Stephen Flatow has just reported on the Biden Administration’s plans for bringing peace (or “peace”) to Israelis and Palestinians. It’s the same old “two-state solution” (if we call it a “solution,” it surely must be that): squeeze Israel back within the 1949 armistice lines, forcing Israel to give up the Golan Heights and most of Judea and Samaria (a/k/a the “West Bank”), leaving the Jewish state with a nine-mile-wide waist from Qalqilya to the sea. And after that Israeli surrender, we can all just hope for the best. His report is here: “Biden’s ‘Nine-Miles-Wide Plan,’” by Stephen M. Flatow, JNS, March 22, 2021:
The Biden administration reportedly intends to demand that Israel return to the nine-miles-wide pre-1967 armistice lines. Should we be surprised? How dangerous would that be? And what should American Jews do about it?
According to numerous media reports, an outline of the Biden plan has been prepared by Hady Amr, the deputy assistant secretary for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs. Amr worked on the same issues during the Obama administration. So, it’s hardly surprising that the plan he has drafted reflects the same positions that were taken when Barack Obama was president and Joe Biden was vice president.
The central theme of Biden’s Israeli-Palestinian policy in the short term, according to the Amr memo, will be a series of rewards to be given to the Palestinian Authority, even though the PA has done absolutely nothing to merit any of them.
Despite the PA’s financial support for terrorists, harboring of fugitive terrorists, constant anti-Jewish incitement and unrelenting anti-American propaganda, the Biden administration intends to “reset the US relationship with the Palestinian people and leadership” by:
- Sending the PA at least $15 million monthly ($180 million annually) as “humanitarian assistance,” starting in “late March or early April.”
- Soon expanding that PA aid package to include “a full range of economic, security and humanitarian assistance,” including funds for the corrupt, pro-terrorist UNRWA agency. By “security” aid, Amr undoubtedly means the pro-terrorist, de facto army that the PA calls its “security services.”
- Resuming diplomatic contacts with PA officials by reopening the PLO embassy in Washington, DC, and using the old (but still functioning) American consulate in Jerusalem as a de facto embassy to the Palestinians.
- Inviting the United Nations and the Quartet, both of which are militantly pro-Palestinian, to “engage” in the diplomatic process.
- Resuming “country of origin labeling,” which means declaring that goods made in much of Jerusalem, as well as Judea, Samaria and the Golan Heights, will be forced to carry “Made in Palestine” labels since the Biden administration has decided that all those areas belong to the Palestinian Arabs.
That’s quite a cornucopia of benefits for the Palestinians, who have not done a thing to merit them. How does the Biden Administration hope to get around the Taylor Force Act, which requires the government to end aid to the Palestinians as long as they continue to finance their “Pay-For-Slay” program? That provides fat monthly stipends to imprisoned terrorists or, if the terrorists died in the “performance of their duties,” those subsidies are given to their families. These subsidies are three to four times as large as the Palestinians’ average wage, and both reward past and incentivize future acts of terrorism.
If the Biden plan goes through, the spigot of American to the PA that Trump had turned off would be open at full throttle. The PA would start this spring to get $180 million a year, likely to soon be increased if not much fuss in made in Congress about the initial amount. But it remains to be seen how the PA will repackage the Pay-For-Slay stipends so as not to run afoul of the Taylor Force Act; none of the possibilities suggested so far are convincing.
In addition to aid to the PA, the Administration plans to renew the aid to UNRWA, which Trump had also ended. UNRWA, riven by sexual and financial scandals at the very top, continues to treat the status of “Palestinian refugee” as an inheritable trait, so that it may be passed down to children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and so on, without any logical limit. That is why UNRWA insists there are more than five million “Palestinian refugees,” when the actual number of real refugees – those Arab who left Mandatory Palestine and Israel between 1947 and 1949 and are still alive, come to at most 30,000. While the real refugees decline in number, through deaths, every year, the number of UNRWA “refugees” continues to expand. Of the tens of millions of refugees in the world, only the “Palestinian refugees” have been allowed this unique definition that includes in their number both the original refugees and all subsequent generations. No one has offered a coherent explanation as to why this should ever have been allowed, or why such a definition should continue to be observed by UNRWA. That was one reason the Trump administration ended aid to UNRWA. The other reason was the continued refusal of UNRWA to delete the great number of antisemitic passages in its schoolbooks; it had promised to revise those texts many times before but never did. Exasperated, the Trump administration had had enough of UNRWA’s hollow promises to “fix the problem,” and cut its aid to UNRWA.
