In his UN General Assembly
speech, President Obama spoke about “deep fault lines in the existing
international order.” He’s right.
He’s responsible for a lot of the mess.
Unfortunately, politicians like
Obama like to see what they want to see and ignore gross realities that do not
jive with what they want to achieve. (Can someone tell me what Obama wanted to
achieve?)
Take the Israeli-Palestinian issue, for example. At the UN podium
Obama said, “Surely Israelis and Palestinian will be better off if
Palestinians reject incitement and recognize the legitimacy of Israel, but
Israel recognizes that it cannot permanently occupy and settle Palestinian
land.”
To the uninitiated (i.e. the
progressives who live in a virtual world that enables them to block out sounds
and truth that invades their cocooned ‘safe spaces’), incessant
Palestinian terror launched against Israeli civilians from the Hamas political
front based in Gaza and the Fatah political front based in Ramallah is ignored,
tippexed out of their song sheet. In their narrative, Palestinian terror and an
agenda to eliminate Israel simply don’t exist.
In this mindset, Obama is backed
by Ban Ki Moon, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who sang off the
same song sheet.
“Ten years lost to illegal
settlement expansion. Ten years lost to intra-Palestinian divide, growing
polarization and hopelessness. This is madness.”
Yes it is, Ban Ki. It’s madness
not to see the violent passion to destroy Israel. He spoke as Israel was
enduring yet another weekend of Palestinian terror attacks, eight in
number.
It’s madness for them to talk
about Israel “illegally occupying Palestinian land” when 2000 year old
Jewish coins were recently dug up on land that was evidently Jewish. No mention
of Palestine on these ancient coins. How forgetful of them!
Did anyone ever call it “Palestinian
land” when, in 1948, the Jordanians in an aggressive war attacked the
nascent State of Israel and captured part of the land in a truly illegal
occupation. They retained it until 1967 without a peep of protest. No UN
resolutions or condemnations about “illegally occupied Palestinian land”
against a nineteen year old Jordanian occupation. Only total silence.
If you want to hear three lies in
four words try “illegally occupied Palestinian land.” As long as Israel
does not build on private land owned by non-Israeli Arabs it’s not “illegal,”
it’s not “occupied,” and it’s not “Palestinian land” until we
say it is, and no hick talk about “international law” can make it so.
The fanatical obsession of the
United Nations against Israel permits it to have one standing order in every
session of their Human Rights Council meetings. The laser concentration on
Israel in its Article 7 permanent agenda item
condemns all the perceived evils of the world onto the tiny Jewish State
while denying enduring massive human suffering the right to receive the
attention it needs. Genuine human rights abuses are overlooked as they beat
down on Israel.
The United Nations Education,
Scientific and Cultural Organization denies the authenticity of its own name
when it ignores the architectural, archaeological, literal and historic evidence
of the Jewish heritage to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City by declaring
it to be Islamic, naming it exclusively as “al-Aqsa Mosque” or “al-Haram
al Sharif.” Even the Western Wall of the Jewish Temple, until recently
called “The Wailing Wall” where Jews wept over the destruction of their
holy shrine, is referred to by UNESCO as “al-Buraq Plaza,” after a
mythical winged horse.
The global organization and these
world leaders follow in the tainted footstep of Mahmoud Abbas who denies the
right of Jews to have a nation of their own in their ancient land while denying
Jews the right to live in any future Palestine.
After fifty years of failure in
trying to impose a two-state solution isn’t it time for these diplomatic
experts to wake up to the fact that the so-called Palestinian society is so
divided its political chasm looks wider than the Grand Canyon.
So what Palestine are they
so desperate to create? Is it the one
headed by the corrupt, undemocratic Fatah rule of Mahmoud Abbas, he of the “Palestine
must be Jew-free” and “Haifa, Jaffa, the Negev and the Galilee is
Palestine” persuasion? Or is it the one headed by the “Oh Muslim,
there’s a Jew hiding behind me. Come out and kill him” Hamas regime?
Either way, by the ballot (if
they should ever hold free and open elections) or the bullet (a more likely
outcome if Gaza is an example) Hamas would inevitably usurp control of this
Palestine should Israel be foolish and retreat to a defenseless slim coastal
strip wedged between a lethal Hezbollah in the north, a rampant Hamas in the
south and a seething new entity, a forced creation of a blind, deaf
international community who chooses not to use their Realpolitik spectacles and
see things as they really are, to the east, a short fifteen minute car ride
from the cliffs of the Mediterranean, and within RPG range of our major
Ben-Gurion Airport, not to mention having us poor suckers sharing a capital with these malcontents.
Anyone who thinks that the
imposed creation of a Palestinian state will turn these people ,with an ongoing
agenda for the termination of the Jewish state, into liberal democrats is in
such a radical form of denial that they need psychological therapy.
Anyone who thinks that such a
state will remain demilitarized for longer than five minutes is delusional.
What, you mean demilitarized like the Gaza Strip, or southern Lebanon that was
supposed to be patrolled by United Nation peacekeepers. Peacekeepers? Give me a
break!
The problem is that these career
politicians have mortgaged their personal and professional prestige to the
cause of a Palestinian state and they will discover, after they have forced yet
another rabidly anti-Semitic, Islamic regime onto the world they will cover
their embarrassment by washing their hands of any responsibility for the
inevitable inability of a Palestine to be a pragmatic, peace-loving democracy.
Why should it? Show me one Middle
East regime that is a tolerant liberal democratic society sharing the free
values of the West and Israel. So why is Palestine being touted in the
highest diplomatic circles? What is the inevitable outcome of such a
phenomenon? Polls, surveys and historic evidence show us that it will be a
repressive regime that will not abandon their determination to continue their
struggle to liberate the rest of Palestine (i.e. Israel). This is why they continue to call Israeli
Arabs “Palestinians of the Interior.”
When they insist that Israel must
sign a deal with Abbas, make dangerous concessions to him and then let the
chips fall where they may, what they are ordering us to do is to go to bed with
Mahmoud and wake up in the morning with Hamas.
The international community
headed by President Obama and Ban Ki Moon may be in denial, but Israelis,
having to deal with the real and gruesome facts on the ground, are not.
Barry Shaw is the Senior
Associate for Public Diplomacy at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.
He is the author of “Fighting
Hamas, BDS and Anti-Semitism.”
