Posted on 06/27/2019 6:45:32 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Trump administration thinks appealing to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un by dangling promises of prosperity in front of him if he agrees to change his ways is the path to peace on the Korean Peninsula. So far there have been no agreements to build a Trump resort and Kim has made no effort to adopt any other form of capitalistic behavior.
Undeterred, the administration's front man for Middle East peace, the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has revealed part of his plan (the rest he says will come after Israeli elections this fall) to settle the multi-decade conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.
Kushner told Reuters the plan includes $50 billion in economic incentives, if the Palestinian leadership will simply recognize Israel's right to exist, promise not to engage in terrorist actions and seek a peace agreement with the Jewish State.
One critical element is being left out of what we know so far about the proposal and that is religion. Kushner, who is Jewish, should have some particular insight into the conflict that eludes secularists. The Palestinians and Muslims in some neighboring countries believe they have a religious mandate to wipe out Israel, killing as many Jews as possible, because Israel is an illegal occupier of "their" land and Allah has ordered it.
Evidence that Kushner's plan is likely to experience the same fate as those that have gone before is contained in a study of textbooks used by Palestinian schoolchildren.
The study, conducted by Eldad J. Pardo of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and published in April 2017, found the latest textbooks and curricula for grades one through four are "significantly more radical than previous (publications)." Pardo says the latest texts "(teach) students to be martyrs, demonizes and denies the existence of Israel and focuses on a 'return' to an exclusively Palestinian homeland."
Even math books use martyrs to teach arithmetic.
In upper grades, writes Pardo, "The strategy of violence and pressure (in place of negotiations) is advocated as the most effective action to achieve Palestinian goals. ... And in these upper-grade textbooks, the concept of 'eternal war' is instigated through the abuse of Islamic terminology."
Real history is replaced with Palestinian and Islamic reinterpretations and even reinventions of history. One example: Pardo says Palestinians are being taught that they have always occupied the land. In fact, even their name -- Palestinians -- is a modern invention. As noted on the Jewish Virtual Library website, "Leading up to Israel's independence in 1948, it was common for the international press to label Jews, not Arabs, living in the mandate as Palestinians. It was not until years after Israeli independence that the Arabs living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip were called Palestinians."
There is much more from the study. "The Palestinian national anthem is taught in third-grade," writes Pardo, and "instills the spirit of fighting, revenge and sacrifice." And then there's this from the same third-grade text: "Jerusalem is a Palestinian city and capital of the State of Palestine. The Palestinian flag will be hoisted on the city's walls after the liberation from Israeli occupation, God willing."
Add these incitements to the sermons from Palestinian mosques and media in which Israel and the Jewish people are degraded and their enemies are encouraged to destroy their state and evict or murder their people.
How does a Jewish-American who will be doubly hated for his citizenship and his religion bribe Palestinian leaders into reversing their religious mandate and political goals? If that strategy is not revealed in the rest of Kushner's peace plan, and if the Palestinians refuse to take the bribe, the plan will fail.
In the mind of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas it already has. At a news conference last Sunday, Abbas appeared to reject Kushner's plan, saying, "We will not be slaves or servants."
The Kushner plan is a miscalculation similar to those made by previous administrations. Aside from abandoning the land-for-peace formula, which never worked, this plan appears to differ only in the amount of money being offered.
Once Hamas and the PLO reject this President Trump can wipe his hands and walk away from the “palestinian” issue for good. That may be the larger plan.
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HEADLINE: “Bribing Palestinians Won’t Work”
ABBAS: “Works for me.”
the current Palestinian leadership depends on the misery of their people to legitimize their political stance that allows them to enrich themselves.
Any policy that actually relieved the misery in Gaza or Judea or Samaria would delegitimize Hamas and Abbas.
Until the Palestinians rise up - not against the Israelis but against their own corrupt leaders - will the material well-being of the Palestinians improve.
The money is there and always has been. It’s fewer than 5 million people we’re talking about. If they really, believably said they wanted peace with Israel but wanted infrastructure and cash to make the people’s lives better it would be forthcoming - globally and from the Arab countries and from the Israelis, too.
But not until they stop being terrorists.
The Utopian socialists love to point to Denmark as a model of well functioning socialism. Aside from the fact that it has problems which are not well publicized, two big factors make the model work way better than, say, Venezuela:
There is a crucial factor in any equation for peace in the Mideast: the religious-based hatred of radical Islam for anything Jewish. Add to that the Islamic tenet making lying to help the cause of Islam a moral act.
If you don’t consider that in every proposal then you are wasting your time.
None of our politicians have ever faced that brutal reality, probably because they’re scared of the only feasible solution.
Palestinians? What’s that?
Bribing doesn’t work, eh?
Seems to have done a mighty fine job inside the Beltway.
I agree. They refused an offer to resolve the issue.
Now with Iran succombing to sanctions, the Palestinians will suffer mightily.
The result will be no palestine. There will be Israel, Egypt and Jordan.
Yasser Arafat had $50 billion in his Swiss bank account, and would not give up one inch of Arab-occupied Jewish land. Kushner is a fool.
“Once Hamas and the PLO reject this President Trump can wipe his hands and walk away from the “palestinian” issue for good. That may be the larger plan.”
Exactly. He can say he tried. Plan B? Not another red cent to the Pali’s In aid.
Well said, vig...
Yeah it’s a win win. They accept the offer and we’re done with this whole sorrid affair or they reject it, Israel annexes Area C and we’re done with it.
It is an incredibly stupid plan which has zero chance of succeeding because it ignores the underlying issues of the Palestinians wanting a state and Israel not wanting to give them one, and Israel wanting to continue existing while the Palestinians want them gone. All the money in the world isn’t going to resolve that problem.
Q: You know how to tell an honest politician or bureaucrat inside the beltway?
A: They are the ones who stay bought.
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