The Ongoing Drama of Palestinian Lies
by Bassam Tawil • June 22, 2017 at 5:00 am
- The current policy of the PA leadership is to avoid alienating the Trump administration by continuing to pretend that Abbas and his cronies are serious about achieving peace with Israel. This is why Abbas's representatives are careful not to criticize Trump or his envoys.
- When Israel does not comply with their list of demands, the Palestinians will accuse it of "destroying" the peace process. Worse still, the Palestinians will use this charge as an excuse to redouble their terror against Israelis. The Palestinian claim, as always, will be that they are being forced to resort to terrorism in light of the failure of yet another US-sponsored peace process.
- No doubt, Abbas cannot find it within himself to clarify to the American envoys that he lacks a mandate from his people to make any step toward peace with Israel. Abbas knows, even if the American representatives do not, that any move in that direction would end his career, and very possibly his life. Abbas also does not wish to go down in Palestinian history as the treacherous leader who "sold out to the Jews." Moreover, someone can come along later and say, quite correctly, that as Abbas has exceeded his legitimate term in office, any deal he makes is illegal and illegitimate.
Jared
Kushner (left), Senior Advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, meets
with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on June 21, 2017 in
Ramallah. (Photo by Thaer Ghanaim/PPO via Getty Images)
US envoys Jason Greenblatt
and Jared Kushner, who met this week in Jerusalem and Ramallah with
Israeli and Palestinian Authority (PA) officials to discuss reviving the
peace process, have discovered what previous US Middle East envoys
learned in the past two decades -- that the PA has not, cannot, and will
not change.
During their
meeting in Ramallah with PA President Mahmoud Abbas, the two US
emissaries were told that the Palestinians will not accept anything less
than an independent state along on the pre-1967 lines with East
Jerusalem as its capital.
Abbas
also made it clear that he has no intention to make concessions on the
"right of return" for Palestinian "refugees." This means he wants a
Palestinian state next to Israel while flooding Israel with millions of
Palestinian "refugees" and turning it, too, into another Palestinian
state.
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