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Why the Palestinians Rejected Trump’s Peace Plan
Frrontpagemagazine ^ | Jan 30, 2020 | Robert Spencer

Posted on 01/31/2020 6:24:51 AM PST by SJackson

The one aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that no one wants to talk about.

President Trump unveiled his long-awaited “Deal of the Century” plan Tuesday afternoon, offering Palestinians a state and fifty billion dollars. Predictably enough, the Palestinians and their supporters are enraged. The way they have expressed that rage is a new indication of why all peace plans up to now have failed, and why all future plans are doomed to fail.

An Islamic Republic press organ, the Tehran Times, reported that “Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani on Wed., in a letter sent to the Parliament speakers of the Islamic states, urged Islamic countries to counter US-proposed so-called ‘Deal of Century.’”’

According to the Jerusalem Post Tuesday, Islamic State (ISIS) caliph Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi “called on all Muslims worldwide to thwart US President Donald Trump’s peace plan, and added that ‘The Muslims who live in Palestine... will be at the forefront of the fight against the Jews [and] foiling the ‘Deal of the Century.’”

And in Turkey, according to Yeni Şafak, “Turkish demonstrators poured onto streets across the country on Tuesday to protest U.S. President Donald Trump’s long-awaited Middle East peace plan….Many protesters at the rally held placards bearing slogans reading, ‘Jerusalem belongs to Islam.’”

Even before the plan was announced, the official Palestinian Authority daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida on Monday declared that the Palestinian National Council “again expressed its objection to every plan, project, deal, or attempt to harm the Palestinian people’s inalienable rights.” It called upon the PLO to “take all the necessary steps to encourage and escalate the resistance and the struggle against the occupation in all its forms and manners.” Jihad is “struggle” in Arabic.

“Islamic states” should counter the plan. “Muslims worldwide” should work to thwart it. “Jerusalem belongs to Islam.” Palestinians should escalate their “jihad.”

This is the one aspect of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict that mainstream Western analysts routinely dismiss or ignore: Islam. This is a disastrous exercise in willful ignorance, as the Palestinian jihadis and their supporters constantly frame their war against Israel in Islamic terms, as The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process shows.

It’s easy to understand, albeit inexcusable, why the Islamic aspect of the conflict is routinely ignored. The Qur’an commands Muslims to “drive them out from where they drove you out” (2:191), and even though it is a historical fiction that Israel actually drove Muslim Arabs out, this claim is a staple of pro-Palestinian propaganda, and hence it is a divine imperative, no more negotiable than the Ten Commandments are for Jews and Christians, that Muslims must destroy Israel and “drive out” the Israelis.

That means that no negotiated settlement will ever establish Israel securely and end the jihad against it, and that’s why analysts ignore Islam when considering the conflict: people don’t like bad news, or problems that cannot be solved. Nonetheless, this is the reality of the situation, and no good can ever come from ignoring reality.

In light of the role of Islam in the conflict, a Palestinian state would simply be a new base for more jihad attacks against Israel, as the withdrawal from Gaza demonstrated. Its establishment would not bring peace. The idea that Palestinians or their allies and supporters will ever sincerely accept Israel’s right to exist is a pipe dream. In light of that, it is easy to see why Abbas so contemptuously dismissed the plan before it was even announced: Trump declared: “To ensure a successful Palestinian state, we are asking the Palestinians to meet the challenges of peaceful coexistence. This includes adopting basic laws enshrining human rights, protecting against financial and political corruption, stopping the malign activities of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other enemies of peace, ending the incitement of hatred against Israel – so important – and permanently halting the financial compensation to terrorists.” Not gonna happen.

The refusal of analysts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to face the role of Islamic theology in the conflict is astonishingly naïve and ethnocentric. The Palestinians and their supporters will never accept the Trump peace plan because of Islamic imperatives that mandate that Islam must dominate and not be dominated, and that any land that once was ruled by Islamic law must be ruled by Islamic law forever. Unless and until these facts are taken into account, every peace plan is foredoomed.


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1 posted on 01/31/2020 6:24:51 AM PST by SJackson
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And here I thought Islam was a Religion of Peace

2 posted on 01/31/2020 6:27:07 AM PST by SJackson (blow in a dogÂ’s face, he gets mad at you, car ride; he sticks his head out the window)
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To: SJackson

My peace plan: push Palestinians into the sea. Light off an H-Bomb so the whole world knows you have the technology. Rebuild the Temple.


