{"id":182369,"date":"2019-01-19T05:52:29","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T05:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=182369"},"modified":"2019-01-24T06:02:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T06:02:59","slug":"jewish-state-will-soon-cease-to-exist-israelis-may-flee-to-west-zionist-historian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=182369","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Jewish state\u2019 will soon cease to exist, Israelis may flee to West: Zionist historian"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Press TV \u2013 Jan 18, 2019<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_182370\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Benny-Morris.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182370\" class=\"wp-image-182370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Benny-Morris.jpg\" alt=\"Benny Morris. Click to enlarge\" width=\"540\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Benny-Morris.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Benny-Morris-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-182370\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Benny Morris. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Influential Zionist historian Benny Morris, professor of the Middle East studies department of the Israeli Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, has foreseen a bleak future for the Zionist establishment.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Already today there are more Arabs than Jews between the [Mediterranean] sea and the Jordan.\u00a0The whole territory is unavoidably becoming one state with an Arab majority,&#8221;\u00a0said Morris in an interview published by the Israeli\u00a0<em>Haaretz\u00a0<\/em>newspaper on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Israel still calls itself a Jewish state, but a situation in which we rule an occupied people that has no rights, can not persist in the 21st century, in the modern world.\u00a0And as soon as they do have rights, the state will no longer be Jewish,&#8221; added Morris.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;I do not see how we get out of it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Morris, who was injured by an Egyptian artillery shell in 1969, was discharged from the military to eventually become one of Israel\u2019s influential historians.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Describing himself as a staunch &#8220;left-winger&#8221;\u00a0and &#8220;Zionist,&#8221; Morris is part of a controversial group of Israeli revisionist historians, openly admitting to and defending events like the 1948 expulsion of Palestinians that is today remembered as the Nakba Day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;A Jewish state would not have come into being without the\u00a0uprooting\u00a0of 700,000 Palestinians. Therefore it was necessary to uproot them. There was no choice but to expel that population,&#8221;\u00a0said Morris in an <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/1.5262428\">interview<\/a>\u00a0with <em>Haaretz <\/em>in 2004.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Today, however, Morris believes Israel faces a bleak future considering Arabs&#8217; non-integration in Israel and their larger population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;The Palestinians look at everything from a broad, long-term perspective.\u00a0They see that at the moment, there are five-six-seven million Jews here, surrounded by hundreds of millions of Arabs,&#8221; the historian said in the Thursday interview.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;They have no reason to give in, because the Jewish state can not last.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Morris further envisions\u00a0how an Israel dominated by Arabs will slowly disintegrate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;The Arabs will demand the return of the refugees. The Jews will remain a small minority within a large Arab sea of \u200b\u200bPalestinians,\u201d the historian said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Those among the Jews who can, will flee to America and the West\u00a0[to avoid persecution].&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Many Jews, however, have rejected the Zionist concept of Israel being a legitimate Jewish state, dismissing Morris\u2019s understanding, which pits Jews against Arabs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Rabbi Dovid Weiss, spokesman of the Jewish Neturei Karta International group, told Press TV in October that \u201cThere is no legitimacy to the occupation.\u201d The Zionist regime, he said, has \u201cno right to any part\u201d of the Palestinian land.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;We are telling the world: Step back and free the Jewish people and the Palestinian people together from this terrible, terrible disastrous Nakba, the occupation,&#8221;\u00a0added Weiss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei believes occupied Palestine will be liberated through Palestinian resistance, provided that they maintain unity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;The Zionist regime &#8212; as we have already said &#8212; will cease to exist in the next 25 years if there is a collective and united struggle by the Palestinians and the Muslims against the Zionists,&#8221;\u00a0Ayatollah Khamenei said in December 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">On the side of the Zionist regime, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has tried to convince world public opinion that Iran&#8217;s call for\u00a0the liberation of Palestine is synonymous with genocide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Iranian officials have, however, refuted those claims, stressing that\u00a0Iran prefers a peaceful solution for Palestine, calling for a referendum where Palestinians can decide the fate of their territory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.com\/Detail\/2019\/01\/18\/586150\/Jewish-state-morris\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmadinejad said something similar but now he is being echoed by a prominent Zionist historian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182369"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182442,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182369\/revisions\/182442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}