[From article]
Self-determination in this case means a partition along ethnic/religious lines, a partition that would afford both groups the ability to live in a state where they formed the majority. Barghouti rejects any majority Jewish state on principal.
Is Mahmoud Abbas’s position all that different? He has repeatedly refused to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, effectively negating the framework of two states for two peoples.
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In the early part of the 19th century, France conquered present-day Algeria and set about incorporating it into France. When Algeria gained its independence in the mid-20th century, roughly a million Frenchmen lived there. Virtually all of them fled, along with the indigenous Jewish community. The French Algerians had lived there for more than a hundred years, and the Jewish community dated to the time of the Phoenicians.
During negotiations, the Algerians assured French President Charles De Gaulle that the ethnic French community could stay in Algeria; for some reason things didn’t work out that way. After the French left, between 30,000 and 150,000 Algerian Muslims who sided with France were massacred.
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Nobody should make the mistake of assuming that because Israel is powerful they have nothing to fear from the Palestinians. If it happened to the French, it could happen to the Israelis, and there are a lot of people fantasizing that it will.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/01/the_palestinian_endgame.html
January 10, 2015
The Palestinian Endgame
By Ben Cohen
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