They mean what they say -- when they say it in Arabic.
As prime minister Netanyahu's embarks on his trip to U.S. and meetings with president Obama, consider this -- Palestinian Ambassador to Lebanon Abbas Zaki has stated what is obvious to Israel's enemies, though unfortunately it is not so obvious to some of Israel's "friends" -- that
if Israel leaves Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria, it will collapse:
With the two-state solution, in my opinion, Israel will collapse, because if they get out of Jerusalem, what will become of all the talk about the
Promised Land and the Chosen People? What will become of all the sacrifices
they made - just to be told to leave? They consider Jerusalem to have a
spiritual status. The Jews consider Judea and Samaria to be their historic
dream. If the Jews leave those places, the Zionist idea will begin to
collapse. It will regress of its own accord. Then we will move forward.
(Click here to see
the original video clip, with subtitles, on MEMRI.)