France: No peace unless 'Palestinians' recognize Israel as a Jewish state

In a surprising move, the government of French President Nicolas Sarkozy admitted last week that there will be no peace in the Middle East unless the 'Palestinians' recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Sarkozy's foreign minister, Alain Juppe, publicly stated: "There will be no solution to the conflict in the Middle East without recognition of two nation-states for two people," including "the

What'a a Jewish state?

Evelyn Gordon writes that Europe has a problem understanding what a Jewish state is. As a European diplomat once told me, Europeans are profoundly uncomfortable with the idea of a Jewish state, because to them it sounds like a “Christian state” –i.e., a religious state. And while most European countries were founded as Christian states (that’s why many still have a cross on their flags),

Yet another double standard

Elliott Abrams shows that the continuing 'Palestinian' and Arab refusal to accept Israel as a Jewish state is yet another double standard. The whole idea behind the partition of the Palestine Mandate in 1947 was, in the words of U.N. General Assembly resolution 181, the creation of an “Arab state” and a “Jewish state.” The Arab rejection of Israel as a Jewish state is in fact at the heart of the