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Meshaal: Hamas will not concede historical Palestine FEATURED STORY

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Hamas warns of repercussions of imposing Israeli sovereignty over al-Aqsa

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CONTENTS News of Palestine

Meshaal: Hamas will not concede historical Palestine Hamas warns of Kerry’s Framework Agreement Hamas warns of repercussions of imposing Israeli sovereignty over al-Aqsa 3 Palestinian martyrs during the last week Israeli occupation build 717 settlement units and uproot 3,775 olive trees in February Group: 35 Palestinian refugees killed in Syria in one week Committee to escalate popular protests against Gaza siege

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Articles & Analyses

A Jewish state to liquidate the cause

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Meshaal: Hamas will not concede historical Palestine

27/2/2014 Hamas will not concede any small area of historical Palestine, pointing out to concessions that ongoing peace talks might lead to, the head of the movement’s political bureau said on Wednesday.

Speaking by telephone to people gathered to say farewell to the Palestinian martyr killed by the Israeli occupation 13 years ago and kept in a secret cemetery, Khaled Meshaal said: “We recognise that you face major problems, but victory is coming very soon.”

thority (PA) and the Israeli occupation resumed in the middle of last year and come to an end in April. US Secretary of State John Kerry is trying to extend this period in order to be able to reach a framework peace deal between both sides.

PA president Mahmoud Abbas has announced several times that he will concede occupied Palestinian lands, including his homeland city of Safed, which was occupied in 1948. He accepted a Palestinian state on parts of the Gaza Strip and West Bank with East Jerusalem as its capital.

The Palestinian Moayad Salahuddin from the vil- Hamas has been known for its stance towards the lage of Hazma, to the east of occupied Jerusalem, Israeli occupation. It refuses all forms of occupawas killed by the Israeli occupation in 2001. tion and is working to regain all historic PalestinMeshal told the gathering that Palestinians in the ian land.

Gaza Strip, in occupied Palestine and in the di- It proposed several initiatives to settle the conflict, aspora are all standing with their brothers in the including a real peace agreement on all the 1967 occupied West Bank. borders, while maintaining the right for all PalesOngoing peace talks between the Palestinian Au- tinian refugees to return to their homelands.

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Netanyahu demands that Palestinians abandon their demands ‘for peace’

Hamas warns of Kerry’s Framework Agreement

27/2/2014 Hamas movement expressed concern about the continued negotiations conducted by the Palestinian negotiator and the Israeli occupation, under the auspices of the United States represented by its Secretary of State John Kerry.

The movement said that the negotiation process, over more than twenty years, has given nothing to the Palestinian people. It has encouraged the occupation to grab more land for settlement construction, to Judaize the holy places, and to commit more crimes against the Palestinians, Hamas added.

It also reiterated its rejection of Kerry’s Framework Agreement, which would lead to the recognition of the “Jewishness of the Israeli State”, the liquidation of the Palestinian cause and the loss of the Palestinian rights and constants, and stressed that the entire land of Palestine belongs to the Palestinian people.

Hamas emphasized that the right of return of all refugees to their homes, which have been occupied since 1948, is an inalienable right that cannot be cancelled by any agreement, and stressed its adherence to resistance, especially the armed one, as the only way to confront the occupation.

The movement said in a statement on Thursday: “The Palestinian people cannot trust the US administration which is clearly biased in favor of occupation and its plans and positions.”

Meanwhile, Hamas called on the authority of Ramallah and Fatah movement to review their choices, stop the negotiations, confront the occupation according to a unified national program, and to go to the international courts to prosecute the occupation for its ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people.

In a related context, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded that the Palestinians recognise Israel as a Jewish state and abandon their demands from Israel in exchange for peace.

Netanyahu’s remarks came during his meeting in Jerusalem this week with German Chancellor Angela Merkel to mark 50 years of German-Israeli diplomatic relations. “We are trying to change our world and to realise a stable Middle East that is perhaps not within the reach of both countries,” he added.

