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What is it to unify a
State comprising both Israel and Palestine? Is this fact can work
out?
It is a very hard
question to answer. But why not trying to implement that if this
will have a
chance!
A leading Palestinian
Christian has called for this, a unified State for both Palestinians
and
Jews. Rev. Dr. Naim
Stifan Ateek, director of the Sabeel Center in Jerusalem who made a
strong plea to unify the
area into one nation.
Ateek urged acceptance
of Israel's existence. "The state of Israel should never have been
established, but it was,
we accept it," he stated. " If Jews want to live on the West Bank or
Gaza, then they must
become Palestinian citizens."
He also discussed three
types of Zionism: the secular Zionism, which established the state
of Israel, he said with
its roots in Europe, said that European Jews couldn't live among
European Christians.
Many Christians,
including some influential members of the British Government, said
that
with the Ottoman Empire
falling apart, Europeans could help the Jews return to the Holy
Land. This thinking
influenced the Balfour Declaration, he explained.
How did they establish
this State? Of course not with their own, with the help of Western
countries especially the
United States. At the end the whole thing ended up with 77% of
Palestine robbed from
its people Palestinians.
The second form of
Zionism began after the 1967 war. It was by religious Jews who did
not
believe in Zionism, the
opportunity came and they took the land under "In the name of God".
The third type of
Zionism as Ateek said, is that of the peace process. How? We all
know
that Israel is so strong
and the Palestinians are so weak, so as the Israelis continued to
Judaize Jerusalem, of
course in the name of peace, the other part was unable to do
anything, now Israel is
there and they will continue to be there.
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