I was tipped off today about a new web site www.palestinianzionistorganisation.com. I thought it had to be a hoax, but no, it’s for real.
This website, was founded by Elias Issa, a Palestinian Arab whose support of Israel is far greater than a lot of Israelis, so it seems.
His politics are way to the right. But what he says and what he believes is more powerful because it comes from him rather than Jewish Zionists.
However, beware, he doesn’t believe in the creation of a Palestinian state and he wants to build the Third Temple! Like now! (which is actually against Jewish Law and Israeli law)
Here’s what his About Us page says:
[He confirms] the statement of the World Zionist Organization which was defined by the First Zionist Congress in Basel, the Palestinian Zionist Organization agrees, confirms and declares that “The aim of Zionism is to create for the Jewish people a home in Eretz Israel secured by public law”. The PZO is an organization which supports the Nation of Israel and the Jewish people.
A lot of the material on the site could easily have been written by mainstream Israel supporters.
If his views were not so extreme, this might me an important site and an important voice. The problem is that he can be dismissed as a crank, a self-hating Arab Palestinian.
However, any voice that comes from outside the Jewish world and in particular from the Palestinian world that seeks to expose the lies and deceit of his own people deserves to be listened to, even though it is a bit over the top. Were he an Israeli, he’d be in the ultra-Orthodox or the far right camp.
But he’s not a Jew and he’s not an Israeli. He’s a Palestinian who lives in the USA.