The Palestinian Arab cause is among the
most successful in world history, generating untold political, economic
and emotional assistance from Western people and nations. Yet
ironically, few if any causes—or peoples—are objectively less deserving
of such immense support than the hapless Palestinians.
For decades, the support enjoyed by
Palestinians from Westerners has exceeded that received by any other
cause or group anywhere in the world.
Palestinian “liberation” is supported by
huge protests on campuses, highways and plazas, as well as boycotts
against Israeli businesses and scholars. The war deaths of Palestinians
are the subject of desperate demands for a ceasefire. The Palestinians
receive billions of dollars in aid from Western countries. Since 1947,
the United States and other nations have offered them political
salvation in the form of land-for-peace offers and the promise of a
“two-state solution.”
Paradoxically, the Palestinians have done
virtually nothing to deserve this support. They have utterly failed to
prepare themselves for a future living beside their Jewish neighbors in
peace. In fact, polls show the Palestinians remain the most anti-Jewish
people on Earth. No wonder most of them wholeheartedly supported the
Oct. 7 massacre and, if elections were held today, would readily vote
Hamas into power.
As for an independent state, the
Palestinians have received many generous offers over the last 75 years,
all of which they have rejected. They have met these offers with war and
terrorism. This is no surprise since polls show most Palestinians do
not support the much-vaunted two-state solution that Westerners doggedly
promote. In reality, since the Palestinians’ primary enterprise is
annihilating Israel, they have little interest in peace, statehood or
democracy.
It’s no surprise either that the
Palestinians have failed to prioritize creating state institutions or a
prosperous economy, despite infusions of billions of dollars in Western
aid.
In short, the Palestinians seem unworthy
of support from the U.S. or the rest of the international community.
Why, then, do the Palestinians enjoy such persistent Western sympathy
and more aid per capita than any other people?
The Palestinians were blessed by settling
in a region dominated historically by Jews. No people has been so widely
persecuted or unjustly condemned in world history as the Jews. Over the
millennia, we have seen that groups fighting the Jews, like the
Palestinians, usually find abundant supporters.
The Palestinians have also done their best
to promote the false myth that they are victims; specifically, a people
of color fighting for liberation from European settlers, though the
Jews are indigenous to Israel. This myth plays especially well with the
West’s far-left since it fits the neo-Marxist ideology of critical race
theory and alleged sins of “colonial enterprises.”
The Palestinians see no future
living alongside a Jewish state in peace. This is not surprising since,
according to an Anti-Defamation League survey, Palestinians are the
world’s most antisemitic people, with some 92% holding anti-Jewish
beliefs. No wonder Palestinians are fed a daily diet of antisemitism in
their media, mosques and children’s school textbooks. Jews are routinely
described as “impure” and “sons of apes and pigs.”
Given such ingrained hatred of the Jews, it’s perhaps understandable that, according to Gallup, some 76% of Palestinians do not support a state alongside Israel.
Palestinians widely support the Islamist
terror group Hamas. A recent poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy
and Survey Research (PCPSR) confirmed that some 76% of Palestinians
expressed support for Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre. In fact, the
majority of Palestinians want Hamas to continue ruling Gaza “the day
after” its war against Israel. In their decades-long effort to destroy
Israel, most Palestinians also continue to support “armed struggle”—a
code for continued terrorism.
The Palestinians have rejected every offer
of statehood for 75 years. Middle Eastern Arabs, including those in
then-Palestine, rejected the 1947 U.N. partition plan for two states.
They preferred instead to launch a genocidal war to destroy Israel,
which failed dramatically. Another chance of land for peace arose after
Israel repulsed Arab invaders in 1967, but again the Arabs refused to
live next to a Jewish state.
Nevertheless, Israel continued to offer
the Palestinians statehood in exchange for peace. Israel, with U.S.
support, offered the Palestinians statehood three times over a decade—in
2000, 2001 and 2008. But despite offers of more than 95% of Judea and
Samaria, all of the Gaza Strip and even territory inside pre-1967
Israel, the Palestinians still refused.
Instead, Palestinians have replied with
increasingly ruthless terrorism; more suicide bombings, shootings,
stabbings, car-rammings, and, of course, the Oct. 7 savagery.
The Palestinians have failed to create
institutions to support statehood. Their parliament has not functioned
since 2007. There have been no elections since 2006 and 88-year-old
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is now in the 19th year of
his four-year term. Today the P.A. is losing control of territory in
Judea and Samaria to terrorist militias. The P.A. already lost Gaza to a
Hamas coup in 2007. As a result of Hamas’s current war against Israel,
its Gaza dictatorship is now in shambles.
The Palestinians have failed to create a
sustainable economy. Despite receiving more than $40 billion in
international funds since the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accords, the
Palestinian economy is still dependent on foreign aid, plagued by
rampant corruption and high unemployment. Today’s most lucrative
economic opportunity for young Palestinians? “Pay-for-slay”: Killing
Jews in exchange for generous monthly salaries from the P.A., which
spends nearly $350 million annually funding this terrorist policy.
While ordinary Palestinians struggle with
unemployment and poverty, their leaders get rich. Today, Abbas has a net
worth of more than $100 million. Assassinated Hamas strongman Ismail
Haniyeh died with assets of some $4 billion. Both the P.A. and Hamas
have learned that by keeping their subjects underdeveloped and
radicalized, they can attract more foreign aid and then embezzle it.
While the Palestinians have attracted
massive financial, political and emotional support from the U.S. and
Western powers, they have done virtually nothing to deserve it. How much
longer can antisemitic and neo-Marxist sympathies sustain them?
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