind being backward!

  3. Charli Main says

    Feb 25, 2014 at 12:13 pm

    Some years back, I worked in an office with a lady who claimed to be a born and bred Israeli Jewess.
    She proved to be one of the most fanatically pro “Palestinian State” advocates I have ever met. She never missed an opportunity to rail at the inhuman way the poor, suffering ” Palestinian People” had been abused and driven from their homes by the “Nazis” in the Knesset.
    She firmly believed that all the ” the poor suffering dispossessed Palestinians” should be allowed back into Israel and compensated for all the abuse and mistreatment they had “suffered”
    I´m not sure, but I believe that there is a very large, peace at any cost with the Arabs, party in Israel.

    • Defcon 4 says

      Feb 27, 2014 at 11:10 am

      I wonder if the “peace at any cost with the Arabs” bunch have read the charter of Hamas — especially those who are Jewish.

  4. Wellington says

    Feb 25, 2014 at 12:22 pm

    Well, Jordan is also a very highly artificial creation, as mortimer has already pointed out. Iraq pretty much too and Kuwait and so on. So, artificiality is not the probem but rather (yes, you guessed it) Islam. If 99% of those Arabs who live in the West Bank and Gaza were Christian (or followers of any other religion but Islam or followers of no religion at all) then peace with a created Palestinian state (call it what you will) would have occurred long ago. As always, Islam is the root cause of trouble in the Middle East and increasingly throughout the world.

    Netanyahu knows all this and so his agreeing to accept a Palestinian state if it truly would accept Israel (and live in peace with it with no “right of return” as Netanyahu has also maintained many times) is as good as his saying there will be no Palestinian state on my watch or ever. So, the stalemate continues, courtesy of the most dismal and disturbing religion ever created.

  5. squeezethejuice says

    Feb 25, 2014 at 12:58 pm

    Greetings again! Masha’Allah , I had a very strange dream last night, I dreamt of being in a giant hall full of books and waiting to enter the great holy city of Quds, which I could see in blinding sunlight at the end of this great hall. Many of my fellows who were waiting with me were Christian tourists, b/c they didn’t have islamic dress . But it was very crowded, so many ppl just like me wanting to enter but stuck in a long queue. So I ask myself, the city is big enough for all of us, what is going on? Then I find out that there is a queue b/c some ppl in ticket booths are asking for money to provide passage. And then I wake up.

    I for one think this is some sort of message from Allah swt. What do you think it means? Sometimes even the ppl who hate you have wise things to say.

    • RCCA says

      Feb 25, 2014 at 7:02 pm

      Here’s what your dream is telling you:
      The giant hall of books refers to the State of Israel, the Jews being known as the People of the Book. Not everyone on line wanting to experience spiritual light were Muslims, some were Christians and no doubt some were Jews who also don’t wear Muslim dress. But no one was getting in.
      Who controls the line? I’m sure you have heard at some point that the area of the Temple Mount, AKA the Al Aqsa mosque, is administered by the Muslim Waqf (who prevented Jews from entering their sacred place at all until 1967) and still prevents Jews from praying anywhere near the Holy of Holies of their Holy Temple. The term waqf literally means “confinement and prohibition” or causing a thing to stop or stand still.
      Selling tickets refers to making money and means the Waqf gains financial support from the Muslim world by restricting who can enter. No doubt they would be condemned by the Arab League if they allowed Christians and Jews free entry to the holy site.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 26, 2014 at 9:39 pm

      The vile “squeezethejuice” (squeeze the Jews) wrote:

      Greetings again! Masha’Allah , I had a very strange dream last night, I dreamt of being in a giant hall full of books and waiting to enter the great holy city of Quds [the Jihadist name for Jerusalem—GI], which I could see in blinding sunlight at the end of this great hall. Many of my fellows who were waiting with me were Christian tourists b/c they didn’t have islamic dress . But it was very crowded, so many ppl just like me wanting to enter but stuck in a long queue. So I ask myself, the city is big enough for all of us, what is going on? Then I find out that there is a queue b/c some ppl in ticket booths are asking for money to provide passage. And then I wake up.
      …………………………………

      What is the meaning of “squeeze the Jews'” “dream”? Pretty obvious. The perfidious Jooooos are running checkpoints to stop Mohammedan suicide bombers, and that is discomfiting both violent Muslims and (supposedly) Christian tourists.

