Israeli Arabs: We Do Not Want to Live in Palestinian State

by Khaled Abu Toameh January 6, 2014 at 5:00 am http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4119/israeli-arabs-palestinian-state It is much easier for Palestinians to accuse Israel of racism than to admit they do not want to be part of a Palestinian state. "This is an imaginary proposal that relates to the Arabs as if they were chess pieces that could be moved around according to the wish of the players." — Ahmed Tibi, Member of Knesset. If the Arab Knesset members are so worried about becoming citizens of a Palestinian state, they should be working toward integration into, and not separation from, Israel, and listening more to their constituents rather than the voices of Fatah and Hamas. A public opinion poll conducted by the Arab Center for Applied Social Research in November 2007 found that more than 70% of Israeli Arabs are opposed to any proposal to annex towns and villages in the triangle area to the Palestinian Authority in exchange for the annexation of the settlements to Israel. The Islamization of France in 2013 by Soeren Kern January 6, 2014 at 4:30 am http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4120/islamization-france Print Send Comment RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. "Who has the right to say that France in thirty or forty years will not be a Muslim country? Who has the right in this country to deprive us of it?" — Marwan Muhammed, spokesman, Collective Against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), Paris. Interior Minister Manuel Valls said he was "shocked" by an RTL Radio report which estimated that more than 40,000 cars are burned in France every year.