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'Palestinian recognition decision contains a bit more than typical British double standards'
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Shaul Rosenfeld

False image of a future Palestinian state

Op-ed: Swedish and British recognition of Palestine based on left's assumption that such a state will be essentially different from 21 backward and non-democratic Arab countries and won't adopt the Gazan model with its tunnels, rockets and terrorists.

After we escaped by the skin of our teeth from the "diplomatic tsunami" that the local peace camp promised us, following the Palestinians' request that the United Nations recognize Palestine as a state, and after we "miraculously" evaded the "third intifada," although the camp's members wouldn't stop warning against it for months, and after earlier this year, US Secretary of State John Kerry and 100 wealthy Israelis predicted boycotts which have not been fulfilled so far only thanks to the hidden hand of fate – the terrorizers are now preparing their new intimidation tools.

 

 

This is happening following the decision made by the new Swedish prime minister and the British Parliament to recognize the state of Palestine.

Even if the British Parliament can take credit for the fact that it is nothing more than another link in the existing chain of glorious British hypocrisy – starting with the kingdom's academia leaders, through the press under the devoted leadership of the BBC, to British supporters of culture, art and anti-Israel boycotts – the decision contains a bit more than typical British double standards.

 

The decision relies on those false assumptions of the Western and Israeli liberal left, that such a state would be essentially different from the 21 backward, authoritarian, dictatorial and non-democratic Arab states, and would not blatantly violate human, minority and women's rights. A state where violence, oppression, bribery and blatant government nepotism would not be a routine occurrence. A state which would not strive to separate from Israel through terror, demography, international de-legitimization, or any other way.

 

The Economist magazine's declaration only four months ago, that the Arab world is characterized by poverty, backwardness, violence and internal and external hatred, is nothing more than a lonely blossom which does not announce the arrival of a spring in which the West will properly observe this world.

 

It's just like Winston Churchill's comments about Islam in his book "The River War," that it is "a militant and proselytizing faith" which "lays curses on its votaries" and "paralyses the social development of those who follow it," remain one of the sole voices in the darkness of hypocrisy, suppression and denial of the liberal West and the Israeli peace camp.

 

The fact that the Muslim world is the breeding ground of almost 100% of terror on earth, and many in this countries fully identify with these acts, fails to lead to too many second thoughts among the local and global left as to the nature of this society and culture. When even the truth is sacrificed for the sake of peace and for a dream, of the Palestinian state of course, the Jewish and the Western minds come up with tricks.

 

That's how the unfounded division between good Palestinians like Yasser Arafat and his flock and bad ones like Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and his friends was born in the creative and excusing minds of Shimon Peres, Yossi Beilin and others during the bleeding days of the Oslo process in the mid 1990s.

 

And this is how the remarkable distinction between Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas, and between Hamas and the rest of Gaza's residents, continue to prevail in our region. A distinction repeated even by those who are not perceived as the knights of the local order of peace, like Reuven Rivlin of the Likud party.

 

"Our Palestinian neighbors, the residents of Gaza, have been taken hostage by Hamas," our new president asserted recently, if only to show us once again that we must distinguish between Hamas (the bad guys) and the civil population, our neighbors in Gaza (the good guys).

 

Most or all of these good neighbors supported and still support the war crimes of firing rockets at Israel, they deny our existence, more than 80% of them supported suicide bombings in Israel in the past, they elected Hamas, and their support for Ismail Haniyeh as the Palestinian leader is almost double the support for Mahmoud Abbas.

 

There is hardly a single local and international survey in the past few years which does not point to the presence of these dark, anti-democratic, anti-Semitic, terror-supporting views among the Palestinians and among the majority of Arab and Muslim countries.

 

A survey conducted by the American Pew Research Center in 2013, for example, revealed that more than 70% of Palestinians are in favor of death through stoning for adultery and nearly 60% support death for leaving Islam. According to a survey from six months ago, as many as 93% of the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria and Gaza (the highest percentage in the world) hold anti-Semitic views.

 

At least as far as we are concerned, the decisions made by the British Parliament and Swedish prime minister, even if they do contain more than a slight diplomatic nuisance, should be placed in front of the expected image of that Palestinian state, if it is indeed established, which will not be fundamentally different from the "progress" and "enlightenment" that the rest of the Arab world coveys to its citizens and neighbors, and has a more than reasonable chance to adopt – sooner or later, through the sword or through elections – the Gazan model with its tunnels, rockets and terrorists.

 


פרסום ראשון: 10.21.14, 23:25
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