      He just tossed in the “asking for money” bit to imply that the Joooooos are money-grubbing.

      More:

      I for one think this is some sort of message from Allah swt. What do you think it means? Sometimes even the ppl who hate you have wise things to say.
      …………………………………

      And what would that “message” be? Just the same ugly one that “squeeze the Jews” has pushed here many times before: that Christians should join with genocidal Muslims in slaughtering the Jews.

      Never mind that even if Christians were so inclined—they are *not*—that Muslims would then murderously turn on the Christians as soon as their usefulness was done.

      Muslims have turned on allies in just this way many times before.

      Christians are terribly oppressed in the “Palestinian territories”—not so in Israel.

      The fact is that Muslims threaten both Jews *and* Christians.

      Muslims even have a chilling saying: “First the Saturday people (Jews), then the Sunday people (Christians)”.

  6. Bill Wasser says

    Feb 25, 2014 at 1:26 pm

    Never ever submitt to Islam. Nevergiuve one inch or they will take your head off!

    • danny says

      Feb 27, 2014 at 9:58 am

      Beheadings were a staple punishment in Europe and especially King Henry and Queen Victoria, but we look back in history and take great pride in teachign that history, meanwhile in the US they have not learnt and still execute people! in wars and in prisons! just remember what the bible says if you do not except teh lord as the only saviour, pretty much teh same as what happens to infidels!

  7. Kenny says

    Feb 25, 2014 at 1:55 pm

    Why?

    Don’t give an inch to them!

    • Danny says

      Feb 27, 2014 at 10:00 am

      If only someone had teh insight to say this to Native Americans and Aboriginies, south american indians and pretty much all of africans!

  8. Walter Sieruk says

    Feb 25, 2014 at 1:56 pm

    The main reason that so many Muslims are very much against the State of Israel is because Israel is a Jewish State and the Quran has in it many terrible and awful things contained in it the about the Jews. For examples the Quran teaches that they are “apes and swine” [2:65;7:166;5:60]. The reason the Quran reads as it does has much to do with the history of the life of the founder and prophet of Islam, who is Muhammad. This is the for a time Muhammad along with his people lived among the Jewish people and he liked them at first. Later when they would not accept his claim of being a prophet he that took a strong dislike to them that then turned into bitterness and even hate. So in his bitterness and hate Muhammad spoke vicious and wicked things about them. These terrible and awful thing he spoke about them was remembered and later written down and then in the passing of time theses words went into the composition of the Quran. Thus from the reading of the Quran many Muslims have a strong dislike and even hate for the Jewish people. Therefore they are very much against the State of Israel.
    Furthermore, as a Christian I can keyboard that Muhammad might had actually been a prophet but the important thing to understand that Muhammad was not a prophet sent by God. Instead Muhammad was a lying deceptive false prophet sent by Satan to lead many people astray. Jesus, in fact, had predicted and warned about the coming of such men as Muhammad. For Jesus taught “Beware of false prophet ,which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”Matthew 7:15. Moreover, the Bible further warns that “many false prophets are gone out into the world.” First John 4:1. [K.J.V.]

    To find more about the Bible, the Quran and other things about and concerning Islam there is the Christian internet site answering-islam.org

    • kikorikid says

      Feb 27, 2014 at 12:17 am

      When Mohammed finally had a small following he ,very quickly,
      started pogroms against the local “Tribes” of Jews.
      Men, Women, Children—WHACK!

    • danny says

      Feb 27, 2014 at 10:03 am

      IM sorry but the koran stating specifically about Jews had been added by Wahhabbi Saudis after 1950, and was not rpesent in previous korans, unfortuantely saudis own the rights to sell korans world wide, which is quite funny considering that Saudi is a friend to both US and Israel, maybe saudi extremism actually helps USand Israel acheive their goals. bread being buttered on both sides.

