Responding to the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority's peace deal with Hamas, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced, "The PA must choose either peace with Israel or peace with Hamas. There is no possibility for peace with both."
Here is an excerpt from ‘Netanyahu’s Time To Chose,’ a column by Caroline Glick in the April 29 issue of Jewish World Review:
Netanyahu's statement is funny because it is completely absurd. The PA has chosen.
The PA made the choice in 2000 when it rejected Israel's offer of peace and Palestinian statehood and joined forces with Hamas to wage a terror war against Israel.
The PA made the choice in 2005 again when it responded to Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza with a tenfold increase in the number of rockets and missiles it fired on Israeli civilian targets in the Negev.
The Palestinians made the choice in 2006, when they elected Hamas to rule over them.
They made the choice in March 2007 when Fatah and Hamas signed their first unity deal.
The PA made the choice in 2008 when Abbas rejected then prime minister Ehud Olmert's offer of statehood and peace.
The PA made the choice in 2010 when it refused to reinstate peace negotiations with Netanyahu; began peace negotiations with Hamas and escalated its plan to establish an independent state without peace with Israel.
Now the PA has again made the choice by signing the newest peace deal with Hamas.
It is a national tragedy that after more than a decade of the PA choosing war with Israel and peace with Hamas, Israel's leaders are still incapable of accepting reality and walking away [from the peace process]. It is a tragedy that Israel's leader cannot find the courage to say that the peace process is really a deadly serious war process whose end is Israel's destruction, and that Israel is done with playing along.
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