What the left in the United States and Europe choke on is the fact that Israel is demonstrably a force for good, progress, prosperity and stability in the Middle East and a wider world.
This fact goes against their faded narrative; a narrative
they are loath to surrender.
Another concept that has left them trailing in the
diplomatic wilderness is the thought that the Palestinian issue is central to
Israel’s acceptance in the region. It may be a central prop of leftist academic
thinking and dated European diplomacy, but it has diminished credibility in the
region where much of the Arab world is fed up with Palestinian obstinacy and
violence and have reached out to the Jewish state for normalcy and progress.
The Abraham Accords has replaced the old Khartoum slogans of
“No peace with Israel. No recognition of Israel. No negotiations with
Israel.”
The Palestinians, the ones who need normalcy and progress more
than most, are stuck in 1967 Khartoum mode even as the emerging moderate Arab
world, both Sunni and Shia, are embracing Abraham Accords 2020.
Now we hear rumors that the Biden Administration, in
rejection of everything positive achieved by President Trump, is looking
backward for an alternative route in their foreign policy.
There can be no progress in walking backward.
The situation with Iran will not improve by Biden going back
to his old appeasement strategy with the Mad Mullahs of Tehran. It didn’t work
the first time. It won’t work now.
If one thing came out of the change of heart by Arab leaders
toward Israel was a shared reality of the advancing danger of the Islamic
Republic of Iran. One thing is known by
Israel and our neighbors. An American smile will not deter the messianic determination
of the Iranian regime to dominate the Middle East, and later the West.
The radical Israel haters are already banging on Biden-Harris’s door in their determination to put the Palestinian issue front and center.
While researching and writing about the rising anti-Semitism within Britain's Labour Party, with the inevitable anti-Israel campaigning, I predicted that this stain of anti-Semitism will be increasingly seen in America. It has not only arrived in Congress, it will be represented within the White House by Reema Dodin, a senior legislative affairs staff member who supports Palestinian suicide bombers.
Talking about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at Berkeley she said that "Suicide bombers were the last resort" for the Palestinians. One would have thought that compromise and a desire for a peaceful statehood would be the first and last resort, not suicide bombers and rockets.
The
old anti-Israel slanders will be wheeled out, slanders that overlook the rabid hatred, violence, and utter failure to accept the presence of
Israel, all originate and are perpetuated on the divided Palestinian side.
Divided by the two warring factions that have been at each others throats since before 1967. These
factions are not Israel and the Palestinian terrorists, although that fire has
been burning for far too long. The real divide that has hampered every solution
has been between the PLO-PLFP Palestinian Authority based in Ramallah, and
Hamas-Palestinian Islamic Jihad faction based in Gaza.
If there were an
election today, Hamas would win. This is why Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian
Authority have not held a national election since 2007. They know they would
lose. And yet, the peacemakers would have Israel surrender to an
entity, like Iran, that will never accept a Jewish state in the region.
It is obvious to the simplest mind that no progress to peace
is possible until there is one moderate partner to speak on behalf if a united people that is prepared to recognise Israel as a legitimate nation.
The reason there has been no progress for over fifty years
is because so-called peace advocates have been delusionally dreaming about a distant
oasis called 1967 peace, totally unaware that the camel they have
been trying to drag through the burning Middle East sand has been dead ever
since Yasser Arafat spat on the signed Oslo Accords and continued his war
against the Jews from his Mukata headquarters in Ramallah.
No wonder Israel dismisses their anti-Israel resolutions and
demands to surrender strategic territory, territory that it has historic and
legal rights to possess, to an implacable enemy.
These are the issues that a future Biden Administration
will be on conflict with the facts as an increasing number of Arab states turn their backs on the Palestinians in favor of creative new agreements with Israel.
Barry Shaw is the International Public Diplomacy Director
at the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies. He is the author of the
best-selling book, ‘1917. From Palestine to the Land of Israel,’
available at Amazon in paperback and Kindle.
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