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Shameful Biden tries to reward Hamas terror with a Palestinian state
It’s amazing how long bad ideas take to die. That’s certainly the case with one of the least successful ideas in the world. The idea of the two-state solution in the Middle East.
How do we know it is unsuccessful? Because it has been tried for decades and never works.
Generations of US Presidents have wasted energy on the idea. All based on a falsehood.
Which is the idea that a two-state solution would “unlock the problems” of the Middle East.
In this song — sung by Republicans and Democrats alike — if the Palestinian people had another state then all the other problems of the Middle East would be solved.
The economy of Yemen would suddenly boom. The Ayatollahs in Iran would suddenly grant equal rights to women. There’d be gay pride in Saudi Arabia.
It is a fairytale, of course. None of the rest of the Arab world gives a damn about the Palestinians.
Most actively hate them — seeing them as bringing terror wherever they go (as the Palestinians did when they went to Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon — to name just a few).
Besides which, the Palestinians doggedly refused a state every time they were offered one. They refused in 1948 and every other time right up to 2000.
Then, in 2005, the Israelis effectively gifted the Palestinians a state in Gaza, when the Israeli government forced every Jew out of the area and handed the strip over to the Palestinians.
And what did the Palestinians do with their new state? Well they voted in Hamas, who then had a coup and spent 18 years taking US taxpayer dollars to build a terror state from which they invaded Israel again last year.
After the 7th October who on earth could believe it is a good idea for the Palestinians to be given another state?
Well our government, for one.
Ever since the atrocities of October 7th, Joe Biden and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken have been insisting that now is just the time to “double down” on the two-state solution.
It is like watching an alcoholic trying to recover from a hangover by having the first drink of the morning.
Within a month of the October attacks President Biden published a piece in the Washington Post in which he said: “As we strive for peace, Gaza and the West Bank should be reunited under a single governance structure, ultimately under a revitalized Palestinian Authority, as we all work toward a two-state solution.”
But why? Why after Palestinians had carried out the most brutal day of terror since the creation of the State of Israel should they be rewarded with a state? And why should it be governed by the Palestinian Authority?
The PA is about as likely to be “revitalized” as is President Biden. It is a totally corrupt entity, which siphons off international funds to impoverish the Palestinian people and make the leadership rich.
It is led by the 88-year old Mahmoud Abbas, whose four-year term in office started in 2005. Eagle-eyed readers will notice that this means Abbas is currently approaching the 20th anniversary of his four-year term.
One reason is that if there were elections in the West Bank today Hamas would win. Because the Palestinians in the West Bank are as supportive of Hamas as are the Palestinians in Gaza.
And like Hamas they satisfy their desire for violence by using international funds to reward the families of Palestinians who kill Jews in acts of terror.
This payment scheme increases depending on the number of Jews you’ve killed. Nice “partner for peace” right there.
Do Biden not know this? It appears not. In November last year Biden said, “We need to renew our resolve to pursue this two-state solution. Two states for two peoples. It’s more important now than ever.”
His Secretary of State is just as bad, singing the same outdated refrain.
On October 8th — as terrorists were still running wild across the south of Israel — Blinken told CBS “We think the best way to resolve [the Israeli-Palestinian conflict] remains a two-state solution.”
A month later he could be found claiming that a two-state solution was “the only way to end a cycle of violence.”
By the time he was in Davos in January Blinken was telling the New York Times that creating a Palestinian state would solve all the problems of the region, including (bizarrely) regional instability caused by Iran.
By the end of January Blinke was reported to have ordered the State Department to review options for American recognition of a Palestinian State.
In recent weeks Blinken has been sending out his British counterpart — Lord Cameron — to bang on about the creation of a Palestinian state. He was doing it in Washington this week. Cameron is clearly acting as Blinken’s warm-up act.
Blinken recently boasted that he was in Ramallah with Mahmoud Abbas “to reiterate US support for reforming the PA and establishing an independent Palestinian state.”
But such a policy is an embarrassment.
