Discussion on Zionism and Palestinian Issues

I don't see how any person, whether Arab or of any other nationality or any other origin,

finding his future here unless he fully, 100% identifies with a Zionist idea.

The Zionist idea is a state for the Jewish nation.

This is identifying with our tradition, with our faith,

with our will to build a state for the Jews, period.

And what we exactly want is a state only for the Jews.

Sometimes people are afraid to say it because it sounds racism, it sounds discriminatory.

Yes, if they want, they are more than welcome to identify with the Zionist idea.

But if they don't want, as they express it clearly that they don't want,

I don't see any reason why they should stay here.

Not because we tell them don't stay here, but because they realize that it's not a place for them.

They used the security argument because it was much palatable to the world.

And furthermore, I do believe that there is a real worry of security.

However, it seems to me that a country can defend itself if it has dead borders.

It cannot defend itself if half the population owe allegiance to the enemy.

As the United States, with all its nuclear arsenal, would have been helpless had Russians lived here.

And that is the analog.

Now, facing the demographic problem, some deluded themselves.

Some Israelis are deluding themselves that perhaps there is a possibility of transfer.

Now, transfer is a euphemism for expulsion.

But the Palestinians won't leave willingly.

So a lot of violence has to be used in order to drive them out.

And it seems to me that that is simply an absurdity.

It's impossible.

This is one of the 26 refugee camps in the occupied territories.

The refugee camps here in Gaza have made the Gaza Strip

one of the poorest and most densely populated stretches of land on the face of the earth.

There are now over 650,000 people living on a strip of land.