by Yoram Ettinger
Unlike Western policymakers and
public-opinion molders, Arab leaders never doubted Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas' core ideology. Therefore, they deny him adequate
financial support while the Arab oil-producing countries provide Egypt
multibillion dollar assistance. Similarly, during the 1980s, Saudi Arabia
provided Afghanistan's Muslim rebels a billion dollars in annual aid, while
extending Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yassir Arafat a mere $100
million annual aid, which was cut off following Arafat's and Abbas' August 1990
betrayal of Kuwait, when they collaborated with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's
invasion of the sheikhdom. Moreover, Arab countries did not support the PLO and
Hamas during their grand confrontations with Israel: the first and second
intifadas, the Lebanon War and the series of wars in Gaza.
The Arab attitude toward Abbas is
driven by Abbas' track record of intra-Arab subversion and terrorism. For
example, during the late 1950s, Abbas and Arafat fled Egypt for subversion and
terrorism, committed as key Muslim Brotherhood activists. In 1966, they fled
Syria to Jordan, following their murdering a number of Syrian intelligence
officers. In 1970, they were expelled from Jordan to Lebanon, following their
attempt to topple Jordan's Hashemite regime, which ignited a brutal civil war.
By 1975, they plundered large parts of southern Lebanon, aiming to overthrow the
central regime in Beirut, which triggered the Syrian invasion of Lebanon, a
series of civil wars and the destruction of Lebanon. In 1990, Palestinian
intelligence cells in Kuwait and Palestinian battalions in Iraq facilitated
Saddam's invasion of Kuwait, which since 1960 was the preferred safe haven for
300,000 Palestinian relatives and allies of Arafat and Abbas. As a result of
that egregious betrayal, Kuwait expelled over 200,000 Palestinians. No Arab
leader protested that expulsion!
While Egypt is cracking down on Hamas
and its affiliates, Abbas -- an ally of Saddam, North Korea, Iran, Cuba and
Venezuela -- provides Hamas with a vital tailwind.
On March 15, 2013, Abbas, the
Russian-speaking graduate of KGB courses and Patrice Lumumba University in
Moscow, the former steward of PLO ties with the ruthless communist regimes, and
(since 1993) the lead PLO negotiator with Hamas, told the Russian TV: "As far as
I'm concerned there is no difference between the policies of the Palestinian
Authority and Hamas." The frequent attempts to form the PLO-Hamas axis are based
on their common strategic goal, while maintaining their tactical differences.
Abbas' strategic goal -- the eradication of the Jewish state -- and tactics --
gradually, via diplomacy and terrorism -- are specified by the 2009 Fatah
platform and the PLO's 1974 Phased, Step-by-Step
Plan and 1964 Covenant. Both terror organizations are chaired by Abbas, who
-- according to the 1993 Oslo Accord -- derives his power as the chairman of the
Palestinian Authority from the PLO, which is the highest Palestinian authority!
Fatah was established in 1959 and the PLO in 1964, before Israel reasserted
itself in Judea and Samaria and before the establishment of the first Jewish
settlement in Judea and Samaria. Thus, the strategic goal of Abbas has been
directed at pre-1967 Israel: Galilee, Negev, Tel Aviv and the coastal plain and
Jerusalem. Abbas told the U.N. General Assembly that "occupation" began in 1948,
not in 1967!
Abbas highlights the claim of return
to the "1948 occupied areas," which explains his insistence to represent and
release Israeli Arab terrorists. Being a devout Muslim, and a former top Muslim
Brotherhood activist, Abbas emphasizes the principles of waqf -- the supposed
divinely ordained Muslim right over any area previously controlled by Muslims --
and Hudaybiyyah, which considers agreements concluded with "infidels" a
pragmatic, provisional stage to be breached on the way to bringing the enemy to
submission and not to peaceful coexistence.
To achieve the strategic goal, Abbas
has spoken softly, while carrying a horrendous stick of hate education in
schools, mosques and media, brainwashing Palestinian society and running the
most effective production line of terrorists. One's education is the most
authentic reflection of one's values, ideology and strategic goal. Hence, the
popularity of the anti-Semitic "Mein Kampf" and "Protocols of the Elders of
Zion" on the Palestinian Street. Hence, the Abbas-driven Palestinian
conventional wisdom: It's not the size -- but the existence -- of the Jewish
state.
The central role played by terrorism
in shaping Abbas' worldview is highlighted by his demand to release Palestinian
terrorists who deliberately and systematically murdered, maimed and intimidated
Israeli civilians; by providing monthly allowances to families of terrorists;
and by naming streets, squares and soccer tournaments after terrorists.
Germany and Japan were transformed
from hateful -- to peaceful -- countries by uprooting hate education and terror
regimes, not by engaging and funding them.
Should the U.S. taxpayer continue
funding the hate education system of Abbas, who caused the flight of Christians
from the Bethlehem area, and who is known as "Mr. 20%" for his corruption?
Should Israel accept Abbas in view of the
ferocity of Hamas' terrorism? Only if Jack the Ripper's vicious style made the
Boston Strangler an acceptable member of society!
Yoram Ettinger
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=8253
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