Incitement and anti-Semitic hate spewing out of the mouths of Palestinian leaders, empty words designed to perpetuate Palestinian self-promotion as the perennial victim when, in truth, they are only the victims of their own emptiness, the constant eruption of violence against Israelis from Palestinian Arabs raised to hate Jews and destroy Israel.
If
anyone is so utterly unworthy of statehood it is the Palestinian Arabs.
Fraudulent
history, internal divisiveness, wastage of massive global assistance, the
diversion of international funding to propaganda purposes, incitement, lessons
of hate, the financing and support of terrorism, their predilection to violence
and the total inability to display to the world any respect for their
neighbors, whether it be Israel from the Palestinian Authority, or to Egypt
from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
How
can any international diplomat or journalist worth his salt in honesty make out
a case to grant this dysfunctional, inefficient, unwilling entity sovereignty?
A brief explanation of Palestinian terrorism
shows the inanity of such a proposition.
The spectrum and ideologies of Palestinian terrorism range from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which are both Islamic terror organizations pledging allegiance to the creation of an Islamic state under Sharia law, to the Marxist PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine). This is the largest group in the Palestine Liberation Organization of which most of the Palestinian Authority leaders, including Mahmoud Abbas, belong.
The spectrum and ideologies of Palestinian terrorism range from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which are both Islamic terror organizations pledging allegiance to the creation of an Islamic state under Sharia law, to the Marxist PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine). This is the largest group in the Palestine Liberation Organization of which most of the Palestinian Authority leaders, including Mahmoud Abbas, belong.
Both terror organizations are openly bent on the destruction of Israel and have founding charters declaring this aim.
So the
establishment of a Palestinian state would comprise two major terror
organizations, one Islamic, the other Communist, currently at logger-heads with
each other but united in their desire to see an end of Israel, regardless of
signed agreements.
And yet, the world has nothing to say about this apart from their ridiculous belief that the creation of Palestine is the only way to achieve peace!
Puzzling!
A little known dangerous fact that more
knowledgeable two-staters prefer to keep under wraps is that in the case of
Mahmoud Abbas stepping down as Palestinian president or dying while in office,
his replacement would be the speaker of the Palestinian parliament - and he
happens to be a member of HAMAS!
This is supposed to be for an interim period,
but we know that Abbas was elected for a 4 year term and that was way back in
2004!
So much for Palestinian obligations to abide by
the rule of law and respect the democratic process. Can we expect any better
from Hamas? I think not.
Can anyone doubt another certainty wrapped in
silence that, either by the ballot or by the bullet, Hamas will take control of
this new Palestine? So I ask my diplomatic contacts, is this the new peaceful
state you have expended your energies on establishing for several decades?
By the
way, the Palestinian parliament hasn't sat since 2007.
Some
democracy!
This is
the Palestine that naive liberal Westerners are so frenetic to create?
Give me a break!
Marwan
Barghouti sits in an Israeli jail. He is serving five consecutive life
sentences for orchestrating the murder of Israeli civilians in Jerusalem, Tel
Aviv and Givat Zeev, and injured others.
The
Palestinian Fatah party of Mahmoud Abbas calls his imprisonment a “war
crime.” Now the Palestinians are running a global campaign to have this
unrepentant murderer nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize no less.
Why
not, the Norwegians gave one to arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat who launched his
fatal intifada after flying to Oslo to pick up his award.
This
campaign on behalf of Barghouti is supported by Adolfo Perez Esquivel, an
Argentinian who is called a pacifist and a human rights activist and who was himself
awarded the Peace Prize back in 1980. You really couldn’t make up such an
insane story.
Barghouti
is also touted as the leading candidate to replace Abbas and has been endorsed
by Saeb Erekat.
Is
this the best alternative the Palestinians have for their next president? Well,
sadly, yes it is, unless they vote for Hamas.
Barghouti’s
election to be the next Palestinian president, irrespective of him receiving
the nonsensical Nobel Peace Prize, will further perpetuate the conflict.
In
the meantime, the Palestinian on Palestinian violence continues. A Palestinian
Fatah official, Fathi Zaydan, was killed by a bomb in Mieh Mieh, Lebanon, in a
camp operated by UNWRA. This place has been the scene of numerous violent disputes
between rival Palestinian factions. In Gaza, members of the Popular Front for
the Liberation of Palestine (a title which stands for the elimination of
Israel) burnt images of Mahmoud Abbas.
When
they are killing Israelis they are killing each other. Several thousand
Palestinians have been killed by other Palestinians due to their internal
political and religious enmity?
Palestinian society is, within itself, divisive
and violent.
If
the international community wishes to continue promoting the benefits of a
Palestinian state it really needs to address the deep Arab schisms that make
such a notion not only impossible to execute, but insanely impossible to
execute.
Putting
aside the moral inversion of Western governments applying one-sided pressure on
the only liberal democracy in the Middle East in order to establish another Arab
state that cannot decide which way it wants to go, one need question why apparently
reasonable logical-thinking European diplomats can abstain from United Nations
resolutions brought to the vote by Palestinian-supporting regimes proposing
that Israel is the world’s worst offender on women’s and children’s rights as
well of other obnoxious allegations.
Why do they not, in all honesty, object to
such slanders and vote against these preposterous proposals? Where is their
political morality? Why do they close their eyes to these obsessive assaults on
Israel?
Currying favor to these
Israel-hating regimes is not an option for those who try to tell us of their
commitment to a better Middle East.
Neither
is the lack of interest in the diplomatic world of the consequences of a Palestinian
state gone wrong. Too many diplomats have told me that “it is up to the
parties to make an agreement work.”
Sorry, not good enough!
They cannot
force their “solution” to the Palestinian problem on the parties and
simply walk away when the consequences hit the proverbial fan. It will be
primarily Israelis, but also the Arab citizens of this errant forced-birth state,
that will inevitably suffer those consequences, and Israel would suffer them
from a strategically weaker position that where we are right now.
All
in all, the consequences of the establishment of a Palestinian state, based on
the reality of Palestinian politics and Palestinian society, are too intensely frightening
to be seriously considered.
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’ and was the co-founder of the Netanya Terror
Victims Organization.
Barry
ReplyDeleteWhat I do not understand is why you find this puzzling.
Looking back through history there have been a plethora of societies who enmity towards each other was overcome by their hatred of the Jew.