Secretary of State Tony Blinken has reportedly begun conducting a review of options for recognizing a ‘Palestinian’ state after the war. The State Department has claimed that there are no policy changes, but that may be yet more diplomatic doubletalk.
UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron, brought in after PM Rishi Sunak ousted Minister Suella Braverman for speaking out against the pro-Hamas rallies, published an op-ed calling for a “pause” in the fighting, exchanging Israeli hostages for captured Hamas terrorists, and providing “safe passage” to “key Hamas leaders” and “the people responsible for October 7” to leave Gaza. After that he announced that his government might recognize an Islamic terror state.
“We – with allies – will look at the issue of recognising a Palestinian state, including at the United Nations,” he claimed. “That could be one of the things that helps to make this process irreversible.”
Why the urgent need for the “irreversible” recognition of a terror state?
According to Cameron, “we must give the people of the West Bank and Gaza the political perspective of a credible route to a Palestinian state and a new future.”
The “people” in question have already been polled on what they want from the future.
98% in Gaza and the West Bank said that they felt ‘pride’ as ‘Palestinians’ over the war. 74% expected the fighting to end with the defeat of Israeli forces in Gaza. Only 17% supported a two-state solution while 77.7% wanted to destroy Israel and replace it with a ‘Palestinian’ state.
This is what supporting the “Palestinian people” with a “Palestinian state” really means.
Former Minister Theresa Villiers who, unlike Cameron, had backed Brexit, warned that “accelerating unilateral recognition of Palestinian state would be to reward Hamas’ atrocities.”
And that’s exactly right.
The only reason any of this is being discussed is the Oct 7 Hamas attack. Recognizing a terror state after one of the worst acts of terror in history will retroactively validate everything.
The Palestinian Authority, on which the hopes for a Palestinian State, depend is just as bad.
Despite Blinken’s best efforts, Mahmoud Abbas, the PLO leader who serves as the official ‘President’ of the Palestinian Authority, refused to disavow the Oct 7 attacks. Instead, the PLO, Fatah and other elements of the ruling regime in charge of the West Bank have praised it and others, like the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, even bragged about taking part in the attacks.
A video from the Palestinian Authority terror group features “terrorists wearing Fatah’s yellow armbands firing Kalashnikov rifles at a kibbutz” and “a Fatah terrorist stamping on the head of a murdered Israeli” as the group boasts that “we had a prominent and clear role” on Oct 7.
Abbas was elected to a four-year term in 2005. There have been no elections since and he has functioned as a glorified dictator subsidized by our foreign aid. His likely successors, including the imprisoned leader of a terror group who is ahead in the polls, all praised the Hamas attack.
Democratic elections in a ‘Palestinian’ state would mean Hamas. The Islamic terror group won the 2006 legislative elections and took over Gaza. It’s why there have been no elections since. Current polls show that if there were to be democratic elections, Hamas would easily win them.
Biden claimed that, “the vast majority of Palestinians are not Hamas. Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people.” But the vast majority of them disagree and want Hamas to head or form part of a unity coalition of Islamic terrorist groups running a ‘Palestinian’ state..
The only Palestinian Authority candidate who could beat Hamas is Marwan Barghouti, the grandfather of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, currently serving several life sentences in Israel prison, who responded to Oct 7 by urging a total war against Israel. Hamas has demanded Barghouti’s release as part of any ‘terrorists-for-hostages’ trade with Israel..
But diplomats who were blindsided by the Oct 7 attacks are fighting to take control of the situation and the narrative by offering up the same old failed policies. Diplomats claim that Oct 7 was caused by a failure to negotiate, but it had really been brought about by endless negotiations.
Before the Oct 7 assault, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan had an article in Foreign Affairs magazine touting how negotiations with Hamas had led to quiet in Gaza. After the Hamas invasion, the online version had that edited out and only the print copies remain.
