RUSSIA BLAMES PALESTINIANS FOR THEIR OPPRESSION!!!
>Lavrov points out Palestinians’ historic ‘mistake’>The rejection of the 1947 partition plan left the Arab population without a state, the Russian foreign minister has saidThe Palestinians’ rejection of the 1947 UN partition plan was “a mistake,” but that’s not what children are taught in schools today, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Tuesday.
The 1948 Arab-Israeli war signified a missed opportunity to create a Palestinian state and stabilize the Middle East, the diplomat told Al Arabiya.
“Three or four generations of Arab children came and went over this 80-year period. When they go to school… their teachers talk about Palestine’s history and… They probably omit the fact that the Palestinians made a mistake by refusing to create their own state in 1948,” he noted.
What children learn is how their people’s rights were ignored in recent decades, Lavrov added. In discussions with Russia, Israeli officials dismiss those grievances as insufficient to justify extremism.
“Probably not. Extremism knows no justification, but addressing the root causes is an imperative,” he said. Without a Palestinian state as originally intended by the UN, “there will be no stability or calm [in the Middle East].”
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