PA/PLO - Israel? OK. Jewish Israel? No way [Excerpts]
Weeks before the Bush administration [convened] its conference on the creation of Palestine, one of the PLO/PA's most senior spokesman declared that the "Palestinians" will never recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
Saeb Erekat was speaking on Palestine Radio when he gave the rationale for the "Palestinian" position.
"There is no country in the world where religious and national identities are intertwined," he said.
The words thus spelled out by PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas' right hand man shone light on a central component of the deceptive, and usually hidden, PLO strategy whose end goal has always been the eradication of a sovereign Jewish state from the Muslim Middle East.
Since US President George H. W. Bush and Secretary of State James Baker began the land-for-peace process in 1991, a demand made on the PLO and other elements in the anti-Israel terrorist front has consistently been that they recognize the State of Israel.
After ducking and diving their way around this demand, the Arab side finally found the key:
They would recognize Israel as "a state" but not as a "Jewish state."
