Monday, November 1, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
Shmuel Trigano: The Open Racism Of The Future State Of Palestine - '...Palestine proper would be, indeed, Arab and Islamic. That is written explicitly in the draft constitution of the planned state: "This constitution is based on the will of Palestinian-Arab people," (Article 1), "the Palestinian people are a part of the Arab and Islamic nation," (Article 2), "sovereignty belongs to the Palestinian Arab people," (Article 10), "the legal character of the Arab-Palestinian people will be embodied by the state," (Article 13). "Islam will be the official religion of the state," (Article 6). We can verify this last principle (the Islamic quality of the state) in the light of the use of rhetorical obfuscation (Article 6) to which the drafters of this constitution resort when they give the appearance of making space for non-Moslems: "Islam will be the official religion of the state. The monotheistic religions will be respected."...'
