I don't think it is a good and sound platform to base a pro zionist argument. I've read most of the evil Quran in Hebrew in a rather PC translation and still I think there is no way you can say this evil book is pro zionist. If anything you will fall into the trap muhammad placed to Jews. He used to say there are bad Jews- the ones who accept only part of the book, because they refuse to accept his message, and there are good Jews- the one who accept him as the messenger of allah; But of course these "good" Jews are converts to Islam...
I am more leaning on this side especially even more soo after reading the other Muslims response.
The question is why would the Sheik Palazzi do or say soo?
--Is it to get the Arabs perhaps out of their dark ages and mentality soo they can progress
-- Maybe he himself is a descent person and he projects his own mindset into the Koran especially because he likes or admires both Jews and what or who he thinks Mohammed was, soo therefor he tries to gap and bring both together.
-- "reformist Muslim" maybe
-- Who knows?