Fatah\u2019s Decline\u2026 Pardon My Dry Tear Ducts
\nby Gerald A. Honigman<\/p>\n
An Associated Press story on June 20th reported on the West\u2019s darling, Fatah\u2019s Mahmoud Abbas, calling off elections in the West Bank because Fatah candidates appeared to be on the verge of getting trounced\u2013like they did in years past to Hamas. Only this time, Hamas was not even running\u2026<\/p>\n
Of course, Fatah blames all of this on Israel, as do the alleged \u201cgood cop\u2019s\u201d supporters as well.<\/p>\n
Since at least the days of President Clinton\u2019s \u201cOslo Peace\u201d\u2013when the more Israel gave, in concrete tangibles to Fatah\u2019s Arafat (aka Master of the Swiss bank account), the more it bled instead\u2013the West, especially the American State Department, promoted Fatah as the good cops that Israel must play ball with lest the bad cops of Hamas win the day.<\/p>\n
Truth be told, there\u2019s not a nickel\u2019s difference between them when it comes to the subject of the acceptance of a viable state of the Jews living in the neighborhood. And the blood of Jewish innocents has been shed equally by them as well. Both cops teach their kids, starting at a young age, to hate and kill Jews and to destroy the nation of the kilab yahud\u2013Jew dogs. A look at either of their websites, listening to sermons in either of their mosques, etc. and so forth confirms this to anyone with eyes open.<\/p>\n
The State Department rejected Israel\u2019s right to exist right from the start and has been usually nasty towards it ever since. It has routinely placed a moral equivalence on the actions of those who deliberately target Jewish innocents and Israel\u2019s belated efforts to finally go after the murderers.<\/p>\n
Additionally, the State Department has worked very hard over the decades to make Israel as dependent on America as possible\u2013so the Jews would necessarily be more pliable to serve America\u2019s own oil-tainted interests.<\/p>\n
Thus, the Foggy folks have been consistent in trying to undo the small piece of justice that Israel finally received in the wake of the 1967 War with the final draft of UNSC Resolution 242. The latter promised that Israel would finally get real secure, somewhat defensible borders to replace the previously imposed armistice lines of 1949 which made it virtually invisible on a world map\u2013a mere 9-15 miles wide in its waist, practically begging to be cut in half via an attack by any combination of assorted enemies.<\/p>\n
With different men in the White House to counter its influence\u2013Johnson, Reagan, and Bush II, for example, especially in the latter\u2019s earlier days in office\u2013the State Department was somewhat restrained in just how far it could push the Jews. Unfortunately, things have changed quite a bit today.<\/p>\n
The Foggy Folks now have a willing partner in the new American leader to pursue all of their goals vis-a-vis Israel. He too demands that Israel forsake the promise of territorial compromise built in to 242 and return to its 9-15 mile wide existence, placing its kids in Tel Aviv, Haifa, Jerusalem, and elsewhere in the same situation that those in Ashkelon and Sderot have been in since Israel\u2019s last attempt at land for peace with Arabs via its withdrawal from Gaza several years earlier.<\/p>\n
The reason that there has not been progress with Fatah is not because of Israel\u2019s stubbornness nor because of \u201csettlements\u201d as the mainstream media is so quick to report. It is because Fatah\u2019s idea of \u201cpeace\u201d is Israel caving in to all of its demands.<\/p>\n
Thus, Israel must give up its recognition as a Jewish State, while Arabs insist that their own 22nd state and member of the Arab League be formed\u2013despite the fact that scores of millions of non-Arab, native peoples live in most of those allegedly \u201cpurely Arab\u201d states and predate the Arab conquests by millennia.<\/p>\n
There is no peace because those Fatah \u201cmoderates\u201d\u2013whose army is now being trained, supplied, and funded by America\u2013have openly stated that in any negotiations with Jews, their job is to take while Israel\u2019s job is to give. So, forget about Israel getting the territorial compromise promised by UNSC Resolution 242 and such. The settlements are all about Israel getting that necessary buffer promised by 242. Why is there never context given to this issue when it is frequently reported and discussed?<\/p>\n
