Israel (now broader Mid East discussion)
I'm missing something. What does from the river to the sea mean?
“Between the river and the sea” is a fragment from a slogan, used since the 1960s by a variety of people with a host of purposes. And it is open to an array of interpretations, from the genocidal to the democratic.
The full saying goes: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” – a reference to the land between the Jordan river, which borders eastern Israel, and the Mediterranean sea to the west.
The question then is what that means for Israel and the Jewish people.
Some claim the terminology is laced with genocidal intent. In 1966, the Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad, the father of the country’s current dictator, said: “We shall only accept war and the restoration of the usurped land … to oust you, aggressors, and throw you into the sea for good.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...e-from-and-what-does-it-mean-israel-palestine