Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has told Israel's Channel One television that there is no need for the Arabs in general and for the 'Palestinians' in particular to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
"I say to Israeli citizens, including Jews, Muslims and others, that there is no such thing as a state in which all the citizens are Jews," Mubarak told Israel's Channel One network.
"In Egypt, we have Muslims, Christians and Jews and there is no problem. When they wanted to establish a Muslim state in Kosovo, the world came out against it because it did not want a Muslim state in central Europe," he said in the interview broadcast Saturday night.
'Palestinian Authority' negotiator Nabil Shaath echoed Mubarak's words.
Senior Palestinian Authority negotiator Nabil Shaath has announced that the PA will never accept Israel as a Jewish state. In addition, he threatened war if the PA fails to obtain its demands through negotiations, saying, “A Palestinian state will arise, either through negotiations or through armed resistance.”
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Shaath said that recognizing Israel as Jewish state would undermine the PA's demand for the “right of return,” which would grant Israeli citizenship to the millions of descendants of Arab who fled Israel during its War of Independence.
He also claimed that accepting a Jewish state “will directly threaten the Muslim and Christian Palestinians in Israel.”
Of course, the 'Palestinians' conveniently ignore the fact that the 'Palestinian Authority' is insisting on a Judenrein (Jew-free) 'state of Palestine,' and the fact that there are several countries in the Middle East in which only Muslims can live and/or exercise full political rights (including, de facto, Egypt).
What could go wrong?
The Muslim Brotherhood is looking good about now
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