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By Ted Belman
December 8, 2005
One might think that the creation of "Palestine" is a foregone conclusion, what with the Roadmap endorsing it and all members of the Quartet supporting it even to the point of giving a pass to Arab violence, the end of which is supposed to be a pre-condition to its establishment.
The reason it finds so much favor is that the US and to a lesser extent in the EU, want to put an end to the "occupation" and the refugee problem.
But the main reason Palestine won't come into existence is that the Arab Palestinians don't want it to, nor does Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia or Egypt, notwithstanding protestations to the contrary.
Ever since the Palestine Mandate was created, the Arabs have resisted the Zionist enterprise and Britain supported this resistance. They rejected the Partition Plan in '47. They rejected the State of Israel when it was declared in '48 with the support of the US State Department. In '64 they created the PLO which they dedicated to destroying Israel. They massed for invasion again in '67 and after being soundly defeated by Israel, they rejected Resolution 242. Instead and they passed a resolution at Khartoum which said "no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it."
They finally accepted Security Council Resolution 242 and the acceptance of Israel in the Oslo Accords because it was part of their "phased plan" to destroy Israel. They never had any intention of honoring their commitments. They never did. It's not the Islamic way. Agreements with the infidel are not binding.
The "Palestinians" are making war, not nice. It has ever been so. Aside from the odd pro-peace comment, I challenge you to identify one thing they have done in the furtherance of peaceful coexistence. Just one.
Incitement continues without abatement, arms and terrorists are smuggled in and the PA publicly supports and praises its terrorists and martyrs. The populace is voting in favour of the terrorists including Hamas and the terrorist arms of Fatah. The convicted mass murderer, Barghouti, is leading in the polls. Suicide bombings and rocket attacks continue. All this comes in brazen disregard of their government's commitment to end incitement and dismantle the terrorist infrastructure. Abbas is the walking dead.
The Charters of both the PLO and Hamas dedicate these organizations to the destruction of Israel.
The conflict suits the needs of the Arab world which wants to concentrate the world's attention elsewhere than on themselves. Iran wants to get the bomb. Egypt and Saudi Arabia want to avoid democratization and to avert the gaze of Human Rights organizations. Jordan wants Israel to remain on the Jordan River to ensure its survival. Syria continues to support the terrorists in Israel as a bargaining chip to make a deal for their survival or as a deflection of attention on them. So they all have vested interests in keeping the conflict alive.
The UN is also dependant on the conflict not being resolved. It has created a vast bureaucracy since '48 which is obsessed with the Palestinians. If the conflict were to be resolved this bureaucracy would have to be dissolved. No bureaucracy would stand for this. I urge you to visit Eye on the UN which fully discloses how infested with hatred it is. What Roadmap?
Then there is al Qaeda and its fellow travelers. They plan to re-establish the Caliphate. They are just beginning to flex their muscles. The Palestinian cause fuels their recruitment. A defeat of Israel would fuel it even further.
Iraq is another case in point. The coalition wants out, desperately. It realizes, led by the US, that the US bit off more then it is prepared to chew. If Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia wanted them out, the insurgency would end immediately. But it continues. They want America bogged down and in need of their help. They want the US to be more concerned with an exit strategy then with preventing Iran from getting the bomb or with democratizing them or with regime change.
Furthermore behind the scenes lurks the inevitable conflict for power and ascendancy between the Shiites and the Sunnis.
Finally the Iraq conflict is filling the coffers of OPEC and the oil interests in the US making it financially rewarding for the conflict to continue.
A Jewish One State Plan has been proposed and many supporters rejected this plan because the world wouldn't allow it or because it involved absorbing many more Arabs into Israel. The Plan argued that the ratio of Jews to Arabs in the expanded state would be 2:1 and that it could be maintained. But many felt that the Arabs, who have been nurtured on hate, could not be domesticated. Others were more optimistic.
I mention this because the Arabs themselves are still advocating their One State Solution which is a euphemism for the destruction of Israel. Search the web and you will see that this idea is alive and well not only in the Arab world but also in many parts of the Western world.
The Roadmap is the flavour of the month. But it won't always be so. Much can happen in the next few years which would change the paradigm. The US is in retreat but it doesn't want to retreat from the Middle East. It may well decide not to force retreat on Israel. There are other solutions that it may develop an appetite for, but there is one -- a euphemism for the destruction of Israel -- it will find no taste for.
"Palestine" will never be born.
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