Netanyahu calls for a disarmed Palestinian state, and Muslims react with rage and projection. Yet the call for demilitarization is perfectly reasonable. Israel would not attack a Palestinian state if it would leave Israel in peace. And the experience of Gaza should have proven to everyone that any region under Palestinian authority will become a base for the jihad against Israel.
“Israel sets terms for Palestinian state,” from the BBC, June 14 (thanks to all who sent this in):
[…] Nabil Abu Rdainah, a spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, said the Israeli leader’s speech “torpedoes all peace initiatives in the region”.
By “peace initiatives,” Nabil Abu Rdainah means “attempts to compel Israel to surrender or to compromise its security irrevocably.” He wasn’t upset about the torpedoing of peace initiatives by all those rockets being fired out of Gaza into southern Israel.
Another Abbas aide, Yasser Abed Rabbo, told the AFP news agency that recognition of Israel’s Jewish character was a demand for Palestinians “to become part of the global Zionist movement”.
Yasser Abed Rabbo made no mention of how the Palestinian desire to destroy Israel and incorporate any remaining Jews into the region as dhimmis under Palestinian Sharia rule is effectively demanding that Israelis become part of the global jihad movement.
While the militant Hamas movement, which controls the Gaza Strip, said the speech reflected Mr Netanyahu’s “racist and extremist ideology”.
Yet Hamas is actually the only one here that holds to a racist extremist ideology — that of Islamic supremacism: in Israel non-Jews hold more rights than non-Muslims do anywhere in the Islamic world.