Palestine Today

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Didn't you say they were starving?

Those who are unemployed can't afford that stuff.

 

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Didn't you say they were starving?

Those who are unemployed can't afford that stuff.

Really? Same in UK. Even some who are employed.

They go to food banks.

 

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Didn't you say they were starving?

Those who are unemployed can't afford that stuff.

Really? Same in UK. Even some who are. employed.

They go to food banks.

Indeed.

 

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However, there are numerous problems with Palestinian statehood under the current Palestinian leadership and the unrelenting terror and incitement that we’ve witnessed for years.

For one thing, there’s the cautionary tale of the 2005 Gaza disengagement. The Palestinian Authority (PA) is the entity to which Israel would cede authority in any future deal. But a year and a half after the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, Hamas launched a coup and expelled Fatah — the main constituent party of the PA — from Gaza, and proceeded to conduct an arms and terror buildup that has led to three full-blown wars with Israel during the subsequent 13-plus years.

In the first major test of its ability to provide security and peaceful co-existence, the PA failed miserably.

What would happen if Israel similarly withdrew from the West Bank? In the Bar Ilan speech, Netanyahu said that a future Palestinian state would have to be demilitarized because “we don’t want Kassam rockets on Petah Tikva, Grad rockets on Tel Aviv, or missiles on Ben-Gurion Airport.”‘

More importantly, there’s also the question of the Palestinian commitment to the two-state solution. During the decade from 1999 to 2009, the Palestinians were offered statehood at least twice, and both times refused it.

In 2000, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered a peace deal to PA President Yasser Arafat at Camp David. Arafat rejected the deal, and two months later launched the so-called al-Aqsa Intifada.


No Matter What Happens in the Israeli Election, There Is No Palestinian State to Build

 

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However, there are numerous problems with Palestinian statehood under the current Palestinian leadership and the unrelenting terror and incitement that we’ve witnessed for years.

For one thing, there’s the cautionary tale of the 2005 Gaza disengagement. The Palestinian Authority (PA) is the entity to which Israel would cede authority in any future deal. But a year and a half after the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, Hamas launched a coup and expelled Fatah — the main constituent party of the PA — from Gaza, and proceeded to conduct an arms and terror buildup that has led to three full-blown wars with Israel during the subsequent 13-plus years.

In the first major test of its ability to provide security and peaceful co-existence, the PA failed miserably.

What would happen if Israel similarly withdrew from the West Bank? In the Bar Ilan speech, Netanyahu said that a future Palestinian state would have to be demilitarized because “we don’t want Kassam rockets on Petah Tikva, Grad rockets on Tel Aviv, or missiles on Ben-Gurion Airport.”‘

More importantly, there’s also the question of the Palestinian commitment to the two-state solution. During the decade from 1999 to 2009, the Palestinians were offered statehood at least twice, and both times refused it.

In 2000, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered a peace deal to PA President Yasser Arafat at Camp David. Arafat rejected the deal, and two months later launched the so-called al-Aqsa Intifada.


No Matter What Happens in the Israeli Election, There Is No Palestinian State to Build

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is the entity to which Israel would cede authority in any future deal. But a year and a half after the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, Hamas launched a coup and expelled Fatah — the main constituent party of the PA — from Gaza,

Fatah lost the elections. Hamas was the majority party in the Palestinian Authority.

 

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However, there are numerous problems with Palestinian statehood under the current Palestinian leadership and the unrelenting terror and incitement that we’ve witnessed for years.

For one thing, there’s the cautionary tale of the 2005 Gaza disengagement. The Palestinian Authority (PA) is the entity to which Israel would cede authority in any future deal. But a year and a half after the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, Hamas launched a coup and expelled Fatah — the main constituent party of the PA — from Gaza, and proceeded to conduct an arms and terror buildup that has led to three full-blown wars with Israel during the subsequent 13-plus years.

In the first major test of its ability to provide security and peaceful co-existence, the PA failed miserably.

What would happen if Israel similarly withdrew from the West Bank? In the Bar Ilan speech, Netanyahu said that a future Palestinian state would have to be demilitarized because “we don’t want Kassam rockets on Petah Tikva, Grad rockets on Tel Aviv, or missiles on Ben-Gurion Airport.”‘

More importantly, there’s also the question of the Palestinian commitment to the two-state solution. During the decade from 1999 to 2009, the Palestinians were offered statehood at least twice, and both times refused it.

In 2000, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered a peace deal to PA President Yasser Arafat at Camp David. Arafat rejected the deal, and two months later launched the so-called al-Aqsa Intifada.


No Matter What Happens in the Israeli Election, There Is No Palestinian State to Build

The Palestinian Authority (PA) is the entity to which Israel would cede authority in any future deal. But a year and a half after the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, Hamas launched a coup and expelled Fatah — the main constituent party of the PA — from Gaza,

Fatah lost the elections. Hamas was the majority party in the Palestinian Authority.

Democracy, eh?

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