Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Six little words.

Six little words. That’s all it will take to end the conflict between
Israel and the Palestinians. So said Benjamin Netanyahu last week, on
the eve of yet another Quartet meeting to kickstart the Israeli-
Palestinian diplomatic process.
Those words are:  “I will accept the Jewish state.”
We’ve been hearing these six little words lately – but never from the
lips of a Palestinian leader. In early June Nabil Sha’ath told an
Arabic newspaper that the Palestinians will never recognise a Jewish
state – only a state of Jews, Muslims and Christians in Israel.
Until Netanyahu decided to make a stand on Israel ‘s acceptance ‘as a
Jewish state’,  Israeli negotiators assumed that if Arabs accepted the
‘two-state solution’ they automatically accept Israel as a Jewish
state. They do not. Having obtained UN approval in September to
achieve their independent state of Palestine on the West Bank and
Gaza, the Palestinians will move on to their next target : achieving
their ‘right of return’ to Israel proper - a surefire euphemism for
turning Israel into an Arab-majority state.
The refusal to utter those six little words points to the Arab
rejectionism  at the heart of the conflict. As Netanyahu states, ‘The
issue is not over what Israel calls itself, but rather over what it
is’.
Netanyahu’s appeal echoes that of Abraham Foxman, national director of
the influential Anti-Defamation League. Foxman has also called for
Arab leaders to utter those six little words. But Foxman goes further.
He puts his finger on the nub of the conflict between Muslims and the
Jews of Israel. The root of Arab/Muslim rejectionism lies in
Dhimmitude.
 "It speaks to the long history of relations between Jews and Muslims
through the centuries, a relationship that in many ways was better
than  that of Jews living under Christians in Europe, but was still
characterized by a consistent Muslim belief in Jewish inferiority and
second-class status, Abraham Foxman wrote in the Huffington Post.”
Israel, if it stands for anything in the Arab mind, is an assertion
of Jewish equality. This is difficult for Arabs and Muslims to
swallow  under any circumstances, but particularly so because that
assertion is  being made in the heartland of the Arab world.”
The Muslim denial of collective minority rights is rooted in the
historical rejection of non-Muslim peoplehood. Dhimmitude, a term
coined by the historian Bat Ye'or, describes the Islamic practice of
denying equality to Jews and Christians who live under Muslim rule.
Islam offers them religious autonomy, not  national freedom. The
orthodox Palestinian line has been to deny Israel's existence, but to
offer to allow Jews, after Israel's demise, to live in a "secular and
democratic" Palestinian state. Implicit even in the Saudi peace
initiative, hailed by many Israelis as a moderate and reasonable
blueprint, is the notion that, in return for ‘normalisation’ ,the Jews
of Israel must agree to submit to the traditional cultural and
political dominance of the Arabs.
http://www.propagandistmag.com/2011/06/25/dhimmi-roots-arab-israeli-conflict

 Those words are:   I will accept the Jewish state. 
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