Thursday, January 30, 2020

Why the Palestinians Rejected Trump's Peace Plan

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.

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.

"Jerusalem belongs to Islam." Palestinians should escalate their "Jihad.".

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.

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 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.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/01/why-palestinians-rejected-trumps-peace-plan-robert-spencer/

No comments: