Post by artraveler on Jan 16, 2020 14:11:11 GMT -8
The Palestinian Delusion:
The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process
Robert Spenser
For over 100 years Western leaders have asked why can’t we find a solution to the violence in the Middle East? It is not a rhetorical question, well meaning people have sought to find a solution and come away discouraged, angry, and frustrated by intransigence on all the warring sides. Robert Spenser in, The Palestinian Delusion, offers history that is not taught in American or European schools or universities. Rather than a book it is a course syllabus on the recent history of Israel and the Moslem problem. Think of this book as a 10 weak course on the how, who and why.
Chapter One: How Israel Came to Be
Chapter Two: The Roots of the Hatred of Israel
Chapter Three: The Jihad of 1948
Chapter Four: The Palestinians Are Invented
Chapter Five: Seeds of the “Peace Process”
Chapter Six: “Poor Naïve Carter”
Chapter Seven: Hudaybiyya Revisited
Chapter Eight: Road Map to Nowhere
Chapter Nine: The Palestinian Victimhood Machine
Chapter Ten: What Is to Be Done?
Spenser has page after page of endnotes supporting his assertions that the Palestinians are not only an invented people, but the tools of other Arab states, whose only goal is the destruction of the State of Israel.
“the Palestinians were invented in order to “transform a population into a weapon of mass destruction against Israel and the Jewish people, to demonize Israel, and to give totalitarianism and anti-Semitism renewed means of action.”
“PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein likewise acknowledged that the Palestinian people were a propaganda invention: The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct “Palestinian people” to oppose Zionism. For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.”
Of course, the hatred in the Qur’an is not reserved for Jews. There is ample room for Christians.
“Despite the fact that the Qur’an states that Jesus was neither killed nor crucified (4:157), Fatah Central Committee member Tawfiq Tirawi declared him the first Palestinian martyr: “For Christmas, the birthday of Jesus the first Palestinian and the first Martyr (Shahid), peace be upon him, we will surely stop the path of suffering [that is, referring to the Via Dolorosa, which Christians believe to be the path Jesus walked on his way to being crucifixion] and go up to the free Palestine, happy New Year.”
“On Christmas Day in 2014, Al-Ghoul wrote in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida: “My lord Jesus, peace be upon you, those who crucified you 2,000 years ago [that is, the Jews] have returned to crucify your people, of different religions, without distinguishing Christians from Muslims. They spread their poison in every part of your homeland—where your churches, and the mosques of your successor”
The fault of an American president for the current state of affairs is placed on the shoulders of the peanut farmer from Georgia. Obama’s hostility is just good old anti-Semitism he leanrned from Rev. Wright.
Jimmy Carter had been elected President of the United States as an outsider, unfamiliar with the corruption and venality of Washington. He was, famously, a man of faith, giving the appearance of being scrupulously honest and aboveboard in all his dealings, and he appeared to assume that others would be also. After Sadat’s trip to Jerusalem, Carter seemed convinced that Sadat was a visionary, as well as a fellow man of faith, given the abundance of biblical and Qur’anic quotes in his Knesset speech, and the U.S. president apparently determined to do everything he could to be of service to the great man.
Sadat told the president that if the summit failed, it wouldn’t be his fault but Begin’s, because of his obstinacy and stubbornness. When Sadat rejoined his aides, he was ebullient, and regaled them with the details of his meeting with the man he referred to as “poor naïve Carter.”
“I pity poor Carter in his dealings with Begin, with his stilted mentality.” Kamel then asked Sadat if he thought Carter would put pressure on Begin. “Of course he will,” Sadat replied. “Otherwise the Conference will flounder, and that will affect Carter’s position.
There have been innumerable “solutions” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and none of them have actually solved anything. Yet it has never occurred to any of the American presidents who have tried to win a Nobel by being the man who finally brought peace to the Middle East, that perhaps there is a fatal flaw in the “peace process” itself, such that a peaceful negotiated settlement will never, ever be achieved. Yet that flaw does exist. It is called jihad.
For talks to succeed, both sides have to be willing to make compromises and abide by agreements; the Palestinians have repeatedly shown that they are willing to do neither. They clearly see negotiations with Israel as a means to gain concessions that are steps on the way to the ultimate collapse of the Jewish state. Going forward, therefore, there should be no negotiations at all, or if there are, they must be conducted on a more realistic basis.
Previous negotiated settlements have included the requirement that Palestinians renounce terrorism, and they did so on paper but never made even a nominal effort to do so in reality. Any future negotiations should not even begin until this has been done and the Palestinians can show that it has been done to the satisfaction of all parties. Israel has every reason to insist that this is the case. The blood of thousands of Jews over the last 1400 years demands it.
The 1,400-year history of jihad is full of infidels deluded by wishful thinking or debilitated by cowardice, and the history of the Israel-Palestinian “peace process” is full of examples of both. These fictions have been fatal for all too many people. It is time for Western politicians to stop whistling in the dark. The people of Israel have endured enough. The Palestinian Arabs, in thrall to the dead-end ideology of jihad, have endured enough. All people of goodwill deserve better.
President Trump appears to be moving in this direction. It will take courage on the part of Arab leaders to insist that Palestinians acknowledge the reality of the State of Israel and the Jewish people. Robert Spenser has written an important educative book that every snowflake BDS supporter should read, few if any will. The murder of innocents will continue until they do.
