Eight Crucial Questions for
Abbas (and One for President Obama)
by John Ryan
March 15, 2014 at 2:30 pm
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Question #1: Does Israel have a
right to exist?
There seems to be a double-standard when it comes to how Israel's
Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Palestinian Authority's
erstwhile President, Mahmoud Abbas -- now in the tenth year of his
four-year term -- are treated by the Obama White House, as well as by
many journalists. While Netanyahu is humiliated,
insulted,
threatened,
and told that he must make "painful
concessions" for peace, such as releasing
more than 100 terrorists merely to get the Palestinians to come to a
negotiating table, Abbas – a facilitator and supporter of these
terrorists – is treated with kid gloves, and with Obama virtually begging
him to visit.
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President Barack
Obama meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the
Oval Office in 2009. (Image source: Official White House photo)
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Here, however, are some questions, starting with the most important,
that should be posed to Abbas when he takes a seat in the White House on
March 17:
- Does Israel have a right to exist?
- Yasser Arafat, the first president of the
Palestinian Authority [PA], accepted
Israel as a Jewish state, and the homeland of the Jewish people. As
the recent UNESCO
exhibit documented, Jews have been on Israeli land, and in the
disputed areas in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) for 3,500 years,
2,000 years prior to the advent of Islam. You, however, recently
said that you do
not accept Israel as a Jewish state. Why?
- Will you stop using the humanitarian aid money
given to you by the U.S. and the U.N. for prohibited
purposes, such as paying
salaries to and glorifying
terrorists, and inciting
mass hatred against Jews, even among Palestinian
children?
- Why did you not immediately fire Jibril Rajoub,
the supposedly "moderate" senior PA official, after he said
in May 2013 that if the PA had a nuclear bomb, it would drop it on
Israel that very day?
- Are you prepared to make any concessions
to advance the peace process? For example, will you rescind your
July 2013 statement
that if you get your own state, not a single Jew will be allowed
anywhere within it?
- If you strike a deal for peace, how will you
ensure that all Palestinian parties, both in the West Bank and the
Gaza Strip, uphold it; that the next president of the PA does not
say, "Abbas signed that; I did not."?
- If and when you get a Palestinian state, will you
announce – in Arabic – that this agreement brings an end to the
conflict?
- And will you then formally order the PA to stop
glorifying terrorists and calling for the destruction of Israel in
the Palestinian media, school textbooks, summer camps, sports
stadiums, crossword puzzles and other outlets?
It would be telling to hear how Abbas answers these questions.
It would also be telling to hear how President Barack Obama answers
one question: If Abbas refuses to agree to these "painful
concessions," will you stop issuing executive waivers
that enable American taxpayer money to still be sent to him, even though
you know it is being used for prohibited
purposes?
John Ryan, a journalist based in the US, also writes for The Daily
Caller.
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