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Mr. Fayyad responded: "I'm not someone who will say that they would or should be treated differently than Israeli Arabs are treated in Israel. In fact, the kind of state that we want to have, that we aspire to have, is one that would definitely espouse high values of tolerance, coexistence, mutual respect and deference to all cultures, religions. No discrimination whatsoever, on any basis whatsoever. Jews, to the extent they choose to stay and live in the state of Palestine, will enjoy those rights and certainly will not enjoy any less rights than Israeli Arabs enjoy now in the state of Israel."
R. James Woolsey: The Ugly Premise of 'Settlement' Opponents - WSJ.com
From your link:
Such a policy would mark a substantial change from the Palestinian Authority's first law adopted in 1994: the death penalty for any Palestinian who sells land to Jews. Over 100 Palestinians have died, under sentence or extrajudicially, for such sales in the last 15 years, including one last May. The Fatah (Mr. Fayyad's party) charter foresees a Palestine that is free of Jews. And recently Fatah demanded that Israel give up all of Jerusalem before it would begin negotiations on a two-state solution.
So Fayyad's view would appear to be a minority view even within his own party, and as far as you and Hamas are concerned the view of a despised minority.
Find a link to that law. I don't remember it mentioning Jews. The term I remember is "Israelis or their agents."
It's from your link. If you don't think it's reliable, why did you quote from it? The fact is that the Arabs in the disputed territories consistently refer to Arab Israelis as Palestinians and only call Jews Israelis, so the interpretation in the quote is true to the meaning of the law.