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General Category => World News => Topic started by: flowers on January 07, 2014, 06:31:20 pm
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/01/07/Palestinian-Official-Eliminate-Israel-in-Stages
As Secretary of State John Kerry continues to press Israel to make additional concessions for the sake of peace, a senior Palestinian official has reiterated what clear-eyed observers have known for years: that the Palestinian Authority has no intention of living side-by-side with Israel. Rather, Palestinian leaders hope to use a state on the 1967 borders as a stepping stone towards Israel's ultimate destruction--the so-called "strategy of stages."
In a 2011 interview recently unearthed by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), the official, Abbas Saki, told a Syrian television station: "Even the most extreme among us, Hamas, or the fighting forces, want a state within the '67 borders. Afterward, we [will] have something to say, because the inspiring idea cannot be achieved all at once. [Rather] in stages." Saki is thought to be close to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, according to PMW.