As Israeli politicians of left, right and center have told me in recent months, even if you believe that the Palestinians should be given another state, now is not the time to discuss it.
To push for a two-state solution now is to say to the Palestinians “You carried out a horrific terror attack on October 7th, and as a reward you will be given another state.”
I wonder how many more terror attacks will come about by incentivizing terror in this way?
But the other reason why it is so wicked is that since 2005 we know what a Palestinian state in the West Bank would look like. It would not just be one more failed Arab state.
It would be another Palestinian terror state. One which had views over the entirety of Israel and where the rockets could this time easily hit Tel Aviv, Haifa and Ben Gurion airport.
So long as the Palestinians celebrate terror, encourage terror and pay for terror they should not have another state.
Two-states? It’s not a solution. It’s part of the problem.
What Israel needs if Middle East normalization is finally to happen
Policymakers envision an era of “normalization” after the current round of fighting in the Middle East concludes.
That would sit well with Israel.
After all, the icon of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, dreamed of a “normal” Jewish state.
There is one catch, however: “Normalization” between Israel and Palestine does not exist in law or diplomacy.
Incredibly, the enthusiasm for normalization stems from the fact that Israel’s adversaries have conducted a war on the Jews from first day of the country’s creation in 1948.
The League of Arab States sent a cablegram to the United Nations the next day declaring its policy to be the liquidation of the Jews in Palestine, and the war against the Jews continues to this day.
The same goes for the Palestine Liberation Organization, which on its creation in 1964 issued a charter for the annihilation of the Jews of Palestine.
Defying Arab League policy, Egypt and Jordan signed separate peace treaties with Israel, while Syria and Lebanon each agreed to an armistice with the Jewish state.
Saudi Arabia, kingpin of the Arab League, has yet to agree to any armistice or peace treaty with the Jews.
The PLO, which now operates as the Palestinian Authority, signed a peace treaty with Israel, the first Oslo Accord, Sept. 13, 1993.
But the five-year “transitional period” passed without a final agreement being reached, and PA head Mahmoud Abbas, leader of Fatah, the PLO’s largest faction, has declared Palestinians will “no longer continue to be bound” by it.
Reports have it that both the Saudis and the PLO are finally ready to normalize ties with the Jews.
What should normalization look like?
Begin with four steps:
- Remove Palestinian teachers and texts that continue to preach war against Jews.
PA schools feature a fourth-grade textbook dedicated to the legacy of Dalal Mughrabi, a Fatah member and woman terrorist who commandeered a bus and murdered 38 Israeli passengers, including 13 children.
In the spirit of normalization, the PA war curriculum would have to go.
- Resettle descendants of Arab refugees from the 1948 war in dignified conditions — instead of the nearly 60 “temporary” UN refugee camps to which they have been confined since the 1948 war under the pretense of the “right of return” to villages that no longer exist.
The Palestinian Authority instills in all children’s minds that their only future lies in villages that were left in 1948, an inappropriate goal if normalization is ever to happen.
- Repeal the PA law that provides a salary for life for anyone who murders a Jew.
A policy of normalization would require a repeal of this legalized incentive to murder.
When I first heard of this law in 2015, I thought it had to be an urban legend with no credibility.
Our agency thus hired two Palestinian journalists within the PA to ascertain whether such a law exists.
They found the record of this unprecedented law at the Palestinian Ministry of Justice: If you kill a Jew, you get a salary for life.
The PA spends hundreds of millions of dollars on these payments every year.
- Remove PA maps that obliterate Israel.
Since the new PA curriculum came into effect in August 2000, Palestinian maps replace the names of all Jewish communities with the names of Arab villages in all textbooks used in all schools run by the Palestinian Authority and the UN Relief and Works Agency.
Simply put, a new generation of Palestinian children has yet to see Israel on any map.
A policy of normalization would present maps that portray all UN members of good standing, including Israel.
These four steps towards normalization would bring new hope for a new Middle East.
What a contrast
Argentina’s newly elected president’s recent visit to Israel was a politically refreshing breath of fresh air.
