In July, 2009 in Aspen, Colorado, at the Aspen Institute's Aspen Ideas Festival (as reported in the Aspen Daily News July 5, 2009), Palestinian National Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad when questioned by former CIA director James Woolsey, replied that Jews would enjoy freedom and civil rights in a future Palestinian state."In fact the kind of state that we want to have, that we aspire to have, is one that would definitely espouse high values of tolerance, co-existence, mutual respect and deference to all cultures, religions. No discrimination whatsoever, on any basis whatsoever."In December 25, 2010 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas announced that when a Palestinian state is established, it will have no Israelis in it."We have frankly said, and always will say: If there is an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, we won't agree to the presence of one Israeli in it," Abbas told reporters in Ramallah.There is a certain...(Read Full Post)