PA will not recognize Israel as a Jewish state nor live with Jews

From [Saudi Arabia's ] ARAB NEWS, Sep 9, 2010, by MOHAMMED MAR'I:

RAMALLAH: A senior Palestinian official on Thursday said the Palestinian Authority (PA) will not recognize Israel as a Jewish state, even though the PA acknowledges there is a Jewish majority in Israel.

Nabil Shaath, a member of Palestinian negotiations team, told the Voice of Palestine radio that the Palestinian negotiating team turned down Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request to discuss the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state during the upcoming round of peace talks in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh next week.

Shaath said the Palestinian leadership "won't expose our people to security and political threats."

He said the recognition of Israel as a Jewish state would harm Arab Palestinians inside Israel and negate the right of return of Palestinian refugees.

The Palestinian negotiator said any future peace agreement with Israel would be brought before the Palestinian people in a referendum.


"If we're on the verge of a peace agreement, we will need complete unity," he said.

Meanwhile, the chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said the PA rejected Israel's proposal to keep the Jewish occupiers [sic] living in the West Bank when an independent Palestinian state is established...

PA will never recognize Israel as Jewish state

From Ynet News, 8 Sept 2010:

A member of the Palestinian negotiation team, Nabil Sha'ath, said in Ramallah, "The Palestinian Authority will never recognize Israel as the Jewish state ...."

Sha'ath said that the Palestinian negotiating team rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's offer to discus this matter at the next meeting between the sides at Sharm a-Sheikh...