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What The "Two State Solution" Has to Do with the Rise of Islamic Extremism: Zero
by Khaled Abu Toameh
• October 20, 2014 at 5:00 am
The
"Arab Spring" did not erupt as a result of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict. Rather, it was the outcome of decades of tyranny and corruption in
the Arab world. The Tunisians, Egyptians, Libyans and Yemenis who removed
their dictators from power did not do so because of the lack of a
"two-state solution." This is the last thing they had in mind.
The
thousands of Muslims who are volunteering to join the Islamic State [IS] are
not doing so because they are frustrated with the lack of progress in the
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
The only
solution the Islamic State believes in is a Sunni Islamic Caliphate where the
surviving non-Muslims who are not massacred would be subject to sharia law.
What
Kerry perhaps does not know is that the Islamic State is not interested in
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at all. Unlike Kerry, Sunni scholars fully
understand that the Islamic State has more to do with Islam and terrorism
than with any other conflict.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's claim that the lack of a
"two-state solution" has fueled the rise of the Islamic State [IS]
terrorist group reinforces how clueless the U.S. Administration is about what
is happening in the Arab and Islamic countries.
Speaking at a State Department ceremony marking the Muslim holiday of
Eid al-Adha, Kerry said that the resumption of peace negotiations between
Israel and the Palestinians was vital in the fight against Islamic extremism,
including Islamic State.
"There wasn't a leader I met with in the region who didn't raise
with me spontaneously the need to try to get peace between Israel and the
Palestinians, because it was a cause of recruitment and of street anger and
agitation," Kerry said. "People need to understand the connection
of that. And it has something to do with the humiliation and denial and
absence of dignity."
The U.S. State Department later denied that Kerry had made the statement
attributed to him.
Will Mahmoud Abbas Reject Israeli Protection?
by Steven J. Rosen
• October 20, 2014 at 4:00 am
Palestinian
officials have generally been silent about security cooperation with Israel.
They are loath to acknowledge how important it is for the survival of the
Palestinian Authority [PA], and fear that critics, especially Hamas, will
consider it "collaboration with the enemy."
"You
smuggle weapons, explosives and cash to the West Bank, not for the fight with
Israel, but for a coup against the Palestinian Authority. The Israeli
intelligence chief visited me two weeks ago and told me about the [Hamas]
group they arrested that was planning for a coup... We have a national unity
government and you are thinking about a coup against me." — Mahmoud
Abbas, PA President, to Khaled Mashaal, Hamas leader.
According
to Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon, if the IDF leaves the West Bank,
Hamas will take over, and other terrorists groups such as the Islamic Jihad,
Al-Qaeda and Islamic State would operate there.
In recent
months, Abbas has been making a series of threats against Israel. If Abbas
becomes another Arafat, it could be the Israeli side that loses interest in
security cooperation.
Shortly after the death of Yasser Arafat on November 11, 2004, and the
election of Mahmoud Abbas to the Palestinian Authority [PA] presidency in
January 2005, the U.S. Department of State increased its security assistance
to the PA and began to promote Palestinian security cooperation with the
Israeli security services. The motive was not personal support for Abbas, but
a belief that Fatah under Abbas could become a more reliable partner for
maintaining order and keeping peaceful relations with Israel.
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