The Biden administration has only two demands of the PA. First, it will seek “to obtain a Palestinian commitment” to stop paying terrorists, which will probably be as genuine and durable as all the previous PA commitments to stop aiding terrorists.
The Palestinians have made many promises to stop terrorism, beginning with commitments in the Oslo Accords of 1993 and 1995. But the PA never has done so. Not only does it reward terrorists, or their families, financially, with very generous stipends, but it honors terrorists by naming streets and squares after them. Right now the PA is trying to figure out how best to disguise the Pay-For-Slay program so as to get around the Taylor Force Act; no doubt the Biden people are eager to help Mahmoud Abbas out with that task of deception.
Second, Biden will “emphasize to the PA” the need for “reductions of arrests of bloggers and dissidents.” What a joke! The PA won’t even be expected to stop arresting dissidents; it just has to arrest a few less.
Abbas has called elections, but in the meantime his men have been rounding up, as they have throughout his reign as President-for-Life, now entering the 16th year of his four-year term, those they suspect of being insufficiently enthusiastic about their rais in Ramallah. Right now, having called for parliamentary and presidential elections, Abbas has been dealing. harshly with dissidents as he always has. When Nizar al-Kidwa dared to break with Abbas and announced his intention to field his own list of parliamentary candidates, Abbas promptly cut off all financial support from the PA for the Yassir Arafat Foundation, where Al-Kudwa – Arafat’s nephew – is employed. Abbas’s goons have been threatening supporters of his two most likely rivals for the Presidency, Mohammed Dahlan (who has been living in exile in the U.A.E.) and Marwan Barghouti (who is currently serving five life terms for murder in an Israeli prison).Arafat has also exacted a promise from Hamas not to field a presidential candidate. For Mahmoud Abbas, elections are fine — as long as no one else dares run against him.
Flatow continues:
What’s most important, however, is the end goal of the Biden plan. Amr’s draft negotiated two-state solution … based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed land swaps.
In plain English, that means a sovereign “State of Palestine” in all, or nearly all, of Judea and Samaria, and the Gaza Strip (and part of Jerusalem).
The plan is, put simply, the “Nine-Miles Wide Plan.” It has to be. Because any Palestinian state has to include the third-largest PA city, Tulkarm, and the fifth-largest PA city, Qalqilya. The PA is not going to make those cities part of Israel. So, they will be part of “Palestine.” Tulkarm and Qalqilya are nine miles from the Mediterranean Sea. Israel won’t even be as wide as Washington, DC—or the Bronx, NY.
One terrifying anecdote from 1967 tells you all you need to know about the dangers of Biden’s “Nine-Miles Wide Plan.” On the eve of the Six-Day War, as hostilities seemed increasingly likely, numerous Israeli mothers residing along the coast kept their children home from school. Why? Because they knew that the country could be sliced in two by a Jordanian tank column in a matter of minutes, and they didn’t want their children to be trapped on the other side. Imagine living with that kind of fear.
