Screw Peace

A very fascinating article by Douglas Feith (now that's a neocon) on Israeli/Palestinian relations, the Oslo Accord, and future peace prospects.

Remember, in 2000 Ehud Barak tried to give Yasir Arafat the whole store, including East Jerusalem. The homosexual AIDS patient said no. In 2008 Ehud Olmert tried to give Mahmoud Abbas the whole store, including East Jerusalem. The Kleptocrat said no.

Feith talks about the Trump Administration's rumored peace plan and concludes:

In and out of Israel, expectations for the plan appear low. Why, indeed, should anyone think it can succeed? The PA, as now organized and led, is hopeless. The lives and fortunes of its leaders depend on the perpetuation of the conflict. They cannot afford, in any sense of that term, to agree to end it. If they did, they would lose substantial amounts of U.S. and international aid money (which they steal), invitations to world capitals, and the attention of journalists, not to mention their life’s cause. They would forfeit the self-respect they derive from their association with a revolutionary cause and have to seek contentment instead through bureaucratic service within just another among the world’s failed states. Abetted by decades of ill-conceived foreign diplomacy and aid programs—for which Americans, Europeans, Israelis, Arabs, and others bear much of the responsibility—the PA has boxed itself into a dead end of authoritarianism, anti-Zionism, corruption, and brutality.

Palestinian leadership was always the greatest obstacle to peace, and remains so.