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Arab League echoes Abbas, refuses to recognize Israel as Jewish state

Mar 10, 2014 10:35 am By Robert Spencer

0309_World_ArabLeague_full_600This story claims that “the United States wants Abbas to make the concession as part of efforts to reach a ‘framework agreement’ and extend the talks aimed at settling the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” But actually, the U.S. has now given in to the jihadists on this point, joining their demands that the tiny Jewish state accept a peace agreement that would be tantamount to suicide.

More on this story. “Arab League refuses to recognize Israel as Jewish state,” by Noah Browning and Ali Sawafta for Reuters, March 9:

The Arab League on Sunday endorsed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s rejection of Israel’s demand for recognition as a Jewish state, as U.S.-backed peace talks approach a deadline next month.

The United States wants Abbas to make the concession as part of efforts to reach a “framework agreement” and extend the talks aimed at settling the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“The council of the Arab League confirms its support for the Palestinian leadership in its effort to end the Israeli occupation over Palestinian lands, and emphasises its rejection of recognising Israel as a ‘Jewish state,'” Arab foreign ministers said in a statement in Cairo.

Arab governments, distracted by the upheaval convulsing the region since the 2011 Arab uprisings, have previously taken few stands on the floundering peace talks, leaving Abbas isolated.

Benjamin Netanyahu has been Israel’s first prime minister to make recognition of his country as a Jewish state a requirement for peace. The issue has lately overshadowed other stumbling blocks over borders, refugees and the status of Jerusalem.

Palestinians fear the label would lead to discrimination against Israel’s sizeable Arab minority, while Israelis say it recognises Jewish history and rights on the land.

“In recognising the Jewish state you (Palestinians) would finally make clear that you are truly prepared to end the conflict,” Netanyahu said on Tuesday.

“So recognise the Jewish state, no excuses, no delays. It is time,” he said in a speech to the pro-Israel AIPAC lobby.

Abbas complained on Saturday that Palestinians were being asked for something that had not been demanded of Arab countries that have previously signed peace treaties with Israel.

“We recognised Israel in mutual recognition in the (1993) Oslo agreement – why do they now ask us to recognise the Jewishness of the state?” he asked.

“Why didn’t they present this demand to Jordan or Egypt when they signed a peace agreement with them?” Abbas added….

Those situations were different. It wasn’t wise for Israel to agree to peace treaties with Jordan and Egypt without recognition, but it wasn’t suicidal the way it would be with the “Palestinians,” who are dedicated according to the foundational charters of the PLO and Hamas to the destruction of Israel. Unless and until they renounce that imperative, how could there possibly be peace?

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  1. Henry says

    Mar 10, 2014 at 12:44 pm

    Jerusalem is the birthplace of Judaism, and the historical connection of the Jewish people to the land of Israel is undeniable, this was confirmed in international law in 1922. Thank goodness the Jews have a country to which they can have full expression of their customs, language and traditions while at the same time safeguarding the language, customs and traditions of minorities living side by side.
    The Arab league is a fanatically racist, small minded movement that will probably never accept a Jewish state in their midst.

    • Defcon 4 says

      Mar 10, 2014 at 3:47 pm

      Has Indonesia or Malaysia accepted Israel’s existence as a Jewish state?

      • Henry says

        Mar 10, 2014 at 6:57 pm

        Neither country recognizes Israel, but they both quietly do a lot of trade with Israel.

  2. Salah says

    Mar 10, 2014 at 1:42 pm

    Things are changing…slowly but surely!

    “In a scenario Israelis would have found too far-fetched to believe just a few years ago, Egypt is set to become the Jewish state’s new best friend in the fight against Hamas terrorism.”

    Read it all here:
    http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/24373/Default.aspx

    • mortimer says

      Mar 10, 2014 at 2:10 pm

      Egyptians have reassumed their responsibility as defenders of civilization and full members of the modern world.

  3. JIMJFOX says

    Mar 10, 2014 at 4:03 pm

    “I guess you learn something new everyday”

    You don’t, apparently; you get hammered by facts at every appearance yet you don’t learn from your abundant ignorance… a true, clueless muslim dolt.