It is hard to convey to those who haven’t actually visited Israel, just how tiny the Jewish state is – after all, it looms so large on the world stage. When asked to guess Israel’s population, foreign college students have in the past guessed “60 million,” when the real number at the time was “6 million.” How much tinier, and more vulnerable, Israel was within the 1949 armistice lines – lines which Israel in 1949 had offered to make into permanent borders, but the Arab states rejected the offer, intent as they were on going in for the kill a second time. Israel has had to fight three major wars – in 1948, 1967, and 1973 – for its very survival. It has also had to fight four wars against terror groups — in 1982, the PLO in Lebanon; in 2008-2009 and 2014, Hamas in Gaza; in 2006, Hezbollah in Lebanon. It has also been forced to fight the “wars between the wars” when Hamas and Hezbollah have launched thousands of rockets and missiles at Israeli cities, as well as build terror tunnels into Israel. Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system has intercepted more than 2,500 incoming projectiles from Gaza alone.
All that Arab aggression which Israel has had to fight off has earned it the right to retain territories it needs in order to have, as the key phrase in Resolution 242 put it, “secure [i.e., defensible] and recognized boundaries.” It was the author of that Resolution, British ambassador Hugh Caradon, who made clear that Israel was not required, as the Biden Administration apparently thinks, to withdraw from “all the territories” it had won in the “recent conflict” (the Six-Day War), as the Arabs had tried, and failed, to make U.N. Resolution 242 read, but only from “territories.” But more on the Biden Administration’s miscomprehension of Israel’s rights, the West Bank, and International Law will be dealt with tomorrow.
Ken Johnson says
Doesn’t Congress have any say any more”’???
jule says
Someone has to impeach this Admin…at least for breaking the laws of the border, which they ARE or denying the Constitution say only Citizens 18 and over can Vote. That is what fraud is. Everyone, just anyone, standing on US soil is not allowed to vote. Take these things to the Supreme court.
angelo says
The Commos have control of both the Senate and Congress remember!
Walter Sieruk says
Biden and Abbas in the joint scheming alliance against the Jewish State of Israel will fail in the end because they are greatly overruled by God ,Who is for Israel. As the Bible informs its reader “For the Lord has chosen Jacob for Himself, Israel for His special treasure.” Psalm 145:4. [N.K.J.V.]
In addition both Biden will on Judgement Day have to answer to God for evil scheming ,Romans 14:12. Likewise,they in the evil sinister joining together will only backfire of them in the end. As the Bible reads”Though they join forces the wicked will not go unpunished.” Proverbs 11:21.
Malcolm (South Afric) says
Biden is doing so much damage to the American citizen by his Marxist policies: allowing mass incursions along the Southern boarder, empowering the criminal Mexican cartels to control that boarder, human trafficking is taking palace, the sexual abuse of children is happening to both male and female. the rape of women, the movement highly addictive drugs into the USA that are destroying and killing Americans.
These are crimes that Biden and his administration need to be held accountable. the obsession of the democrats to label their own citizens as racist and turn its own people against each other is ludicrous to the rest of the world, the leftest main stream media is the major propagandist arm of the Democrat party.
If they can cheat an election, export abortifacient drugs as a priority to African Countries why would any western country expect any justice from Joe Biden, Jill, Hunter, even Major their dog is crackers.
mgoldberg says
It is remarkable how much denial has gone into the new party has gone into to wipe away any meaning and or understanding regarding the accords signed last year by President Trump and the arab states that joined in a new set of peace treaties. It is an obloquy to the source and sightlessness of this current birdbrained administrations at peace negotiations with the arabs of the PA. This utterly failed notion of 50 yrs duration is now undertaken, once again, having failed for 50 yrs, and been outdone and out performed by the last 3 yrs of real world negotiations between Pres Trumps team and the arab states. And now…. that pretending that it ws nothing accomplished and in fact they will do everything to prevent the peace accords from being actualized.
JohnTheRevelator says
Imagine if Democrats/Liberals opposed terrorists rather than rewarded them with money and land. Imagine that they backed their real friends/allies rather than our enemies. Biden and his admin are committing treason right now as it is defined in the US, but who will hold them to account?
It is precisely because of this opposition between Left and Right that Islam had even a snowball’s chance of survival in free countries. That’s not to say all Leftists are traitors. I’m certain there are some who are smart enough to know what their leaders are doing and are against them.
