Throughout our conversation he made it clear that in his mind the Bible trumped any type of modern international law.
”I am not one of those frothing at the mouth settlers who are going to yell and scream and start throwing things at you because I don’t like what you’re saying,” he said when I challenged him on the creation of a Palestinian state.
“I don’t like what you’re saying because what you are saying is wrong, it is not consistent with a historical record, there was never a Palestinian state.”
Daniel rejects the idea of a Palestinian state
Daniel rejects the idea of a Palestinian state
“Even if I were to say, okay well these poor people they have to do something, they have to go somewhere, I would say, well, not on my account, not on my watch.
“Because not only is it inimical to my essential national interests of settling the entire land of Israel, it’s also an intrinsic danger, a clear and present danger to our physical survival.”
Daniel consistently argued that the presence of Israelites in the West Bank going back 3,000 years justified his claims that the land belongs to them.
I pointed out that Romans controlled London thousands of years ago as well, but no Italian has ever claimed ownership of Park Lane.
“The problem is that first of all the Italians aren’t interested, second of all, the Italians can’t claim that God sent them there, I can whether you believe it or not and I understand that people don’t buy into that,” he replied.
“It’s like, oh, that’s just a religious thing, yeah, that’s what it is, you know, God’s real, and he wrote the Bible, and the Bible says, ‘I made this land, and I want you to be here’.”
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