As has been written often, Abbas\u2019s late Fatah colleague and mentor, Arafat, used to call such a \u201cpeace\u201d that Fatah has in mind for the Jews the \u201cPeace of the Quraysh\u201d\u2013 the temporary halt in hostilities that the Muslim prophet, Muhammad, allowed his enemies so he could muster the strength to deliver the final blow. And just as Abbas smiles to the west in exchange for billions of dollars in support, Arafat & Co. also had a tradition of saying one thing in English and quite another in Arabic to his own folks back home. Indeed, Fatah\u2019s showcased model \u201cmoderate,\u201d Faisal al-Husseini, openly called any \u201cnegotiations\u201d with Jews merely a \u201cTrojan Horse\u201d\u2013calling for a \u201cPalestine\u201d from the River to the Sea, i.e., an Arab state which replaces Israel, not existing along side of it.<\/p>\n
Nothing has changed today, except that Fatah has now been propped up by the West, especially America, to be the Arab recipient of Israeli one-sided concessions.<\/p>\n
Since Hamas has not been willing to mince words regarding its goals for Israel\u2019s destruction, not even the State Department could pull off forcing Israel to make those dangerous, concrete concessions.<\/p>\n
By dealing with a Fatah\u2013which is now being strengthened and enriched by the West, so temporarily plays the game (remember the \u201cpeace of the Quraysh\u201d)\u2013the State Department now has an alleged partner that it can shove down Israel\u2019s throat.<\/p>\n
In return for this temporary quiet (hudna, etc.)\u2013which turns bloody every time Israel caves in to Washington and loosens up on such things as checkpoints and such, resulting in murdered Jews soon afterwards\u2013Israel is literally expected to give away the store.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s not how true peace comes about between enemies anywhere. It usually happens in one of two ways\u2026<\/p>\n
The first involves a total defeat of one\u2019s enemies, with the terms of peace dictated by the victor.<\/p>\n
Israel has truly held back in doing this for fear of the backlash from an assortment of hypocrites elsewhere. For the latter, Jews are not allowed to really \u201cwin\u201d their wars\u2013even given the fact that their enemies seek their total destruction. Firebombing Dresden and nuking Hiroshima were the Allies\u2019 answers to their enemies. Or, gassed Kurds, genocide in the Sudan, the \u201cHama Solution,\u201d Black September, etc. and so forth when it comes to how Arabs handle their own \u201cproblems.\u201d<\/p>\n
The second way that enemies make peace is via true mutual concessions\u2013real compromise.<\/p>\n
Regardless of how difficult a task it will be\u2013especially given the age-old Arab subjugating mindset which states that the entire region is simply \u201cpurely Arab patrimony\u201d and part of the Dar ul-Islam\u2013if true peace is ever to come in the region, at some point some Arab leaders must be honest with their own people and state that others, besides themselves, have legitimate rights there too. So far, all of Israel\u2019s alleged peace partners are simply plotting its destruction\u2013and then get angry because at least some Jews refuse to play along.<\/p>\n
The reason Fatah has not made progress with Israel towards peace is because \u201cpeace\u201d is not what Fatah wants. It wants the Peace of the Quraysh. And it has promised that very \u201cpeace\u201d to its people.<\/p>\n
So far, at least, Israel\u2019s currents leaders\u2013despite tirades from State\u2019s current chief, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and repeated insults from the President himself\u2013have at least partially withstood the pressure to totally cave in on this.<\/p>\n
In reality, I will shed no tears if Fatah is defeated.<\/p>\n
The army that America has been building up for it will only kill Jews yet again down the road. Indeed, the latest murders of Jews have been committed by factions of Fatah. Additionally, the American general charged with training Fatah recently complained that if the Jews don\u2019t cave in soon to Fatah\u2019s \u201cpeace\u201d demands, he won\u2019t be able to control their trigger fingers.<\/p>\n
It is better for Israel to face a more honest enemy.<\/p>\n
If (when?) Hamas takes over the Arab-ruled portions of Judea and Samaria (aka the \u201cWest Bank\u201d only since the 20th century) as they did Gaza, Israel will know how to handle the situation.<\/p>\n
While true peace is always the goal, wishing it won\u2019t change the dominant, subjugating Arab mindset which prevents it. And neither will yet additional, one-sided concessions by Jews which Arabs only interpret as weakness.<\/p>\n
Unlike the gist of that June 20th AP article, peace could come tomorrow, if Israel finally had true partners to deal with\u2013folks who understood that compromise involves both parties in conflict giving and making hard concessions\u2026not just one.<\/p>\n
And, shame on the Associated Press and most of the rest of the mainstream media for not telling you what you just read here.<\/p>\n
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