Netanyahu noted that the peace efforts aim to establish two states for two peoples; one of which is a demilitarised Palestinian state that recognises Israel as a Jewish state.

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Gov’t called for urgent Arab meeting to protect the Aqsa

Hamas warns of repercussions of imposing Israeli sovereignty over al-Aqsa 26/2/2014 Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum held the Israeli occupation government fully responsible for the consequences of its plan to impose Israeli sovereignty over al-Aqsa Mosque.

Barhoum, pointing to the repeated storming of the holy site, considered such plan a continuation of the religious war waged by Israel on the Palestinian people and their holy sites.

He also demanded the Palestinian Authority led by Abbas and his negotiating team to stop the negotiations, to allow freedom of action for the resistance in the West Bank, to halt security coordination with Israel, and to return to the option of resistance to defend “Some leaders have besieged the Palestinian people, rights and and criminalized the Palestin- holy places. ian resistance, and prosecuted the defenders of the Palestin- For its part, the Aqsa Foundation ian people and their just cause, for Endowments and Heritage rewhile the Oslo team, led by ported in a statement on Tuesday Abu Mazen, has continued to that the Knesset discussed in an waiver our people’s rights”, extended session a proposal introduced by MK Moshe Feiglin the Hamas official said. to impose Israeli sovereignty over He warned, in a press state- al-Aqsa Mosque. ment on Tuesday, the Israeli occupation of the consequenc- It said that the Knesset Speaker es of committing a new folly decided to postpone the vote on against the Palestinian sancti- the issue to a later date. ties, and called on the Palestin- The foundation pointed out that ians in the 1948 occupied land, the Knesset Internal Committee the West Bank and Jerusalem will discuss on Wednesday prepato intensify their presence in rations for the occupation forces’ al-Aqsa Mosque in order to incursions into al-Aqsa during the defend it.

Hebrew Passover, which will take He denounced the position of many Arab and Muslim leaders who have given official cover and additional time for the negotiation process between the Palestinian Authority and the occupation.

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place in a month and a half.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip has called for an urgent Arab meeting to provide protection for the Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem.

Taher Al-Nunu, the media advisor to the office of the prime minister, said in a press release on Tuesday that the urgent Arab meeting should discuss the repeated Israeli attacks and aggressions on the holy site and means of protecting the Mosque.

He said that the Israeli escalated attacks today and on previous occasions were meant to impose a new fait accompli and to control the Mosque.

Nunu called for halting negotiations with Israel and allowing resistance to operate in the West Bank.

Source: Agencies

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Barghouthi: Negotiations give a cover for the killing of Palestinians

3 Palestinian martyrs during the last week 1/3/2014 Three Palestinians were killed during the last week, one of them died of torture in Israeli prison, the incidents that reflects the Israeli escalation against the Palestinians since the peace talks started according to the Palestinian leader “Mustafa Barghouthi”.

A Palestinian prisoner from Jerusalem who was assaulted by Israeli guards while detained at Beersheba prison died on Tuesday morning.

The Wadi Hilwa Centre said that Jihad Taweel, a 47-yearold, went into coma for two weeks when Israeli guards attacked him and other inmates and brutally beat them and sprayed them with pepper gas.

defence teams from approaching and engaged in violent confrontations with citizens that resulted in many injuries and suffocation cases, locals reported. They said that the soldiers remained stationed around the house until it In Birzeit city in the West was completely destroyed.

Bank, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) blew up a house on In the Gaza Strip, a Palestinian Thursday and killed a Palestin- woman has been found dead afian resistance fighter who was ter hours of being shot by Israeli Occupation forces near the fence entrenched inside it. east of Khan Younis town.

Inhabitants told the reporters that IOF soldiers broke into the Spokesman of Health Ministry city, north of Ramallah, and Ashraf al-Qedra said that the amescorted bulldozers. They said bulances transferred the body of that the soldiers’ raid aimed A’mna Qudaih, 58, to the Khan at arresting resistance fighters Younis Nassir Medical Complex. and arrested two of them.

