US Secretary of State John Kerry has threatened to discontinue all American aid to the Palestinian Authority if the current round of negotiations does not result in a peace agreement, a senior Palestinian official claimed Thursday.
Taysir Khaled, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, said that the US had implied it would stop giving financial aid to the Palestinian Authority and would not be able to prevent Israeli expansion of West Bank settlements, if a framework for a long-lasting accord was not agreed upon, Maariv reported.
UNRWA abolition is long overdue. Weapon created by the West to undermine IL and the Jews.
Bert, ignoring Palestinian anti-Semitism and Palestinian declarations that a TSS will not end the conflict but is a necessary stage from which to launch a final genocidal war against Israel and its seminal doctrinal Islamic source, has been a hallmark of U.S. and EU foreign policy as regards Israel vs. the Arabs and since the early 70’s, Israel vs. the Palestinians.
That willful blindness has been compounded by the effects of multiculturalism and political correctness, especially as regards Muslims.
We have seen that Islamists have no compunctions whatsoever, spewing their hatred of Jews, Christians and the West and speaking of Islam’s manifest destiny to be the world’s dominant religion, with on Muslims living as dhimmis, which dominance is to be achieved through Jihad.
For a Westerner to publically make note of these Islamic goals and the means to those ends by quoting the very words of Islamists, Islamist outraged reaction is immediate with cries of Islamophobia or worse being some Muslims reacting violently towards the person who dared to quote what Islamists say.
The West, to avoid such reactions and violent confrontations, be they in Western nations or in Mid East Muslim nations, turns a blind eye to this truth and will even be moved to condemn any non-Muslim who dares to violate the dictates of such willful blindness.
One such instance was the U.S. not only condemning the producer of a spoof video of Islam and incarcerating him, dishonestly citing that video as the cause of the Benghazi attack and making a point that the government had nothing to do with the making of that video. In that case however, it was a mix of willful blindness and Obama seeking to deny the truth that he had lied to the American people when he claimed Al Qaeda was decimated and on the run. In fact, al Qaeda had adapted to its losses as a result of U.S. successes against it and was now becoming a multi headed hydra with many semi autonomous, al Qaeda inspired affiliates, such as Ansar Al Sharia that was responsible for the Benghazi attack.
These is no mention of U.S. pressure on the PA to end all anti Jewish incitement in PA schools.
In all these Obama-Kerry machinations to get Israel to pay in blood for Palestinian acquiescence to just talk, Gaza or Hamasistan that is ever seeking to wrest control of the West Bank from Abbas and his henchmen, is ignored just as are the words expressed in Arabic of Abbas and his people that a TSS is only a stage to be achieved from which to launch yet another war to destroy Israel.
2ndly, if the West ceased welfare benefits to Fatah and Hamas, the entire Palestinian economy would collapse.
Trying to force a TSS into existence to create an illusory independent Palestinian state, which would have little to no chance of surviving without welfare largesse in perpetuity, sure seems like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
If Kerry does go home empty handed as is expected, he likely will be appear surprised and disheartened. Maybe however, unlike his boss Obama, he has within him some ability to learn from failure.
What is almost certain, if history is a teaching precedent, is that if Kerry does pull off a TSS, the Palestinians will begin breaching the terms almost immediately.
@ Bill Narvey:
The US used this threat plus the freeing of their terrorist friends as carrot and stick to have them grace Israel with their delightful presence in the negotiations. This was employment act for Zipora Livini.
Is this a sign that Kerry is finally catching on?
More idle threats from the impure!