By Bassam Tawil • December 5, 2022 at 5:00 am
Full article at https://tinyurl.com/ytkf6zft
- What is disturbing is that a
large portion of this incitement is coming from Arabs whose governments
signed peace treaties or other agreements with Israel: Egypt, Jordan and
the Palestinians.
- What is even more disturbing is
that the hate against Israel is coming from Arabs who continue to benefit
from unconditional US financial aid.
- The Palestinian Authority,
headed by Mahmoud Abbas, continues to spearhead the Arab campaign of
incitement and delegitimization against Israel. In addition to the
incendiary rhetoric, the Palestinian Authority does not hide its vehement
opposition to any kind of peace with Israel.
- In its latest tirade against
Israel, Abbas's ruling Fatah faction claimed that the Israeli
counter-terrorism measures, designed to save the lives of Jews and Arabs
alike, are acts of "terrorism and war crimes." According to the
logic of the Palestinian Authority, a terror attack against Israel is
legitimate and the perpetrator is a hero and martyr, but an Israeli action
to stop terrorism is illegitimate.
- This is the same Palestinian Authority that maintains good relations with the Biden administration, which recently decided to upgrade US relations with Abbas and his associates....
- It is worth noting that since
April 2021, the US has provided more than half a billion dollars in
assistance for the Palestinians.
- If the US thinks that showering money and concessions on the Palestinian leaders will lessen the tension, you heard it here first: this approach definitely will not work. All that will happen is that the hostilities will increase so that the bribes will increase. Giving hard, concrete gifts in exchange for soft promises is inevitably doomed from the start.
- Egypt has enjoyed the benefit of
more than $51 billion in US taxpayer-funded military aid since the signing
of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty in 1979.
- Again, it is worth noting that
this incitement against Israel is being spread despite the ongoing
massive US financial aid to Jordan.
- One way to counter this campaign
of hate and to encourage peace is for the US to make its aid conditional
on ending (or at least reducing) the rhetoric of hate. So far, however, it
is clear that the US has no intention of demanding anything in return for
its money.
- For the time being, then, many
Arabs will continue to receive hundreds of millions of dollars from the US
while continuing actively to seek the destruction of Israel and being
financially rewarded for it.
2 comments:
Bassam:
Have you heard of the Hashemite Kingdom of Palestine solution published in Saudi Arabia on 8 June 2022?
Have you written any analysis or commented on that solution since its publication 6 months ago?
This plan is the most revolutionary solution presented in the last 75 years in my opinion.
Its successful implementation will hopefully end the need for such reports as this one.
The plan the writer refers to could have some basis for negotiation. However the above comment totally ignores the Palestinian and Hamas covenants calling for the destruction of the State of Israel by ALL means.
Without a rewriting of those covenants there is no basis for negotiation
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