Long-term Goals of the Palestinian Authority?

Seth Ackerman sackerman at FAIR.org
Mon Jul 16 14:23:10 PDT 2001


Brad DeLong wrote:


> >What would happen if you applied this type reasoning to Israel?
> Lieberman,
> >Levy, and Ze'evi (who openly advocates "transfer" of all Arabs to Jordan)
> >are all currently voting members of the cabinet....
> >
> >Seth
>
> But none of them are routinely described as "pragmatists": Israeli
> "pragmatists" don't talk about how their long run goal is to expel
> all non-Jews from the area between the Nile and the Euphrates...
. Al-Husseini didn't say anything about "expelling" Jews. He just said that all of Palestine belongs to the Arabs no matter what short-term agreements the PLO makes. This is a mirror image of what all the "Israeli pragmatists" believe. As Israel Shahak wrote, back in 1995:

For instance, as pointed out by Tanya Reinhart (Yediot Ahronot, May 1, 1995) in all Rabin's interviews to the Hebrew press published on the Passover Eve, April 14, he reiterated his ideological commitment to the principle that only the Jews "have the right over the entire Land of Israel". Rabin didn't bother to specify the exact borders of the Land in question: he only admitted that "it is also inhabited by 2 million Palestinians" who constitute "a problem" which only Labor knows how to solve. This is a standard formula of Labor and center Zionism which hasn't changed for more than 75 years.

Seth



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