by Karma Feinstein Cohen, JNS July 6, 2022
Ahead of U.S. President Joe Biden’s upcoming visit to the Middle East, the Palestinians are demanding that the Americans capitulate to their demands to reopen a U.S. consulate in Jerusalem that would serve the Palestinians, remove the PLO from the U.S. list of designated terrorist organizations and reopen the PLO office in Washington D.C. All this will put pressure on Israel to stop its preventative security operations in Judea and Samaria and come to the negotiating table.
Israel should take this opportunity to make demands of its own.
Israeli leaders should say to the Palestinians, ahead of Biden’s arrival, that the Palestinians must clearly and publicly recognize the legitimacy and permanence of Israel as the national homeland of the Jewish people. The P.A. should disarm terrorist groups, stop all incitement and rid its education system of anti-Semitism and hostility towards Israel. It must also cease payments to terrorists and their families and end all BDS activities against Israel in the international arena, including at the International Criminal Court.
Karma Feinstein Cohen is Executive Director of World Herut, a member of the board of governors of the Jewish Agency, and a writer for the Israel Victory Project.
It means that the opposite has happened. In this case, Israel has already made these requests, “demands” in Palestinian talk-style, but of course, they were totally ignored.
Whenever someone writes the word should, it means something has gone wrong.!