[IsraelTimes] The Palestinian Arabs resent the fact that the Saudis and other Gulf Arabs are becoming much closer with Israel, while only paying lip service to the “Palestinian cause.” Hence the Palestinian terrorists are continuing their fomenting of terror attacks against Israelis in an attempt to gain the West’s – and the Gulf Arabs’ – attention and sympathy. It’s a strategy that has worked before.
With the advent of the Abraham Accords, members UAE (Emirates), Bahrain, and Morocco, and unofficially Saudi Arabia, are already enjoying mutual benefits with Israel in economic, military, and touristic ways, as envisioned by the American planners of the Abraham Accords in the Trump administration. In its region, Israel is powerful, wealthy, and influential with the US. Thus, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has lost the attention of, and the money from, most of its former backers. While the kleptocratic, racist Fatah party ruling the Palestinian Authority (PA) still begs the West and fellow Gulf countries for money, the Hamas terrorists ruling in Gaza don’t even try to appeal to Western countries, instead relying on Iran and Qatar to support it.
With this realpolitik background, there is still daydreaming by the Biden Administration, the EU, the UN, and even many Israelis for a peaceful two state solution between Jews and Palestinian Arabs. This is certainly a fantasy. The clear majority of the Palestinian Arabs have no interest in sharing “their” land with us Jews. Their negotiating strategy is all or nothing, all for them and nothing for us. Negotiations with the Palestinian Arabs are pointless until they recognize and digest that Israel is predominant in its homeland. |