The Insanity Driving American Palestinian Policy

 

Secretary of State Kerry gave a blatantly erroneous, magnificently ignorant, critical targeting of a phantom problem and deliberately dishonest assessment of the driving motivation behind the current Arab violence against Israelis by stating publically placing the administrations bias plainly within the view of the media and those desirous of demonizing Israel at any cost when he claimed the Arabs were driven to violent distraction by the continued increase in Israeli building beyond the Green Line in the so-called settlements. Secretary of State Kerry was either deliberately fabricating out of the thin air the accusation that Israel has even permitted the construction of a deck or a porch, let alone any additional homes, apartments or other construction in the areas beyond the Green Line as Prime Minister Netanyahu has enforced meticulously the desired building freeze which President Obama demanded after his reelection as the necessary Israeli contribution if there were to be any hopes for reaching an eventual peace drawing onto the map of the Middle East a second state for Arabs to reside alongside Israel sharing in peace between the two people and mutually enforced security for both states between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea. This has been the chimerical summation which has been presented by the Obama administration despite their having full knowledge that such building had been terminated as demanded and Mahmoud Abbas refused to even meet with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu back in the first year of Obama’s Presidency and all construction has been suspended since President Obama’s reelection starting with his 2009 inauguration.

 

Meanwhile, the entire brain-trust employed by President Obama, Secretary of State Kerry and the rest of the advisors have all apparently neglected a few not so insignificant facts about Mahmoud Abbas actions, intents, recent statements and also his multifaceted program of incitement to violence and rewarding that selfsame violence. Mahmoud Abbas over the past twelve months has announced the dissolution of the Palestinian Authority and the establishment of Palestine claiming that he would be its titular head of state, made an alliance which merged Hamas with the PLO and thus his construct of Palestine, declared Jerusalem as the Capital City solely of his constructed state denying it as the Israeli Capital City and theoretically annexing all of west Jerusalem, declared the Oslo Accords dead and removing his constructs, all of them, from its limitations and its requirements on the Arab entities, worked with numerous European governments to establish Arab homes and communities in Area C which was reserved for Israel and forbidden to Arab construction, and began the Third Intifada which has also been called the Stabbing Intifada with an all-out campaign of incitement using all forms of media including but not limited to Facebook, multiple social media formats, radio, television, financial rewards, recent increase in honoring terrorists from the prior Intifadas, school lessons of incitement, releasing popular songs such as “Stab, Stab,” “Stab the Zionist and say God is great,” “Let the knives stab your enemy,” “Say hello to being a martyr,” and “Run Over, Run Over the Settler,” examples as depicted in the videos below.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But why allow some insignificant item such as the truth and reality impinge on your preconceived notions that the real problem comes from the overcrowding within many family homes and apartments in the Jewish cities and towns where as their children have married and had children since January 2009 when President Obama was reelected and sworn into office and the Israeli government of Prime Minister Netanyahu agreed to freeze all building beyond the Green Line causing this ever increasing overcrowding in many family homes as they are making do with empty promises that eventually the tenders which have been bid upon but frozen at that point so as to keep Netanyahu’s promise to Obama and Kerry yet they tend to scream foul every time bids for tenders are collected and a contract rewarded for if and when the building freeze is ever lifted. The building by Israel are the least damaging threat to peace and the formation of a permanent peace and that is where we need to address the reality and from that derive an honest and straightforward assessment of the entire situation from all aspects and not just seeking to support a decided view which condemns and vilifies Israel and through that the Jews in general. The murderous violence perpetrated by the Arabs, both Israeli citizens and members of terror groups Fatah, al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, Hamas and rumored to include Islamic State sent individuals to join in murdering Israelis with the hope of killing Jews. Below is a picture of the investigation and cleansing of the scene where an Israeli soldier and three others in Tel Aviv on October 8, 2015. Another difference between the Arabs treating of a place where one has been injured and the treatment by Israel in similar instances is the Arabs loiter and make a point to bring every reporter, camera and media to cover the situation for maximum coverage in Europe and the rest of the Western World while in Israel the family and victims are respected and the site investigated and then immediately cleansed as seen in picture below.