3 posted on 01/31/2020 6:27:30 AM PST by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong ...and Epstein did not kill himself.)
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To: SJackson

Simple:

THEY WANT IT ALL!......................


4 posted on 01/31/2020 6:28:43 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: SJackson

All the other plans offered the Palestinians a state. This plan offers Palestinians less of a state and none of Jerusalem besides. No wonder they turned it down.


5 posted on 01/31/2020 6:29:16 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: SJackson

Who cares what they reject.


6 posted on 01/31/2020 6:30:49 AM PST by chris37 (Impeach Chief Obama Injustice Roberts, a fraud, a clown and a tyrant!)
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To: SJackson

Israeli-Palestinian...

Patriot-progressive
Mongoose-snake
Water-oil
Sane-insane


7 posted on 01/31/2020 6:32:48 AM PST by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: SJackson
Trump and Netanyahu know full-well that the so-called "Palestinians" will never accept any kind of peace plan.

Trump's and Netanyahu's goal here was to expose the Palestinian's true nature to those who naively support its cause.

Of course, even that is a waste of time, because the naive supporters of the Palestinian cause will never change either.

8 posted on 01/31/2020 6:33:09 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: SJackson

The goal of Islam is to turn Dar-Al Harb (the World at War) into Dar-Al Islam (the Word Submitted). It’s a tenant of faith that land which was once under Sharia Law is theirs forever. They can not accept defeat. They may accept retreat for a time but they will never give up trying to get the land back. Accepting defeat is the equivalent of accepting that Allah is not the greatest. Their worldview is largely built on “my god can beat up your god.” If they win, it shows their god is greater and we must convert. They will not allow the opposite outcome.

The problem with the peace plan is they would be forced to give up their claim to the land of Israel. It’s a non-starter no matter what other objections they shout.

Trump and Netanyahu are in the process of exposing this reality.


9 posted on 01/31/2020 6:49:18 AM PST by pgyanke (Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
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Why the Palestinians Rejected Trump’s Peace Plan:
Because they don’t want peace. The animals want WAR!


10 posted on 01/31/2020 7:00:35 AM PST by Cyclops08
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To: DoodleDawg

What an ignorant comment


11 posted on 01/31/2020 7:07:13 AM PST by Dartoid
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To: SJackson

The antichrist will step in, modify the treaty and convince both sides to accept a seven year peace treaty.


12 posted on 01/31/2020 7:09:00 AM PST by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: SJackson

The Palestinians rejected it because it doesn’t address their primary, non-negotiable demand for “peace” (and their primary objective): Israel must be destroyed and all Israeli citizens must be killed.


13 posted on 01/31/2020 7:12:08 AM PST by glennaro
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To: Dartoid
What an ignorant comment.

Why?

14 posted on 01/31/2020 7:14:23 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: SJackson
Why the Palestinians Rejected Trump’s Peace Plan?

Because, The Plan allows Israel to exist!!!

When the bedouins say never, they mean never...
15 posted on 01/31/2020 7:18:31 AM PST by phs3 (MAGA - Winning a little more every day!!!)
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Funny that right before Israel declared statehood, bedouins were hunted by other muslims for sport!

As a matter of fact, I would postulate that the only reason bedouins even exist now, is because Israel gave the crazies something else to hate in the region.


16 posted on 01/31/2020 7:23:52 AM PST by phs3 (MAGA - Winning a little more every day!!!)
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To: SJackson

There is only one reason the Fakestinians rejected Trump’s peace plan and every plan previously. It does not provide for driving Israel into the sea.


17 posted on 01/31/2020 7:35:07 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: chris37

“Who cares what they reject.”

I view the proposal as a foundation for future proposals and actions. It is necessary that Trump follow up on the proposal — keep the pressure on.


18 posted on 01/31/2020 7:39:23 AM PST by cymbeline
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To: SJackson

They have four years to change their minds.

Otherwise, THEY LOSE.


19 posted on 01/31/2020 8:14:10 AM PST by karnage
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To: SJackson
That means that no negotiated settlement will ever establish Israel securely and end the jihad against it, and that’s why analysts ignore Islam when considering the conflict: people don’t like bad news, or problems that cannot be solved. Nonetheless, this is the reality of the situation, and no good can ever come from ignoring reality.

Eradicate all mooselimb terrorists, now.

It's the same as my tag line, but I'll settle for MOABs instead of nukes.

But like cockroaches, you need to kill them all.

If you can't accept that, you will lose.

20 posted on 01/31/2020 8:45:06 AM PST by USS Alaska (NUKE THE MOOSELIMB, TERRORISTS, NOW!)
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