from Mona Charen at National Review, A Stupid Anti-Israel Policy

“There are 2.75 million Palestinians living in the West Bank,” Kerry thundered, without explaining why their misfortune is more urgent than that of 4.8 million Syrian refugees who are living in Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, and various European countries. An additional 6.6 million Syrians are internally displaced and desperately in need of assistance. The Palestinian refugees (the term is absurd after 68 years) are the only “refugees” in the world who have a United Nations program devoted exclusively to them (UNRWA) – which may be one reason they remain stateless.

Just about every single one of Secretary Kerry’s assumptions about the Israeli–Palestinian dispute is erroneous. Start with his assertion that the Palestinians want an independent state on the West Bank. They have been offered such a state at least twice. In 2000, at Camp David, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak offered a generous settlement including land swaps. Yasser Arafat not only rejected it, he started a new intifada. In 2008, Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert offered Mahmoud Abbas a state comprising nearly all of the West Bank (Israel would have kept about 5 percent), with East Jerusalem as the capital. Abbas rejected it. Obama-administration assertions to the contrary notwithstanding, the Palestinian Authority has not recognized that Israel has a right to exist as a Jewish state. Palestinian propaganda ceaselessly depicts “Palestine” as comprising all of the territory between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. They continue, as Kerry himself acknowledged, to glorify terrorists.

HKO

I encourage you to read the entire link- my excerpts do not do her article justice.

At some point the price for the violent intransigence of the Palestinians should be the forfeiture of any right to state of their own. Without a deadline to renounce terrorism and recognize Israel there is no grounds for negotiation. For the UN to denounce Israel without these basic concessions from the Palestinians is a reckless betrayal.

Far more money, adjusted for inflation, has been spent on the Palestinian territories that was spent by the Marshal Plan to rebuild Europe after WW II. At what point will the UN be held accountable for their disastrous policy?

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