Devoid of doublespeak, diplomatic mumbling and hectoring hyperbole, this head of state stood out for his uncompromising denunciation of terror, its perpetrators and those who fund and sponsor the murder of Israelis.
Javier Milei is an unabashed supporter of Israel whose plain speaking is a welcome change from the usually mealy-mouthed mutterings of most other international leaders. Whereas others hedge their ostensible friendship and support with all sorts of caveats and dire warnings dressed up as mock moral outrage, the Argentinean President’s speeches are a model of unambiguous support.
Not only is President Milei a genuine friend of Israel but he is also at the same time an avid student of Judaism and Jewish history. This gives him an insight and appreciation of exactly what motivates Israelis in the continuing battle against the deniers and the delegitimizers. Therein lays the difference between him and those international political leaders who are totally bereft of any appreciation of the historical Jewish experience. Not only are they deficient in their understanding, but they have an irresistible urge to demand action which, if acted upon, would lead to another catastrophic cataclysm.
Australia’s Foreign Minister said she did not have time to visit the Gaza area communities attacked by Hamas and see for herself how “peaceful” Jihadists slaughter civilians. Contrast this with President Milei, who took the first opportunity to see the situation for himself.
It did not take more than a few hours of visiting the decimated Kibbutzim and Moshavim of Israel’s south for him to realise the enormity of the pogroms that had taken place there. His firm denunciation of Hamas and their enablers as being “the Nazis of the 21st century” was crystal clear. There were no “ifs” and “buts”, and his support of Israel’s campaign to eliminate the scourge of terror emanating from Gaza and elsewhere was firm. No hedging with moral equivalence, hypocritical expressions of support and exhortations to agree to the establishment of a Palestinian terror state in Israel’s heartland.
Instead, President Milei promised to move the Argentinean Embassy to Jerusalem. This move naturally caused Hamas and others to denounce him. Unlike other fellow world leaders and officials, he saw no need to make a pilgrimage to Ramallah and embrace the PA head or shower him with taxpayers’ money.
His three-day visit to Israel was such a startling contrast to that of others. It makes one wonder yet again how much more garbage Israelis have to listen to from totally clueless individuals as they continue their endless hectoring and futile fulminations.
Well, we did not have to wait very long for the deluge of delusory denunciations to descend from the mouths of the “enlightened” media and addled politicians.
The world is convulsed as never before at the prospect of Hamas and its followers being finally brought to account for their crimes. The continued plight of the Israeli hostages is ignored, and instead, an increasing crescendo of craven condemnation of Israel has become the siren song of the appeasers. The International Red Cross long ago lost interest in safeguarding the hostages’ welfare and access to medication and food. The UN has no interest in holding the terror groups and their supporters to account. This corrupt organisation’s descent into moral depravity is exemplified by its Rapporteur for the Palestinian Territories.
Francesca Albanese unashamedly stated this week that the 7 October was caused by “Israeli oppression” and not antisemitism. Instead of her being dismissed for these blatant pieces of revisionist lies, her bosses remained silent, and she continued on her poisonous path. She now will be denied entry to Israel, which, no doubt, in turn, will convulse the usual braying mobs.
It, however, only gets better as the days unfold.
The IDF, in a dramatic and well-documented raid, managed to rescue two kidnapped Israelis being held hostage by “innocent” Palestinians in Rafah in Southern Gaza. It should be noted that these two were incarcerated in an apartment building that was in the midst of other buildings inhabited by Hamas. The Israeli action naturally resulted in the destruction of the buildings and the elimination of most of those involved.
Needless to say an uproar of volcanic proportions has ensued.
The only foreign head of state to actually congratulate the IDF and Israel on rescuing the hostages and expressing a wish for further action in defeating terror was the Argentinean President. Everyone else preferred to splutter specious expressions of outrage at the loss of “innocent” Palestinian lives. Conspicuously absent are denunciations of Hamas and Hezbollah targeting of thousands of rockets at Israeli civilians. Also absent from the torrent of criticism is any concern for the thousands of Israelis displaced from their towns and villages after being targeted by these terrorist groups.
