An Israeli Arab lawmaker said he would never recognize the Jewish state. “Israel was the biggest daylight robbery of the 20th century. I will never recognize Zionism, even if all the Arabs do so. We will not give up on Palestine,” Azmi Beshara was quoted as saying over the weekend by the Lebanese newspaper As-Safir.
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