The very idea of a ‘Jewish state’, a state in which Jews and the Jewish religion have exclusive privileges from which non-Jewish citizens are forever excluded is rooted in another time and place. [5] Unless something changes, Judt declared, “Israel in half a decade will be neither Jewish nor democratic”. Both declare to me: A Jewish state must be established immediately, even if it is only in part of the country. A Jewish state will come”. [15] This letter was first referred to by Ilan Pappé in his article entitled “The 1948 Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine”, Journal of Palestine Studies, issue 141, Fall 2006.

Source: The Guardian June 10, 2024 03:00 UTC