My nineteenth and latest book, The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process, is now available for pre-order at both Amazon and Barnes & Noble. It will be published on September 17 by Bombardier Books.
Every negotiated settlement between the State of Israel and its Palestinian adversaries has failed to establish a stable and lasting peace. This is the history of what was attempted, why those failures were inevitable, and what must be done instead.
Every new American President has a plan to bring about peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, and every one fails.
Every “peace process” has failed in its primary objective: to establish a stable and lasting accord between the two parties, such that they can live together side-by-side in friendship rather than enmity.
But why? And what can be done instead?
While this failure is a consistent pattern stretching back decades, there is virtually no public discussion or even basic understanding of the primary reason for this failure.
The Palestinian Delusion is unique in situating the Israeli/Palestinian conflict within the context of the global jihad that has found renewed impetus in the latter portion of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. Briskly recounting the tumultuous history of the “peace process,” Robert Spencer demonstrates that the determination of diplomats, policymakers, and negotiators to ignore this aspect of the conflict has led the Israelis, the Palestinians, and the world down numerous blind alleys. This has often only exacerbated, rather than healed, this conflict.
The Palestinian Delusion offers a general overview of the Zionist settlement of Palestine, the establishment of the State of Israel, and the Arab Muslim reaction to these events. It explores the dramatic and little-known history of the various peace efforts—showing how and why they invariably broke down or failed to be implemented fully. The Palestinian Delusion also provides shocking evidence from the Palestinian media, as well as statements from the Palestinian leadership, showing that negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians will never work.
But there is still cause for hope. Spencer delineates a realistic, viable alternative to the endless and futile “peace process,” that shows how the Jewish State and the Palestinian Arabs can truly coexist in peace—without illusions or unrealistic expectations.
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lebel says
Book summary:
Islam is evil
Muslims are evil
Jews are good
Only bad thing about Jews is that they’re too civilised and soft and trusting towards the evil Muslims
Obama and the left are anti-Semitic
Criticism of Israel is anti-semitic
Trump is good
Only bad thing about Trump is that he’s too civilised and soft and trusting towards the evil Muslims
Peace is impossible, only harshness, conquest, bombings and ethnic cleansing will guarantee Israel’s security.
We must give more support to Israel and never criticise it unless it is criticism for being too soft on Muslims
Islam is evil
Muslims are evil
The End
Isabella van der westhuizen says
That sounds quite accurate
Thank you for posting
Doris Frech says
Yes, yes and yes!!!
CRUSADER says
Lebel is on the level for once!
Lebel has written his own book, to his limited capacity that is !!!
Lebel loves to label!!!
Just like Libby’s, Libby’s, Libby’s :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcaIMF_-1J4
PRCS says
Lebel’s labels.
gravenimage says
The summary of pretty much every lebel post:
Islam should not be criticized, nor should Muslims–including the most savage of Jihadists
Infidels–Jews especially–should not be allowed to notice the savagery of Islam and of so many Muslims, nor their antisemitism or that of so much of the Left; and Jews’ civilized behavior should not only be taken for granted, but mocked
Jews are to go on pretending that “Palestinian” Muslims want peace, despite Fatah and Hamas having the destruction of Israel right in their charters
And defense against Jihad terror on the part of Israelis is to be characterized as unprovoked aggression and “ethnic cleansing”, despite Islam not being a race. The fact that Israel only ever defends against Jihad terror is to be ignored
Israel should be pushed to give away more and more land to Muslims in return for the chimera of peace, and urged not to defend against Jihad terror, until the local Muslims are in a position to destroy civilized Israel and mass murder Jews
And, again, that Islam should not be criticized, nor should Muslims–including the most savage of Jihadists
And there is no end–certainly not until Muslims are able to not just destroy Israel, but also force all Infidels to submit to the horrors of Islam.
mortimer says
Agree with GI. Lebel’s only ax to grind is that ISLAM MUST NEVER BE CRITICIZED.
Islam is DUALISTIC and always shapeshifting and reorienting its ethics OPPORTUNISTICALLY.
