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April 2, 2012       Share:    

Source: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/03/30/violence-rejectionism-heart-land-day-media-show-palestinians/

Violence and Rejectionism at the Heart of Palestinian "Land Day" Show

(Commentary) Jonathan S. Tobin - The violent nature of the "Land Day" demonstrations and the demands raised by those participating give the lie to the notion that any of this has anything to do with the cause of Middle East peace. Should anyone actually be listening to what they are screaming, the Palestinians and their foreign cheerleaders are making it clear their goal is Israel's destruction. Many of Israel's critics pretend that the dispute is about borders and settlements. But the Land Day extravaganza is about an attempt to reverse the verdict of 1948, not to place an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel. If their foreign friends wish to help the Palestinians, they could do so by ceasing to support these pointless exercises in violence and to begin coming to terms with the permanence of the Jewish state.

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