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Source: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-880225
Let the Saudis Tell the Palestinians: "Your War Against Zionism Is Over"
(Jerusalem Post) Dr. Einat Wilf interviewed by Sherry Makover-Balikov - Dr. Einat Wilf, a former Labor MK, explained in a recent interview with Maariv why she views Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas as an adversary. "I spoke about his commitment to the Palestinian ethos that believes in the right of return and fights against the existence of a Jewish state for the Jewish people." Before Oct. 7, "I said our enemies, especially the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, still seek a reality where Jews have no state....[I] explained that someone who grows up believing he will take back his house in Israel will get up each morning and dig a tunnel to 'liberate Palestine.' I said, 'listen to them. They say openly that they aim to destroy the Jewish state.'...Then, on Oct. 7, everyone understood." "One cannot ignore how refugee and return ideas shape Palestinianism, or that a people next to us was formed around a destructive idea of negating Zionism....Peace and security are impossible while the Palestinian ideology that negates Zionism persists." "The Palestinians are not ready for peace or any arrangement that includes a Jewish state. Still, Israel must say it strives for peace under conditions....The Saudi crown prince said he would advance the Abraham Accords if a path to two states opens....For a hundred years, the Palestinians have said they are not ready for a neighboring Jewish state. The day they want to live beside us, not on our ruins, they will find we were never the problem." "Return the ball to the crown prince. Ask him to help West Bank Arabs abandon the war. Tell the Palestinians, your war against Zionism is over. The Jews will have a state, and you can live beside them, not instead of them. That means you are not refugees and have no right of return, and in return, we will help with budgets and education." "In Gaza, we would say the war does not end with disarming Hamas but when the ideology disintegrates - and no one in Gaza is a refugee....We talked only about disarming Hamas, while its greatest weapons are ideology, refugeehood, right of return, and international legitimacy....Once Palestinians understand that ideology is dead and the Jews are here to stay, they can live alongside us, and a political arrangement will be possible."