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Sunday, June 25, 2006

Forming another Arab apartheid state: PA minister: Settlers not welcome in Palestine

What he says about "settlers" is at least arguable (from his perspective), but they go beyond settlers. It's the death penalty for selling land to a Jew in the PA now, and that won't be changing.

Palestinian minister Sheikh Nayef Rajoub says Olmert’s statement that West Bank settlers could live in Palestinian state is clearly unrealistic. ‘We don't want them, and I'm sure that they, considering their arrogance and violence, don't accept the idea either’ ...

...[YNet:] But not all the settlers are the same. Not all are violent and not all of them live in the West Bank because of ideological reasons. And besides, if a foreigner wants to live here you wouldn’t let him?

[Rajoub:] "A non-Jewish foreigner is a different question. We aren’t against the Jews as Jews, as a religion. We are against those settlers because of their behavior and the immense suffering they have caused us, and the large number of victims their conduct has cost. Settlers’ behavior did not leave us with the option to classify who among them is extremist and who is moderate."...

(via OceanGuy)

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