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Israel’s right-wing education minister, Naftali Bennett, said that Trump’s victory is an opportunity for Israel “to retract the notion of a
Palestinian
state in the center of the country.”
In the coming weeks, most Latin American countries will vote in favor of some form of UN membership or recognition of statehood that the
Palestinian
Authority is seeking.
Most other Latin American countries would probably vote in favor of some sort of enhanced status for the
Palestinian
Authority.
Indeed, little would change on the ground even with full
Palestinian
statehood if Israel and the US do not accept it – and Mexico and Chile could lose much in distancing themselves from an ally on a question of great importance to it.
Out of the $1 billion the Open Society Foundations donate annually worldwide, some $3 million went to Israeli and
Palestinian
NGOs.
At the top of the list is the
Palestinian
Al-Quds University, whose rector, Sari Nusseibeh, created a peace plan jointly with Ami Ayalon, a former admiral and head of the Israel Security Agency (more widely known as Shin Bet).
Hamas’s strategy of launching rockets from residential areas and storing them in schools clearly reflects its leaders’ willingness to put
Palestinian
civilians in harm’s way in order to confront Israel with the grim choice of killing civilians or allowing the rocket attacks to continue.
That is a positive step, but it is outweighed by repeated instances of Israeli airstrikes and shelling that appear to have needlessly killed civilians, from the four boys killed on a beach on July 16 to the 20
Palestinian
civilians killed while taking refuge in a United Nations school on July 30.
The United States was even willing to offer a $3 billion arms deal to Israel in return for the suspension of building Jewish-only settlements in areas earmarked for the
Palestinian
state.
Today’s Israelis are rejecting recognition of
Palestinian
statehood on a much smaller territory than that assigned to Arabs by the original partition.
The 1993 Oslo accords set in motion a peace process that was supposed to last five years, with the end goal being an independent
Palestinian
state and a safe, secure, and recognized Israel.
Worse, direct talks have not only failed to produce the desired results; their continuation has also helped to mask widespread construction of Israeli colonies on
Palestinian
territory.
Palestinian
lands continue to be confiscated, Jewish-only settlements continue to be built, and Israel’s so-called “security wall” has strangled the Palestinians socially and economically.
The International Court of Justice at The Hague has ruled that the wall built inside
Palestinian
territory is illegal under international law, yet nothing has been done to enforce that ruling.
Mahmoud Abbas, the chairman of the PLO and President of the
Palestinian
Authority, who has vowed not to run for re-election, has chosen to take the path of UN recognition rather than continue with the charade of useless – indeed, harmful – direct talks.
Nonetheless, the
Palestinian
public is pleased for now with a leadership that has found the backbone to stand up to pressure from Israel and the US.
Palestinian
spokesmen, including Abbas, have said that they see no reason why representatives of the newly recognized state cannot negotiate with representatives of Israel.
The Arab public overwhelmingly regards Israel as an alien and illegitimate entity imposed by force on
Palestinian
land with Western support.
But the same majority fears that the Palestinians – with the split leadership of a relatively moderate Fatah under
Palestinian
Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and a Gaza administration under the implacable, terror-supporting leadership of Hamas – are not ready for a conventional peace and good neighborly relations.
Yet Abbas received them upon their release, praising them as heroes of the
Palestinian
people and examples for
Palestinian
youth.
During previous rounds of negotiations, the
Palestinian
Authority agreed, in principle, to exchange up to 1.9% of West Bank land for Israeli territory.
Saudi Arabia’s dysfunctional approach is reflected in the fact that some alliance members – including Pakistan, Malaysia, Lebanon, and the
Palestinian
Authority – immediately declared that they had never actually joined.
Following decades of Israeli occupation of
Palestinian
lands captured in the 1967 war, and with peace negotiations stalemated, Hamas defeated Fatah (the Palestine Liberation Organization’s political party) at the ballot box in the 2006 election for the
Palestinian
parliament.
Rather than entering into a dialogue with Hamas, the US and Israel decided to try to crush it, including through a brutal war in Gaza in 2014, resulting in a massive
Palestinian
death toll, untold suffering, and billions of dollars in damage to homes and infrastructure in Gaza – but, predictably, leading to no political progress whatsoever.
So it is to be hoped that Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s war rhetoric and vulgar manipulation of the memory of the Holocaust are nothing more than a ploy to divert the world’s attention from the
Palestinian
problem that he has done nothing to resolve.
Post-war global diplomacy might have to promote, perhaps more robustly than ever, the creation a nuclear-weapons-free zone in the Middle East, and thus address Israel’s nuclear capabilities, as well as the
Palestinian
problem – issues that Netanyahu has worked hard to ignore.
With Israel’s approval, The Carter Center has monitored all three
Palestinian
elections.
He still heads the PLO, the only
Palestinian
entity recognized by Israel, and could deal with Israeli leaders under this umbrella, independent of Hamas control.
The Quartet’s special envoy, James Wolfensohn, has proposed that donors assist the
Palestinian
people without violating anti-terrorism laws that prohibit funds from being sent directly to Hamas.
Any rejectionist policies of Hamas or any terrorist group will be overcome by an overall Arab commitment to restrain further violence and to promote the well-being of the
Palestinian
people.
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