Palestinian shakedown artist try spin to cover objectives
Victor Davis Hanson:
The Belmont Club says, "If the West is brought under Sharia law it will have no excuses. It will hardly be possible to argue that its leaders were deceived...." I think their meeting in Mecca either made them delusional and at least made them hope that we are delusional. One of the problems with the Palestinians is that they have never really been held responsible for their circumstances. They always whine and complain about the Israelis or the US, both of whom they hate, and both of whom they blame. If anything we have for too long allowed them to become a dependency without responsibility.
...The Palestinians are a beggar country that wants to be a chooser. They channels most of their productivity into human bombs and building rockets to kill Israeli civilians. The US and Israel should not subsidize these people.
Reuters ran the account of the agreement by its reporter Mohammed Assadi. In it, we are told by Hamas spokesman Ghazi Hamad, thanks to Saudi talks with the Americans and Europeans, there is a good chance to "market this agreement" in order to "win back Western aid halted because of Hamas's refusal to recognize Israel."
But then the Hamas spokesman warned, "They cannot ignore this agreement and impose their own conditions."
Of course immediately Nizar Rayyan, "a senior Hamas leader" is reported as assuring that "Hamas would never recognize Israel and that the deal on the government does not change the movement's position." In his own words, "We will never recognize Israel. There is nothing called Israel, neither in reality nor in the imagination."
And what is the source of the internecine killing on the West Bank? The Reuters article goes on to announce that the sanctions, in the mind of Palestinians, "were partly to blame for the violence that has killed 90 people since December."
Consider the logic of the Palestinian position: A group dedicated to destroying the only stable democracy in the Middle East announces that it wishes to "market" an agreement to restore American and European handouts, whose cutoff is supposedly responsible for their own civil war on the West Bank.
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Why would any Arabs want any money from the US, when the latest Zogby poll, we are told, reveals that the United States is the least popular country in the Arab collective mind?
Surely a proud people would logically announce, "We do not wish one cent of tainted American money"? And surely they would not suggest the lack of such tainted American money leads them to kill each other.
And why, with $500 billion in excess petrodollars floating around the Middle East, is a few hundred million from the US, that is pouring money into Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan, seen as the make or break subsidy that either ensures peace or leads to war?
Couldn't Hamas simply instead ask Iran, to cut back a little on the rockets to Hezbollah, and send it instead a few million for groceries?
And if impoverished, where does the money for all the machine guns, rockets, RPGs, and explosives come from?
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The Belmont Club says, "If the West is brought under Sharia law it will have no excuses. It will hardly be possible to argue that its leaders were deceived...." I think their meeting in Mecca either made them delusional and at least made them hope that we are delusional. One of the problems with the Palestinians is that they have never really been held responsible for their circumstances. They always whine and complain about the Israelis or the US, both of whom they hate, and both of whom they blame. If anything we have for too long allowed them to become a dependency without responsibility.
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