Re: Greece moves to recognise the state of Palestine
The current administration of the PA doesn't recognize Israel's right to exist
Yes it does. See Oslo accords and the Palestinian National Authority President (Abbas) statements I linked earlier...
as it constantly pushes its claim that Israel must accept over 4 million Palestinians into the state of Israel in what they call the Palestinian 'right of return' meaning its destruction.
This is irrelevant
They also work to deligitimize Israel's right to exist through international platforms.
Being seen as equal state actors on international platforms is smoehow a tactic for not recognizing Israel? What BS is this?
Abbas had also repeatedly refused to recognize Israel as a Jewish state fearing that such recognition would mean an end to Palestinian claims over the territory of modern Israel.
So they must recognize Israel again? How many more times? And why the condition of "Jewish state"? And dont you see the problems with the "Jewish state" as a condition now being used as an official recognition (even though PLO has recognized Israel as a state without the condition as recognizing it as "the Jewish state")? This has never been a precondition for Israel before 2007 and is being used as a political tool to try to delegitimize Palestinians and their legal actions when it comes to refugee issues, etc. And Israelis cant even define what a "jewish state" means...
"There are a great many difficulties with the "Jewish state" demand, and Netanyahu's formulation "the nation-state of the Jewish people" in particular.
This framing also begs the question about the status of Palestinian citizens of Israel, who already face significant discrimination in many sectors because they are not Jewish. This is one of the reasons the PLO finds the demand so problematic: They will not agree to implicitly endorse the restrictions Palestinian citizens of Israel now face, or may face in the future.
Moreover, Israel itself cannot define what a "Jewish state" means, exactly. There were several attempts in the last Knesset to introduce legislation to clarify the term; all of them failed miserably because while there is a consensus among Jewish Israelis that their state is in some sense "Jewish," there is no consensus whatsoever as to what that entails. So, in effect, Palestinians are being asked to agree to something that even the Israelis cannot define with any degree of specificity.
The "Jewish state" demand was first introduced in 2007 at the Annapolis meeting, never having been mentioned in previous Israeli negotiations with the Palestinians, let alone with Egypt or Jordan. It was dismissed by not just the Palestinian delegation, but also the American one, both recognizing it as an attempted end-run around the final status issue of Palestinian refugees. The matter was accordingly dropped.
Many commentators have long understood that Netanyahu has made this such a focus of his policy for two clear reasons. The first is to put his own stamp on a process that had been defined before he came to power. The second is to continue the attempt to defuse the refugee issue, particularly as a quid pro quo for Israeli compromises on Jerusalem.
So, this new demand solves the problem that one side is lived up to its core commitment under a two-state solution – recognizing the statehood of the other party – while the other side has not. It pushes the diplomatic, psychological, and political clock back before 1993, to an era where Palestinians are once again being asked to demonstrate their willingness to live in peace with Israel by uttering some magic mantra.
But the truth remains that one party, the Palestinians, has recognized the independent statehood of the other, Israel. And Israel has never recognized an independent Palestine or the Palestinian right to an independent state. There are, apparently, still many things the Palestinians must do to "earn" such a right, if they are ever to have it at all, and that includes some sort of recognition of Israel as a "Jewish state."
Until they do that, Israel and its hard-core supporters will bat aside the fact that Palestinians have actually recognized Israel, unrequited, since 1993, and speak and act as if that were irrelevant and the Palestinians haven't recognized Israel at all until they repeat the novel catechism now being placed before them."
read more:
How Many Times Must the Palestinians Recognize Israel? - Opinion - Haaretz - Israeli News Source Haaretz.com
will also point out the fact that Abbas had considered several times the territory of the state of Israel as "Palestinian occupied territory", he even said that Israel occupies Palestinian territories for more than 67 years now:
No where did he say there all of Israeli territory is occupied..
