[lit-ideas] Re: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Israel

From: "Stan Spiegel" writeforu2@xxxxxxxxxxx
Your unlimited knowledge of everything -- including the Middle East and Israel -- always stuns me. That the Palestinians were thrown out is as questionable as your pseudonym.
Stan, your statement is false. That's provable by reading the understood assertions in the article:
"But for most Israelis, Palestinian refugees returning to land which is now inside Israel is a non-starter. If all the refugees were to return to Israel, there would cease to be a Jewish majority in the Jewish state. 

(Photo caption: Parts of modern Netanya stand on ruins of pre-1948 village Um 
Khalid.)
"Former Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said that this single demand meant that there was nothing really to talk about.
The article accepts as fact that the Palestinians were there and that they were pushed out. That's what the article means by "refugees". The "right of return" means precisely that: Return. Come back to where they were. The former foreign minister of Israel rejects the issue of return because of its political implications: Palestinians will become the majority. He accepts as fact that the Arabs were there first and the Israels threw them out.
The article also implies Israel is not a legitimate democracy because it denies representation to its majority. Israel simply can not allow democracy because the population would vote differently. 

yrs,
andreas
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