With Israel insisting on Arab recognition of Israel’s basic essence as a Jewish State, an Arab news agency responds by calling such an entity a “threat to all humanity.”
Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook of Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) report that an editorial by WAFA, the official Palestinian Authority news agency, is a “vicious anti-Semitic article stating that a Jewish state… is by definition inherently racist and endangers all humanity.” The official op-ed also accuses Israel of ethnic cleansing of Arabs and Palestinians, thus endangering global security.
Israel’s goal, according to WAFA, is to “eradicate[e] Palestinians, with slogans first, then by practice," as well as to eliminate "everything related to Arabism," and build instead a "racist state" based on Judaism.
"The Jewish State, or People, or Land is a synonym of the black nightmare of Racism,” the article states. “It is a war waged on us; a new war aimed at eradicating Palestinians... Are we now witnessing our complete, final expulsion? … The Jewish State is clear in its objectives, even implementation and application. It means eliminating 20% of the Jewish entity's citizens; Arabs and Palestinians. It probably means forcing them out; transferring them.”
"Those who are calling for the Jewishness of the State are performing a political act,” WAFA tells its readership, with the “fundamental aim [being] the complete closure of the right of return… Also prohibited is for Palestinians to remain upon their lands and forbidden houses in the Galilee and in the Triangle and in the Negev and in Jerusalem, as a 'first stage,' and in every place where there are Palestinians.”
The article concludes with this dramatic point: "A Jewish state endangers not only Palestinians, but also the Arab World, and the global security… Will the present international system, with its modernity and development, and after banishing the racist entities, allow the development of a theocratic regime, successor of racist regimes that have disappeared, where anyone who does not recognize it cannot live there?"