The chorus of demands for Israel to cease flushing out the terror leaders is led by Biden and Blinken. Desperately trying to appease the rabid anti-Israel progressives in election year, their increasingly strident strictures exemplify everything that is rotten in today’s political environment. We are faced with a President whose cognitive faculties are increasingly suspect and a Jewish Secretary of State who has the chutzpah to accuse Israelis of “dehumanising” those who foster and support terror.
These two cheerleaders are joined by a supporting cast of UN members. Lord Cameron, using his best Eton upper-class accent, lectures Israel to stop and think. Presumably, this means letting Hamas escape retribution and dismantlement. Others of the rapidly diminishing democracies join in this chorus of the appeasing choir. An incredible and amazing feature of this collective hypocrisy is the demand for Israel to immediately cease its response to murderous terror mere hours after the rescue of two hostages. Reading between the lines of the demands issued by the Australian and New Zealand Prime and Foreign Ministers is the unmistakable message to let Hamas off the hook and surrender to every outrageous condition set by the terrorists. Would they have admonished Churchill that German civilians could not pay the price of the Allies trying to defeat the Nazis?
An official PA newspaper issued an appeal to Hamas to NOT release the Israeli hostages without the release of all nine thousand terror prisoners in Israeli jails.
Has there been any international outrage at this PA demand? Is this the international community’s idea of a revitalised PA living in peace and tolerance with Israel? Listening to the rhetoric from world capitals, there can be only one conclusion.
Delusions and deceit know no bounds.
The recently appointed First Minister of Northern Ireland has declared that Hamas could be a peace partner. Presuming that she had not drunk too much Guinness, one can only marvel at this fantastic leap into the world of fantasy. Tragically, there are many who think that this idea has merit. Their demands for Israel to surrender prove it.
Meanwhile, the IDF has uncovered an extensive Hamas underground control and computer centre directly underneath the headquarters of UNRWA. This sophisticated facility, which operated supposedly undetected by the UN agency, proves that UNRWA and Hamas are partners of long standing. With a straight face and not one glimmer of shame, the head of UNRWA claims he knows nothing of this hive of terror activity beneath his headquarters. No avalanche of shock or any feeling of remorse has been issued forth from UN headquarters in New York. Donor nations to UNRWA, whose beneficence over the years no doubt facilitated the construction of this underground terror tunnel, remain mute and prefer instead to concentrate their ire against the Jewish State.
All is not lost, however. A Norwegian MP has nominated UNRWA for the Nobel Peace Prize. If Arafat, the PLO terror chief, could be a recipient, then any farce is possible in today’s woke and messed up world.
There is plenty of scope for a decent Purim shpiel this year.
Intelligence Reveals Details of U.N. Agency Staff’s Links to Oct. 7 Attack
At least 12 employees of the U.N.’s Palestinian refugee agency had connections to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel and around 10% of all of its Gaza staff have ties to Islamist militant groups, according to intelligence reports reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Six United Nations Relief and Works Agency workers were part of the wave of Palestinian militants who killed 1,200 people in the deadliest assault on Jews since the Holocaust, according to the intelligence dossier. Two helped kidnap Israelis. Two others were tracked to sites where scores of Israeli civilians were shot and killed. Others coordinated logistics for the assault, including procuring weapons.
Of the 12 Unrwa employees with links to the attacks, seven were primary or secondary school teachers, including two math teachers, two Arabic language teachers and one primary school teacher.
ATCHALTA UNRWA: How is an issue so critical for national security not led by the government?
The Atchalta team participated in an open discussion of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee called by MK Ze’ev Elkin that dealt with UNRWA. In the discussion it was revealed that more than two weeks after important countries stopped their support for the Agency due to its connection to Hamas, there was no discussion on the issue led by the Prime Minister or the head of the National Security Council.