      • Defcon 4 says

        Feb 27, 2014 at 11:14 am

        Do you have any proof of your, what I might generously call, a theory? Because Jew hatred if found throughout all the holey books of hate that comprise islam — especially the ahadith, where it is clearly genocidal.

  9. Henry says

    Feb 25, 2014 at 3:20 pm

    Any more land for peace will only increase the danger for the Jewish people. It’s no secret that the intention of the Jihadis is to eradicate the Jewish people from the land of Israel. Have no illusions, a piece of paper, or the establishment of another ‘Palestinian’ state will be meaningless, and will be at best a temporary peace.

  10. Veracious_one says

    Feb 25, 2014 at 8:56 pm

    “There is an eerie déjà vu about an unmistakable and oft-repeated process in the Arab–Israel conflict. The process started in 1937 and has repeated itself with minor variations many times over the subsequent 74 years. The process is as follows: Arabs go to war with Israel, promising Israel’s destruction and the annihilation of its Jews. Israel wins the war and offers peace. Arab leaders reject Israel’s peace offer, renew their promises of destruction and annihilation; and after a while they go to war again, and lose again, and Israel again offers peace. Repeat this process 31 times and you have the history of the Arab-Israel conflict in a nutshell.”

    • Defcon 4 says

      Feb 27, 2014 at 11:15 am

      You left out the over ten thousand rocket and mortar rounds (as well as one AT rocket fired into a school bus) lobbed into Israel over the last 8 years from Gaza.

  11. David, Thailand says

    Feb 25, 2014 at 9:01 pm

    What fools we are. There is no ‘Arab-Israeli’ conflict. There is no dispute over land, borders, or settlements. These are issues that Western leaders and media use to divert attention from the 1400 year conflict initiated by Mohamed against the Jews, in particular, as part of the ultimate goal for world domination.

    The ‘Palestinian’ network, which includes many countries and organisations both Muslim and infidel, use the refusal to recognise Israel not just as a tool to squeeze sympathy, jizya and political clout from Israel and the international community, but also as a elaborate ambush, with Israel on the verge of falling into the trap. And once in, Israel will cease to be a Jewish state.

    Eventually the international community will reach the end of its incredibly long and patient tether, which is still way beyond the horizon. By that time the Palestinians and their immensely powerful allies will have virtually suffocated the ‘pariah’ state. And as the ‘third’ Jihad finally boils over, only then will the Palestinians grudgingly allow themselves to be brought to the table. On that table they will place a package that recognises Israel’s right to exist, tentatively, in return for more mountains of money for their leaders to steal, undying and misplaced international gratitude, and arms, which a sovereign state must have to ‘protect’ itself.

    And the subsequent negotiations will indeed bear fruit, with what spineless and clueless Western leaders coin a ‘permanent’ peace. But permanence is relative. To the civilised world, it means forever. To Islam, it means long enough to establish a sovereign state which will invite Jihadists from the global network with a free pass to Israel’s borders, from where all manner of new and vicious atrocities can be planned and executed, to fulfill Koranic imperatives.

    I repeat what I have said countless times: Unless and until the non-Muslim world wake up to the realities of Islam, and set aside democratic niceties for long enough to confront and eradicate Islam, Israel will not celebrate her centenary as a Jewish state.

    If my timing is wrong, it doesn’t matter. It may be off by a year or a generation. But for certain, a Jewish child born today will not survive his natural lifetime without witnessing the end of the security and freedoms of a homeland. And to those who blind themselves to reality in order to sleep easy at night, it won’t be bloodless.

    • Defcon 4 says

      Feb 27, 2014 at 11:19 am

      It’s just too bad Israel doesn’t have a few boomers equipped w/MIRV’ed ICBM’s because then the rest of the corrupt, apathetic, amoral, corrupt, dying western world would have to take Israel’s existence a lot more seriously.

  12. ApolloSpeaks says

    Feb 27, 2014 at 3:43 am

    THE ULTIMATE DEFINITION OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE

    A weapon of mass destruction invented by Jew hating Moslems in accord with the Koran for the purpose of destroying the Jewish state of Israel.

    • Apollopeaks says

      Feb 27, 2014 at 6:07 am

      inspired by the Koran

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