Why the Palestinians Refuse to Recognize Israel as a Jewish State

Why the Palestinians Refuse to Recognize Israel as a Jewish State

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Salim tells his readers what every Israeli knows. The stage of the Israeli-Palestinian problem is the refusal of the Palestinians to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Such recognition would bring an end to the Palestinian dream of destroying the Zionist project and the Palestinians' return to Greater Israel. Salim asserts that the realization of the dream of Israel's destruction is intended to instigate the incitement and terror systems waged by Palestinian institutions, mosques, schools, terrorist organizations, and foreign propaganda centers. The Palestinians' goal is the continuity of the conflict - not ending it

The real reason, Salim writes, of Abu Mazen's desire to control bridges and crossings and his opposition to leaving them in Israel's hands is his desire to turn the West Bank into a terrorist center like the Gaza Strip. Leaving the crossings to Israel will also give Jordan more security.

The world, writes Salim, is watching the efforts of the Palestinian Authority to encourage an academic and economic boycott of Israel, accompanied by hints on this matter by Secretary of State John Kerry.

First of all, Salim claims that every Muslim knows that the Jews in Israel are the descendants of the Israelis who lived in the country before the Roman conquest and the change of the country's name to Palestine by the Romans.

The heads of the Palestinian Authority are not only unwilling to recognize Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people, they also claim that Jews have no religious or historical right to the Holy Land. They claim that the Jews have conquered the land and they want to obtain approval for their connection to the land by demanding that the Palestinians recognize Israel as the state of the Jews.

Salim says that Abu Mazen never gave up the dream of returning the entire land to the Palestinians. His demand for the release of Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel from Israeli prisons is based on his claim that he is responsible for the fate of the Israeli Arab minority in Israel.

Salim also claims that if Abu Mazen really wanted to live in Israel alongside Israel, he would welcome the offer of Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to transfer some of Israel's Arabs to their land and property to the Palestinian state as part of a population and territorial exchange. Thus, Salim writes, Abu Mazen would have enlarged the territory of the Palestinian state and freed Israeli Arabs from Israeli rule.

But Salim claims that Abu Mazen's real goal is to establish a Palestinian state between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River by flooding Israel with Palestinian refugees through the "right of return" and therefore refuses to recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people.

Salim believes that Israel does not need recognition from the Palestinians, that they are a new people created recently and barely meet the criteria of a people. A very small part of the Palestinians have lived in Israel for generations. Most of them are a collection of families and tribes without a common history. They invaded the Land of Israel under Ottoman and British rule as workers, exploiting the economic possibilities created by the Jews who returned to their homeland. Some fled to Israel from Arab countries because of fear of revenge.

The collection of people who came from the Arab-Muslim world to Israel in the last 200 years began to see themselves as a people only in the early 20th century, while Jews have a history of a common identity of 3,000 years. Unlike the Jews, the Palestinians are not mentioned in the Koran or in the Old and New Testaments. There is no record of their existence in books written by tourists who came to visit Israel for centuries, such as Mark Twain.

The Jews demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people as a means of ending the conflict. They want to be certain that a Palestinian state alongside Israel means the end of Palestinian demands.

The hypocrisy of the Palestinians is exposed in their demand for statehood, on the one hand, and for the settlement of the refugees in Israel on the other. Hypocrisy is revealed naked, according to Salim, because on the one hand the Palestinians demand that the refugees be resettled in Israel, but on the other hand they claim that in Israel there is discrimination against non-Jews and it is an apartheid state.

End of conflict means mutual recognition, between Israel and Palestine, and recognition and legitimacy from the Muslim world.

Salim claims that the Palestinian Authority and the Arab citizens of Israel are united in their aspiration to continue the conflict. The Arab citizens of Israel enjoy life in a democratic society and from the accompanying rights on the one hand, and are working to eliminate it on the other.

Salim also refers to the encouragement of the boycott of Israel by the Palestinian Authority, which is supported by "false moralists" in Europe, and the boycott harms Palestinians who will become unemployed due to the boycott.

Salim reveals that during the first and second Intifada the Palestinians declared a boycott of Israeli goods and refused to work in Israel in order to bring about the collapse of the Israeli economy. Israeli goods were smuggled into the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and were sold at exorbitant prices, and the Jews increased industrialization in the construction industry and solved the shortage of workers. Unemployment has hurt Palestinians - not Israel.

Salim claims that he is concerned that Palestinians are irresponsible and gambling on their future and the future of their children. Instead of recognizing Israel as a Jewish state as part of a deal that will bring about mutual recognition and live in peace, they are trying to impose a unilateral Palestinian state on the world.

Salim fears that the manipulation of the Palestinians will lead to a unilateral withdrawal of Israel from the West Bank, as it did in the Gaza Strip, and the Palestinians will continue to live in difficult conditions with an eternal conflict. In his opinion, they have a chance for a better future than an agreement with Israel.

Salim does not believe that the academic boycott has a chance to harm Israeli academia. Israeli academia excels and has already won several Nobel Prizes whose research contributes to humanity as a whole. The only ones who will suffer will be the unemployed Palestinian workers. He mocks the "crocodile tears, which in the West demonstrate for the Palestinians while they are not really worried about them.

Finally, Salim writes: If I were an Israeli I would demand Palestinian recognition of Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people. This recognition will lead the Muslim world to recognize Israel as a religious obligation. Thus, a prosperous Palestinian state can be established alongside Israel.