The professional echelon in various government ministries is the one that actually crystalizes the policy vis-a-vis UNRWA. They are acting without coordination and with a very vague directive. For example, even though Israeli intelligence officials claimed to have presented the Americans with incriminating materials regarding UNRWA, Israel did not pass such information to the European Union (at least according to EU High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Joseph Borrell). On the one hand, it is reported that the Prime Minister instructed the IDF to examine alternatives to working with UNRWA in the field, and on the other hand, the state representatives in Washington explain why at this stage UNRWA has no alternative there.
The government’s conduct does not reflect an internalization of how significant the issue is, as one that may instill a sense of loss for Hamas in the war. The dissolution of UNRWA means the practical cancellation of the ‘right of return’ and its removal from the agenda. According to UNRWA’s unique definition, the status of a refugee is inherited. The Agency does not update its lists, and even those hundreds of thousands ‘refugees’ who have left the refugee camps, become citizens elsewhere, left abroad, or now live under Palestinian rule – are counted as refugees. Thus, their number today has climbed to almost 6 million, while after the War of Independence in 1948 they numbered only about 700 thousand refugees.
Updating the number of refugees according to the existing generic definitions of the United Nations, is expected to reduce their number to several tens of thousands at most and, in fact, eliminate the issue of the refugees as an important variable in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hamas will not be able to claim victory if the result of the war it started is the practical cancellation of ‘the right of return’.
The fear of a humanitarian crisis is of course a weighty issue. But even in this case, the solution seems to be available. Until now, the international community adopted the Egyptian point of view and looked at the problem of the displaced people as a political problem rather than a humanitarian one. The possibility of dismantling UNRWA might be a reason for creating international pressure on Egypt to temporarily open its border. Unfortunately, so far, no such pressure has been applied.
In any case, these are weighty issues, and it is unperceivable that they are not dealt with by politicians, but rather by the professional ranks.
Calls To Remove UNRWA From East Jerusalem, After Video Shows Students Terror Statements
“I am ready to carry out a suicide attack”, a student at a UNRWA school in East Jerusalem says in a video filmed in 2022 by the Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research. Another student says that “we have to fight the Jews to prove that we are stronger than them.”
The Ynet news site quoted the English translation of the students statements, such as “stabbing and trampling Jews brings respect to the Palestinians,” “I am ready to carry out a suicide attack,” and “we are taught that the Jews kill our children. I will stab and run over them.” One of the students says that “we are taught that Al-Aqsa and all of Palestine is ours,” and another shares that “we are taught that the Jews are terrorists.”
David Bedein, director of the research institute that has been dealing with UNRWA and the Palestinians since 1987, notes: “In the textbooks of UNRWA students in the Shuafat refugee camp, there are pictures praising murderers who committed terrorist acts and killed many Israelis used as role models.”
Following publication of the video, the deputy mayor of Jerusalem and the chairman of the United party, Aryeh King, contacted the chairman of the Jewish National Fund (JNF), Ifat Ovadia-Luski. The UNRWA school in question was established on land owned by JNF, and King demanded that the school be vacated.
In an appeal to Luski, he wrote that the expectation was that the area would be used for the benefit of the Jewish people and the Land of Israel, but in reality the UNRWA school was established “where, according to the evidence, they teach hatred of Jews and incite against the State of Israel.”
The JNF stated in response that “in accordance with the Israel Land Authority law and in accordance with the agreement between the state and the JNF, the Israel Land Authority manages JNF lands. Any information regarding the owners and/or encroachers of the land and how their treatment should be addressed to the Israel Land Authority.”
On Tuesday, the Knesset held a joint discussion with the Education Committee and the Committee of Children’s Rights to mark the International Day of Education, in which the lawmakers spoke about antisemitic content taught in the Palestinian education system. It was decided that there would be strict supervision in educational institutions in East Jerusalem.
“It’s crazy that the 11th and 12th grades are given textbooks with antisemitic content and incitement against the state,” he said. The members of the committees called for the removal of antisemitic content from Palestinian education plans and sharply criticized the United Nations and UNESCO “for not doing anything against the Palestinian education industry that teaches jihad, the demonization of Jews and Israelis, and delegitimization of the State of Israel.”
