(With thanks to Bassam Tawil)
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22941/israel-is-pretext-target-is-west
Why should anyone expect peace between the Palestinians and
Israel while
a) Palestinian leaders glorify terrorism and armed groups
continue to attack Israelis?
b) the Iranian regime is standing on its feet and supporting
the jihad (holy war) to destroy Israel?
c) the continuing willingness of Palestinians to celebrate violence against Israelis while presenting terrorism as supposedly legitimate national resistance.
Israel is just the pretext. If you think that a Palestinian
state, or an election defeat of the Israeli Prime Minister or
even the disappearance of Israel itself — would solve anything, you would be
wrong. What the West is up against is the desire of Muslim extremists, with a
leg-up from Marxists, to overthrow the "corrupt" West and replace it
with Islamic Sharia law and eventually global caliphate. Only after this
transformation will the world have the "peace" part of the
"Religion of Peace." Until then, as the founder of the Islamic
Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, vowed, "there will be
struggle" (lit. jihad).
Reference the riots taking place in so many countries, a few clearly terrified leaders in the West might think that if there were a Palestinian state, it might keep the mob quiet for a while. Yes, until breakfast. That is also why US President Donald Trump should not make a "deal" with the rulers of Iran.
1) Hamas and other likeminded jihadists have no problem murdering civilians — whether in the US on 9/11, the London transit system, the Barcelona and Madrid attacks, Paris's Bataclan Theater, Nice on Bastille Day, German Christmas Markets, the Manchester concert or anywhere else.
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4) 4) The silence of the Palestinian Authority — and other Arab and Muslim leaders — is also significant.
Israel's countermeasures have indeed caused hardship for
local residents. Where, though, is any denunciation of the attacks that caused
Israel's security response?
The Palestinian people have been put — by their own leaders
— in a horrible position of bearing the consequences of terrorist attacks while
the Palestinian organizations that praise the attackers present themselves as
champions of the people. They are not. Like the ruling butchers of Iran, they
are holding the Palestinians and other Muslims hostage. If these captives hope
to live, they cannot even protest.
The Palestinian Authority is frequently described by Western
leaders and governments as a potential partner for peace. However, the
Palestinian Authority is part of the problem; it is not the solution. Its long-standing policy of paying monthly
stipends to Palestinian terrorists who murder or wound Jews
("Pay-for-Slay") makes it as rotten as Iran's Palestinian terrorist
proxies – Hamas and PIJ, or all the other terrorist groups whether Al-Qaeda,
ISIS or Antifa.
The international community might begin to understand that
peace requires more than diplomatic declarations and initiatives, ceasefires,
and promises of Palestinian statehood, especially for self-declared terrorists.
Peace requires a total rejection of terrorism, of the people organizing it, of
those who carry it out, and it requires a political leadership willing to put
the lives and future of ordinary Palestinians — and innocent civilians whoever
they are — ahead of the interests of terrorists and of their own incompetent
political careers.

