How can anyone discern the truth in today's upside-down, inside-out world? This editorial at JPost gives it a shot:
The truth is that the more that Israelis have come to support Palestinian statehood, the more the Palestinians have moved away from the idea, towards Hamas-style dreams of eradicating Israel. It may well be that a higher proportion of Israelis, citizens and leaders, support Palestinian statehood than do Palestinians, particularly at the leadership level.
I don't happen to share the assumption that Palestinians ever wanted a state next to Israel. I think the only state they've ever really wanted is one on top of, or instead of, Israel. But what do I know? Just because they're always saying No, doesn't mean that one day they won't say Yes. Or does it?
The Palestinians said NO to peace
1) In 1937, when Britain under the Mandate offered the Peel Commission plan.
2) In 1947, when the UN proposed the establishment of two states in the region – one Jewish, one Arab.
3) In 1948, when Israel’s Proclamation of Independence invited the Palestinians to remain in their homes and become equal citizens in the new state.
4) In 1967, when Israel offered to return all the territories conquered in return for peace.
5) In 1978-9, when Israel offered the acceptance of Palestinian autonomy in exchange for peace at Camp David I.
6) In 1993, when Arafat signed the Oslo accords, promised to renounce terrorism and recognize Israel, and then declared on Jordanian television that he had taken the first step “in the 1974 plan.” This was a thinly veiled reference to the “phased plan,” according to which any territorial gain was acceptable as a means toward the ultimate goal of Israel’s destruction.
7) In 2000, at Camp David II when Israel accepted the Clinton Plan and the Palestinians did not.
8) In 2001, when Israel’s PM Ehud Barak offered Yasser Arafat East Jerusalem, 97% of the ‘West Bank’ and 3% compensation from Israel’s territory, in addition to all of Gaza (the Taba Negotiation), and Arafat turned it down without so much as a counteroffer.
9) In 2006? when Ehud Olmert held out his "hand in peace to our Palestinian neighbors in the hope that it won't be returned empty"?
What will happen now?
I think it's practical to believe that once Israel has reduced checkpoints, released frozen funds, freed thousands of terrorists and surrendered "many territories" (Jew-free) - as "gestures of goodwill" and in exchange for nothing - they'll start up killing Jews again. And why not? It works for them.
In the meantime, the US may offer Israel as a sacrificial lamb to Iran and Syria in exchange for their "assistance" or "cooperation" in Iraq.
We won't understand what's happening, of course, because Dhimmedia lies to such an extent that no one can know the truth.
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