Tel-Chai Nation

The AFP reported that Fatah has reaffirmed their refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state (Hat tip: Power Line):

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction will reaffirm its refusal to recognise Israel as a Jewish state at a major congress next week, according to a document obtained by AFP on Saturday.

The congress document also reiterates the refusal of the Palestinian leadership to resume peace talks with Israel as long as it continues building Jewish settlements in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank. [...]

In the document Fatah underlines "its refusal to recognise Israel as a Jewish state" as demanded by Israel's hardline Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Fatah links this refusal to its determination to protect the right of Palestinian refugees to return to homes they fled at the time of the creation of Israel in 1948.

The "hardline" smear aside, what Fatah is saying in other words is that Israel cannot be a Jewish/Israeli state, but Arabic countries can be and are Islamic and governed by Shari'a law. Jews cannot live in these Islamic countries but Arabs have every right to "return" to places where they've never even lived. And Jews/Israelis cannot live and build in east Jerusalem but Arabs can live and build anywhere in the city. That's the Islamic position for you.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel