T. Belman. Actually the opposite is the case. The more they have hope for their cause of destroying Israel, the more the terrorism. When they despair they lack the will to fight. Many authors and politicians have made this point.
Daniel Pipes’ Victory Caucus embraces that the idea that there must be total defeat to achieve total despair in order to impose conditions.
The cycle of violence: Hope won’t help
Op-ed: The claims that giving Palestinians hope will bring an end to violence are delusional.Tillerson must go. He is pure State Department.
by Jordan Schachtel, CONSERVATIVE REVIEW
Rex Tillerson’s State Department added blistering anti-Israel language to this year’s “Country Reports on Terrorism,” adopting a tone not seen even during the hostile Obama era.
On Wednesday, Tillerson submitted the annual report to Congress. This year’s report may come as a shock to the overwhelmingly pro-Israel majority that elected Donald Trump president.
The report appears to blame Israel for the lack of peace between the two sides, pointing to a “lack of hope” as a “driver” for Palestinian violence.
Tillerson’s State Department concluded that Palestinian terrorism is motivated by “Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank, settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, the perception that the Israeli government was changing the status quo on the Haram Al Sharif/Temple Mount, and IDF tactics that the Palestinians considered overly aggressive.”
Continuing its pro-Palestinian posture, the next paragraph of the State Department memo commends the Palestinian Authority chairman for condemning acts of violence.
“Explicit calls for violence against Israelis, direct exhortations against Jews, and categorical denials by the PA of the possibility of peace with Israel are rare and the leadership does not generally tolerate it,” the memo states.
.@StateDept released Country Reports on Terrorism 2016, an assessment of trends, events in int’l terrorism. https://go.usa.gov/xRTzh #CRT2016
The aforementioned statement is simply not true. Mahmoud Abbas and his Fatah party have a long history of promoting violence against Israel, and using inciting language to fan the flames of terror against its Jewish population.
In fact, organizations like Palestinian Media Watch and the Middle East Media Research Institute find almost daily examples of Palestinian state media waging incitement campaigns.
The State Department report does label Israel a “committed counterterrorism partner.” However, the sometimes-positive language toward America’s closest Middle East ally does not excuse the morally reprehensible act of sanctioning Palestinian violence against innocents.
By excusing Palestinian terrorism as motivated by a “lack of hope,” the State Department is helping to create a morally paradoxical environment in which the Israeli victim becomes the perpetrator and the Palestinian perpetrator becomes the victim.
Conservative Review looked through the Obama-era State Department country reports on terrorism and found that the Tillerson-led assessment added the aforementioned anti-Israel language.
Last year’s report under Obama said the Palestinians argued that terrorism is sometimes caused by frustration over “occupation.” But that report was much less accusatory because it makes clear that the position is reflecting the views of Palestinian officials, and not the U.S. government.
Tillerson continues to shock supporters of Israel with his pro-Palestinian policy promotion.
In May, the embattled secretary of state blackmailed Israel, using the debate over its embassy move as a bargaining chip for Palestinian statehood. That same month, he described Tel Aviv, not Jerusalem, as the “home of Judaism.”
Unlike U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Tillerson refuses to recognize that the Western Wall is in Israel. Moreover, his State Department continues to reject Israeli claims over the city of Jerusalem.
The position one takes on whether terrorism is an ideology-based act of war to be crushed or a gesture of individual despair to be appeased is the main thing that distinguishes a liberal from a conservative perspective.
Rex has to go. His name fits him.
“rex (plural rexes)”
“An animal which has a genetic recessive variation that causes the guard hairs to be very short or fully lacking.”
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rex
@ dreuveni:
Yes, you see, this is one of the reasons that pinning too much hope on him, while I appreciate the improvement on his predecessors, however small, would be a big mistake, even if he were going to be in there for more than 8 years, tops. And the Congress changes more frequently than that. That’s without the judges weighing in.
Would you have guessed, in your wildest flights of imagination, in 2002, that six years later, Obama would take office and hold it for 8 years and that the Muslim Brotherhood would find a home in the State Department, The White House, the Dept. of Justice?
Momentary opportunities. That’s all we can provide, I am afraid. The trick is not to squander them.
So, is Donald aware of this or not. Agreed, at the moment and for the foreseeable future, he has an HR problem. Although he has a majority everywhere, he can’t seem to get anything done – poor guy.
On the other hand, THAT is not Israel’s fault