What is the Palestinian demand of “Right of Return”?
• The Specter of Saladin By AMOS OZ RAD, Israel — I am sitting in front of the television in the living room, seeing Yasir Arafat receive a triumphant hero’s welcome in Gaza, and all this for having said no to peace with Israel. The whole Gaza Strip is covered in flags and slogans proclaiming the “Palestinian Saladin.” “Welcome home, Saladin of our era” is written on the walls. In silence, astounded, I watch, and I can’t help reminding myself that the original Saladin promised the Arab people that he would not make pacts with the infidels; he would massacre them and throw them in the ocean. I see Mr. Arafat dressed in his gray-green combat uniform. It’s an Arafat clothed like Che Guevara and treated like Saladin: my heart breaks. Already in 1967 I was one of the very few Israelis invoking the solution of two neighboring states, with Jerusalem as the capital city of both, reciprocal recognition and mutual acceptance. Since then, for many years, I was treated like a traitor by my own pe
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