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Originally Posted by Skybird

If you can, focus on the content and argument of the following, not on the source. The message is more important than the name of the messenger.

http://frontpagemag.com/2011/10/03/w...a-price/print/

Always demanding Israel to go back to the borders of pre-1967 would mean to reward military aggression by allowing the aggressor to just go back to start after his aggression failed. But aggression shoudl come at a price.

Or would anyone argue that Germany has any claim to make that Poland has to giove back the "occupied territories" it kept from former pre-WWII Germany...?

And the following is in German, about the dubious origin of this oh so precious thing called "Palestinian identity". But this identity is a very queer and anything but obvious thing in fact. The ironic thing here is that this article was published in an extremely left-leaning, anti-national weekly magazine. A very short summary of it would be: the palestinian identiy, the Palestinian people - it is just an invention, a piece of fiction, that in the ends demands all territory between the Mediterranean Sea and Jordan to be cleaned of any Jewish presence. And this in a leftist paper. But still - there is no such thing as a Palestinian identity in the meaning of an ethnic, racial, tribal nature of a people.

http://jungle-world.com/artikel/2011/39/44061.html

Great article thats exactly my point.

Here something about the Apartheid...from very leftist paper.
Take into consideration that there are relatively few Palestinian academics vs population-never mind the reason for PC.

Interview / 'It's trivial to hire Arab academics'

In absolute numbers, out of state employees, there are only 4,200 Arabs and very few make it high in the ranks of government service.

By Meirav Arlosoroff






We asked Ayman Seif, general director of the Authority for the Economic Development of Minorities at the Prime Minister's Office, if it's true that there aren't many Arabs in Israeli government service. Apparently it is.
Aimen Seif.
Photo by: David Bachar "We are 20% of the population, but only 7% of the employees of the state are Arabs," Seif says. In absolute numbers, out of state employees, there are only 4,200 Arabs, he says. Moreover, very few make it high in the ranks of government service.
Why is this so?
"In my opinion the situation is completely twisted. It was only in 1994 that the first positions in government were earmarked for Arab citizens. The situation has improved since then. There is a trend of hiring Arabs by government. The figures speak for themselves and Israeli governments have admitted that there has been discrimination against Arabs .... The pace is slow but we're on the right track."
What can be done to change things?
"Government offices need to realize that it's trivial to absorb Arab academics, to encourage the Arab population to apply for government tenders. We're trying to work in both these directions.
"There is a lack of awareness, perhaps ignorance, fear of the different. That isn't just in the government sector, it's in the private sector as well. I say, let's talk about ignorance - that they don't realize there are excellent Arab academics who can provide good, efficient help in the private sphere, and the public one as well."