CNN’s Beinart Calls It “Racist” to Warn Jews Would Be Killed in PLO Arab State
Seems like the blood of innocent Jews is cheap, and the truth is somehow “racist”.
On Thursday’s New Day on CNN, pro-Palestinian CNN political commentator and The Atlantic contributor Peter Beinart declared angrily that it is “a racist claim to suggest that Palestinians would inherently kill Jews.”
Beinart’s defense of the “Palestinian” people came in response to former CIA director James Woolsey’s reasonable warning that Jews trying to live in a Palestinian Arab state would be in grave danger of being murdered in their homes:
Israeli Arabs — that is, Muslim usually — as citizens of Israel, about one-sixth of the Israeli population, can go to bed at night without fear that someone is going to bash in their front door and kill them. They have their own members in the Knesset, they have supreme court justices, they have their own publications, they lead a very reasonable life, particularly for the Middle East.
That sort of life is not possible for a Jew living in the West Bank governed by the Palestinians. They will be killed. And if you even sell property to an Israeli, you’ll get killed.
Newsbusters reports that Woolsey had argued that Arab hostility toward Jews is the reason there is no peace with Israel. This sent Beinart into a tizzy:
“The claim that Palestinians would inevitably kill Jews in the West Bank, I have, I have Jewish friends, Israelis who live in the West Bank. It’s frankly a racist claim to suggest that Palestinians would inherently kill Jews. That’s — some Palestinians commit terrorism and many don’t.”
Newbusters also rightly noted that Beinart also dismissed complaints about the Palestinian Authority’s refusal to recognize Israel as a “Jewish state,”
without acknowledging that the point of such a recognition would be that the Palestinian leadership would not only call off their stated goal of taking over all of Israel, but also also stop pressing for Israel to accept several million Palestinian Arabs who are the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of Arab refugees as part of that goal to make Jews a minority who would lose control of Israel. Palestinian leaders have repeatedly refused to drop the Right of Return demand as they have rejected Israeli offers to recognize a Palestinian Arab state in 2000, 2001 and 2008.
For more about Peter Beinart’s leftism, check out his profile here at the Freedom Center’s Discover the Networks resource site.