On Friday evening, Israeli forces However, they said that one fired at Qudaih, who approached of them “Motez Washaha” the border fence unconsciously refused to surrender and en- having suffered mental disorders, trenched inside a house for his according to her family. family. They added that the Medical crews tried to locate the soldiers fired live bullets and body of Qudaih immediately affirebombs at the house as the ter the incident but failed due to bulldozers went on the ram- the nightfall and the danger of the page and destroyed part of it. buffer zone.

The soldiers prevented civil Meanwhile, the Secretary-Gen-

eral of the Palestinian National Initiative Mustafa Barghouthi said that Israeli killing crimes against the Palestinians have been escalated since the peace talks started.

40 Palestinians have been killed

by Israel since it resumes its negotiations with the Palestinian authority most recently.

Commenting on the recent Israeli killing of Moataz Washha in Birzeit, he said that the Israeli occupation exploits the ongoing negotiations in order to expand settlements and escalate its repression and assaults against the Palestinian people.

He pointed out that Moataz was killed in a cold-blooded crime committed by Israeli forces, considering it an execution with malice aforethought.

Barghouthi called for holding Israeli occupation accountable in International Criminal Court for its continued crimes against Palestinian people under negotiations’ cover.

Source: PCOM + Agencies

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Israeli occupation build 717 settlement units and uproot 3,775 olive trees in February

ity speciďŹ ed a four-dunam area In its February bulletin, The Infor- of Palestinian land for both mation Centre - who specialise in buildings. monitoring Israeli settlements and The most provocative action, the division wall - said that it had according to the bulletin, was recorded 60 Israeli forces and set- the Israeli Knesset discussion tler attacks against Palestinians of a proposal to replace Jordaand their property in the occupied nian guardianship over Islamic West Bank and Jerusalem. holy sites in Jerusalem with IsThe bulletin began with Israeli ju- raeli guardianship.

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daisation activities in Jerusalem, including the announcement to build thousands of new settlement units in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The report said that the last announcement called for building 558 new settlement units in East Jerusalem.

According to the bulletin, the Israeli municipality in Jerusalem approved a plan to build a Talmudic school and judaisation centre in the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in East Jerusalem. The municipal8 |

In addition, the Israeli occupation demolished 20 Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. They also handed out 65 evacuation orders to Palestinians ahead of demolishing their homes.

Regarding anti-wall and settlement protests, the Israeli forces unleashed a severe crack down on popular and unarmed demonstrations. They wounded and arrested more than 50 Palestinian and foreign activists.

The Israeli forces also dismissed the villagers from Ein Hajleh in the Jordan Valley and announced it a closed military zone. This came after an attack on the village that wounded 41 Palestinian and foreign activists.

Meanwhile, the Israeli settlers, protected by the Israeli forces, attacked the Palestinian properties and farmers in several villages in the occupied West Bank.

They uprooted 3775 olive trees in February from the villages of Sanjal, Tarmes’eya, Yatta and Yanoun. They also damaged 46 Palestinian cars in Silwan and Sharafat in Jerusalem. They stormed AlAqsa Mosque almost everyday.

Source: MEMO

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122 Palestinians died of starvation in Yarmouk refugee camp

Group: 35 Palestinian refugees killed in Syria in one week

1/3/2014 The Action Group for Palestinians in Syria documented the names of 35 Palestinian refugees who were killed in Syria in the course of the past week.

The group said in a statement on Tuesday that 15 of them were killed in Syrian regular army barrel bombing of Ein Zaitun school and a nearby clinic in Mizrib town.

It added that ten refugees died due to lack of medical care and malnutrition in the besieged Yarmouk refugee camp in Damascus while ten others were killed in various other areas in Syria.

The group said that violent clashes were reported near Khan Al-Sheikh refugee camp, adding that eight loud explosions were heard in the vicinity of the camp on Monday night, which turned out to be a new wave of barrel bombing.

