“A sore evil under the sun.” King Solomon may well be foretelling the cock-and-bull morality play, “Recognizing Palestine” coming to.Arabs and the PLO never wanted two-states for two people.
“A sore evil under the sun.” King Solomon may well be foretelling the cock-and-bull morality play, “Recognizing Palestine” coming to Manhattan’s Turtle Bay theater of the absurd.
Heads of state curling their toes to give Israel payback for perpetually blocking to free Palestine from the occupation. They’ll tolerate no precondition, not even Israel offering a sop if Hamas releases all hostages, dead or alive. That would be enough to accuse the Netanyahu government of obstructive tactics.
“When the time comes we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel.”
In short, Israel’s critics are at the end of a short fuse. They seemingly believe that Oct 7 made Israelis retreat into a bubble of trauma from which they can’t stop obsessing about their own survival. Not a shred of empathy for the Palestinians in Gaza, or for that matter for governments on the brink, such as Emmanuel Macron’s or Keir Starmer’s. They too are struggling to survive. Netanyahu, throw in the towel, damn it! Recognize Palestine.
Instead what did “Bibi” and his warring cabinet do? They called time up on futile and circuitous bargaining for hostages through Qatar and, smack bang on its home soil, targeted Hamas figureheads in Giorgio Armani suits.
The titular head of the titular Palestinians, Abu Mazen (the nickname of Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority), observed developments and made a savvy calculation. Arafat’s successor for life is not only a chronic snake but a sloth.
There’ll come a day when statehood will drop into his lap without him lifting a finger. He need only sit tight until the biggest allies of Israel trip over themselves to serve Palestine on a platter.
“The message is clear: what you need to do to get your state recognized is nothing. No reform, no institution building, no democracy, no defeat of terrorist groups, no competent government. All of that will happen magically in the Palestinian state once it comes into existence. The use of brutal and inhuman violence will bring some nice rewards, while Israel’s reactions will bring it punishment — for it is crystal clear that without the October 7 attacks Macron, Starmer, Albanese, and Carney would not today be recognizing this imaginary state.”
In somber terms Israel is about to be saddled with something worse than the dreaded two-state solution. It will be a crude prototype. It will horribly embody the notorious ‘Three No’s’ in the Khartoum Resolution passed by the Arab League after defeat in the 6-Day War:
“No peace with Israel. No recognition of Israel. No negotiations with Israel.”
In 1967 today’s turncoat allies of Israel were babes in arms. They know nothing about “Three No’s.” Abu Mazen however does. As befits a three-headed god of Fatah, the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, he neither slumbers nor sleeps.
He allows his mask of moderation to drop from time to time. When talking in Arabic. Weeks before Oct 7, August 2023 to be exact, the gluttonous god, for the edification of Fatah, revised the Holocaust.
They say that Hitler killed the Jews because they were Jews and that Europe hated the Jews because they were Jews. Not true. It was clearly explained that [the Europeans] fought them because of their social role, and not their religion. Even Karl Marx said it was not true. He said that the enmity was not directed at Judaism as a religion but to Judaism for its social role. The [Europeans] fought against these people because of their role in society, which had to do with usury, money, and so on and so forth. Everybody knows that during World War I, Hitler was a sergeant. He said that he fought the Jews because they were dealing with usury and money. In his view, they were engaged in sabotage, and this is why he hated them.
This drove the late Martin Indyk, Obama’s former Israel Ambassador, to despair. How many know that the peace process offers a good career? Indyk’s had gone up in smoke. “How could someone who has treated me as a personal friend for three decades at the same time harbor such hateful views of my people?” he said.
Law Professor, Eugene Kontorovich was aghast at the American’s naivety.
“I don’t understand how someone who helped establish the two-state solution policy and defend it for three decades can be such a fool! Abbas wrote his dissertation denying the Holocaust, but he smiles at Martin Indyk and everything is good?”
But of course the left lacks self-awareness.
