Reply #12: Here's where it gets really bigoted...

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It's about halfway through the article. Here's two examples: 'I need not tell you that our fears are not without justification, with Muslims the world over, and some non-Muslims as well trying to foment the idea of a world without Israel, without a Jewish state.'

Why this is bigoted is because he's painting an entire group with a very broad brush. Wouldn't you consider it to be bigoted if someone were to claim that Jews the world over were trying to forment the idea of a world without a Palestinian state? I certainly would.

'We have no desire to rule over another people, but neither do we intend to allow that people or their cousins to destroy the Jewish homeland and end Jewish history, which is their clearly and continuously expressed intention.'

Yep, coz that's what the Palestinian people as a collective clearly and continuosly express, right? Of course they don't and it's another case of bigoted generalisation. If someone were to say that the clearly and continuously expressed intention of the Israeli people is to expel all Arabs from Israel and the Occupied Territories that'd be the same sort of thing. An entire people can't be judged based on the extremes within their own societies....

on edit: on reading through the article I noticed his claim that most Israelis do not support Israel leaving the West Bank and the creation of a Palestinian state there and that polls support his claim. I thought that polls showed pretty consistantly that a majority of Israelis support a two-state solution with Gaza and the West Bank making up the new state. So I think he's very wrong on his reading of polls...