As stabbings and other murderous attacks continue unabated in Israel, some are calling for the resumption of negotiations with Mahmoud Abbas, who—they point out—is eighty-one years old and may soon be replaced by someone even less peaceable than he. David Horovitz objects to this reasoning:
His successor may indeed well be worse, but Abbas is impossible. His duplicitous terrorism-fostering predecessor Yasir Arafat assured the Palestinians that they had no reason or need to compromise with the Jews because they were colonial invaders, an unrooted and temporary presence that his people’s stubbornness and terrorism would eventually see off. Abbas chose not to counter that narrative . . . and more recently intensified the strategic campaign of misrepresentation—telling Palestinians that the Jews have no business at the Temple Mount. . . .
Abbas may well be deploying his forces to keep a lid on clashes in the West Bank, but he’s presiding over an ongoing, strategic demonizing of Israel and Israelis—via his education system, political and spiritual leadership, and mainstream and social media—that positively guarantees Palestinian violence and terrorism. So effective is this process that, nowadays, when a young Palestinian has a row at home, feels depressed, or wants to make a name for him or herself, the default response is to grab a knife and go kill the nearest vulnerable Jew.
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