What do you get when you massacre over a thousand people, rape, behead, torture and kidnap everyone Jewish, Christian or non-Arab in sight? International diplomatic recognition.
Secretary of State Tony
Blinken has reportedly begun conducting a review of options for
recognizing a ‘Palestinian’ state after the war. The State Department
has claimed that there are no policy changes, but that may be yet more
diplomatic doubletalk.
UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron,
brought in after PM Rishi Sunak ousted Minister Suella Braverman for
speaking out against the pro-Hamas rallies, published an op-ed calling
for a “pause” in the fighting, exchanging Israeli hostages for captured
Hamas terrorists, and providing “safe passage” to “key Hamas leaders”
and “the people responsible for October 7” to leave Gaza. After that he
announced that his government might recognize an Islamic terror state.
“We
– with allies – will look at the issue of recognising a Palestinian
state, including at the United Nations,” he claimed. “That could be one
of the things that helps to make this process irreversible.”
Why the urgent need for the “irreversible” recognition of a terror state?
According
to Cameron, “we must give the people of the West Bank and Gaza the
political perspective of a credible route to a Palestinian state and a
new future.”
The “people” in question have already been polled on what they want from the future.
98% in Gaza and the West Bank said that they felt ‘pride’ as ‘Palestinians’ over the war. 74% expected the fighting to end with the defeat of Israeli forces in Gaza. Only 17% supported a two-state solution while 77.7% wanted to destroy Israel and replace it with a ‘Palestinian’ state.
This is what supporting the “Palestinian people” with a “Palestinian state” really means.
Former Minister Theresa Villiers who, unlike Cameron, had backed Brexit, warned that “accelerating unilateral recognition of Palestinian state would be to reward Hamas’ atrocities.”
And that’s exactly right.
The only reason any of this is being discussed is the Oct 7 Hamas attack. Recognizing a terror state after one of the worst acts of terror in history will retroactively validate everything.
The Palestinian Authority, on which the hopes for a Palestinian State, depend is just as bad.
Despite Blinken’s best efforts, Mahmoud Abbas, the PLO leader who serves as the official ‘President’ of the Palestinian Authority, refused to disavow the Oct 7 attacks. Instead, the PLO, Fatah and other elements of the ruling regime in charge of the West Bank have praised it and others, like the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, even bragged about taking part in the attacks.
A video from the Palestinian Authority terror group features “terrorists wearing Fatah’s yellow armbands firing Kalashnikov rifles at a kibbutz” and “a Fatah terrorist stamping on the head of a murdered Israeli” as the group boasts that “we had a prominent and clear role” on Oct 7.
Abbas was elected to a four-year term in 2005. There have been no elections since and he has functioned as a glorified dictator subsidized by our foreign aid. His likely successors, including the imprisoned leader of a terror group who is ahead in the polls, all praised the Hamas attack.
Democratic elections in a ‘Palestinian’ state would mean Hamas. The Islamic terror group won the 2006 legislative elections and took over Gaza. It’s why there have been no elections since. Current polls show that if there were to be democratic elections, Hamas would easily win them.
Biden claimed that, “the vast majority of Palestinians are not Hamas. Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people.” But the vast majority of them disagree and want Hamas to head or form part of a unity coalition of Islamic terrorist groups running a ‘Palestinian’ state..
The only Palestinian Authority candidate who could beat Hamas is Marwan Barghouti, the grandfather of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, currently serving several life sentences in Israel prison, who responded to Oct 7 by urging a total war against Israel. Hamas has demanded Barghouti’s release as part of any ‘terrorists-for-hostages’ trade with Israel..
Recognizing
a ‘Palestinian’ state means either recognizing the Palestinian
Authority’s terror dictatorship in the West Bank or Hamas. Either way an
Islamic terrorist group will run the place, eliminate any opposition
and launch more terrorist attacks against Israel and then anyone else.
But
diplomats who were blindsided by the Oct 7 attacks are fighting to take
control of the situation and the narrative by offering up the same old
failed policies. Diplomats claim that Oct 7 was caused by a failure to
negotiate, but it had really been brought about by endless negotiations.
Before
the Oct 7 assault, National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan had an
article in Foreign Affairs magazine touting how negotiations with Hamas had led to quiet in Gaza. After the Hamas invasion, the online version had that edited out and only the print copies remain.
The roots of the Oct 7 attack lie in the 1992 pressure campaign to force Israel to take back the Hamas terror leaders it had deported,
followed by the Oslo accord deals with Arafat and the PLO, Secretary of
State Condoleezza Rice’s ’s insistence on democratic elections that
brought Hamas to power, Obama’s Arab Spring which empowered the Muslim
Brotherhood parent organization of Hamas to win democratic elections,
including in neighboring Egypt, which provided a vital outlet of support
for Hamas, and then the Iran Deal that funded the state sponsor of
Hamas which led Iran to expand its operations and ambitions around the
region.
The addiction to diplomacy, nation building, accords and agreements led fatally to Oct 7.
Israel had resisted allowing Hamas to take part in elections only to face pressure from Rice.
“Whenever
you have 80 percent of the Palestinian people turn out in a free and
fair election, one that is free of violence, it has to be a cause for
hope,” Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice argued after Hamas won the
2005 elections.
In 2007, a year after Hamas seized control of
Gaza, Rice declared, “frankly, it’s time for the establishment of a
Palestinian state.”
No matter how often the same approach fails, the diplomats never admit they were wrong.
To
be a modern day diplomat is to ignorantly blame a lack of diplomacy and
negotiations for everything and to promise that they can fix
everything. Diplomats were telling us for generations that a
“Palestinian state” would be the solution to all of the problems in the
region, but ever since the Oslo accords, life in Israel and the Middle
East has become much more violent.
There’s a limit to how much damage generals can do, but not diplomats.
Compare
the damage from the Iraq War to the fallout from the Arab Spring which
didn’t just set one country on fire, but led to brutal and enduring
civil wars in Yemen, Syria and Libya, while causing serious harm in
Egypt, Tunisia, and many other countries across the region.
Oct 7
was not the result of a military process, but a diplomatic one, in
which the Biden administration and several Israeli governments had
negotiated temporary quiet with Hamas.
Diplomats can’t afford to
allow the impression that there is a military solution to terrorism. Or
to much of anything else. And so they’re rushing to impose their
diplomatic solution that would empower terrorists because that is all
that diplomacy with terrorists ever accomplishes.
Since Oslo,
diplomacy has consistently proved the flip side of the Roman “si vis
pacem, para bellum” or “if you would have peace, prepare for war.”
Israelis
have learned the hard way that if they prepare for peace, they will
have war. Diplomacy is supposed to avert war, but with Islamic
terrorists it encourages war instead.
Despite all the promises,
the Oslo accords and other peace negotiations never ended the violence
because the Islamic terrorists quickly realized that violence was their
best leverage. Negotiations soon fell by the wayside as the Palestinian
Authority terrorists focused on direct or indirect proxy terrorism.
Hamas then took up the slack by promising to turn the violence on or off
in exchange for money and political power. Recognizing a “Palestinian”
state after Oct 7 would validate terrorism as the ultimate strategy yet
again and would ensure more such attacks.
The push for a “Palestinian” state after Oct 7 not only rewards the atrocities of that day, but encourages the Arab Muslim ‘Palestinian’ settlers living in the West Bank and Gaza to repeat them. What do you get when you massacre over a thousand people, rape, behead, torture and kidnap everyone Jewish, Christian or non-Arab in sight? The answer should not be your own country.
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