Middle East Focus: Abbas on a Jewish Empire……..

Arabia Deserta

Abbas on a Jewish Empire……..

Walking on water

“After Netanyahu calls on Palestinian president to 'just say it – say yes to a Jewish state', Abbas answers that 'if Israel wants negotiations in which Palestinians recognize it, then it must also recognize Palestinian state'. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas answered a demand by Israel to recognize it as a Jewish state somewhat sardonically, saying that as far as he was concerned, "Israel can call itself… the Jewish-Zionist Empire". Abbas spoke just before meeting President Shimon Peres in New York…..”

Odd comment by a clearly uncomfortable and evasive Abbas. There has never been a Jewish empire, only small Jewish kingdoms, alternating with Persian and Hellenic and Roman and Muslim provinces. The Jewish people have never tried to create an empire: maybe they did not get a chance, maybe they were not very social, or maybe they did not want to convert anyone else. Maybe, being cantankerous, they had enough arguments among themselves that they did not want more aggravation from the rookies. And how do you convert anyone into accepting that you are God’s chosen people, even if you were?
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