by Bassam Tawil
• January 1, 2016 at 5:00 am
- Every
Palestinian knows in his heart that we do not want a state of our
own alongside Israel, but rather instead of Israel. This
includes all the land of Palestine and Israel. It means that Jews
have no right to exist on even one speck of it.
- Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas claims he wants to reach a peace agreement with
Israel. But at the same time he and his henchmen incite the
Palestinians to stab, run over and shoot Israelis to death, while he
idealizes, glorifies and finances -- with the funds he receives from
the West -- the terrorists and their families.
- The Palestinian
people are already almost totally radicalized, even in the West
Bank. They do not seem concerned about living under an Islamist
regime run by Hamas or Islamic State.
- Abbas's goal is
now, with the help of the international community, to impose a
solution on Israel. The solution he seeks – a full withdrawal to the
1967 lines – would pose an existential threat to Israel. It would
also just be a matter of time before the Palestinian state will be
run by Hamas or Islamic State.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is
regularly fêted by good-hearted Westerners such as France's President
François Hollande (left) and top European Union officials like Federica
Mogherini and Jean-Claude Juncker (right).
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What can be done with these Americans and Europeans? They always
seem pining for a dialogue between the Israelis and the Palestinians that
would end in a peace agreement, yet oddly all of them seem aware that the
Palestinians have not, in all honestly, met Israel's most minimal
demands: the cessation of incitement (agreed to even under the Oslo
accords -- and requiring no funding!) and the recognition of Israel as a
Jewish State. Many throughout the world still view Israel as potentially
the next -- and 22nd -- Arab state.
As hard as it is to say it, the Jews have a point. There is a
legitimate concern that without such a stipulation, there will be two
Palestinian States: the West Bank and Israel – actually three
if you count Gaza.
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