Indigestible Piecemeal Desserts

"This is the state they will give us. It's like a Swiss cheese, really."
"Who among you [United Nations countries] will accept a similar state and similar conditions?"
"The U.S. cannot be the sole mediator. The situation could implode at any moment. ... We need hope."
"Please do not take this hope away from us."
"It is an Israeli-American pre-emptive plan in order to put an end to the question of Palestine."
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas

"This is not Swiss cheese. This is the best plan that exists for the middle East -- for the Middle East -- and for the State of Israel and for the Palestinians, too."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends a U.N. Security Council meeting at United Nations headquarters in New York on Feb. 11. Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty Images

It was actually Mahmoud Abbas who was the architect of the Trump Peace Plan. He may be bleating now about the unfairness of it all, but it is his steering of the PA away from direct negotiations with Israel over a peace settlement that would be satisfactory for both parties that led to this final 'preemptive' design to put an end to the deliberate procrastination in the hopes that Israel would disappear under the weight of world pressure, under threat by combined armies of the Middle East who would, he hoped, finally rid the geography of the presence of Israel.

Mahmoud Abbas's reward for his patient miracle-waiting, for his diligence in producing school curricula and television programs demonizing Jews and preparing Palestinian children to embrace a future of martyrdom so romanticized that young Palestinians find it appealing to violently attack Jews even when the result may be their own deaths, since they have been convinced that this is their destiny; they have it on the highest authority, those who govern them, trusted Palestinian leaders.

Suddenly the last of the offers that former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert bargained for in 2008, guaranteeing the Palestinians all that they insisted upon in an exchange for peace looks appealing to Abbas. The offer that he spurned at the time is the very one he insists now he would contemplate in good faith and reconsider. But too many years have passed to recall that offer. An offer where Israel was prepared to make sacrifices to achieve peace, and the PA adamantly refused to surrender any of their demands to achieve that peace.

Speaking of peace it's a good idea to examine what precisely that would be. A cessation of violence stimulated and fomented by the Palestinian leadership upon Israel and Israeli citizens. The implied threat of Abbas's plea to the United Nations of 'the situation imploding at any moment' recalls intifadas and endless 'days of rage', along with speaking of Jewish feet defiling the Temple Mount, and incitements to Palestinians to 'resist the occupation', supported by the PA's dedication to viewing the murder of Jews as heroic, paying the murderers for their service to the 'cause'.

The cause is the elimination of the State of Israel. The purpose of the Trump Peace Plan is the elimination of all the violence by presenting a fait accompli; after all, 70 years of attempts at mollifying the victimhood status of the Palestinians by dedicating a unique UN refugee support system through UNRWA and extending refugee status beyond the original 700,000 to their succeeding generations has accomplished nothing but dependence and rage. If Abbas now regards the map of the emerging new 'Palestine' as 'Swiss cheese", so be it, he designed it and will learn to live with it.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the United Nations in New York. AP

Israel genuinely seeks peace. It prefers conditions to prevail where there is no need for it to be seen as an 'occupying force', which has occurred for the very simple reason of defence from the malicious threats and the very real violence continually perpetrated by Palestinians upon Israelis. Both the Fatah and the Hamas charters, where the West Bank and Gaza are administered by each, state as their goal the elimination through destruction of the State of Israel, freeing up the land on which it stands for Fatah and Hamas to battle one another to the death.

They may do so, just as Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad is doing, just as Libyans are doing, just as the Lebanese are experiencing, as well as Yemen, and Iraq, as long as Israel is left to its own prosperous and life-loving agenda to continue to provide a haven for the world's Jews from an international community that isn't very engaged in respecting Israel's right to self-determination absent constant criticism from corrupt, human-rights-destroying regimes like those that sit on the UN Human Rights Council as a reproach to decent nations.

If Mahmoud Abbas felt compelled to ask United Nations members who among them would accept a piecemeal state, Benjamin Netanyahu is entitled to ask, as has been done with little response countless times before, who among them would enjoy contemplating being surrounded by hostile states, some of which have made no secret of their intention to destroy his country? And the very group the world expects Israel to negotiate for peace with, continues to nurse the intention to overwhelm the state they refuse to recognize as Jewish, with the return of tens of millions of Palestinian 'refugees'.

Where Israel is expected by Palestinian Arab leaders to welcome more than the two million Palestinian Israelis already living an equality existence in the Jewish State, when the reality is that no Jews could live in a Palestinian state which has expressly stated their presence would never be tolerated, and reality demonstrates that should any Jew accidentally wander into a Palestinian enclave his/her life would be immediately forfeit. Quite the partner for peace.