https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-905291
For decades, a simple explanation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict took hold across broad segments of Israel’s Left and Center: at its core, the conflict was territorial.
The question they are asking today is far more difficult: What if the conflict is not only about where the border will be drawn, but also, and perhaps primarily, about the very legitimacy of a Jewish state existing in this region?
This does not mean that every Palestinian seeks Israel’s destruction, and a complex national conflict should certainly not be reduced to a sweeping generalization about an entire population. But it is no longer possible to ignore the enormous influence that Islamist religious ideology has gained in Palestinian society over recent decades.
The Palestinian rejection of the pre-state partition plan already indicated they did not want a Jewish state at all. Do we need current events to show this?
ReplyDeleteIt has always been existential. The Arab position has always been: No Israel! None at all! All Jews out!
ReplyDeleteThey've said it repeatedly for over 100 years and this guy just figured it out and thinks it's a new thing?