In truth, there is
little new in the Palestinians’ behavior. They have been using the UN to weaken
Israel diplomatically since the early 1970s. Moreover, even if their bid does
provide them with upgraded diplomatic status, it won’t change the reality on the
ground, nor are the Palestinians particularly interested in changing the
situation on the ground.
As the PLO ambassador in Lebanon, Abdullah
Abdullah, made clear in an interview Wednesday with that country’s Daily Star,
in the event that the UN recognizes some form of Palestinian statehood at the
UN, the new “State of Palestine” will still expect the UN to support the
so-called Palestinian “refugees.” This is true, he said, even for the “refugees”
who live in Gaza, Judea and Samaria. That is, the same UN that the Palestinians
seek recognition of statehood from will be expected to provide relief to
Palestinian “refugees” living inside “Palestine.” As he put it, “Even
Palestinian refugees living in [refugee camps] inside the [Palestinian] state,
they are still refugees. They will not be considered citizens.”
So if
nothing will change on the ground, why do the US and the EU care what the
Palestinians do at the UN next week with their automatic General Assembly
majority? Why have the senior peace-processors of Washington and Europe
descended on Jerusalem and Ramallah, begging and pleading with the Palestinians
to cancel their plans? Why have the Americans and the Europeans been pressuring
Israel to make massive concessions to the Palestinians in order to convince them
to put out the diplomatic fire there have set at the UN? Why are the White House
and the State Department telling the media that the US will consider it a major
diplomatic embarrassment if the Palestinians go through with their threats? Why
in short, do the Americans and the Europeans care about this? THE PALESTINIANS
have certainly never given either the Americans or the Europeans a good reason
to support their cause. Just this week, the PLO representative in Washington
told reporters that the future state of Palestine will ban Jews and
homosexuals.
And yet, the Obama administration and the EU have made the
establishment of a racist, homophobic Palestinian state the greatest aim of
their policies in the Middle East.
Every single Palestinian leader from
the supposedly moderate Fatah party has rejected Israel’s right to exist and
said that they will never set aside their demand that Israel accept millions of
foreign-born Arabs – the so-called Palestinian “refugees” – as citizens. They
say this with the full knowledge that this demand is nothing less than a demand
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