Juxtaposition

Elder of Ziyon
17 November '10


Salam Fayyad - the most moderate Palestinian leader ever, untainted by terror - gave a speech on the twin occasions of Eid al Adha and the 22nd anniversary of the PLO's declaration of a Palestinian Arab state in 1988.

He gave a brief history of the "struggle", and in Ma'an's words:

Fayyad stressed that the Declaration of Independence came as a message of Palestinian peace addressed to the whole world, saying that in Palestine, people want to live in peace and security on the territory of an independent state. This was a historic and painful concession for self-determination, with the return of its refugees to their homes from which they were displaced, and the establishment of an independent state on the borders of June 1967 with its capital Jerusalem, a state of all the Palestinians to develop a national identity and cultural rights, and enjoy full equality of rights and duties, maintained by religious and political beliefs and human dignity, in a democratic system based on freedom of opinion, freedom to form political parties.

Before Fayyad juxtaposed the concepts, I had never before put together the "historic concession" of recognizing Israel and the insistence of the "right to return" as starkly as Fayyad did. In reality, they are intertwined.

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