 

 

 

Since the introduction of the Oslo Accords in September of 1993 there has been one overriding occurrence which has been ignored by the United Nations, the European Union, and a host of leaders in Europe, the United States, the developed world and met with various shades of glee by the Arab and Muslim worlds. Every time when any leader of the United Nations, United States, the Quartet or the European Union and her member states decided to push for peace talks the program was sickenly the same story, Israel, Israel, Israel and Israel was forced to make dangerous concessions time after time while the Arabs were either given a free ride or were required to act nice. When the talks are resumed the Arab leaders starting with Yasser Arafat (master terrorist and inventor of plane hijacking, homicidal suicide bombers and numerous other forms of terror) and later taken to the present day by Holocaust denier Mahmoud Abbas simply attended the negotiations in a simple means to try and force the maximalist positions they could extract from the Israeli side before making a large disturbance denouncing any claims and statements that they had made even a single promise while assuring that the mediators were sure to record every compromise which were even discussed for Israel to make. This was the modus-operandi for every negotiation which was conducted until Israel had been backed to her last stand without compromising away vital requirements. Israel was convinced to make what proved to be her absolute greatest sacrifice by President George W. Bush, who was regarded as being Israel’s greatest friend to ever sit in the White House, all of Gaza and removing eight-thousand Israeli citizens as well as exhuming every Jewish grave for reinterring within Israel while also attempting to assist the transplanted Israelis after they lost their homes and often their businesses and everything they had owned suddenly in August, 2005. Even now there are those Israeli citizens turned refugees have yet to be repatriated and made whole and productive and some may never recover. The surrendered lands of Gaza were lost soon thereafter negating any promises made by the administration of George W. Bush and especially Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as Hamas took over Gaza after a few days of fighting as Abbas’s forces just had no fight within folding over June 10–15, 2007. All told, the Oslo Accords have cost Israel thousands upon thousands of lives lost and hundreds times that in lives ruined or inalterably torn asunder.

 

The reality as to why there has been no compromise reached has been due to the Arab leadership and their more fanatical Islamists demanding the complete eradication of the Jewish State of Israel. Abbas has stated that he desires his state of Palestine and the return of five-million Arabs into Israel making the Jews a minority placed into Dhimmitude all but enslaved to their Islamic “betters” and relegated to some hellish existence knowing that at any moment and the whim of any of their keepers they would be given the choice of conversion or death. This is the truth of the situation as the Israelis, and especially the Jews and all the people who are of non-Islamic religions also forced into the same fate. Eventually the Muslims who are of any sect other than the majority sect would also be forced into the same predicament. For some reason such a deal does not appeal to the Israeli Jews and many other minorities even including Muslims from other than the Sunni belief structures such as mainly Shiites. With the Oslo Accords now trashed by Abbas’s Fatah and Hamas united such that they are both now simply another group waiting for the correct time and situations to join the Islamic State, something not all that removed from Hamas in attitude and desires when facing the greater world. The reality in the Middle East and across North Africa (MENA) is that unless the Islamic State is defanged and made to appear powerless and ineffective against any other power, especially a non-Muslim power, they will continue to grow and eventually take over every last terror groups and Islamist Sharia State leaving only the Wahabbists of Saudi Arabia, the Shia of Iran and Israel left to oppose this self-anointed Caliphate which will have spread across the near and far reaches of MENA. Should the declarations of being the next Caliphate not be opposed by the free world while these forces of the Islamic State are simply a relatively small area when compared to their goals, then they will eventually grow and take command of the oil fields of Saudi, Kuwaiti, and other GCC oilfields and potentially also the oilfields of Iran followed by the Iranian nuclear weapons production sites and their scientists and knowledge. This would be catastrophic and by forcing Israel into weakness the world is simply tempting just such a fate. Israel as the Jewish State is the lynchpin which keeps a control over the forces of MENA breaking out full strength into Europe as Israel would pose a very credible military force posing too great a threat to permit to remain as a threat against the rear and hindering supply-lines. This is the crucial role played by Israel which both the United States and Europe appear willing to play without going forward. The lack of recognizing the crucial role Israel plays is why President Obama had been so cavalier regarding Israel willing to sacrifice Israel today. Islam is preparing to pose a threat directly into the heart of Europe and an anti-Semitic disease once again infecting many in Europe on a scale not witnessed since the beginning of World War II. This has been why many rumors have been floating about the Internet with claims of knowledge as to the sides being drawn bringing forth claims of the immediate start to World War III. Israel has been informed how each President had supported her more than all the previous administrations which have unfortunately proven to be false. Let us hope that Israel can survive the remainder of President Obama, his time in office and the mischief he could still be the cause.

