'A secular, democratic Palestine'?

Historian Benny Morris rips the mask off another insincerely muttered platitude. So where did the slogan of "a secular, democratic Palestine" originate? That goal was first explicitly proposed in 1969 by the small Marxist splinter group the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP). According to Khalidi [yes, that Khalidi. CiJ], "It was [then] discreetly but effectively backed by