Peter Deutsch: “The reason I think it is significant, tied directly into the comments just being made about 1947 is what is Chairman…”

“The reason I think it is significant, tied directly into the comments just being made about 1947 is what is Chairman Arafat's goal or the goal of the Palestinian authority. Is it peace with Israel or the eradication of Israel? I think why this particular letter is so significant is that it is a letter to the Arabs who live in Israel. Israel is a Jewish state but has a significant population of nonJews who are treated as equal citizens with equal rights, but what is significant is that this is a letter to the Arabs who live in Israel that was circulated amongst the group in Israel, literally calling for a war, a violent war within Israel proper today, not in the West Bank, not in Gaza. So I think that from the perspective of the Israelis and I think the real question, this is concrete specific, in Arabic to Arabs, what Chairman Arafat's goals are, not an independent Palestinian state living side by side with Israel, but literally the eradication of the state of Israel.”