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Source: http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=17099
Treason of the Arab Intellectuals
(Yediot Ahronot/IMRA) - Sever Plocker Those who stubbornly reject any compromise with Israel are the intellectual elites of the Arab world. Widely held among these elites, and through them among significant sectors of Arab public opinion, is the discredited notion that the Jews are not a nation, but only a religion, and they have no need for a sovereign state of their own. This is accompanied by categorical denial of any historical connection of the Jews with the Land of Israel. The overwhelming majority of Arab intellectuals have even refused to internalize the fact that Zionism was and still is the Jewish people's national liberation movement. As long as the idea of reconciliation with Israel does not sink into Arab consciousness as a natural and desirable choice of the Arabs themselves, rather than as something imposed on them by the U.S. under pressure of the Jewish lobby, the prospects of peace are very slim.