In a statement on Saturday, the Action Group said that 122 Palestinians had died in Yarmouk refugee camp, south of Damascus, due to malnutrition and shortage of medicines as a result of the tight siege imposed on the camp.

It said that refugees in the camp complained that the reconciliation agreement was not being implemented and food aid sent into the camp was not enough.

The inhabitants asked for more aid similar to neighbouring areas and for allowing return of inhabitants to their homes.

Source: Agencies

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Committee to escalate popular protests against Gaza siege

1/3/2014 The ‘National Committee to Lift the Siege’, on Friday, announced that it is planning to escalate its popular protests against the Israeli siege on Gaza.

Raqb thanked the official position of Turkey, demanding for a complete lift of the siege of Gaza, as well as Qatar, for its tangible efforts which contribFollowing Friday prayer, spokes- uted to relieving the effects of man for the committee, Hammad the siege. al-Raqb, said in a press conference He urged the Arab League to that the siege on Gaza has affected implement its resolutions, enall walks of life. dorsed in 2006, regarding the He called on the free world to need to lift the Gaza siege. come, in delegations from sea- Meanwhile, members of the ports, to break the siege which has Palestinian Legislative Counentered its eighth year. cil (PLC) started on Sunday a

protest in front of the Rafah Crossing, calling upon the world to lift the eight-year long siege on the Gaza Strip.

Deputy Speaker of the PLC Ahmed Bahr said: “We are calling upon our brothers and sisters in the state of Egypt to open the crossing to allow food and goods into the Gaza Strip in a move to break the oppressive siege.”

Source: Agencies

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Articles & Analyses

A Jewish state to liquidate the cause By: Toujan Al-Faisal * There is no justification for reaching a solution to the “Palestinian cause” at the moment, nor the current rushing and concessions being made. The current situation is not an opportunity to resolve the conflict, but a chance to wait for the results of changes in the Arab, regional and international arenas, which all have the potential for creating a new era, different than any other in the past. army. His father, General Matti Peled, who fought in the 1967 war on the Egyptian front, called for Israel to take advantage of its victory by withdrawing from all Arab territories occupied in that war and to peacefully coexist with its Arab neighbours with Before the Arab Spring, Israel equal rights for the Palestinian grew increasingly isolated and citizens of Israel. began to feel the European and international hostility towards The General’s niece was killed in it as an inevitable result of the an attack by a Palestinian martyrracism it practiced. This led to dom seeker in 1997 and, instead a radical and growing transfor- of calling for the killing of dozens mation from within Israel that of Palestinian civilians as Israeli rejected racism and called for politicians do, the family, includsolutions that are closer to jus- ing the girl’s mother, posed the most important question: What tice and maintainability. suffering has a man such as this I would like to present two ex- martyrdom seeker gone through amples of the radical shift in that he would blow himself up the heart of Israel. The first ex- along with others? ampled was the book The General’s Son, published in 2012 The book, as well as the author’s

by Miko Peled, who earned the lectures in America and Europe, rank of Captain in the Israeli gained great support and attention.

Indeed, they are different to all that has occurred in the past, beginning with the Arab Spring that has not and will not stop until the Arab countries act in accordance with the will of their people.

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What is more important, as important as the emergence of the Zionist movement itself, is the book released by Israeli historian, Shlomo Sand, a professor of contemporary history at the University of Tel Aviv, The Invention of the Jewish People in 2008, which was followed by his book The Invention of the Land of Israel in 2013.

His first book was dedicated to “the memory of the refugees who reached this soil and those who were forced to leave it.”

His second book was dedicated “to the memory of the inhabitants of the village of Sheikh Munis, who were uprooted in the distant past from the place where I live and where I work in the near present.”

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The author examined the historical background of the contemporary Jewish -Muslim history. Through his historical research, going back dozens of centuries, he did not find anything supporting the allegations upon which the State of Israel and Zionism were founded. He did however find things that contradicted these allegations.

