PLO ambassador says Palestinian state should be free of Jews

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WASHINGTON – The Palestine Liberation Organization's ambassador to the United States said Tuesday that any future Palestinian state it seeks with help from the United Nations and the United States should be free of Jews.

"After the experience of the last 44 years of military occupation and all the conflict and friction, I think it would be in the best interest of the two people to be separated," Maen Areikat, the PLO ambassador, said during a meeting with reporters sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor. He was responding to a question about the rights of minorities in a Palestine of the future.

Such a state would be the first to officially prohibit Jews or any other faith since Nazi Germany, which sought a country that was judenrein, or cleansed of Jews, said Elliott Abrams, a former U.S. National Security Council official.

Israel has 1.3 million Muslims who are Israeli citizens. Jews have lived in "Judea and Samaria," the biblical name for the West Bank, for thousands of years. Areikat said the PLO seeks a secular state, but that Palestinians need separation to work on their own national identity.

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Israel has often complained of anti-Semitic views in Palestinian discourse. Palestinian media frequently publishes and broadcasts anti-Semitic sermons by Islamic religious leaders, while the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV shows programming for preschoolers that extolls hatred of Jews and suicide bombings, according to a 2009 State Department human rights report.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-09-13/palestinian-israeli-jews-future-state-israel-PLO/50394882/1

[justashooter 430]

how bout we make it free for jews?

why are we even reporting what these azz clowns think, anyway?

[Sofiyya 1,687]

JAS is back. Perhaps ME threads should be locked before opening

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

WASHINGTON – The Palestine Liberation Organization's ambassador to the United States said Tuesday that any future Palestinian state it seeks with help from the United Nations and the United States should be free of Jews.

"After the experience of the last 44 years of military occupation and all the conflict and friction, I think it would be in the best interest of the two people to be separated," Maen Areikat, the PLO ambassador, said during a meeting with reporters sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor. He was responding to a question about the rights of minorities in a Palestine of the future.

Such a state would be the first to officially prohibit Jews or any other faith since Nazi Germany, which sought a country that was judenrein, or cleansed of Jews, said Elliott Abrams, a former U.S. National Security Council official.

Israel has 1.3 million Muslims who are Israeli citizens. Jews have lived in "Judea and Samaria," the biblical name for the West Bank, for thousands of years. Areikat said the PLO seeks a secular state, but that Palestinians need separation to work on their own national identity.

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Israel has often complained of anti-Semitic views in Palestinian discourse. Palestinian media frequently publishes and broadcasts anti-Semitic sermons by Islamic religious leaders, while the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV shows programming for preschoolers that extolls hatred of Jews and suicide bombings, according to a 2009 State Department human rights report.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/story/2011-09-13/palestinian-israeli-jews-future-state-israel-PLO/50394882/1

The region would benefit from cooler heads.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

The region would benefit from cooler heads.

The whole world would benefit from cooler and smarter heads, not to mention the use of the correct head.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

The whole world would benefit from cooler and smarter heads, not to mention the use of the correct head.

Probably, but there more than most.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Probably, but there more than most.

If all you know about the region is what you read in the media, that would seem so.

[natty bumppo 297]

JAS is back. Perhaps ME threads should be locked before opening

wonder if my luck will hold for another thread today ....

ibtl !!!

[Sofiyya 1,687]

wonder if my luck will hold for another thread today ....

ibtl !!!

ibtl !!!

You should put that under your avatar

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I suspect JAS may already be gone after that 'joke' he posted.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

If all you know about the region is what you read in the media, that would seem so.

Well it's not as if the Israeli/Palestinian dispute is actually real, is it.

[luckytxn 2,264]

In before the review.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

I suspect JAS may already be gone after that 'joke' he posted.

Which post was supposed to be a joke?

Funny, we were just posting about him last night on the Site board. His "ears" must have been burning.

Well it's not as if the Israeli/Palestinian dispute is actually real, is it.

It's real, but media prefers sensation to reality.

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Which post was supposed to be a joke?

Funny, we were just posting about him last night on the Site board. His "ears" must have been burning.

He posted a thread about how awesome it would be to run over Muslims with a truck. It was deleted by moderation within minutes.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

He posted a thread about how awesome it would be to run over Muslims with a truck. It was deleted by moderation within minutes.

Didn't he also once post about machine-gunning Mexican border-crossers while drinking beer?

Those are some pretty creepy attitudes, even in 'jest'.