The Jerusalem Post reported today the following: "The Palestinian Ambassador to the United States Maen Rashid Areikat said on Tuesday in Washington that the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)opposes the immediate presence of Jews and gays in an independent Palestinian state, according to reports in The Daily Caller and The Weekly Standard."
So this gives rise to the following question: If a Palestinian state is established and all Jews are expelled from it, should all Arabs be expelled at the same time from Israel? It is the only logical conclusion from the official position of the Palestinian Authority. Nevertheless, just imagine the outcry if any Israeli politician were to say the same thing. Israel is the only state in the Mideast where multiculturalism actually works. In Egypt, the Coptic Christian minority of about 6 million people live in fear after constant church bombings and other attacks on the Christian community. In Lebanon, the Maronite Christians, Shia Moslems and the Sunni Moslems are at each others' throats; they fought a ten year long war not too long ago. In Syria, the Alawaite minority controls the government and clamps down on the other branches of Islam. The Kurds are threatened constantly in supposedly secular Turkey. In all of these countries, there are no Jews. They were expelled years ago when the state of Israel was founded. Nevertheless, in Israel, arabs are full citizens, they vote and have representation in the parliament, they are not harrassed by the government or mobs of their countrymen and they have freedom of speech and assembly.
I wonder how many of the Israeli arabs would accept the idea of leaving the country to go to a newly independent state of Palestine?
No comments:
Post a Comment