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History and a Jewish State
[National Post-Canada] George Jonas - "Israel is the nation-state of the Jewish people," said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his speech last week, summing up in nine words why the Middle East conflict is intractable. Being the Jewish nation-state is precisely what the Arab/Muslim world can't accept about Israel. Had the Arab/Muslim world accepted the boundaries within which Israel was created by the UN in 1947, it could legitimately say that settlements built on territories occupied after the war of 1967 fell outside them. But had the boundaries been accepted, there would have been no 1967 war.