Instead, the West and the Arab-Muslim world pay cold cash to prevent the issue from being resolved, contradicting all historical, legal and political logic. The West has squandered billions by sustaining corrupt UN agencies and continuing manipulative anti-Semitism through the so-called “return of the refugees,” a euphemism for the destruction of Israel.
In the current negotiations for a peace agreement, Israel countered the Palestinian Arab demand for the “return” with the demand that the Palestinian Arabs recognize Israel as the national homeland of the Jewish people, a Jewish state.
Israel’s demand was made to force the Palestinian Arabs to recognize that Israel – with full, unalienable, undeniable historic rights to the Holy Land – was demographically a Jewish country with a Jewish culture and Jewish heritage, and that the dream of destroying it with floods of refugees and jihad terrorists had to be permanently shelved. The Israeli demand is based on the assumption that by recognizing Israel as a Jewish state the Palestinian Arabs will have to abandon the plan of trying to change its demographics with a “legitimate” influx of refugees and terrorist operatives.
EVEN ABBAS ADMITS HE IS NOT A LEGITIMATE LEADER
Abbas has a full understanding of the operative and historical implications of the Israeli demand, and therefore is unwilling to include Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state in a peace agreement. He claims that the Palestinian “right of return” is the “individual right” of each Palestinian Arab, therefore he cannot, in their name, waive it and thereby resolve a core problem of the Israeli-Arab conflict. In taking this position, Abbas openly admits he is not a leader, does not represent the collective will of the Palestinian Arab people, and has no legitimate standing or legal status as far as they are concerned.
That means that Israel is being asked to accept an agreement from a disposable leader who one day will disappear, while the various branches of his administration and his religious establishment brainwash the younger generation of Palestinian Arabs to continue the conflict, to dream of the “return” and to plan Israel’s destruction.
Abbas is not considered their leader by the Palestinian Arab populations in the Arab countries or in the Gaza Strip, and even the Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank claim that without the support of Israel he would not survive for even a day. Thus the urgent American pressure on Israel to reach an agreement with Abbas, based on the claim that Mahmoud Abbas is a “unique” leader presenting a “unique” opportunity for peace, is difficult to understand. The Palestinian Arab people, exposed to unending incitement to violence against Israel, ignore the promises made by Abbas as well as the agreements he signed, as they ignore the declarations of recognition of Israel as a Jewish state made previously by Yasser Arafat.
Arafat, the legendary Palestinian leader, recognized Israel as a Jewish state. It was only natural that Abbas, his protégé and the heir to the Palestinian Arab leadership, would follow his precedent. But Abbas’ retreat shows the inherent deception in the Palestinian Arab negotiating strategy. That strategy, to which the West has blinded itself, permits Palestinian Arab officials to lie when dealing with the Jews. By calling Jewish history a “delusional myth” Abbas ignores his own side’s previous commitments and Israel’s right to preserve its own identity.
Other Palestinian Arab officials go further. Adli Sadeq, the PA ambassador to India, said in 2011 that Israelis who believe the PA recognized Israel’s right to exist were deluding themselves. “[Israelis],” he said, “fool themselves, assuming that Fatah accepts them and recognizes the right of their state to exist. No two Palestinians disagree that Israel exists, but recognition of its right to exist is something else, different from recognition of its existence.”