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Source: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/03/14/palestine_israel_jewish_state_abbas
Mahmoud Abbas and the "Jewish State"
(Foreign Policy) Robert Satloff - A tourist guide printed in 1924 by the Supreme Muslim Council of Jerusalem, the highest Muslim communal body in Palestine, explains that Solomon's Temple, the holiest site in Judaism, was located on the site now occupied by the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque, proof of Muslim recognition of the historic Jewish connection to Jerusalem. The 1947 UN resolution that gave international imprimatur to the partition of British-mandated Palestine mentioned the phrase "Jewish state" dozens of times. Surveys over the last decade by Palestinian pollster Khalil Shikaki show that 40-52% of Palestinians would accept recognition of Israel as the "Jewish state." The writer is executive director of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.