JERUSALEM — Israeli media revealed on
Tuesday, declassified documents that former
Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir explored the establishment of a Palestinian state in October 1970. Meir this possibility with several ministers at the time, including
Israeli Minister of Defense Moshe Dayan and
Minister of Education Yigal Allon, Amad News
reported.
اضافة اعلان
According to the Israeli newspaper
"Jerusalem Post," Meir reversed her previous statements from the
previous year when she declared that "the Palestinians do not exist."
During the meeting with her ministers transcribed in the documents, she stated,
"It will be necessary to provide an opportunity for the Arabs of the West
Bank to achieve self-determination at a later stage, when it suits us… that is,
there will be another state alongside Israel."
“Whether as an
independent state, linked in
a confederal relationship with Israel or with Israel and Jordan together, or if
they want it, even with Jordan alone, as part of a peace treaty,” she said.
Despite acknowledging the possibility of a
future
Palestinian state, Meir rejected the idea of Jerusalem being its
capital.
Yihal
Allon’s solution
Yigal Allon, who did not deny the existence
of the Palestinian people, disagreed with Golda Meir regarding the possibility
of an additional
Arab state alongside Israel. Instead, according to documents
revealed by "Haaretz," he did not support the creation of a
Palestinian state but rather endorsed a more comprehensive peace treaty that
would allow for the discussion of various options later on.
He compared the potential Israeli
announcement of
Palestinian rights to the "Balfour Declaration" in
1917, where the British supported the establishment of a Jewish state,
considering that Israel may do the same.
Names
and identities
Another question was how to identify this
state, as they had much trouble with the name Palestine which they have wanted
to deny, Minister Without Portfolio Yisrael Galili went so far as to say, “If
you ask me, I’d like the name Palestine to die.”
Allon replied, “If they see themselves as
Palestinians, we can say a thousand times that they’re not Palestinians, but
they nevertheless will be.”
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