polite_gandalf wrote on Aug 26
th, 2014 at 12:46pm:
The Israeli ruling Likud political charter:
[quote]a. “The Jordan river will be the permanent eastern border of the State of Israel.”
b. “Jerusalem is the eternal, united capital of the State of Israel and only of Israel.
The government will flatly reject Palestinian proposals to divide Jerusalem”
c. “The Government of Israel flatly rejects the establishment of a Palestinian Arab state west of the Jordan river.”
d. “The Jewish communities in Judea, Samaria and Gaza are the realization of Zionist values. Settlement of the land is a clear expression of the unassailable right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel and constitutes an important asset in the defense of the vital interests of the State of Israel. The Likud will continue to strengthen and develop these communities and will prevent their uprooting.
I don't see anything wrong with these statements. They seem to me entirely consistent with the British Mandete that was really the basis of the reconstitution (yes, reconstitution) of Israel.
Quote:nation:
a large body of people, associated with a particular territory, that is sufficiently conscious of its unity to seek or to possess a government peculiarly its own http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/nationThe Palestinian "nation" exists as per this understanding of the word.
Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, the Syrian Arab leader told the British Peel Commission in 1937:
'There is no such country as Palestine. ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented. There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria. ‘Palestine’ is alien to us. It is the Zionists who introduced it.'
At the United Nations in 1956, the Saudi representative stated:
'It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria.'
And after the 1967 war Zuheir Muhsin, then military commander of the PLO and member of the PLO Executive Council, said helpfully:
'There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity... yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel.'
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2073246/Hey-stop-dangerous-candidate-H...I would be grateful if you could show that any of these quotes are untrue.