P F Tinmore
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The question is: How can you de-legitimize something (in this case the Zionist state) which it is NOT legitimate?
The truth of the time was that Israel, which came into being mainly as a consequence of Zionist terrorism and pre-planned ethnic cleansing, had no right to exist and, more to the point, could have no right to exist unless .. Unless it was recognised and legitimized by those who were dispossessed of their land and their rights during the creation of the Zionist state. In international law only the Palestinians could give Israel the legitimacy it craved.
As it was put to me many years ago by Khalad al-Hassan, Fatahs intellectual giant on the right, that legitimacy was the only thing the Zionists could not take from us by force.
The truth of history as summarised briefly above is the explanation of why, really, Zionism has always insisted that its absolute pre-condition for negotiations with more than a snowballs chance in hell of a successful outcome (an acceptable measure of justice for the Palestinians and peace for all) is recognition of Israels right to exist. A right, it knows, it does not have and will never have unless the Palestinians grant it.
Israel And The
The truth of the time was that Israel, which came into being mainly as a consequence of Zionist terrorism and pre-planned ethnic cleansing, had no right to exist and, more to the point, could have no right to exist unless .. Unless it was recognised and legitimized by those who were dispossessed of their land and their rights during the creation of the Zionist state. In international law only the Palestinians could give Israel the legitimacy it craved.
As it was put to me many years ago by Khalad al-Hassan, Fatahs intellectual giant on the right, that legitimacy was the only thing the Zionists could not take from us by force.
The truth of history as summarised briefly above is the explanation of why, really, Zionism has always insisted that its absolute pre-condition for negotiations with more than a snowballs chance in hell of a successful outcome (an acceptable measure of justice for the Palestinians and peace for all) is recognition of Israels right to exist. A right, it knows, it does not have and will never have unless the Palestinians grant it.
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