Palestinians who reside in Israel overwhelmingly want it to remain a Jewish State, renowned civil rights lawyer and Middle East scholar Alan Dershowitz tells
Newsmax TV.
"The Palestinians who live in Israel are in a conflictive situation. Polls show that when they're asked would they like to have their territory made into part of a Palestinian state, they overwhelmingly say no," the Harvard Law professor emeritus said Thursday on "Newsmax Prime" with J.D. Hayworth and Miranda Khan.
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"They want to live in Israel. They live in the highest standards than any other Arabs virtually in the world. They have more democracy, more ability to vote. They had a justice to the Supreme Court so their life is like the life of minorities in many other countries around the world.
"The difference is that they have now been incited to violence in particularly by [Mahmoud] Abbas, [president of the Palestinian National Authority] himself, the man with whom Israel is expected to make peace."
On Thursday, an American teen was among five people killed in two attacks in Israel and the West Bank.
In the first, a Palestinian stabbed two Israelis to death in southern Tel Aviv. Later, in the West Bank, a gunman opened fire, then crashed a car into pedestrians, killing the teen and two others.
Dershowitz said Abbas is fanning the flames of hatred.
"He talks about the holy blood of Palestinians being shed. Now, we have Palestinian propaganda saying that Jews and Israel were responsible for the Paris attacks," he said.
"There is an incitement that's going on and individuals are subject to being incited. The blood of these murders are on the hands of some of the Palestinian leaders as well as the murderers themselves."
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