Maxiavelli: We Were Wrong About Palestine

This blog used to be a steadfast supporter of the two-state solution. Now, it is beginning to question the feasibility of the whole project.

Palestinians haven't proved capability to build a state. Anyone who minimally knows Judea & Samaria will tell you that the territories controlled by the Palestinian Authority (PA) are filthy, unorganised and undeveloped - given the fact that millions of euros of European Tax Payer's money have been poured into those territories, we have to wonder where that money went because it did not benefit the people, who are still forced to live in terrible conditions - no, the "occupation" excuse doesn't cut it because the Oslo Accords were signed to grant PA the opportunity to put their money were their mouth is (and they utterly failed).

Palestinians treat the territories they claim to be theirs as a sojourn place: what do they know that we don't? Furthermore, Michael Horesh (in The surprise of investing in the Palestinian economy) asks a very interesting question "(..) what is it that the Arab block knows, which forces it not to invest in the Palestinian economy?"

Palestinians haven't proved capability to live in peace. We are not  going to comment the fact that a common Palestinian feels entitled to allure his trusting former co-worker, an IDF soldier on leave, in order to murder him; we are not going to linger on how Fatah/PLO supports terrorist groups (in yet another violation of the Oslo Accords); but we are going to share two examples of what the media in the territories under Fatah's control broadcasts:

"'Long live the nation of Fatah and Yasser Arafat'/Allah's enemies, the sons of pigs (i.e. Jews) destroyed and uprooted the olive and fig trees" (Source: Official Palestinian Authority TV, Mar. 22, 2013)

"May Allah humiliate Israel just as it humiliated us. May Allah destroy it (...) We Palestinians [are] the most noble nation in the world because we only kill the Jews [because] they fought Muhammad." (Source: Official Palestinian Authority TV, July 18, 2013)

The so-called moderate Palestinians do not want peace. They want your money though.

Hamas has proven it can build a state - in fact, it has proven to be more competent than PA for it has built a statelet in Gaza. Nevertheless, it also treats the Strip as a sojourn state: it is dirty and unappealing (despite all the malls, coffee shops and hotels built for the Hamas Elite).

Hamas has not proven capability to live in peace alongside Israel. It teaches Hebrew in public schools because, officially speaking, "Palestinians need to learn the language of the enemy" (not neighbour) and it invests in Summer Camps, where children are trained in Jihad for they "will liberate Palestine and will not give up Jerusalem."

"The summer camps emphasize that the Islamic enterprise, the Palestinian enterprise and the human Arabic enterprise are on the rise, in a state of renewal and in a state of victory, great and powerful, and that the Zionist enterprise is in its regression, decline and weakening,  along with all of its allies and those who stand at its side. There is no future for the Zionist entity on the soil of Palestine. I say that it does not suffice to say that we do not recognize Israel. Rather, we say this with a shout and as a slogan during the summer camps [of the ‘Generation] of Return’: There is no future for Israel on the soil of Palestine!" - Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas Prime-Minister

Hamas, at least, doesn't hide it. It is not hypocritical because it doesn't beg the west for money - it has Iran for that.

Today, President Obama is expected to meet with President Mahmoud Abbas - within the context of the General Debate of the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly - to discuss the renewed peace negotiations.
We urge President Obama to recall and analyse the following words (uttered by PA, in Washington, last July):

"In a final resolution, we would not see the presence of a single Israeli [i.e. Jew] -- civilian or soldier -- on our lands,"

Indeed, because the Final Palestinian Solution is: