With Whom They're Dealing
Trust Fatah, its emissaries and its militias to honour their pledges? What has it availed in the past? As much as it will for the future. There is no one, no reasonable entity to bargain in good faith with. Fatah, through the recognized legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority continues to teach its impressionable young that their neighbours are their enemies to be hated and eventually, through the jubilant attrition of sacrifice-suicides, defeated.When Israel permitted the PLO to return to the area and pledged to help a fledgling state learn how to administer itself, and Israeli police worked alongside PA police to teach and assist them, did it auger well for the future of neighbourliness? When sitting side by side with helpful U.S. mediators, bargaining for mutually-agreed-upon sacrifices in the hopes of reaching a final agreement, it proved to be a useless game.
Has the current leadership of the PA ever exerted itself to extend control over its own militias to ensure that ongoing onslaughts against the Jewish State ceased to help create a climate where trust could be engendered and nursed to reality? Always and ever underhanded, the PA espoused patience, understanding and reliable co-operation on the one hand, while supporting its militias in their ongoing assaults on the other.
The PA courts the good graces of the United States and to them explains ceaselessly that they are committed to finding a way out of the current impasse. On the other hand, the official PA news outlets exhort its PA militia-affiliates to kill Americans. With whom, in trust, will the Israeli delegation approaching the mindset of now-or-never, work?
Even while Mahmoud Abbas assures his Israeli counterpart that he is serious about the search for peace, he also demands sacrifices of the Jewish State that he and his people will not entertain thoughts of matching. It is all or nothing. If the Jewish State does not agree to these uncompromising demands of entitlement it is a clear indication that Israel has no interest in concluding the stalemate.
Threats of ongoing violence, escalating violence are not merely hinted at, they are explicit in the statements emanating from PA authorities, should Israel not see fit to render herself up as a sacrificial lamb to the entitled demands of the Palestinian Authorities. Who insist that Israel's historically venerated places of worship and her historied sacred capital be handed over to them. Who insist that Israel agree unconditionally to receive the presence of entitled Palestinians in their midst.
The really wonderful thing about all of this is that even were Israel to agree to commit national suicide to appease the anger, hatred and revenge-instinct of the Palestinians there would be no more assurance that terror onslaughts would not continue than there is at the present time. Do normal human beings bargain advantageously with psychotically pathological mind-sets?
PA-inspired and affiliated terrorists continue to plague Israel, its towns and its citizens. The incarcerated terrorists whom Israel loosed from prison as a good will gesture during Muslim holy days and in ongoing talks with PA authorities have simply reverted to what they know best; returning to their self-avowedly honourable task of killing as many Israelis as they can manage before they are either shot dead or apprehended.
Groups of Arabs attack Jewish motorists on isolated roadways. Arab groups hurl rocks and heavy blocks at Israeli ambulances, at motorists. They enter Jewish farmers' fields at night and stealthily destroy crops. These are ordinary civilians, Palestinians whose hope for the future lies with the potential of their representatives being able to deal honestly and with honour with their adversary. How likely is that?
A report issued by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights indicates that both Hamas and Fatah committed "grave breaches" of international law in their summertime civil war in the Gaza Strip when Hamas Islamists took control of the territory from secular Fatah. Going so far in one instance as Hamas gunmen entering a hospital to shoot dead a wounded member of the Fatah Preventive Security Service.
Yet in honour of the Muslim holiday of Eid el-Fitre, Fatah's Palestinian Authority has released hundreds of imprisoned Hamas terrorists. Hate one another they may, but as thugs they have a common recognition of what inspires them to a jubilant celebration of honour-among-thugs.
And Kassam rockets and mortar shells continue to be fired by both Fatah and Hamas terror affiliates against Israel.
posted by Pieface @ Wednesday, October 10, 2007
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