The countries in Europe and the west now so eager to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state as a way out of the war in Gaza badly misread the actual situation on the ground. Western countries are clearly increasingly fed up with Israel. The United States excepted, they increasingly believe the UN and other NGOs beholden to Hamas that Israel is the second coming of Nazi Germany or at least horrifically indifferent to civilian lives in the Gaza Strip, facts be damned.
But this puts them in a bind, because Israel's enemy is Hamas, a terrorist group that not only carried out the horrific massacre of October 7 and continues to hold at least 20 living hostages and 30 bodies, but also one which remains entirely unrepentant and even determined to commit such massacres over and over.
So they are now reaching for a 1990s solution for a 2025 problem: bring in the "moderate" pro-terrorists who will "deal" with the problem of Hamas and ensure a terrorism-free Palestinian state that will live side by side with Israel in peace and prosperity.
...The idea that Hamas or other parties seeking Israel's destruction would "moderate" once in power was tested in the Gaza Strip and found to simply be false. Hamas willingly took what could have been a flourishing effective Palestinian state and sacrificed it all to try and destroy Israel. There is no reason to think, based on their own words, that they would not try again.
...The idea that the Palestinian Authority, with its substantial armed forces and formal promises to avoid terrorism, will keep this all in check under dictatorial circumstances is naivete unbecoming of anyone who was an adult this century. (Read More)
...The idea that the Palestinian Authority, with its substantial armed forces and formal promises to avoid terrorism, will keep this all in check under dictatorial circumstances is naivete unbecoming of anyone who was an adult this century. (Read More)