 

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Abbas Playing a Dangerous Game and Israel is the Least of His Problems

Abbas has taken steps beyond belief in his psychological and propaganda war against Israel while also reinforcing and calling for a ramping of societal violence against Jews and Israel. Abbas recently called for the Palestinian people to continue to riot and to increase their ferocity and size in order to deny Jews in particular and other non-Muslims in general from gaining access to the Temple Mount. He has again denied any Jewish and inferred no Christian historic attachment to the Temple Mount. His call specifically demanded the riots on the Temple Mount continue even should the rioters need to literally break through police lines and break restrictions and laws in order to continue their violence demanding that Jews be banned from walking on the Temple Mount. His reference was that any Jews ever walking on the Temple Mount was by definition a defilement of the al-Aqsa Mosque and other Islamic places located on the Temple Mount. When some Israelis objected to the offensive Abbas comments he went even further comparing their presence as herds of cattle which should be denied stampeding the Temple Mount. Possibly as a result of Abbas making such inflammatory remarks or perhaps due to other instigations, visitors to the Temple Mount this morning were treated to the blasphemous representation painted on one of the entrances to the Temple Mount this morning equating the Star of David with the Nazi Swastika. The real question is whether Abbas is actually leading the violence which has plagued the Temple Mount and areas throughout Judea and Samaria (West Bank) or were his comments made to take advantage of a situation which already exists by making statements which made it appear Abbas was in command?

The truth might be somewhat different even that portrayed by the world’s media which has a special fawning relationship with Abbas always ready to grant him credit and support propping him up and thus salvaging the peace process and the moribund two state solution, a hope the world has invested in to such an extent that letting go is no longer thinkable no matter how obvious its lack of feasibility objective inspections would reveal. The reality is that the rioting on the Temple Mount is currently being choreographed and financed by Hamas as they are financing coordinators and instigators to continue to organize and orchestrate unending disruptions on the Temple Mount. Hamas has the same objective of disrupting Jewish visitation to the Temple Mount but they have further objectives which may be even more dangerous. The Shin Bet uncovered a coup attempt planned by Hamas to replace the Palestinian Authority from rule in the West Bank similarly as they did when they took control of Gaza in a bloody coup. The Israelis also captured the blueprint of the plan along with the leaders and many of the planners when they rounded up those who they had uncovered were members of the planned coup. Some of the plan was revealed through innuendo to the public and as far as I could gather, the coup against the Palestinian Authority was to instigate as much and varied amounts of disruptions maximizing the violent components leading to a state of runaway violence which would overwhelm the Palestinian Authority Security Force’s ability to control causing Abbas to request assistance from the Israelis in quieting the state of disorder and reestablish his ability to control the levels of violence against Israel. Abbas would never put it so plainly, but that would be the reality of such a request.

