{"id":11147,"date":"2011-09-14T12:08:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T16:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11147"},"modified":"2011-09-14T12:08:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T16:08:40","slug":"palestinians-seek-separation-from-jews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/09\/14\/palestinians-seek-separation-from-jews\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestinians seek &#8220;separation&#8221; from Jews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PLO has a rather draconian solution to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/story\/2011-09-13\/palestinian-israeli-jews-future-state-israel-PLO\/50394882\/1#.TnCsKCZttys.twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Israel<\/a> issue:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Palestine Liberation Organization&#8217;s ambassador to the United States said Tuesday that any future Palestinian state it seeks with help from the United Nations and the United States should be free of Jews.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After the experience of the last 44 years of military occupation and all the conflict and friction, I think it would be in the best interest of the two people to be separated,&#8221; Maen Areikat, the PLO ambassador, said during a meeting with reporters sponsored by <em>The Christian Science Monitor<\/em>. He was responding to a question about the rights of minorities in a Palestine of the future.<\/p>\n<p>Such a state would be the first to officially prohibit Jews or any other faith since Nazi Germany, which sought a country that was <em>judenrein<\/em>, or cleansed of Jews, said Elliott Abrams, a former U.S. National Security Council official.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has 1.3 million Muslims who are Israeli citizens. Jews have lived in &#8220;Judea and Samaria,&#8221; the biblical name for the West Bank, for thousands of years. Areikat said the PLO seeks a secular state, but that Palestinians need separation to work on their own national identity.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PLO has a rather draconian solution to the Israel issue: The Palestine Liberation Organization&#8217;s ambassador to the United States said Tuesday that any future Palestinian state it seeks with help from the United Nations and the United States should be free of Jews. &#8220;After the experience of the last 44 years of military occupation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,370,11],"tags":[47,291,446,292],"class_list":["post-11147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-middle-east","category-religion","tag-islam","tag-israel","tag-judaism","tag-palestine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2TN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11148,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11147\/revisions\/11148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}