The Guiding Hand from above once again is pushing the Palestinian Authority into the same corner where it intended to trap Israel and eliminate as a Jewish state by slow death.
At least four events this week have suddenly turned the tables on PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas:
1. France has backed off after voting last week for the U.N. Security Council resolution calling on Israel to sign a treaty with the Palestinian Authority within one year, based on Abbas’ self-defined borders and conditions. The resolution also stated that Israel has three years to honor Abbas’ conditions, meaning the expulsion of approximately 600,000 Jews from their homes in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria.
2. The United States has stated that the Palestinian Authority has no legal right to sit on the International Criminal Court (ICC), where it plans to sue Israel for war crimes.
3. Sen. Rand Paul has again introduced bill to freeze all aid to the Palestinian Authority until it cancels its bid to join the ICC.
4. Backlash from the radical Islamic terrorist attack in Paris, which one official called “France’s 9/11,” will hurt the Palestinian Authority.
Abbas has made the same mistake in his diplomatic war that Arab generals and political leaders made in every war against Israel, the same error that most evil people, including Hitler make. He calculates every success as justification for changing his stated goals. Evil has an insatiable appetite, and every time it is fed, it only wants more.
The late Abba Eban, who served Israel’s Foreign Minister Ambassador to the United Nations, said the same thing much more succinctly and diplomatically: “The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”
For example, Abbas succeeded in convincing France last week to back the Jordanian resolution. It failed to pass the Security Council by one vote. Abbas then announced his next step would be to carry out his threat to try to join the ICC, but that was not enough. He talked with Jordan to bring the resolution for a second vote, this time with new rotating members on the Council who are more pro-Arab and anti-Israel than those who left the body on December 31.
But France, assumed to be Abbas’ pocket, objected.
“We are against the logic of letting this spiral (out of control),” Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told reporters. “While we think the Palestinians have the right to move the status quo, at the same time there has to be an effort to find a consensus solution. Once you set this cycle off, you get results that you don’t want one way or another.”
France was not thrilled with the resolution for which it voted. It had preferred a declaration for conditions for resuming the once-upon-a-time “peace process” negotiations.
That was not enough for Abbas, and Paris supported the more extreme resolution.
Now that is clear the United States will veto the resolution if it passed, Fabius is having second thoughts.
He said, “The real question is to understand what is behind this move. Is it to get an American veto with a new UN Security Council composition? Is it to reaffirm an attitude towards the Israeli government? I don’t know.”
He doesn’t know? That is par for the course for France’s twisted view of the world as existing to promote French values.
Mr. Fabius, for your information, the only think behind Abbas’ move is the same thing behind every initiative from the Arab world – the creation of the Palestinian Authority as a country only when there are enough conditions in place to undermine what would remain of the State of Israel by flooding it with several million Arabs from other countries.