With the leadership of their plan taken out of the field by the Israelis, Hamas may be working towards their same goals by other means. As stated, it is known that much of the violence on the Temple Mount is financed by Hamas and it will be only a matter of time before this raised level of disturbances on the Temple Mount begin to spread. Once they begin to spread naturally, then any efforts put into place to further stimulate higher levels of violent unrest would serve to produce multiple results. Meanwhile, Mahmoud Abbas will continue to bait the trap by encouraging escalating violence as he pretends to be at the fore leading the actions when in reality he is a pretender following each escalation with his feeble attempts to appear in control. Hamas will be more than happy to receive the verbal reinforcement of their plans to continuously increase the levels and extents of the disruptions and violence as such escalations serve both of their wars, the one against the Israelis and Jews as well as the one for complete control over all of the Palestinian areas which requires the overthrow of Abbas. Before Hamas can take the final steps to overthrow Abbas they must first destroy what little faith the Israelis have remaining for his ability to control Palestinian actions, discount Abbas’s reputation throughout the world as a peace partner through instigating violence beyond his ability to control making him appear as inept as possible before the world media and leaders, and finally discredit Abbas with the Palestinian people by forcing him to request Israeli assistance to restore order and his ability to control and appear to rule the West Bank. All of this can be accomplished by instigating continued escalating violence having it spread to all areas of Judea and Samaria until Abbas has no alternative other than to confess he is not in control of the violence taking place and that he is worried and thus is not desiring to continue the façade that he is in control and instead asks for assistance in restoring some level of order permitting him to restore his ability to rule and be in control of the Palestinian population. That admission will be all Hamas requires proving that they and only they are the true leaders of the Palestinian people and thus deserving to rule all of the Palestinian people and thus the unity government. Hamas might even be capable at such a point of forcing elections for the Palestinian Authority unity government parliament and also for the position of Chairman of the Unity Government thus forcing Abbas to face Haniyeh in an actual election, something Abbas has avoided ever since he was scheduled to run for reelection in 2009. Could we be witnessing the potential end of the age of Abbas at the fore of Palestinian leadership in the eyes of the world? Possibly, and that begs the next question as to how will the world react when the leadership of the Palestinians is assumed by Hamas. Will they then decide to remove the burden of wearing the condemnation of the terrorist collar Hamas currently must submit? Will Hamas receive the same sanctification the PLO was granted in order to transform them from one of the preemptory terrorist organizations in order to force Israel to accept them as peace partners and if so would Israel stand for such treachery. These answers may be forced upon the world sooner than many think and then the truth will be unavoidable, the world is willing to do whatever it takes to differentiate between the terrorism faced by the rest of the world from the terrorism against Israel and by doing so force Israel to have to be subjected to eternal threats from such terrorism while also being condemned by the world for not being more accepting of the demands made by terrorists. Hopefully, by then Israeli leadership will have seen through the world’s façade of proposing a peace process when in reality they are simply attempting to force Israel to face and live with mortal threats against their existence in the hope that someday Israel will fail.

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Iran Aims to Attain Virtual Border with Israel Using Proxies

We will never be able to determine whether or not the near surrender by the P5 +1 following the lead taken by President Obama with able support by the equally absent forcefulness of European Union Foreign Minister Catherine Ashton to the Iranians over their nuclear weapons program in enabling Iran will allow them to impose their control over the heart of the Middle East from Lebanon and Syria on the Mediterranean Sea through Iraq to Iran on the Persian Gulf and adjacent to the Indian Ocean. The war over Syria is making much noise in the American and world media and has taken the lead for concern in the West. Getting considerably less attention is the battle in Iraq and in Lebanon, both of which are offshoots now of the war in Syria. The battle in all of these countries has Sunni Islamists fighting against Shiite fundamentalists with al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood taking the Sunni side of the battle against Hezballah, the Iraqi Military and Shiite militias along with IRGC (Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps) and other Iranian military assets backing the Shiite side which basically is the representation of Iran. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia and the other members of the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) are providing the necessary financial support as well as funneling weapons to the Sunni forces in Syria which likely also provides some funds for the Sunni forces in Iraq. The sad truth is that most of the Anbar Province and Fallujah particularly have fallen under complete control of al-Qaeda forces completely undoing the hard fought gains won with United States and her allies’ blood and treasure. This fact is a result of the lack of concern or attention to foreign policy by the Obama Administration and the Congress and is just another tragedy along the same exact lines and root causes as the disastrous Benghazi Consulate 9/11/12 ambush which took four American’s lives including the United States Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens. There will be many ramifications to the Sunni and Shiite sectarian war raging across the central Middle East, some of which may be predictable.