As for Israel, I can better understand their position and why they don’t just crush every single group that seeks their destruction. Their hands are being tied by western traitors, esp in the US and Europe. Israel isn’t allowed to defend itself.
Never underestimate the Muslims’ ability to play the victim and fool the masses-I still can’t believe people fell for it. Smart people can easily see right through their ploy but we are ruled by people dumber than us, who were voted into power by an even stupider and more numerous group of people.
It’s not the best and brightest of us at the helm leading us into a new era of peace and prosperity, but a senile old dingbat and his sycophantic lackeys that are driving us to nowhere but more misery and suffering for free people, while rewarding an enemy that should’ve been wiped out a long time ago.
If that wasn’t bad enough, Biden will ensure that Iran will become the world’s second nuclear-armed terrorist state behind Pakistan and then the ‘fun’ will really begin. His feckless, seditious administration will start WW3 and then will blame Trump and his supporters for it no doubt.
The next couple of decades could become hell on Earth for non-Muslims living in western nations as cowards in power cave to a growing and ever more dangerous Muslim population in the West. If the Dems stole one election, there’s nothing to stop them from stealing more-unless it lead to civil war.
James Lincoln says
JohnTheRevelator says,
“Biden and his admin are committing treason right now as it is defined in the US…”
Absolutely 100% true…
gravenimage says
Good post.
JohnTheRevelator says
James/Graven,
Thanks, regards.
commonsense says
Excellent post. Sadly, I too now believe that civil war may be the only option for our nation’s survival. But without the support of Law Enforcement and our military, there seems no way that such a war could be won, and I don’t believe that this necessary support would be forthcoming.
Infidel says
Why doesn’t Biden simply declare that he recognizes ‘Palestine’ as defined by the Hamas charter, which includes all of Israel as a part of an islamic state? At least he can end any sniping by Ilhan and Rashida!
Walter Sieruk says
This picture of Biden and Abbas , along with their sinister scheming, joining hands together is a clear reflection of the truth revealed in the Bible . Which reads “Though hand join in hand , the wicked shall not go unpunished.”
Proverbs 11;21. [K.J.V]
gravenimage says
The Biden Administration Wants to Give Israel a Nine-Mile-Wide Waist
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Appalling. If this happens, Israel will not be able to protect herself–which is probably what the Biden administration wants.
James Lincoln says
gravenimage,
True enough, but Israel will never let this happen – they know that with fake Harris / Biden, the United States will not protect their back.
Israel learned a tragic lesson with Gaza – never again…
gravenimage says
I *hope so*, James. Certainly, Netanyahu will not fall for this.
tgusa says
That picture says, I am in control standing straight and forward to the leg man to my
right.
The Mayor says
For many years, quite a few people offering comments in the right wing Israeli newspapers, such as Arutz Sheva, have waggishly called the TSS, the Two State Final Solution. Are they wrong?
VarAway says
” Resuming diplomatic contacts with PA officials by reopening the PLO embassy in Washington, DC, ”
It wasn’t a PLO embassy, but a simple TRADE OFFICE!
Ray says
We need to call these places by their true names – Judea and Samaria – not but the names of those who wish to rewrite history in favour of the anti semiites
dumbledoresarmy says
Yes. Precisely. And any priest or pastor or other Christian public person who waffles on about “Palestine in the time of Christ” needs to be reminded, firmly, that the word “Palestine” simply does not appear in the Christian scriptures… because they knew of no such thing. Because the hostile-intent Roman renaming of the area, **had not yet happened** when the Gospels and Epistles were being written! The Gospel writers speak of “Judea”, “Samaria” and “the land of Israel”. To speak of Jesus as “Palestinian” (as some utter fools persist in doing) is to commit a teeth-grittingly annoying anachronism. The land of Israel was not subsumed – by a foreign power – under the contentious toponym “Palestine” until.. AD 135.
commonsense says
Welcome back, dda.
gravenimage says
Agreed, Ray and Dumbledore’s Army.
And like commonsense, I am glad to see you posing here again!