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Do the Palestinians Really Want Their Own State?

(Times of Israel) Treasury Minister Yair Lapid interviewed by David Horovitz - "There is a question that is haunting me which is whether the Palestinians really want to have their own state. I'm not sure about it." "The Palestinians are the first nation in history that are treating independence as a zero-sum game. They say either you give us 100% of what we want or we don't want it at all. The United States was established as a shaky confederation of 13 states....Modern Italy was formed without Rome." "Look at the UN Resolution about the establishment of Israel: 55% of the territory, without the Western Wall, without big chunks of Jerusalem. But we acted according to the basic principles of nations that really want independence. We said, whatever they give us we're going to take, and then we're going to struggle over the details. This is what nations really do when they really want to go there." "But the Palestinians are saying: They've only offered us 94% of what we want territorially. We're not going to take it. They've only offered us 94% of the self-government that we've asked for. We're not going to take it. It's either 100% or we're not taking it at all." "You look at this and you ask yourself, maybe they don't want it so much."
2014-05-08 00:00:00
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