The roots of the Oct 7 attack lie in the 1992 pressure campaign to force Israel to take back the Hamas terror leaders it had deported, followed by the Oslo accord deals with Arafat and the PLO, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s ’s insistence on democratic elections that brought Hamas to power, Obama’s Arab Spring which empowered the Muslim Brotherhood parent organization of Hamas to win democratic elections, including in neighboring Egypt, which provided a vital outlet of support for Hamas, and then the Iran Deal that funded the state sponsor of Hamas which led Iran to expand its operations and ambitions around the region.
The addiction to diplomacy, nation building, accords and agreements led fatally to Oct 7.
Israel had resisted allowing Hamas to take part in elections only to face pressure from Rice.
“Whenever you have 80 percent of the Palestinian people turn out in a free and fair election, one that is free of violence, it has to be a cause for hope,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice argued after Hamas won the 2005 elections.
In 2007, a year after Hamas seized control of Gaza, Rice declared, “frankly, it’s time for the establishment of a Palestinian state.”
No matter how often the same approach fails, the diplomats never admit they were wrong.
To be a modern day diplomat is to ignorantly blame a lack of diplomacy and negotiations for everything and to promise that they can fix everything. Diplomats were telling us for generations that a “Palestinian state” would be the solution to all of the problems in the region, but ever since the Oslo accords, life in Israel and the Middle East has become much more violent.
There’s a limit to how much damage generals can do, but not diplomats.
Compare the damage from the Iraq War to the fallout from the Arab Spring which didn’t just set one country on fire, but led to brutal and enduring civil wars in Yemen, Syria and Libya, while causing serious harm in Egypt, Tunisia, and many other countries across the region.
Oct 7 was not the result of a military process, but a diplomatic one, in which the Biden administration and several Israeli governments had negotiated temporary quiet with Hamas.
Diplomats can’t afford to allow the impression that there is a military solution to terrorism. Or to much of anything else. And so they’re rushing to impose their diplomatic solution that would empower terrorists because that is all that diplomacy with terrorists ever accomplishes.
Since Oslo, diplomacy has consistently proved the flip side of the Roman “si vis pacem, para bellum” or “if you would have peace, prepare for war.”
Israelis have learned the hard way that if they prepare for peace, they will have war. Diplomacy is supposed to avert war, but with Islamic terrorists it encourages war instead.
Despite all the promises, the Oslo accords and other peace negotiations never ended the violence because the Islamic terrorists quickly realized that violence was their best leverage. Negotiations soon fell by the wayside as the Palestinian Authority terrorists focused on direct or indirect proxy terrorism. Hamas then took up the slack by promising to turn the violence on or off in exchange for money and political power. Recognizing a “Palestinian” state after Oct 7 would validate terrorism as the ultimate strategy yet again and would ensure more such attacks.
The push for a “Palestinian” state after Oct 7 not only rewards the atrocities of that day, but encourages the Arab Muslim ‘Palestinian’ settlers living in the West Bank and Gaza to repeat them.
What do you get when you massacre over a thousand people, rape, behead, torture and kidnap everyone Jewish, Christian or non-Arab in sight? The answer should not be your own country.
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine.
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Incandescent , I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteWhat a bitter pill to swallow.
All I can say is that it's clear that the jelly babies that pass for western leaders simply want Hamas stooges and thugs off their streets and out of their train stations at weekends.
No other principles were at stake.
So it's nothing personal, basically anti Semitic realpolitik.
But we KNOW what happened on Oct 7th was on a par with 9/11, with the financial crash of 2008 and the COVID nonsense .
It's all too raw,but does anybody think that Cameron, Sullivan and Blinken would be anything other than Islam slipper boys for whatever Iran and Qatar seek
Israel needs to cut them all off, and be the state that G-d expects . That means cutting off from the WHO, UN and EU octopuses. And cutting the head of their snake off. As Bennett knows.