On Friday and Saturday, UNRWA faced an uproar when nine contributing countries decided to freeze funding that was intended for the organization despite the commissioner-general’s announcement of an investigation into the allegations that some of the agency’s employees were involved in the murderous terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, and of the termination of employment of some of those employees.
In a separate development, a protest was held this week outside UNRWA’s offices in Jerusalem, located in the Jewish neighborhood of Maalot Dafna. Demonstrators, including bereaved families and families of Hamas hostages, demanded that in light of the organization’s proven record of terror support, its offices should be closed and its activities in Jerusalem should be terminated.
The protest was initiated by Aryeh King, who said that “for years I have been begging Israeli governments to remove this body from Jerusalem, even before the massacre in the south and the war. Their school books don’t have Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Ashkelon, only Arab cities because they don’t want to see one Jew here. They took over Jewish properties in Kfar Akeb in East Jerusalem, properties donated by Canadian Jews to the JNF and built a mosque, a country club, a school and a monument for terrorists. They are criminals , so why do we give them water and electricity? Are we suicidal?”
King added that “Instead of this anti-Israel organization having a huge presence in West Jerusalem, we need to build here a neighborhood for soldiers who fought in Gaza, for wounded or kidnapped soldiers, schools and parks. I call on the state of Israel to wake up and evacuate the Hamas UNWRA from Jerusalem, so we won’t see this antisemitic organization here again.”
Beware of the small print
The personal belongings of festival-goers are seen at the site of an attack on the Nova Festival by Hamas gunmen from Gaza, near Israel's border with the Gaza Strip, in southern Israel, October 12, 2023. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun
When offered a deal that sounds too good to be true, it is always advisable to read the small print.
What holds true for individuals contemplating tempting offers is even more critical for politicians and officials whose decisions will impact citizens and nations.
Throughout the long and tortuous history of the Jewish People, there have been innumerable occasions when the deals on offer have alternated between the devil and the deep blue sea. In other words, no matter which alternative was embraced the end result was decidedly deathly and even irreversible.
The two approaching Festivals of Purim and Pesach are classic examples of how things can turn out if the correct choice is made.
On Purim, we averted and defeated the genocidal ambitions of an official who plotted to carry out a Hamas-like massacre.
On Pesach, the Hebrews were liberated from bondage, and their oppressors’ leader and army were decimated.
In the former, we rejected assimilation and passivity, while on the latter occasion, we rebelled and started the long march to the Promised Land and sovereignty.
Unfortunately, there have been far too many times when we have ignored the warning signs with consequent lethal calamities engulfing us.
Today, Israel and the Jewish People face a situation whereby so-called friends and foes alike are dangling deals in front of our eyes. Accompanied in equal measure by blandishments and threats, these offers contain small print, which we ignore at our dire peril.
A brief survey of some of the “metziyot” (bargains) being touted graphically illustrate the perilous pitfalls we could easily fall into if our leaders are seduced by quick and seemingly popular embraces of dubious deals.
It is amazing but not surprising to witness how, faster than the speed of light, all those who were horrified by the massacres of 7 October have now transitioned to a traditional mode of condemnation of the country attacked. Every international official, it now seems, has a perfect plan not to rescue the hostages still being held by Hamas but instead to prevent Israel from finishing the job of defeating terror.
If the same policies now being advocated by UN members had been implemented between the years 1939 to 1945, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan would have survived intact with all the lethal consequences that might have entailed. Yet, unbelievably, today, as though nothing has been learnt, Israel is being lectured to leave Hamas intact. In fact, the situation is considerably worse than just stopping the campaign to dismantle terror.
The demands now being articulated will reward terror and punish Israel. That, in plain language, is the inevitable end result of establishing a Palestinian State in the midst of Judea and Samaria and joining it up with Gaza. An analyst compared this to Chamberlain and the European appeasers handing the Sudetenland province of Czechoslovakia to the Nazi terrorists in 1938. The same shameful sham is currently being peddled, accompanied by the most transparent excuses to justify it.