Any system of OPPORTUNISTIC or DUPLICITOUS ethics is AMORAL.
Islamic ethics are only concerned about what is good for Islam, rather than what is moral. That is called AMORALITY.
AMORAL SYSTEMS, like Islam, permit the practitioner to commit any crime or evil deed if it advances the AGENDA of the IDEOLOGY.
Islam does that, so Islam is EVIL, lebel. Yes. You are morally blind and your ears are plugged so no new information enters.
You are thus amoral.
commonsense says
Excellent response to this latest post by the execrable “Lebel,” GI. Bravo.
mortimer says
NO … lebel … the summary is MUSLIMS LOVE TO DELUDE THEMSELVES CONSTANTLY … to believe an absurd text written by an unmedicated epileptic is divine, they believe that the absurd hadiths are factual and they believe that world conquest is their mission, they believe that lying to kafirs is good.
Muslims DELUDE themselves to think that WORSHIPPING MOHAMMED and giving him DIVINE QUALITIES is not blasphemous, that bowing to the Holy Gravel Chips is not IDOLATRY and that KILLING KAFIRS because they are kafirs is NOT bigotry.
95% of Islam is simply ABSURDITIES repeated over and over.
Lebel, the sun sets in a muddy spring.
eduardo odraude says
lebel, enjoy:
Dear Muslim: Your own primary Islamic source texts say that Muhammad ordered the torture of a man in order to get hold of a treasure
We learn of that in the earliest Muslim biography of Muhammad, pages 511-517 (758-766 in the Arabic). archiveDOTorg/stream/TheLifeOfMohammedGuillaume/The_Life_Of_Mohammed_Guillaume#page/n279/mode/1up
The same pages in that earliest Muslim biography of Muhammad also tell us that after the torture, Muhammad had the man beheaded, and that later that night, or the next, Muhammad took into his private tent for consummation of “marriage” the tortured man’s widow, whose father and other male relatives Muhammad had just killed.
The following video was made by an ex-Muslim fluent in Arabic and English and very clearly displays the primary Islamic source texts in which those actions of Muhammad are described by early Muslims themselves:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSV-0HdiFEM
Tom W Harris says
Hey good buddy, you stumbled into the truth. Good on ya. Yee hah!!!!
Demsci says
Lebel, I wonder why you post here. I wonder if maybe you are from Loonwatch. And whether the knowledge of you posting here makes Muslims visit this site more often, if only slightly, because you post here.
Otherwise you seem masochistic, you always get negative, often humiliating responses here. But also it is you who gets the most responses, and a LOT of attention.
About your sarcasm: “Criticism on Israel is anti-Semitic”.
Now I do see the distinction you mean; criticism on Israel only as opposed to criticism on all Jews.
And we certainly admit that the Government, State of Israel will do some wrong things.
But here is important point I think. When universal “bad acts” are listed and defined, like murder, rape, oppression etc. and then
When Jews perpetuate them and Muslims suffer them it is highlighted, that is OK.
But it is not OK when a survey will show that other perpetrators, like Muslims, do the same “bad acts” to other victims, that the time, effort, judgement, emotion
that goes into condemning and fighting and hating what Jews do or what Muslims suffer, is more than 10 times, up to infinitely, as big and long as the attention dedicated to condemnation of these OTHER perpetrators of same “bad acts”,
Or, when there are other perpetrators of bad acts which are much larger in scale, still get less condemning attention,
Then still Jews are being condemned more than others. And that too, IMO, is anti Semitic racism.
And by and large so many Muslims, Leftist AND Politicians, Media are showing such blatant double standards in regards to highlighting Jews doing bad acts and ignoring others doing bad acts. And especially in the TIME, emotion, effort put in the condemning.
Yes, double standards, Lebel, that which you accuse us of so often.
But we can count it now and we can make this into a 2-way-street sometime in the future.
lebel says
“Otherwise you seem masochistic, you always get negative, often humiliating responses here.”
Any posting other than “Yes Islam is evil and the prophet is a pedophile” will get you insults and humiliating responses on here. That’s normal because it’s a hate site so once you know that and accept it it’s expected.
