[FireBeyond]

> "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free"

For several decades, Israel's Likud party (currently in power) election manifesto was...

"From the river to the sea, there will be only Israeli sovereignty".

Perhaps that's where the Palestinians got it?

"Palestine will be free" is not "openly calling for murder".

[rendall]

This is not an argument. To address my argument, you'd have to show that "free" meant "sovereignty". But you cannot, because that's not what it means. It means the destruction of Israel and the expulsion - at best - of its people. It does not mean "living in peaceful coexistence with". What else do you think it means? What else could it possibly mean?

[helpfulContrib]

> It means the destruction of Israel and the expulsion - at best - of its people.

Literally nothing in the definition of the word means what you are attempting to make it mean:

free | friː | adjective (freer | ˈfriːə | , freest | ˈfriːɪst | )

1 able to act or be done as one wishes; not under the control of another: I have no ambitions other than to have a happy life and be free | a free choice.

• [with infinitive] able or permitted to take a specified action: you are free to leave.

• (of a state or its citizens or institutions) subject neither to foreign domination nor to despotic government: a free press.

• historical not a slave: the poor among the free men joined the slaves against the rich.

• [in names] denoting an ethnic or political group actively opposing an occupying or invading force, in particular the groups that continued resisting the Germans in the Second World War after the fall of their countries: the Free Dutch, Free Polish, and Free Norwegian fleets. See also Free French.

2 [often as complement] not or no longer confined or imprisoned: the researchers set the birds free | police were forced to let him walk free.

• not physically obstructed or fixed: he tried to kick his legs free | she smiled, leaned back, and waved a free arm in the air.

• Physics (of power or energy) disengaged or available. See also free energy.

• Physics & Chemistry not bound in an atom, a molecule, or a compound: the atmosphere of that time contained virtually no free oxygen. See also free radical.

• Linguistics denoting a linguistic form that can be used in isolation.

3 not subject to engagements or obligations: she spent her free time shopping.

• (of a facility or piece of equipment) not occupied or in use: the bathroom was free.

4 (free of/from) not subject to or affected by (something undesirable): our salsas are free of preservatives.

5 given or available without charge: free healthcare.

6 using or expending something without restraint; lavish: she was always free with her money.

• frank or unrestrained in speech, expression, or action: he was free in his talk of revolution.

• archaic overfamiliar or forward.

7 (of literature or music) not observing the normal conventions of style or form.

• (of a translation) conveying only the broad sense; not literal.

8 Sailing (of the wind) blowing from a favourable direction to the side or aft of a vessel.

[rendall]

#4 is the sense Palestinians mean it while well-meaning Westerners hear #1 and #2. The movement exploits the ambiguity of this term to dogwhistle and get all the no kidding white-supremacist, anti-Semites on board. To play in the bailey, so to speak.

Free as in judenfrei https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judenfrei