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by Bassam Tawil • April 12, 2018
at 5:00 am
- The ruthless
rhetoric the Palestinians are using against the US suggests
that they have decided to put the Americans on an equal
footing with Israel. They miss the days when the State
Department sometimes seemed to be more pro-Palestinian than
the Palestinians themselves.
- We are talking about
the same Palestinian Authority (PA) that continues to receive
millions of dollars in US aid annually. The same PA whose
security forces are trained and equipped by Americans and
Europeans. The same PA that has a "diplomatic
mission" in Washington that is actively taking part in
the campaign of incitement against the US and its leader.
- The anti-US campaign
paves the way for terrorists to kill Americans. It feeds into
the ideology of the Islamic State terror group, Al Qaeda,
Muslim Brotherhood and Iran, which considers the US the
"Great Satan."
Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas called David Friedman, the US
Ambassador to Israel, a "son of a dog" in a televised
speech, on March 19, 2018. (Image source: MEMRI video screenshot)
Hate speech and incitement make up the core of the
Palestinian narrative.
For several decades now, the Palestinians have been
waging a massive and vicious campaign of incitement against Israel.
This campaign has made it impossible for any Arab to even think
about the prospects of peace with Israel. Notably, the Palestinian
hatred of Israel is not linked to anything Israel does or does not
do. Rather, the Palestinian hatred of Israel is based on Israel's
existence. Palestinians hate Israel because they believe that Jews
have no right to a sovereign country of their own in the Middle
East.
Palestinian hate speech against Israel is part of
the global landscape: by now, no one even expects anything else
from them. A Palestinian mosque preacher calling Jews
"descendants of monkeys and pigs" is no story at all --
just more of the same. Similarly, a Palestinian maiming or
murdering a Jew has become the norm.
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