Demsci says
And what happens when JW-ers post on Loonwatch? exactly the same but in reverse?
well, like the “enfant terrible” poster Hesperado once said: By the number of responses I can “see” whether some kind of opponent to JW has posted on a particular article.
You trigger, elicit many, often excellent responses, lebel. And for that combination of your posts AND the responses, some might say you have a positive effect for JW.
That’s why I am curious what is in it for you. Who are you trying to, well, influence? Is it fellow Muslims who venture into forbidden territory? Is it supposedly neutral visitors?
I believe in the debate model like the setup of a trial. I see Islam and particular Muslims or their specific words and deeds as the defendants.
I see RS, JW and most posters as in the district attorney’s team. You clearly act as defender of Islam and Muslims.
Who, besides preaching to the choir, can we persuade?
In my private life I am very much in the minority, lebel. I come here to get facts and logic that help me debate in my world if the occasion arises.
I confess that I am not able to avoid being prejudiced, but am also often at pains to:
– Understand “the other side”
– acknowledge presented checked facts and good logic of the other side.
– flaws of my own side.
I hope and whoever you appeal to try the same.
Demsci says
That is: “I hope YOU and whoever you appeal to try the same
LB says
“Islam is evil and the prophet is a pedophile”
Name one thing that is incorrect in that sentence. In fact, name one thing Robert Spencer said about islam that is NOT factually true. As far as this being a “hate” site, just because you don’t like the truth that doesn’t make it any less true. There’s no such thing as “hateful” truth, and if you think otherwise that speaks more about you than about this site.
Demsci says
Hate site. Maybe. But completely within the bounds of freedom of speech. It is directed against Islam. It does never incite to violence.
But SPLC says that it spreads hate against Muslims as a group.
We have all sorts of arguments against this disapproval and delegitimization of JW.
RS never does incite to violence.
And arguably, when free speech is stifled, people have no other recourse than resorting to some sort of violence (but not killing innocents!).
All religions get criticism, why not Islam? All sorts of people get it, why not Muslims?
It is not racism. Being Muslim is more of a choice.
Muslims also get lots of praise, support, equal rights from the vast majority of Westerners, up to and including presidents and PM’s, the Pope, clergy men. So why the desire to block some balancing criticism?
All sorts of groups, based on religion, ideology get bashed. All sorts of popular leaders too, look at Trump. Why would Muslims have to be protected as an exception. Why would Mohammed be excepted from criticism?
mortimer says
To Lebel and to Sharia Muslims, Islam cannot be criticized because of Sharia law, so they call it ‘hate’ because there is no blasphemy law in the US.
No one at JW is promoting hatred persecution or GENOCIDE against Muslims … unlike Islam which promotes massacres, ethnic cleansing and persecution.
LEBEL, DISCUSS AL WALAA WAL BARAA or you have ZERO credibility. Of course, you won’t. Your game will be all over : namely ‘moving the goal posts’.
The game of ‘move the goal posts’ is sociopathic.
eduardo odraude says
Lebel, the fact that some comments here are hateful does not make this a “hate site.” That’s just a lie, and you know it.
You just can’t accept legitimate criticism and concern about Islam’s totalitarian character and the threat it represents to open societies. Why do human rights groups find the human rights situations in most Muslim-majority countries so terrible?
Bernard Lewis says Jihad is an unlimited offensive to bring the whole world under Islamic law; Christian crusades a defensive, limited response to, and imitation of, jihad
From pp.233-234 of The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2000 Years:
https://books.google.com/books?id=CjAABdA9z18C&pg=PA233&lpg=PA233&dq=%22Even+the+Christian+crusade,+often+compared+with+the+Muslim+jihad,+was+itself+a+delayed+and+limited+response+to+the+jihad+and+in+part+also+an+imitation.
eduardo odraude says
Oops, did not mean all of that to be in bold text.
eduardo odraude says
And I messed up the link, too.
eduardo odraude says
This should work: Bernard Lewis compares the Jihad to the Crusades:
https://books.google.com/books?id=CjAABdA9z18C&pg=PA233&dq=%22Even+the+Christian+crusade,+often+compared+with+the+Muslim+jihad,+was+itself+a+delayed+and+limited+response+to+the+jihad+and+in+part+also+an+imitation“
eduardo odraude says
Sorry, I’ll try one more time to get the link to work, then I’ll give up.