  4. Walter Sieruk says

    Mar 10, 2014 at 4:56 pm

    Even though the Arab league is going along with Abbas in refusing to recognize the Jewish State of Israel that ,in a way does not matter. This is because the Arab league and Abbas are all very much over ruled because the God of the Bible has declared that His does indeed recognize Israel. For this area of land in the Middle East belongs to the Jewish people by Divine Right. as seen, for example ,in Genesis 28:13-15. 35;1012 Deuteronomy 32:48,49,. Psalm 105 :7-11. 135:4. This land also belongs to the Jewish people by historic rights,. As shown in First Kings 4:20,21,24,25. 8:55,56. In all fairness there is one way for the members of the Arab league along with Abbas to change the Mind of God and then have Him turn His back of Israel and thus have that nation be no more.
    That way to to change the ways of astrophysics including that of the Sun, the moon and the stars. For God has said in Jeremiah 31:35,36. “Thus saith the lord, which gives the sun for a light by day and the ordinances of the moon ans the stars for alight by night…The Lord of host is his name. if those ordinances depart from me saith the Lord, the the seed of Israel shall cease from being a nation before me forever.”

  5. tpellow says

    Mar 10, 2014 at 6:26 pm

    In contrast to its treatment of Israel, the West is politically grovelling in its endorsement of the existence of repressive Islamic states, with their imposition of barbaric Sharia law, and their support of islamic jihad violence.

  6. Bezelel says

    Mar 10, 2014 at 8:30 pm

    Israel has a right to exist. It’s amazing to me how long ago I first heard that and didn’t realize the importance of the statement. I also didn’t realize the depth of depravity of those who oppose Israel.You would think that any opposition to the simple statement “Israel has a right to exist” would expose themselves for the vicious dogs that they are.

  7. billreitzes says

    Mar 10, 2014 at 10:07 pm

    Israel is a democracy.
    Sometimes the defenders of democracy, forget what democracy is all about.
    Netanyahu’s demand for recognition is the will of the people, not just Bibi’s.
    Netanyahu’s demand for security is the will of the people, not just Bibi’s.
    Any agreement that excludes these two items, will be rejected by the Israeli people in the referendum stage.
    Any rejection of the results of the referendum would make for an interesting political situation in Israel.
    The bottom line, it really doesn’t matter what the Arab League, EU, UN, US or anyone else says.
    In a democracy, the ballot box decides.

  8. Theo Prinse says

    Mar 11, 2014 at 8:25 am

    From all Islamic countries as those in the Middle East we demand democracy based upon Western law philosophy.
    Islam is a terror supremacist doctrine guised as the philosophical idealist type of religion and islam is demonstrably anti-Western and anti democratic legal principles.
    The container concept Palestinians is invented by Dimmie Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski.
    We support the one state Israel with the whole of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and we reject a two-state solution for the reasons like the geo political Islam , the two divided areas Gaza and Westbank, placement of Hamas on the terror list of Egypt etc.
    We recognize no historical land claims other than those protectorates of England and France, and neither the historical existence of King David or Egyptian exile .
    We recognize Israel and its people – the Israelis – in its current political and administrative form within the Western republican tradition of state law.

    Netanyahu demands recognizing of the Jewish character of Israel by the Palestinians.
    The term Palestinian Authority – like the term Palestinians – is a semantic fiction as well.

    Netanyahu’s requirement is therefore secondary because recognition of Israel as a secular state is sufficient protection against the shariah state.
    It is necessary to reject the demand for recognition of Israel as a Jewish state because it allows for the suggestion for a priestly caste opposite to western state law and equal to shariah.
    Jerusalem Post senior editor Caroline Glick referred hereto in her speech in Axis of Genocide in positing a relationship between the enlightened liberal monarchist Thomas Hobbes and in particular John Locke – the latter legitimated King Billy in 1688 on the English throne and founded with him, Solomon de Medina, Bentinck and many others their orange Bank of England – and the Founding Fathers of the United States who – with the help of Amsterdam merchant’s capital – fought themselves free from the shackles of the orange Bank of England .

    In a coherent article Caroline Glick posited a relationship between the reign of the Jewish Taliban from 160 to 60 BCE – the Maccabees – who by means of terror subjugated those Jews that adapted to the free Greek life back under the Jewish priestly caste – and the Pilgrim Fathers of whom their ideological leader and many followers have never took sail from Delfshaven to America but are buried in the Pieter church of Leiden
    We recognize little or no relevance to the suggested moral value of the Tanakh or Torah assumed to be written between the 4th and 2nd century BCE and refer to Codex Hammurabi and Codex Ur-Nammu, and the Greek materialist philosopher Democritus.

  9. Mirren10 says

    Mar 11, 2014 at 8:59 am

    ”Benjamin Netanyahu has been Israel’s first prime minister to make recognition of his country as a Jewish state a requirement for peace”

    Good for Bibi. Stick to it, mate.

    Long live Israel !

  10. Mike Ryan says

    Mar 12, 2014 at 1:16 pm

    This is more confirmation of genocidal intent of Israel’s cannibal neighbors.

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