Fatah Party member Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian National Authority, and “peace” partner extraordinaire-or, otherwise put, chief administrator of the corrupt and useless body that is “governing” parts of the West Bank and will continue to do so until the inevitable Hamas takeover relieves it of its duties-announced yesterday he has no use for Israel’s insistence upon being acknowledged as a Jewish state.
Of course, nobody, apart from Condi Rice and maybe Hillary Clinton, will be shocked to learn there is resistance going on here. To begin with, calling Israel a Jewish state is not compatible at all with articles 12, 13, 22, or 25 of the Fatah Constitution:
Nor does calling Israel a Jewish state comport with Abbas’s real position on the outlines of a Palestinian state-which, though perhaps unstated to the English-speaking world, is perfectly delineated by the map he is holding in the photo below-which is to say, something encompassing the entire state of Israel:
And, finally, calling Israel a Jewish state would put paid to the “right of return” issue that has been primer inter pares among the stumbling blocks along the road to “peace.”