Bernard Lewis compares Jihad to the Crusades:
https://books.google.com/books?id=CjAABdA9z18C&pg=PA233&dq=%22Even+the+Christian+crusade,+often+compared+with+the+Muslim+jihad,+was+itself+a+delayed+and+limited+response+to+the+jihad+and+in+part+also+an+imitation%22#v=onepage&q=%22Even%20the%20Christian%20crusade%2C%20often%20compared%20with%20the%20Muslim%20jihad%2C%20was%20itself%20a%20delayed%20and%20limited%20response%20to%20the%20jihad%20and%20in%20part%20also%20an%20imitation%22&f=false
Carol the 1st says
So lebel thinks we’re the “haters”.
Kafirs could hamstring themselves on the battleground and then give loving kisses, hugs, and money to Islam and still be despised and abused for retaining their own impressively sane, egalitarian,”do unto others” ideologies. Islam can only thrive like an addled, dismissive parasite – quite largely by disrespecting, deceiving, and using the “OTHER”.
Muslims seem to need something to hate as their creed has FORFEITED ANY CLAIM TO HAVE ANYTHING ELSE OF POSITIVE WORTH TO OFFER (at least to non-parasites). Islam has given millions of “OTHERS” unnecessary savagery and heartbreak. When the blood fountain runs dry they soon turn on each other.
The world would be greatly improved should it become UNBURDENED by Islam.
William says
How can one review a book which is not available for reading yet!!!
marc says
They are pre-released for that amongst other purposes, I have been the proud recipient of a few 🙂
BB says
Islam is evil
Yes, that is obvious to anyone who has studied Islam and has an objective notion of ethics. The only caveat we have to make is that Islam is not a monolithic religion, and some sects and schools of Islam are worse than others. So you have to address each of the schools independently, and come to an individual judgement for each of them rather than give out a blanket statement like that. But I don’t think that anyone unbiased can read the Qu’ran and Hadith and consider them good.
Muslims are evil
No. That’s an over-generalisation. You can’t distinguish a set of people by one attribute (in this case, say, nominal adherence to the five pillars) and then assign a property that is accidental to that definition to the whole group. Some Muslims are evil. Some Muslims are good (at least better than average — nobody is perfectly good except God alone). Most, like the rest of us, are somewhere in the middle.
Jews are good
See above. Some Jews are good. Others are evil. Most are somewhere in the middle.
Only bad thing about Jews is that they’re too civilised and soft and trusting towards the evil Muslims
Another over generalisation. There is no single “bad thing” which one can point to all the Jews having in common. Some will be like that. Most won’t be, but will have other flaws.
Obama and the left are anti-Semitic
Another over-generalisation. Anti-semitism is more of a problem on the political left than the right. But it is still far from everyone on the left who is anti-Semitic.
Criticism of Israel is anti-semitic
No. There are plenty of ways one can criticise Israel while still generally support it. I have plenty of criticisms of my own country, but still stand by it. In particular, I disapprove of much of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians (although I can’t say that I would do any better if faced with such continuous hatred and violence and I had to defend my people; just from my comfortable armchair a safe distance away there are things I don’t like). That doesn’t mean, however, that I can’t see that the Palestinians themselves are not disproportionately responsible for their own poverty and the troubles in the region, or that there is more good in Israel than there is bad.
Trump is good
Definitely not. The only thing you can say about Trump is that he is considerably better than Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. He has numerous flaws, both personal and ideological.
Only bad thing about Trump is that he’s too civilised and soft and trusting towards the evil Muslims
No. See above.
Peace is impossible, only harshness, conquest, bombings and ethnic cleansing will guarantee Israel’s security.
