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Source: http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5401.htm.
Nabil Sha'th: Palestinians Will Not Recognize Israel as the State of the Jewish People
(MEMRI) In interviews with the Arab Israeli weekly Kul Al-Arab and the Jerusalem-based daily Al-Quds, Nabil Sha'th, Fatah Central Committee member and international relations commissioner, said that the Palestinians would not accept a peace plan with two states for two peoples that included recognition of Israel as the state of the Jewish people. Rather, he said, they would only accept a definition of Israel as the state of the "Israeli people" - which would include Jews, Christians, and Muslims. Sha'th expressed support for initiatives for organizing a million unarmed Palestinians to mass along Israel's borders as part of the Palestinian popular struggle. He stressed that he was working toward returning the Palestinian refugees to all of Palestine, and that the defense of the Arab Israelis must be at the top of the Palestinian agenda.