“Sincere” Palestinian Arab activists actually admit that “Arafat’s recognition of Israel in 1993 [was] a meaningless ornament to a deceptive peace process that is regularly cited by the PA to create a facade of sincerity.”
The only way the Americans can promote a genuine peace would be to exert pressure in three directions:
On themselves and the rest of the West. They must stop regarding the Palestinian Arabs who settled in the Arab countries as refugees and stop financing the subversive agencies brainwashing them to believe in the “return” and keeping the dream alive of Israel’s destruction.
On the Arab states, which, under the shadow of regional developments and with Western pressure, have to put an end to racist and discriminatory policies against the Palestinian Arabs living in their midst for so many years, recognize them and give them full civil rights.
On the Palestinians, especially the Palestinian Authority leadership. Israel is fully aware of their tricks and will no longer accept Palestinian lies, promises, extortion or manipulation and will not allow even one Palestinian Arab “refugee” to “return” to its territory. They have to realize that Israel will not permit the West Bank to become another “Hamastan,” another region populated by Islamist jihad terrorists whose only desire is to kill Israelis. The Palestinian Arab leadership should focus on the positive aspects of building a Palestinian state in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip as a center of political and national Palestinian identification. It should already be preparing the Palestinians in the diaspora for the realization that if there is a new Palestinian state, it will not be large enough for all of them and that they will have to become citizens of the countries where they currently live. REPEATED AMERICAN FAILURES
The main change will have to be made by the Americans. Their global failures in dealing with radical Islam, Iran and Russia, to name but three, should have taught them a lesson. The American administration should put an end to its disastrous – and amateurish – experiments in foreign policy. It has to internalize the value of Israel’s faithful, stable friendship, unique in the quicksand of the treacherous, unstable Middle East.
The Americans are Archimedes’ fulcrum and they now have to find the lever that can bring about peace between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs. Instead of trying to pressure Israel and encouraging the Palestinian narrative for Israel’s destruction, America should pressure both the Arab states and the West to say, loudly and clearly, “There will be no return.” The descendants of the Palestinian refugees will be absorbed as citizens with equal rights by the Arab countries and will not “return” to Israel. That is where peace will begin.
Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent remarks, in which he said that Israel had to waive its demand that the leaders of the Palestinian Authority recognize Israel as a Jewish state, was most unfortunate. It showed that the Americans would continue to appease the Palestinian Arabs, preventing an end to the conflict and making it impossible to achieve peace.
This article first appeared in The Investigative Project on Terrorism.