 

The initial crucial battle is in Syria with the slowly escalating civil war in Iraq taking a close second. Lebanon will fall to whichever side is victorious in Syria. The actual war is being fought between Iran and Saudi Arabia as the Western powers are mostly sitting the entire conflict on the sidelines debating the morals of intervening. Without Western backing the civil war in Syria and the broader sectarian war stretching from Iran to Lebanon will simply continue without either side likely to win a quick and decisive victory. The eventual victor will likely be Iran as they appear to have the greater stake with greater investment and will to win at any cost. When one includes the noncommittal attitude from the Western Powers and the Chinese willingness to block any Western efforts in the United Nations and the Russians not only joining the Chinese in the United Nations votes and also taking a moderate active role in supplying Syria and Iran with special weapons assistance and aiding Iran with technical assistance including nuclear research, it is not difficult to predict that Iran will eventually take the upper hand whenever they feel their position is beyond challenge due to their having attained nuclear weapons status. The one threat which has tempered the level of the Iranian intervention has been the possibility of an Israeli attack and their desire to lull the United States and European powers into a sense of security. Once Iran has attained nuclear weapons production, then we can expect their interference to take a measurable and obvious increase as they make a push to bring the conflicts to a conclusion in their favor. Once Iran has solidified their hold on all of Iraq south of the Kurdish held northern provinces and firmly reinforced Bashir al-Assad in Syria and as a byproduct reestablished Hezballah’s preeminence in Lebanon, then comes the final move which is the lynchpin of this struggle between Iran and Saudi Arabia, Jordan. What can be expected is for Iran to take the Palestinian side in Jordan against the Hashemite monarchy mostly through their alliance with Hamas and befriending the Palestinian Authority through Fatah and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. This was part of the reason behind the effort to include Jordan in the GCC despite the small and inconvenient fact that Jordan does not border the Gulf as do the other member states.

 

The entire aim of this game by Iran is two-fold, first to gain a foothold on Israel’s doorstep and surround her on all three landed sides and to cut a swath clean across the heart of the Middle East in order to give Iran the foothold from which they can attempt to threaten the rest of the oil-producing states and take control of OPEC. If the other OPEC nations choose not to bend to the Iranian pressures, then Iran can be expected to enforce their control over oil prices by actually taking control of the actual oil fields by force starting by having the Shiite Muslims living in these lands rioting and claiming they are being persecuted by the Sunni rulers and begging for Iranian intervention. These Shiite populations will play the part of the Sudeten German ethnic citizens of northern Czechoslovakia at the lead into the Second World War. Once Iran has complete control either through influence and threat or after actual military takeover of the actual oil fields, then they will attempt to press their influence through control of oil prices by which they plan to bring the Western nations to their financial knees. What Iran plans on pursuing once they have financially decimated the Western nations, then proceeding to spread their version of Shiite Islam across the entire world would not be a surprising result. Of course the reason for taking Jordan is to completely surround Israel and to make a show of arms to make a statement to the Gulf oil countries. Iran has been the number one progenitor of terror throughout the world since the 1979 revolution. They have succeeded at this sponsoring and not having to pay a price as they have mastered appearing removed from the actual acts of terror. Once one looks into terrorist activities throughout the globe, a careful inspection will reveal the hidden arm of Iran playing the puppet master in a surprising number of cases. To list a couple, there were the bombings of the Israeli Embassy and the Association Mutual Israel Argentina (AMIA) Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, an endless list of terrorist crimes by Hezballah in Lebanon, financial and tactical support for Hamas in Gaza, Hezballah’s presence, training and staging camp in the Tri-border Area of South America at the point where Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil meet and none will dare intrude, and the continuing wars they are currently supporting from the Iran-Iraq border all the way to where Lebanon and Syria meet the Mediterranean Sea. Iran has been building slowly and steadily with their aim of taking hegemonic control initially across the Middle East and then to spread until stopped or until they control everything. Their aim is to complete the conquest by the Aryan master race first the impetus behind the Nazis. There is a reason that Iran is no longer called by their historic and proud heritage won over thousands of years, Persia, and are now called Iran which just happens to be how one says Aryan in Farsi, the original Persian language in Iran. They are simply attempting to resurrect the dream and complete what failed during World War II. Be warned.

 

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