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  • Condi Rice was 'shocked' by 'ethnic purity' claims for Jewish state
    • Ariram November 18, 2011 at 8:15 am with 56 replies

      Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people. Contrary to Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, which refer to persons who follow a certain religion the term "Jewish" refers also to a person who belongs to the Jewish people. The UN voted in 1947 for resolution 181, which called for the partition of Mandatory Palestine into two states, one Arab and one Jewish. As there is no Arab religion it is obvious that the resolution refers to peoples, not religions.
      Zionism was founded by secular Jews, motivated by nationalism not religion. In 1947, the Palestinain Jews accepted the UN partiiotn paln even though the Jewish state would have had a very large Arab minority, some 45%. They were sure that, as soon as the state is proclaimed, millions will immigrate and assure a substantial Jewish majority. Which is exactly what happened. Had the Arabs accepted the partition and had not started a war, there would have been no refugees and their state would have been 63 y old today.
      Livni was right, that the refugees will not return to Israel proper, just like not one of the more than 35 million refugees in the 20th century was not allowed to return. And the term “right of retrun” does not appear in resolution 194. Because that resolution required the recognition of Israel by the Arab states, it was rejected by the Arabs. Only much later, when it became clear that the they can not destroy Israel by military means, they started asking for the return of millions of refugees, knowing full well that this will mean the end of the nation-state of the Jewish people. That is also the reason why people like Weiss support it.
      It is not a question of “ethnic purity” but of national existence. Of course those who deny the right of the Jewish people to political self-determination and statehood will never understand that. Their racism simply blinds them to facts.

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