The US and others talk about a “revitalised” PA/PLO/Fatah in charge and embracing democratic values, human rights and fraternal tolerance. Experts such as the Australian Prime Minister have proclaimed in all seriousness that the key to an enduring peace is a “demilitarised” Palestine. Can there be anything more delusionary than this? With terror tunnels, terror groups and hordes of weapons in the hands of indoctrinated jihadists, the very notion of a peace-loving demilitarised state is the height of hallucinatory make-believe.
Who will disarm them? Who is going to ensure that this mythical state remains demilitarised? Who will guarantee that stipends to murderers of Israelis and their families will cease? Nobody has yet been able to verify that medications intended for the hostages have been received by them. In the face of this international impotency, how on earth can Israel ever trust or rely on guarantees of a peaceful, disarmed PLO State?
Based on the failure of the UN to enforce the demilitarisation of Southern Lebanon, the idea of a disarmed Palestine in the heartland of Israel is so ludicrous that one has to wonder what the real agenda is of those articulating these stupidities. Despite Iranian support for all terror groups threatening Israel neither the US, the UK nor the EU act against the masterminds in Tehran. Bombing the Houthi pirates and sites in Syria and Iraq will not eliminate the root of the problem.
What actually is behind this sudden revival to reward terror facilitators?
The sight of Jews actually fighting back unnerves those who believe that we should meekly accept our preordained fate. However, there is something more worrying afoot. In Europe, Scandinavia, Canada, USA, UK, Australia and even NZ the electoral clout of a rapidly increasing Islamic presence is being felt. A large number of these voters, especially since 7 October, identify with radical anti-western groups and rabid anti-Israel and Judeophobic movements. One needs only to read the banners they carry and the hate-filled slogans they scream to understand that something foul is brewing.
The plain fact is that the more certain political parties and politicians depend on these sectors for electoral support, the greater will be the urge to condemn and censure Israel. The Democrat Party in the US is slowly but surely following this trend which explains why Biden and Blinken’s rhetoric is ramping up. In other democracies, some parties are already totally dependent on appeasing anti-Israel voters.
Biden has “discovered” four alleged “settler” extremists and imposed sanctions on them. Is it a coincidence that this has occurred while he is facing re-election? Is this a precursor of more progressive pleasing policies in the pipeline? Where are his sanctions against the PA/PLO/Fatah officials and followers who incite and support the murder of Israelis?
Whereas once upon a time, not so long ago, it was electorally expedient to pick on the Jews, today it is advantageous to target the Jewish State. It may not be politically correct to state the obvious, but it must be exposed.
Meanwhile, the UNRWA scandal has miraculously morphed into a classic case of whitewashing and denial.
The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs has claimed that Israel has not presented any conclusive proof of UNRWA and Hamas links. Norway’s Foreign Minister revealed that countries that have suspended aid are now looking for a way out to resume funding. Without waiting for any investigation Norway and Spain have already pledged to open the money taps. Bear in mind that Norway is the designated country that Israel has agreed to transfer the PA’s tax money to for onward transmission, providing that no part of it will be used to fund dubious activities in Gaza. Can there be a bigger example of Chelm than this?
The UN is about to investigate the UNRWA situation, which means that a clean bill of health will be forthcoming, and it can then be business as usual. The US and New Zealand intend to redirect UNRWA funding to the World Food Programme and UNICEF. What provisions are in place to ensure that this aid is not hijacked by Hamas and diverted for its own terror purposes?
Saudi Arabia is portrayed as eager to recognise Israel and make peace. The Biden Administration is pursuing this with zealous enthusiasm. Its eagerness to achieve this mirage ignores the fact that Saudi Arabia and Iran have jumped into bed with each other. It deliberately overlooks Saudi reluctance to support the US campaign against the pirates of the Gulf. Those who wax ecstatic about a Saudi embrace should take a long, hard look at the very small print accompanying such a proposed deal. As currently formulated, it provides the terror patrons with the means to achieve their aims without firing a shot.
If offers are indeed too good to be true, it is doubly important to understand the small print before it is too late.