If peace is impossible, its not Israel’s fault. It’s because the Palestinian leadership (alongside many others in the Arab world — but not everyone in the Arab world or the Palestinian territories) have never wanted peace, but only genocide. That’s what they have stated themselves, and I suspect that Robert Spencer has documented it well enough in this book.
We must give more support to Israel and never criticise it unless it is criticism for being too soft on Muslims
See above.
Islam is evil
See above
Muslims are evil
See above.
I haven’t read Robert Spencer’s new book, but based on what he has written previously, I doubt that his responses would be too different from mine. So rather than this prejudiced summary, I suggest that you try to actually understand what he believes and why he believes it. You might find yourself surprised, and educated.
Angus66 says
BB
Lebel wasn’t at all serious with his post – he was “trying” to be sarcastic and condescending…
FYI says
@lebel{ dame sans merci}
“muslims are evil”
Hey lebel:cut out the hate speech will you?
It is islam that is evil:not necessarily people who just happen to be muslim.
Since islam preaches hatred and violence,its supremacist ideology and superiority complex make
it an existential threat to all non-islamic cultures.
As for muhammed being a pedophile,I’m afraid he was..
Sahih Muslim 3309
Sahih Bukhari 58:236
“We must give more support to Israel”:I fully agree.Economic,military…
{…You have shot yourself in the foot haven’t you??}
CRUSADER says
Well! It’s about time for another RS book!
Finished my copy of Jihad History last autumn….so….
What can I say, I’ve been ….full of anticipation !
Worth the wait, to be sure!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoLoyg3JKRQ
gravenimage says
Available now for pre-order: Robert Spencer’s new book “The Palestinian Delusion”
……………………….
So glad to see that Spencer has a new book out! I can’t believe how prolific he is–and these books are never tossed off, but finely researched and offering excellent analysis.
More:
Every negotiated settlement between the State of Israel and its Palestinian adversaries has failed to establish a stable and lasting peace. This is the history of what was attempted, why those failures were inevitable, and what must be done instead.
……………………….
I finally realized that the “Palestinians” were not sincere about any sort of agreement with Israel after Oslo, where they received almost everything they said they wanted, and instead responded by launching the first “Intifada”.
It was clear to me then that they would never deal with Israel in good faith, and that their goal is not some sort of “Palestinian” state, but instead the destruction of Israel.
CRUSADER says
Dear “GravenImage”,
How I’d like so much to share a book club with you.
All the best!
~ “C” you around.
gravenimage says
So would I, CRUSADER!
Don Ameche says
What gets me is there is really no such thing as “palestinians” either. They have little to no legitimacy with respect to a place called ‘palestine’. They are simply Jordanian arabs for the most part.
mortimer says
Definition of Scam: n. a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation; vb. to obtain (something, such as money) by a scam. (Merriam-Webster)
By these two definitions, ‘the Palestinian people’ is one of the biggest SCAMS in history.
CRUSADER says
Damnable “Philistines”
Mo says
Another book?! Wow, I can’t keep up!
PRCS says
Have been reading:
BATTLE-GROUND (FACT AND FANTASY IN PALESTINE) [KATZ]
AND
A PEACE TO END ALL PEACE (The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East [FROMKIN]
Looking forward to reading this next in a long list of Robert’s books.
Calvin Klein says
Muslims have been practicing and perfecting everything in Gaza and West Bank, their attacks, and their PR strategy and they’ve taken it to what used to be called western countries (I’ve realized you and I don’t live “IN THE WEST” anymore, like we used to). I’ve realized that almost no one in the upper eschelons of the left are not “well intentioned but misguided”, but are treasonist traitors that destroyed your nations. Just remember this:
Islamophobia = “Infidel”
Racist = “Kafir”
solidarity/tolerance = “Dhimmi”
Tony@TeamTommy (@amalteser) says
The Bible accurately foretells of a false peace agreement between the Jews and the Arabs.
It will be under the reign of the ANTICHRIST!!!
Don Ameche says
Will order tonight.
What is better Amazon or Barnes and Knoble ? Don’t like the whole Jeffy Bozo empire thing. But whatever gets R Spencer the most attention is the most important I think. Seems Amazon is best for that . But ….?