@buffsoldier_96 Edward Said in an interview with Avi Shavit:
“[Q] In a binational state, the Jews will quickly become a minority, like the Lebanese Christians.
“[A] … the Jews are a minority everywhere. They are a minority in America. They can
certainly be a minority in Israel.”
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“[Q] In a binational state, the Jews will quickly become a minority, like the Lebanese Christians.
“[A] … the Jews are a minority everywhere. They are a minority in America. They can
certainly be a minority in Israel.”
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@buffsoldier_96 [Q] Knowing the region and given the history of the conflict, do you think such a Jewish minority would be treated fairly?
[A] “I worry about that. The history of minorities in the
Middle East has not been as bad as in Europe, but I wonder what would happen. /2
[A] “I worry about that. The history of minorities in the
Middle East has not been as bad as in Europe, but I wonder what would happen. /2
@buffsoldier_96 It worries me a great deal.The question of what is going to be the fate of the Jews is very difficult for me. I really don’t know. It worries me.” [-]
“[Q]So what you envision is a totally new situation in which a Jewish minority would live peacefully within an Arab context?
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“[Q]So what you envision is a totally new situation in which a Jewish minority would live peacefully within an Arab context?
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@buffsoldier_96 “[A] Yes. I believe it is viable. A Jewish minority can survive the way other minorities in the Arab world survived. I hate to say it, but in a funny sort of way, it worked rather well under the Ottoman Empire, with its millet system.
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@buffsoldier_96 What they had then seems a lot more humane than what we have now. So as you see it, the Jews would eventually have a cultural autonomy within a pan-Arab structure? “[-]
“[Q] So in a generation or two, what we will have is an Arab-Jewish minority community in an Arab world?
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“[Q] So in a generation or two, what we will have is an Arab-Jewish minority community in an Arab world?
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@buffsoldier_96 #NakbaDay commemorates Arab failure in 1948 to exterminate the Jewish Community in Palestine, 3 years after Nazi extermination of Jews ended in 1945. Imagine Germany commemorating its failure to exterminate all Jews in Europe and you'll get close to understand #Nakba72 /7
@buffsoldier_96 When E. Said talked about victims of victims, little did the sanctimonious man realize the layers of irony in his fantasy. Palestinians were victims of Holocaust survivors, only because Hitler's victims refused to be exterminated by the Palestinian version of Nazis. /8 
@buffsoldier_96 Edward Said with his violent Ottoman solutions to Jewish polity is the last person you shd go to consult about settling the I/P conflict. Few people in academia dared to confront his romantic delusions to the irreversible disaster that is academia today. /9
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