Mohammed El-Kurd

And the journalist or the diplomat will ask you, does Israel first?

I have to set the terms of engagement before anything else.

Do you believe?

And so the whole conversation is derailed.

And now we're talking about rights for countries that do not exist, like the rights that do not exist for countries.

So the whole question is a non-starter and it's meant

like the function of it is meant to be as a distraction.

So I am very impressed and pleased when people are able to just say, this is not a priority right now, right?

And also, no state has a right to exist, particularly, no, I don't want to live in a theological state.

I don't want to live under religious rule, right?

I don't want- I don't either.

Yeah, and that's not a controversial thing to say.

But I think people who are confronted with this question

what would be most helpful for them is to redirect and focus on the important thing.

Because in debate terms, in the world of debate, does Israel have a right to exist is a red herring, right?

So it's a fallacy of debate.

No, you would not have.

Non-Jews would not be full, equal citizens in Israel.

But...

my family who's lived there for many many generations for for decades and decades and decades we're all over the place in the diaspora some families in jordan some families in kuwait because we've all been expelled and we can't come we can't ever come back but any jewish person they could be born in the philippines and have no ties whatsoever they can just apply and get citizenship and live in palestinian houses you know what i mean with premier rights yes with premier rights with with