Do you count on American Secretary of State John Kerry as an honest broker
in the dispute between us and the Palestinians?
Yes 19.8% No 53.5% Don't know 26.7%
Do you
support to oppose evacuation of the Jordan Valley within the
framework of a comprehensive peace agreement with the Palestinians?
Support 14.3% Oppose 69.8% No opinion 15.9%
framework of a comprehensive peace agreement with the Palestinians?
Support 14.3% Oppose 69.8% No opinion 15.9%
Who is most
appropriate to be prime minister?
Netanyahu 34.3% Liberman 8.9% Bennett 7.9% Herzog 7.2% Livni 6.8% Lapid 6.4%
_________________________________________________Netanyahu 34.3% Liberman 8.9% Bennett 7.9% Herzog 7.2% Livni 6.8% Lapid 6.4%
Palestinian
state - a US interest?
By
Yoram Ettinger
U.S.
Secretary of State John Kerry is preoccupied with the attempt to establish a
Palestinian state, as a means to advance peace and American interests. However,
Congress -- which is charged by the constitution with supervising the
administration -- has yet to conduct hearings on the impact of the proposed
Palestinian state upon vital U.S. interests. Congress cannot relinquish its
constitutional responsibility to probe, independently, the critical implications
of a Palestinian state upon the U.S. economy, core values, and homeland and
national security, as well as upon the stability of pro-U.S. Arab regimes in
particular, and the Middle East in general.
Independent
congressional scrutiny of this Palestinian state-driven policy is doubly
essential against the backdrop of the systematic U.S. Middle East policy
failures since 1947.
The
U.S. administration track record
In
1948, the U.S. State Department opposed the establishment of a Jewish state.
Assuming that Israel would be an ally of the Communist Bloc, and expecting
Israel to be devastated by the invading Arab armies, the administration imposed
a regional military embargo, while the British supplied arms to Jordan, Iraq and
Egypt.
During
the 1950s, the U.S. administration courted the Egyptian dictator, President
Gamal Abdel Nasser, in an attempt to remove him from Soviet influence, offering
financial aid and pressuring Israel to "end the occupation of the Negev,"
internationalize Western Jerusalem and evacuate the whole of Sinai. Instead,
Nasser intensified his pro-USSR policy, subversion of pro-U.S. Arab regimes and
support of Palestinian terrorism.
During
the 1970s and 1980s, until the invasion of Kuwait, the U.S. administration
supported Iraqi President Saddam Hussein through an intelligence-sharing
agreement, the transfer of sensitive dual-use U.S. technologies and approval of
five billion dollar loan guarantees.
In
1977, the administration, initially, opposed the Begin-Sadat peace initiative,
lobbied for an international conference, and finally jumped on the peace
bandwagon.
In
1979, the administration abandoned the Shah of Iran, facilitating the rise of
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, which transformed Iran from a top ally of the U.S.
to its sworn enemy.
From
1993 to 2000, the administration embraced Arafat as the harbinger of peace and
democracy, elevating him to Most Frequent Visitor status in the White
House.
In
2005 and 2006, the administration encouraged the uprooting of Jewish communities
from Gaza and the participation of Hamas in the Palestinian election, deluding
itself that both would advance the cause of moderation, stability and
peace.
In
2009, the administration turned its back on pro-U.S. Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak, facilitating the rise to power of the anti-U.S.,
transnational-terrorist Muslim Brotherhood. In 2011, the administration
participated in the toppling of Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi's regime of
terror, intensifying chaos in Libya, which has become an exporter of military
systems to Muslim terrorist organizations. In 2013, the administration handed
Russia an unexpected Syrian bonus. In 2014, the administration has managed to
instill panic in Saudi Arabia and other Arab states, which are concerned about
the U.S. potentially transforming Tehran from a controllable tactical -- to an
uncontrollable strategic -- threat.
Mahmoud
Abbas' track record
The
background of Palestinian Authority President and Palestine Liberation
Organization Chairman Mahmoud Abbas -- ostensibly a moderate compared with Hamas
-- sheds light on the likely nature of the proposed Palestinian
state.
Abbas
speaks fluent Russian as a result of his KGB training and his studies at
Moscow's Patrice Lumumba University, where he wrote a Holocaust-denying doctoral
thesis. He was the architect of PLO ties with the USSR and other ruthless
communist regimes. In 1972, he oversaw the logistics of the Munich massacre of
eleven Israeli athletes. In the late 1950s, 1966 and 1970, he fled Egypt, Syria
and Jordan because of subversion. During the 1970s and 1980s he participated in
the Palestinian plundering of southern Lebanon and the attempts to topple the
central regime in Beirut, which triggered the 1976 Syrian invasion of Lebanon
and a series of civil wars, causing some 200,000 fatalities and hundreds of
thousands of refugees. In 1990, Abbas collaborated with Saddam's invasion of
Kuwait, despite Kuwait's unique hospitality to 300,000 PLO-affiliated
Palestinians. In 1993, he established the Palestinian Authority hate education
system -- a most effective production line of terrorists.
The
impact on the Middle East
During
the October 1994 signing of the Israel-Jordan peace treaty, top Jordanian
military commanders urged their Israeli counterparts to refrain from
establishing a Palestinian state, "lest it destroy the [pro-U.S.] Hashemite
regime." Coupled with a terror-dominated Iraq, it would initiate a domino
scenario, sweeping Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and other oil-producing Arab regimes,
causing havoc to the supply and price of oil and devastating the U.S.
economy.
Abbas'
PLO was an early ally of Khomeini. Moreover, following his 2005 replacement of
Arafat, Abbas' first visits were to Tehran and Damascus. A Palestinian state --
whether controlled by the PLO or (most probably) Hamas -- would provide Iran, as
well as Russia, China and North Korea, improved access to the eastern flank of
the Mediterranean, at the expense of the U.S.
In
1994, the Palestinian Authority was established by PLO graduates of terrorist
bases in the Sudan, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya and Tunisia, generating a
robust tailwind to global Islamic terrorism. It has become a major terror
academy, exporting terrorists to Iraq, Afghanistan, Latin America, Africa and
Europe. Thus, the Palestinian Authority has sustained the legacy of Abbas' PLO,
which has been the role model of international and Islamic terrorism, training
worldwide terrorists in Jordan (1968-1970) and Lebanon (1970-1982). The PLO
introduced commercial aircraft hijacking, carried out the 1973 murder of the
U.S. ambassador to Sudan, and participated in the 1983 murder of 300 U.S.
Marines in Lebanon.
A
Palestinian state would reward a regime which is referred to by much of its
population as "modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah," and has driven Christians away
from Bethlehem. It would add another anti-U.S. vote at the U.N.
Both
Hamas and the PLO follow in the footsteps of Palestinian leaders, who
collaborated with Nazi Germany, the Communist Bloc, Khomeini, Saddam and bin
Laden, and currently with Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba and other rogue
regimes.
Hence,
the proposal to establish a Palestinian state proves that policymakers are
determined to learn from history by repeating -- rather than avoiding -- past
dramatic blunders.
Thorough
congressional supervision could spare the U.S. a blow to its economic and
national security interests.
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