At a UN Security Council meeting on Tuesday to discuss the “situation in the Middle East,” Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened with a long speech focused almost exclusively on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, making only a passing reference to the war in Syria and none at all to that in Yemen. Ban took pains in his speech to justify Palestinian terror by asserting that “it is human nature to react to occupation, which often serves as an incubator of hate and extremism.” Jonathan Tobin writes:
[T]he recent upsurge in [violence] wasn’t the “natural” reaction to Palestinian frustration about the failure to bring about a two-state solution that the majority of [Palestinians] continue to oppose. The spark was the lies told by Mahmoud Abbas and the rest of the Palestinian leadership about alleged Israeli plans to harm the mosques on the Temple Mount. The driving force since then has been the same spirit of rejectionism that has animated the Palestinian national movement since its inception. Palestinian public opinion continues to view the Jewish presence in any part of the country as unacceptable. . . .
It is not “human nature”—normal instincts that are presumed to exist in all people—that drives Palestinians to seek out random Israelis, whether they are young or old, male or female, or even pregnant, and to stab or shoot them. In this case, the “incubator” of hatred and extremism is not Israel’s refusal to give up land it knows will be used as a launching pad for more terrorism, but rather a Palestinian ideology that views territorial compromise as treason.
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