My Palestinian intellectual friend tells me that he might
be willing to admit that God in Hebrew said Jews could
have Israel. But he said Allah did not speak it in Arabic
to the Arabs.
spoken on the Terry Gross Show
.. Arthur Hertzberg is a founder of the Jewish peace group
Peace Now and is the author of The Fate of Zionism.
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