21:20 into the podcast:
“Michael Oren: The Palestinians can’t acknowledge our Jewish
right to sovereignty. They can’t give us that.
David Horovitz: Why can’t they give us that?
Michael Oren: Because
it is about who they are. So I am not going to mention names but in those six hour
of negotiations the issue came up and one of the chief Palestinian negotiators
said, listen, you are asking me to recognize you as a Jewish people with three thousand
year line history to this land. I can’t do that. You are asking me to negate my identity. “
My comment:
But
which identity was the Palestinian negotiator referring to? One explanation could well be their Muslim identity. Because
according to Muslim sacred texts no land that has ever belonged to Muslims or been ruled by Muslims can
ever legitimately in the eyes of Islam be ruled by non-Muslims
