My latest in PJ Media:
According to Daoud Kuttab in Al-Monitor Friday, the possibility of a Joe Biden presidency, or regency for Kamala Harris, has Palestinian Authority officials “in a quandary.” This is because “Palestinian officials want to make a full-throated congratulatory statement to Biden, but they fear some sort of retribution from Trump during his lame-duck period before the official inauguration.” As if holding the Palestinians to account for all their obstruction of peace initiatives were “retribution.” In any case, ultimately “the Palestinian presidency agreed to make a general public statement once the votes are in and Biden’s victory is official; the rest will be done in behind-the-scenes talks.” Behind the scenes or not, there is no mistaking the Palestinian leadership’s eagerness to see old Joe napping in the Oval Office.
President-in-waiting Harris (if the Trump legal challenges to the stolen election fail) made it clear why in a late October interview with Arab American News. “Joe and I,” she proclaimed, “believe in the worth and value of every Palestinian and every Israeli and we will work to ensure that Palestinians and Israelis enjoy equal measures of freedom, security, prosperity and democracy.”
That’s all cant and jargon that we have heard many, many times before, but Harris quickly got down to specifics: “We are committed to a two-state solution, and we will oppose any unilateral steps that undermine that goal.” While all sorts of politicians have declared their support for a “two-state solution,” in reality a Palestinian state, like Gaza after Israel withdrew from it, would become a new jihad base for renewed attacks against a diminished Israel.
Harris should ask herself why all efforts, and there have been many, to establish a Palestinian state have failed up to now, over many decades. The answer, as The Palestinian Delusion elucidates, is that Palestinian leaders won’t agree to state publicly that Israel as a Jewish state has a right to exist. Their refusal to renounce the ultimate goal of destroying Israel utterly has led them to reject every proposal that has been made to them for a Palestinian state. If a Biden/Harris administration intends to establish such a state, it will be a state dedicated from its very inception to the total destruction of its neighbor.
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