The Palestinian Arabs conduct polls of themselves every few months. The Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research publish the polls for all to see.
It would appear that the United Nations and the Obama Administration refuse to read and internalize the clear print.
Consider the poll completed in September 2016. The findings concluded:
“current level of support for an armed intifada remains high and a majority opposes the Russian invitation for a meeting between Abbas and Netanyahu in Moscow. Moreover, the public remains highly pessimistic about the French Initiative’s chances of success. Finally, Hamas’ candidate for the presidency, Ismail Haniyeh remains more popular than Abbas.”
The Palestinian Arabs continue to “support an armed intifada,” meaning killing Israelis rather than speaking and negotiating with them. The Arabs further support the terrorist group Hamas rather than the “more moderate” Fatah head Mahmoud Abbas.
But the US and the United Nations don’t acknowledge these persistent inconvenient facts.
On November 29, 2016, the US State Department had its daily press briefing were Spokesperson John Kirby stated:
” in order to get there [two state solution], you have to see tangible leadership on both sides to ratchet down the rhetoric and to reduce the violence and to show a willingness to sit down and have discussions about a two-state solution. That hasn’t been the case….
we need to see the leadership on both sides take the kinds of actions to realize a two-state solution; to commit to a willingness to sit down and have those kinds of discussions and to effect those kinds of negotiations. And his point was exactly and succinctly right: You can lead the horse to water, but you can’t make them drink. You have to – ultimately – and we’ve said this time and time again – you have to see leadership exuded and demonstrated there in the region. They have to be willing to get to this two-state solution or it’s not going to be sustainable. And I think if you go back and look at the transcript of his remarks, you’ll see that he expounded on that thought in exactly – almost exactly those words.“
The US State Department seemed to recognize the failure of Palestinian leadership – but not the Palestinian people. It chose to equivocate in condemning Israeli settlements by also blaming the impasse of advancing peace talks on Palestinian leadership. However, the State Department never is critical of the Palestinian Arabs who continue to favor violence and terrorism instead of coexistence and peace.
On that same November day, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon also blamed the leadership of the two parties. “Israeli and Palestinian leaders still voice their support for the two-State solution. However, without urgent steps to revive a political perspective, they risk entrenching a one-state reality.” According to the UN, the failures of leadership have in turn caused anger from the populations:
“All this has led to growing anger and frustration among Palestinians and profound disillusionment among Israelis. It has strengthened radicals and weakened moderates on both sides.”
The inversion of cause-and-effect never enters the mindset of Ban Ki-Moon, that Acting-President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas cannot take steps towards peace, because his own people demand more forceful actions. The UN will state that Palestinian Arab civilians are simply “resorting to violence” and are “desperate” for a state, even though the entire fabric of the PA, Fatah and Hamas is about the destruction of the Jewish State.
A New Path
US President Obama declined to address the Israeli parliament when he visited Israel in March 2013, and instead addressed Israeli citizens. In his opening remarks he said “what I’ve most looked forward to is the ability to speak directly to you, the Israeli people — especially so many young people who are here today — (applause) — to talk about the history that brought us here today, and the future that you will make in the years to come.”
Perhaps the final gesture to advancing peace between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs, is for Obama to address the Palestinian Arabs directly to accept their Jewish neighbors and build a future together, rather than reward the intransigence of the Palestinian Authority as former US President Jimmy Carter suggested on that same November 29 day of willful blindness.
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The state dept is insane, because they are out of touch with the reality. They have continued to repeat the same refrain, for”both sides to ratchet down the rhetoric and to reduce the violence”. I haven’t heard Netanyahu speaking anything but how he’s willing to meet with Abbas anytime, anywhere with no pre-conditions. The violence is not Jewish on Arab, but Arabs are the ones knifing, ramming and burning. And what the UN won’t get is what Israelis want, which is an end to the talk of a “two-state solution” which to us says, “final solution”. There is no more possibility for Israel to give more land for what? What does Israel get for the further giveaway of land? More missiles as Gaza proves? Insanity. the solution lies with the 33 – 40+% of Palestinians who don’t want a Palestinian state but prefer Israeli governance, according to the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research polls. These results might be skewed due to the hatred of Israel taught to Palestinian students from a young age. Another finding: among those who want a separate state, most want to get it by violence, not negotiation. This is the reason there is no peace. It isn’t the Israeli public or leadership who advocate violence – it is the Muslim 2/3 majority. So yes, Obama could speak to the Arabs, but there is no reason to compel Arabs to listen to him.
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