The truth is that the Palestinian Authority is a dead man walking and in no position to demand anything from anyone.
By Daniel Krygier, Political Analyst, World Israel News
Throughout time, aggressors knew when they were winning and when they were losing. By contrast, Israel’s Muslim Arab enemies do not behave like your typical aggressors. The more Israel’s enemies lose, the more aggressive and demanding they become.
Japan’s hubris that led to the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 was depleted when America dropped the nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. The difference between Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima was that the balance of power had shifted dramatically in America’s favor. The US was not popular in post-1945 Japan, but the defeated Japanese knew that they were in no position to demand anything from Washington.
In flagrant violation of international law, the Arabs launched a war of aggression against reborn Israel in 1948 with the explicit goal of wiping the Jewish state off the map. Despite the fact that the power of balance was clearly in favor of the Arabs, Israel won the bloody war that claimed one percent of the Jewish state’s population.
Over the past 70 years, the Arabs have tried to destroy Israel through military means, terrorism, political propaganda, legal warfare at the UN and the international Boycott Divestment Sanctions(BDS) campaign. The attempts to destroy Israel have not merely failed. Israel has transformed dramatically from a poor and fragile embryonic state in 1948 to a technological and military powerhouse in 2018. According to a fresh global report by the respected British weekly The Economist, Israel’s GDP per capita has for the first time surpassed the GDP per capita of leading industrialized countries like France, Britain and Japan.
The economic, military and technological balance of power has clearly shifted in Israel’s favor. However, Arab leaders in general and the Palestinian Authority (PA) leadership in particular continue pretending to be the winners and setting demands. In his recent and now-infamous Ramallah speech, PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ false mask of “moderation” finally collapsed completely. Abbas lashed out at Israel, the US and the international community. The PA leader cursed President Donald Trump and erased more than 3,000 years of Jewish history in Israel by falsely calling the Jewish state a “colonial project” of European powers.
The rambling anti-Semitic conspiracy theories coming out of Abbas’ mouth finally vindicated those who have said for years that the PA is not a genuine peace partner. The Ramallah speech also clearly shows that the PA is disconnected from reality.
The truth is that the PA is a dead man walking and in no position to demand anything from anyone. The time has come for Israel and America to demand an unconditional surrender of the PA and replace it with a new Arab leadership committed to genuine peace and progress.
@ adamdalgliesh:
The police, the Attorney General, Shas and the Haredi parties all oppose the Muezzin law, they are so afraid of provoking the Muslims to more violence when they have the power to expel or suppress the Muslims (they say Arabs, but it’s really Muslims like everywhere else with a few Christian Arab dhimmis giving lip service support to, which they won’t use.)
Allowing anybody to blare anything from loudspeakers when other people are trying to sleep is outrageous! Least of all Muslim religious propaganda and especially not in the Jewish state. That’s about what you would expect in a Stalinist country like North Korea or Hungary before 1956.
Here in comparatively (and that’s sad) commonsense-land New York City, in the neighborhood where I live, there is one cathedral that sounds 12 bells at noon on Sunday. That’s about the most anybody should have to tolerate.
Appeasement is endemic throughout Israeli society though not to the extent that it is in the Jewish diaspora. It has to stop for the Jews to win and the Jews have to win for there to be peace.
2 Israeli Policemen Shot after Obeying Rules of Engagement in Jenin
David Israel9 Shevat 5778 – January 24, 2018
Photo Credit: IDF
Yamam officers in Jenin during the Jan. 17, 2018 operation
Two police special anti-terror combat unit (Yamam) officers were seriously injured a week ago Wednesday in a shootout with some of the murderers of Rabbi Raziel Shevach in Jenin. The operation was part of an ongoing effort to round up those terrorists.
On Wednesday afternoon, Israeli Radio’s veteran military correspondent Carmela Menashe tweeted her summary of the incident in Jenin:
“The Yamam officers identified one of the wanted men but avoided opening fire, at which point the terrorist pulled out a gun and wounded both officers.”
In a follow-up tweet, Menashe reported:
“The officers identified the terrorist but did not immediately fire at him because they did not feel he was life threatening.” A security official said, “We do not pull out and shoot immediately, this is our professionalism.”
Good thing it was only the kind of professionalism that needlessly gets Israeli fighters seriously injured, and not, God forbid, the kind of professionalism that kills them.
In August 2015, the Israeli defense establishment issued new rules of engagement compelling soldiers to hold their fire in situations where there is no absolute threat to their lives. In the past, soldiers fired a few warning shots in the air before shooting at a suspected terrorist. The defense establishment’s new policy is dedicated to avoiding situations in which the IDF kills a terrorist.
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the prob is as nutunyahoo sits in his office scratching his orifice the only sound that emits is ‘i still believe a 2 state solution and will meet with my beloved terror chief anytime anyplace, begbeg and beg again.
First, the government of Israel must formally acknowledge the existence of a state of war, or rebellion since they don’t have statehood but merely limited autonomy, or, at a minimum, the acknowledgement that Oslo was a failed experiment, that the contract was breached by the other party, and that a restoration of the situation before Oslo is called for. Calling for surrender first is putting the cart before the horse. Israel allowed the creation of the PA and props it up in myriad ways including the much vaunted supposed security collaboration despite the constant terror attacks.