The 'civilian' terrorist in Gaza need to be expelled into Egypt, the land annexed and liberated. War seems to costs the Arabs nothing. Egypt, an aggressor state has, like the others, used terrorism to continue their failed wars of aggression. If there are any refugees, Egypt and other Arab aggressors created them and must now take responsibility for them. Hang the ersatz 'peace' treaty. Israel can save representation costs of having a useless pointless mission in Egypt. Arabs already have a 'palestinian' state, also on stolen land, called Jordan. If America won't provide arms to Israel, Russia will sell them.
ReplyDeleteJontyD
Russia will provide weapons to Hezbollah and Hamas. Not to mention Iran.
DeleteAmerica is already funding all of these entities and has precipitated the current hostilities because of their funding activities. America is an entirely lawless terror state. They already supply weapons to Arab states. America thinks it doesn't need Israel. Ask France how that is working out for them?
DeleteJontyD
Obama/Biden are terrible because they pander to enemies
Deleteallying with the primary allies of those enemies, like Russia and China, ain't the answer
There is no foul or perverse thing that the Bidet Administration will not endorse. If anything, maybe we could go back to the 'Israel - TransJordan' lines. For all practical purposes Jordan is Palestine. The so-called Palestinians are not divinely entitled to anything.
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b>PALLY-WEID [Pallyweid]
ReplyDeleteFirst, it was, 1961, as at the UN, nations discussed apartheid in South Africa, infamous Ahmad Shukeiri [Shukairy] (who helped Hitler during WW2, had justified the Holocaust in 1946) decided to come up with the apartheid slur.
Shukeiri is infamous for the "non of them will survive" genocidal admitted plans ahead of the Six-Day war. Months after his apartheid-slur, he had complained of too many Jews in the UN, then in Nov 1962, he had promoted Neo Nazi group there. In his 1969 book he would write that Mandatory-Palestine Arabs cheered and prayed for Hitler.
Since then, it (Apartheid slur) became a default terminology for haters, (recent example was Omar Shakir, who misrepresented facts and broaden apartheid definition to fit his propaganda he has been involved in years before his HRW career), or the ignorant or the misinformed. (Not to mention the wide range of preferential treatment for Arabs over Jews in academia, court cases, employment, prison conditions, etc.).
Yet, for decades Pallywood had pushed the G slur (so called genocide) on anti terror operations by the good-guys Israelis while racist-Arab anti Israel forces use their civilians as human shields and facilities in that 'dead baby strategy' in their diabolical routine of twisted win win. If IDF hits at the terrorists, some civilians will die and Israel would look bad. If they don't, then they can continue targeting Israelis. The methods began under Arafat in the early 1980s.
While "palestinian" Arabs and Hezbollah are by no mean the first to use human shields, they stand out in using their own people for that terrible goal.
Then came the long planned Oct 7 2023, massacring youths, targeting entire families, burning them alive, decapitation, mass rape. All under the Hamas leadership (beneath them, PFLP and PIJ and other ordinary Gazans, and of course UNRWA guys too as well as some Arab "journalists," including al Jazeera's) which never had recanted its genocide goal.
But when Israel, ahead of its ' Swords of Iron' operation, evacuated civilians to save their lives, the "cleansing" cries arose (never mind that ethnic Arabs in Israel are the same ethnicity).
Al Jazeera (dubbed Jihad Zeera already in 2002) Hamas' chief mouthpiece has been reinforcing its old bloody routine of showing graphic images to incite the Arab world, while knowing fully well terror methods of using hospitals, etc.
And the Hamas' Gaza "health" ministry has been keeping publishing "numbers" while the aforementioned Omar Shakir was one of the first to give credibility to those numbers.
The Jihad regime, concocted a "genocide" case by sending South Africa to do their dirty job. After years of Islamist lobbying there and relations with Hamas.
Thus, trivializing really genocide cases.
So what now?
It's what happen when pushing the envelope too far.
Drama -- unjustifiable-- lexicon.
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