Palestinians are incapable of statehood. There, I said it!
In "The provocations of Trump's ambassador to Israel are upturning decades of U.S. diplomacy" (07-08-19), The L.A. Times blames the U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, for...well, actually doing something. Nothing has been accomplished in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by the U.S. for decades, but now there are changes. The Palestinians (and the L.A. Times) may not be happy with what's going on, but let's face it: the Palestinians have done nothing to show they want a state in Gaza and the West Bank. They just want to fight and defeat Israel. Why is everyone so afraid to say it?
The Palestinians have two distinct groups, Hamas in Gaza and Fatah in the West Bank, who can't even form a unity government. Whom could Israel possibly make a deal with? Israel has no peace partner! And let's look at the distinct areas of Gaza and the West Bank. What sort of nation-building have these two areas done to show the world they are ready for a nation of their own should they even reach an agreement between themselves? Where is the infrastructure? Why has corruption run rampant at unprecedented levels? How is it permissible for Palestinian terrorists to be given pensions for killing their neighbors in Israel? Why are town squares and high schools in Palestinian areas named after suicide bombers who murder women and children? Is this the hallmark of a nation that is needed, especially in such a volatile area of the world? Would any country want this potential nation as a neighbor? Not in my backyard!
The L.A. Times chooses to highlight a new poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research that determined that "90% of respondents did not trust or believe the Trump administration, and a majority remained skeptical about any forthcoming peace plan." What would be more interesting is to see a poll on how many Palestinians "trusted or believe" their own leader, Mahmoud Abbas. The corruption and nepotism of the regime are notorious. The polls conveniently sidestepped that question, because that's what pollsters from totalitarian regimes do.
Further, the L.A. Times unsurprisingly chooses Aaron David Miller to comment on the Trump administration's moves in Israel. There comes a point in time when it makes sense to conclude that a so-called expert such as Miller, who has been wrong decade after decade, should not be the "go-to" person to quote for an article about the Israeli-Arab conflict. Miller has "helped" instruct a multitude of administrations on both sides of the political aisle in the conflict, but his advice has yielded absolutely nothing.
At this juncture, the Palestinians are incapable of statehood, based on the basic facts on the ground. One merely has to view what they have done, where they are, and their inability to have one voice. The Trump administration has followed through on promises of previous administrations (moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem), recognized Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights (a fait accompli and a necessity), and is spearheading an economic initiative to aid the Palestinian people. What's the problem with this?
The Palestinians have been given offers of sovereignty an exhausting number of times over decades — enough is enough. The world needs to move on and live, as do the Palestinian people. Maybe one day they will be ready for a state, but playing victim and terrorizing their neighbors should not be rewarded with a pass to a nation of their own.
OBAMA’S WAR ON THE JEWS
The Democrats are now officially the party of Jew-hatred. This is largely due to the disastrous presidency of Barack Hussein Obama. PAMELA GELLER
ISLAMIST BARACK OBAMA
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"But the Obamas are the center of the most delusional cult of personality that the media has yet spawned. And so we get bizarre pieces like these." MONICA SHOWALTER
THE (REALITY) OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY:
Anti-Semitic, open borders for cheaper labor and funded by criminal banksters… and these pols are making vast fortunes sucking the blood of America!
We must not let them cheat their way to power over the rest of us. Their ongoing vote fraud must be stopped and the Democrats need to take a look at themselves and at what they have become. It's not a pretty picture. What they have become threatens to destroy the greatest nation on the planet and they are doing it on purpose. They have nothing but contempt for the US as founded and for those of us who love this country. PATRICIA McCARTHY – AMERICAN THINKER
“Then we suffered the rattling election of Barack Obama, whose active membership in a white-, Jewish-, and America-hating church was well known to the electorate. His close personal relationship with the likes of his adored Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Louis Farrakhan was no secret. Obama was open about his goals. He told us he was out to fundamentally transform America" and the world.” ALAN BERGSTEIN
“There is a deep racist and anti-Semitic disease in the leadership of the Democrats. As Senator Cory Booker brings his hatred for the Jewish State to the Senate, he should be asked whether he agrees with his hero, “The only good Zionist is a dead Zionist we must take a lesson from Hitler”. DANIEL GREENFIELD
"Along with Obama, Pelosi and Schumer are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country over the eight years of that administration." PATRICIA McCARTHY
The real Palestinian narrative
This month, opining on the long failed Arab-Israeli peace process, former Israeli ambassador to the United States Zalman Shuval quoted former Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban, stating that "the Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity." Shuval also remarked that Arab leaders "thwart in advance any Israeli or international initiative that would put them on the road to genuinely and ideologically accepting the existence of the State of Israel." The Palestinian Authority (P.A.) predictably deemed these comments racist and inciting violence against Arabs.
The P.A.'s virtue-signaling narrative is a false one. Arab leaders have thwarted multiple attempts at peace (in 1937 [Peel Commission], 1947 [the Partition Plan], 1967 [the Khartoum Resolution], 1967–1968 [the Allon Plan], 2000 [Camp David], 2001 [Taba], 2008 [Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's offer to P.A. president Mahmoud Abbas], and 2019 [President Trump's Peace to Prosperity economic plan]). Arab leaders are now zipping by their eighth missed opportunity at ludicrous speed. Pointing that out is neither racism nor incitement. It is merely a restatement of the facts.
The P.A.'s perennial misfire raises some questions. Just how qualified is the P.A. to be an arbiter of all things bigoted? Just how woke is the P.A. to racism and incitement to violence? Not even a bit qualified, and not woke at all.
Taking a look just at the past three years alone, the P.A./the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)/Fatah, through its media and officials, has continued to incite the Arab population against Israel and its Jewish population by:
Spreading libels against Israel, including that Israel: spreads AIDS and drugs through the Arab population, steals organs from Arabs, is desecrating Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, seeks to conquer Arab land from the Nile to the Euphrates, is a cancer, and threatens all of humanity;- Promoting the "animalization and dehumanization" of Israelis, portraying them as dogs, locusts, rats, sons of apes and pigs, etc.;
- Glorifying homicide bombers and other terrorists who murder Israelis in cold blood, including arch-terrorists Abu Jihad and Dalal Mughrabi, the planner and leader of Israel's most lethal terrorist attack. Just this month, the Palestinian Authority named a summer camp "The Sisters of Dalal Summer Camp" after Dalal Mughrabi. In April, to commemorate the anniversary of Abu Jihad's death, the P.A./Fatah honored him on Facebook, in a rally, and in the news;
- Paying salaries to terrorists and their families. Just this month, the P.A. agreed to double the salary of the Hamas terrorist that was convicted of orchestrating the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens in 2014;
- Admitting to orchestrating the First and Second Intifadas;
- Calling on Arab children to carry out terror attacks;
- Praising the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, a well known Nazi collaborator, as a "role model";
- Opposing "normalization" of relations with Israel;
- Denying Israel's right to exist; and, last but most certainly not least,
- Calling for the murder of Jews worldwide.
Disinformation that is racist and incites violence is propagated by the P.A. and consumed by its subjects. But given Mahmoud Abbas's libelous dissertation in Moscow on Zionist and Nazi collaboration in perpetrating the Holocaust, and his alleged work as a KGB spy, are we surprised? Peace is elusive, as Abbas and his cronies never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
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