Israel, the state of the Jewish people. What's difficult to understand?

...The Palestinians are not keeping their right to self-determination within the 1947 lines or the 1967 borders, but they are actively striving toward realizing that right on all the lands of the State of Israel, or as they call it, Palestine. That is why they cannot recognize a Jewish state.

Nadav Shragai..
Israel Hayom..
23 January '14..

The Palestinians have invented a new nation -- the "Israeli nation." They are prepared to recognize the right of the "Israeli nation" to exist in peace and security as a state, as long as it is not a Jewish state. That is the Palestinian version of "a state for all its citizens," in which the Jewish and national identity of the State of Israel is completely obscured. Even when the Palestinians grit their teeth and talk about "two states for two peoples," they are not talking about states for a Palestinian nation and a Jewish nation, but for a Palestinian nation and an Israeli nation.

This game, which has a clear goal, is again confusing President Shimon Peres, who is chronically mistaken in his analysis of the true intentions of the Palestinians. See: the Oslo Accords, the New Middle East, comrade Yasser Arafat.

This delusion allows the Palestinians to continue declaring that they will establish a state on the pieces of land in the Palestinian territories that "will be released," without giving up on the continued hope and effort to establish a Palestinian state on the remaining pieces of land, on all the territory in Israel, instead of Israel.

This used to be called the "Phased Plan." The path to achieving it includes the actualization of the "right" of return. The Palestinians have not given up on that either. So they continue to talk, to give speeches, preaching and promising that the day will come when they will return to the "settlements" -- Jaffa, Lod, Haifa and Acre.


The Palestinians are not keeping their right to self-determination within the 1947 lines or the 1967 borders, but they are actively striving toward realizing that right on all the lands of the State of Israel, or as they call it, Palestine. That is why they cannot recognize a Jewish state.

It is not very complicated, so it is unclear how this is not being understood: If the State of Israel, even with reduced and dangerous borders, is not the state of the Jewish people, the conflict will not end and there is no "end to the conflict," rather there is a "continued conflict." Any sane country will not give away assets including the territories of its homeland, its heritage, security areas and parts of its capital for the sake of a "continued conflict."

From the Palestinian perspective, the presence of the Jewish people in Israel is temporary, passing, as passersby do. If we do not demand from them to recognize our permanent presence here, to recognize our connection to this land as the Jewish nation, a demand that implies the limiting of their right to self-determination to certain defined lines, we will fall into the same traps that Peres fell into in the past.

Link: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=7113

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