AFP JANUARY 26, 2014 Jewish state demand bares clashing - TopicsExpress



          

AFP JANUARY 26, 2014 Jewish state demand bares clashing Mideast narratives RAMALLAH - The controversy over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state is rooted in the clashing historical narratives of the decades-old conflict. Palestinians have dismissed the demand, pointing to the fact that they recognized Israel in 1993 at the start of the peace process and insisting its not for other nations to define a states national or religious character. Israeli President Shimon Peres, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize for the 1993 Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, reportedly agrees, and this week was said to have called the request unnecessary. But Netanyahu insists the demand gets to the very heart of the conflict, which he says is the refusal of Arabs to accept the right of Jews to a nation-state in the Middle East. https://now.mmedia.me/lb/en/mena/532385-jewish-state-demand-bares-clashing-mideast-narratives
Posted on: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 11:35:50 +0000

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