Is Palestine a state for recognising that no one in Palestine is a Palestine refugee into the fifth generation? The Palestinian ethos remains, unfortunately, tied to the negation of a Jewish state in any borders, in any size. You can live next to a Jewish state, but not on its ruins.” They continued to fuel the vision that the Jewish state can one day be gone. But where they do not lie is that their identity is wrapped up in the rejection of a sovereign Jewish state. It saved Jews from apartheid-like conditions in the Arab world, from ethnic cleansing and genocide in the Arab world and Europe.