Comments on: Dueling speeches: Abbas v. Netanyahu https://www.yourish.com/2011/09/23/15086 Cutting straight to the point Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:57:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Alex Bensky https://www.yourish.com/2011/09/23/15086/comment-page-1#comment-44196 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:57:06 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=15086#comment-44196 I suppose we should be thankful for small favors from the AP, but generally the Palestinians don’t “ignore” Jewish links to the land, they deny them. They have a very intricate set of claims, supported by bogus scholarship, claiming that if indeed there ever was a Temple it was somewhere else, that the Jews of today are not related to whoever lived in the area in ancient times, and that today’s Palestinians are the direct descendents of the Canaanites.

Leave aside Abbas’ oft-repeated insistence that the Palestinians will never recognize Israel as a Jewish state, precisely what have the Palestinians done to indicate, as western diplomats and media insist, that they will accept Israel within any border? But the call is, of course, for further Israeli concessions.

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