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Palestinians attend Friday prayers in front of the Dome of the Rock at al-Aqsa compound in Jerusalem's Old City March 9, 2007. (Photo by Ahmad Gharabli/Flash90)
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| By israelinsider staff and partners July 1, 2007 |
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Jerusalem is "not holy to Muslims at all," nor has it ever been, and the claim that it is Islam's third holiest site, after Mecca and Medina, is aimed simply at stealing the city from the Jewish people, stated Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) President Morton Klein in a fiery speech at Beth Zion Congregation in Quebec, Canada.
"They simply want to take away our heart and our soul," stated Klein, in a speech he gave before 200 congregants shortly before the 40th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem.
Klein slammed Jewish organizations for putting politics before principals and for letting myths, such as the idea that Palestinians comprise a nation, become accepted as truth.
According to Klein, Palestinians have no national history, and since the country "Palestine" has never really existed, the Palestinians are not a real people.
The Israeli occupation is "one of the world's great lies," stated Klein.
The Jerusalem Newswire reported that Klein also rejected the myth that Muslims "want to live in peace with Israel when an overwhelming mountain of both factual and circumstantial evidence proves that their unaltered aim and goal is to destroy the Jewish state."
In his speech, Klein blamed a different "value system" for mothers rejoicing in the deaths of their children who act as suicide bombers.
According to a report in The Canadian Jewish News Friday, he also slammed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's willingness to even consider the Saudi Arabian peace plan, which calls for Israel to return to the 1967 borders.
According to Klein, a two-state resolution will "never" work because the Palestinians will "only scream louder" with new demands.
Klein said that Palestinian leaders have never really aimed at making peace, and criticized Olmert for his willingness to make peace at Israel's expense.
During his speech, Klein displayed the New York Times headline from the day that Israel was established, May 14, 1948. The headline implied that peace was on its way and that the conflict would eventually end.
"Nothing has changed since then," he responded.
The ZOA, founded in 1897, is one of the oldest and most conservative Israel advocacy groups in the US.
Stan Goodenough of Jerusalem Newswire contributed to this report. |
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