The book proves that the Jewish people who live in Israel – or now outside it- are not “a people or a race” nor did they descend from an ancient nation that was living in Palestine. Instead, he proves that the Jewish people in the world are descendants of various tribes, because Judaism was, contrary to what it is today, a missionary religion that was spread particularly in the Mediterranean.

The writer says: “The Jewish people did not spread out in the world (displaced from an al12 |

The writer did not find any historical evidence of the forced displacement of the Jewish people, which is claimed by Zionism.

No one, not even the Romans did this. They couldn’t “logistically” do so at the time.

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The importance of the book “The Invention of the Jewish People” stems from the fact that it is a scientific-historic research that undermines the “myth of the Jewish people”, by that he means it undermines the only basis on which Israel bases its demand for the Arabs and the world to recognise “the Jewishness of the state of Israel”.

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The importance of the book “The Invention of the Jewish People” stems from the fact that it is a scientific-historic research that undermines the “myth of the Jewish people”, by that he means it undermines the only basis on which Israel bases its demand for the Arabs and the world to recognise “the Jewishness of the state of Israel”.

leged country), Judaism did.” Pagans from different nations joined it and it continued to spread in this way until the fourth century, when Christianity triumphed (following Emperor Constantine embracing it).

What happened is that the preaching of Judaism stopped in the Roman state, which had become Christian, which made the Jewish missionaries target other pagans in the Mediterranean basin and its extensions, reaching the Arabian Peninsula. This caused many Arabs to become Jewish in Yemen, remnants of the Himyarite Kingdom in the fourth century AD, as well as Berber tribes in North Africa in the sixth century.

The writer also believes there was a large Jewish community in Spain in the Middle Ages descending from the Berber Jews who were recruited by Tariq Ibn Ziyad, who was of Berber origins.

As for the fact that the largest number of the world’s Jews is in Eastern Europe, it is attributed to the fact that the largest nation who converted to Judaism were the people of the Khazar Empire, whose kings converted to the Judaism in the eighth century AD. The writer says if the Jewish missionaries had targeted other pagan nations, Judaism would have become a “very marginal religion, if not extinct”. After the Khazar Empire fell at the hands of the Mongols in the 13th century, we

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do not know the exact fate of the Jewish population.

for the idea of “contemporary Jewish people returning to their original homeland”.

However, Sand agreed with other historians of the nineteenth century in that Khazarian Jews make up the majority of Eastern Europe Jews, including the Slavic Jews.

The writer also adds “Since about 1967, talk of the Khazars being the ancestors of Eastern European Jews has been considered an act of madness.”

This indicates the massive politicisation of the myth of the Jewish people, as it has been adjusted according to the evolution of Zionist ambitions and the existence of something that suggests the possibility of achieving those ambitions.

The invention of the “Jewish people in diaspora who toured the world for centuries, isolated for centuries, in order to return to their native homeland in the Kingdom of David”, according to Sand, is purely a “nationalist myth” woven in the same manner as the national European movements that began to claim, as the Greeks, to be ancient, dating back to the golden age since the beginning of history.

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History has proven that they are the people and owners of the land which they inherited and planted until they were forcibly displaced.

The depiction of Jewish history as a history of people who had a kingdom began in the 19th century by historian Heinrich Graetz in order to pave the way

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He says that even Ben-Zion Dinur, the father of Jewish history, was not hesitant in considering Eastern European Jews as likely descendants of the Khazar Empire, the original Eastern European Jews, and described the Khazar Empire as “the mother of diaspora” in Eastern Europe.

In a press interview with Haaretz about his book (from which excerpts were used above to quote Sand), Sand was asked if it was possible, according to his findings, that the true descendants of the inhabitants of the Kingdom of Judah are the Palestinians? He replied: “No population remains pure over a period of thousands of years. But the chances that the Palestinians are descendants of the ancient Judaic people are much greater than the chances that you or I are its descendants.”

