{"id":6949,"date":"2010-09-07T18:37:58","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T22:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6949"},"modified":"2010-09-07T18:39:45","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T22:39:45","slug":"palestinian-leader-77-of-americans-agree-recognition-of-jewish-state-a-deal-breaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6949\/palestinian-leader-77-of-americans-agree-recognition-of-jewish-state-a-deal-breaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinian Leader, 77% of Americans Agree: Recognition of Jewish State a Deal-Breaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the heels of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu\u2019s offer of an \u201chistoric compromise\u201d Mahmoud Abbas rejected the notion of recognizing Israel as a Jewish state<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas rejected Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s talk about an “historic compromise” and said there would be no compromises on core issues such as Jerusalem and borders.<\/p>\n

Abbas also reiterated his rejection of Netanyahu’s demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state. “We’re not talking about a Jewish state and we won’t talk about one,” Abbas said in an interview with the semi-official Al-Quds<\/em> newspaper. “For us, there is the state of Israel and we won’t recognize Israel as a Jewish state.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Regular news watchers in any of the last four decades will recognize this pattern.\u00a0 Israel offers to negotiate a peace deal; Palestine refuses to negotiate any of the \u201ccore issues.\u201d\u00a0 You know; like borders, how to share \u2013 or not \u2013 Jersusalem, and perhaps the most important: whether one of the state parties to a \u201ctwo-state\u201d solution will be recognized as a state by the other.<\/p>\n

The Palestinian Authority\u2019s (PA) refusal to recognize Israel seems grossly hypocritical when the biggest concession Palestinians demand is Israel\u2019s recognition of Palestine as a state.<\/p>\n

As for what the United States government should do about the impasse, probably nothing.\u00a0 Rasmussen Reports found that 77% of Americans think any peace treaty between Israel and Palestine must include recognition of Israel\u2019s right to exist<\/a>. \u00a0So far, Abbas and the PA won\u2019t even acknowledge that Israel as a state does<\/em> exist, so it may be a while before they get around to saying it has a right<\/em> to exist.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s hope the Obama White House doesn\u2019t dither on this issue<\/a> while the country\u2019s economic house continues to burn down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the heels of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu\u2019s offer of an \u201chistoric compromise\u201d Mahmoud Abbas rejected the notion of recognizing Israel as a Jewish state: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas rejected Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s talk about an “historic compromise” and said there would be no compromises on core issues such as Jerusalem and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[989,386,1804,1806,387,1805],"class_list":["post-6949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-israel","tag-mahmoud-abbas","tag-mideast-peace-process","tag-palestine","tag-palestinian-authority"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6949"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6953,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6949\/revisions\/6953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}