The first Zionists, up until the Arab Revolt (1936-1939), knew that there had been no exiling and that the Palestinians were descended from the inhabitants of the land. They knew that farmers don’t leave until they are expelled. Even Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, the second president of the State of Israel, wrote in 1929 that, “the vast majority of the peasant farmers do not have their origins in the Arab conquerors, but rather, before then, in the Jewish farmers who were numerous and a majority in the building of the land.”

So, if the farmers do not abandon their land unless they are forcibly displaces, which is historically recognised and supported, and if there were no Jews displaced by force from the land of Palestine, as evidenced and supported, then it would mean that the people who were on this land during the Jewish era, before it, during the pagan era and then during the Christian era and the Islamic conquest, are all the same farm| 13

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Issue No : 84 ers (everyone was a farmer before the industrial age; very few worked in trade or crafts) who were pagans and then converted to Judaism, then Christianity and then Islam, in accordance with the change in the state’s religion or convictions, were the Palestinians who do not claim to be a pure population.

History has proven that they are the people and owners of the land which they inherited and planted until they were forcibly displaced.

Sand also says that the Jews do not want to admit they are descendants of the Khazar Empire because there is a “deep fear” that it will strip them of the legitimacy keeping them in Palestine. “Since the beginning of the dismantlement of the settlements in the world, the settlers - in any land - can no longer simply say; ‘We came, we won and now we are here’, as the Americans, whites in South Africa and the Australians did.”

However, Sand does not believe this fear is justified, as he believes that “the myth of the people in exile does not constitute the legitimacy of our presence here. The belief in our Khazarian origins does not threaten our existence; what dangerously threatened our existence is the nature of the Israeli state.

What can form the basis of our existence here is proceeding to establish a free society for all citizens of Israel.”

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as the “Nakba” anniversary. Sand also stresses the legitimacy of the Palestinians committing to the fact that this is their country, saying “If I were Palestinian, I would revolt against the state that says to me; ‘This is not your country’; I am revolting against this state even though I am Israeli.”

West Bank to alternative Arab homelands. Nor do we need an example of what a “confederation” means and how it will inflict a reality more like direct colonialism of Palestinian and Jordanian cantons, but the most dangerous of all is the current settlement that is meant to be Furthermore, Sand realises that the “last”. his definition of the people and In this settlement, Israel rethe Israeli state is “not acceptable quires “relinquishing all Palesto Zionists or nationalist Arabs”. tinian demands or rights to IsOn his part, he asserts that “Israel rael in the future, including any will not exist as a Jewish state; if stipulated in international resoIsrael does not evolve into a mul- lutions issued for the Palestinticultural open society, Galilee ian issue.” These terms, which will soon turn into “Kosovo”. were approved by Mahmoud It is difficult to sum up a book like Abbas in the Beilin-Abu Mathis in an article like this and I am zen agreement, have adopted only trying to pique interest in the current secret negotiations the book by showcasing the main between himself and Netanyahistorical facts as provided by a hu as a reference. Yasser Arafat Jewish historian, as well as point and his group had also agreed out the fact that a new approach to these terms in an earlier seto thinking about solutions to the cret meeting at the Dead Sea. Arab-Israeli conflict has started This concession is unacceptto emerge and its supporters in able and impossible and does Israel are increasing. not only reduce the legitimacy This is exactly what the extrem- of any agreement, but also the ist Israeli governments, as well international legitimacy of the as international Zionist govern- United Nations itself. It also ments, along with those claiming allows for all forms of extremto represent the Palestinian peo- ism exercised in an effort to ple and the other Arab nations are regain the rights of each inditrying to beat by “selling the Pal- vidual. No one can be blamed estinian land and people”, along for using any means of force with the other Arab people and and violence because what was land, claiming, for the millionth robbed from them was done so time, that this is their last chance forcibly and corruptly. to do so.

We do not need to demonstrate what the “Jewishness of the state” means. It goes beyond the confiscation of the right of return for the Palestinian of 1948 and the programmed displacements of the current residents of the

* Toujan al-Faisal is a human rights activist and a former TV journalist, who was Jordan’s first female member of parliament.

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