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2020-05-31 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Good Riddance to the Palestinian Authority
[AmericanSpectator] Israeli defense officials have now confirmed that Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
is moving forward on years of empty threats and finally ending civilian and military cooperation with Israel. Such developments follow Israel’s repeated statements intending to apply illusory sovereignty to at least parts of Judea and Samaria.

If Abbas means it this time, this is a good thing for Israel. The Paleostinian Authority (PA) is a liability for Israel. While Israel provides the Paleostinians with coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)

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...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
aid, the PA tells its population that it is the Jews who are the cause of the pandemic. While the whole world is led to believe that the PA is a true partner for peace, the PA fails to bring peace to Israel.

CORONAVIRUS RELIEF ANSWERED WITH PROPAGANDA
Israel has gone above and beyond in providing the Paleostinians with aid to prevent the spread of coronavirus. This includes professional medical training, including teaching Paleostinian medical teams from the Jericho area on how to deal with the pandemic. Israel has also been coordinating with the Paleostinian Health Ministry in Ramallah and has provided them with Arabic-translated professional literature. Israel also has coordinated with the PA in notifying the them of Paleostinians that were diagnosed with coronavirus who are returning to the PA from abroad via Israel or the Allenby Bridge.

Israel has donated 1,950 test kits and 2,400 swabs, more than 200 tons of medical supplies, and 20 tons of disinfectant to the PA. Israel has transferred medical supplies from other countries to the PA, including testing kits (see here, here, and here), protective suits and sanitizer gel, medical supplies, and ventilators. Israel has also transferred supplies from countries that do not have diplomatic relations with the Jewish state, including Malaysia (500,000 gloves) and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
(100 electric hospital beds).

Israel tried to transfer 14 tons of medical supplies from the United Arab Emirates to the PA, but the PA threw a tantrum and would not accept them, calling the shipment, which was the first ever direct flight between UAE and Israel, a "cover for normalization" between the two countries. (As of this writing, the supplies are still at Ben Gurion Airport, and many Emiratis are fuming.) Israel also donated at least 200 testing kits to the Paleostinians in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
and has helped coordinate the transfer of more supplies to Gaza, including "500 gowns, 585,000 gloves, 500 pairs of goggles, 107,950 masks, two tons of disinfectant, material for conducting 1,184 coronavirus tests, 10 crates of other medical equipment, [and] 20 tents for field hospitals and generators."

And how does the PA respond to all this goodwill? By orchestrating a defamatory campaign accusing Israel and the Jews of spreading the coronavirus. A Paleostinian cartoonist likened Israel to the coronavirus itself in a political cartoon. Worse, another PA periodical accused Israel of deliberately infecting Paleostinian prisoners, particularly younger prisoners, with coronavirus. Another publication stated that Fatah holds Israel responsible for every single Paleostinian in Jerusalem who gets the coronavirus. A PA front man stated that Israelis’ "love of money" and their desire to "continue to turn the wheels of production" prevents them from fighting the coronavirus. These canards are merely part of the PA’s much larger anti-Semitic propaganda effort, which I have discussed previously.

MORE WAR AGAINST ISRAEL
From Israel’s perspective, the most important reason for devolving power to the PA in Judea and Samaria was to bring peace to Israel. But the PA has instead given Israel more war. Most brutal was the Second Intifada (2000—05), which Fatah admitted to orchestrating, and the Knife Intifada (2015—16), which was praised by PA president Mahmoud Abbas and other PA members, including Jibril Rajoub.

The distinction between a "moderate" PA against a hardline Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, is largely a false one. Fatah recently admitted that it supported Hamas politically and militarily during Yasser Arafat’s presidency. As I have discussed previously, the PA and Hamas’ jihadi rhetoric is very similar. Mahmoud Abbas admitted that Hamas and Fatah had "no disagreement" on issues of "belief," "policy," and "resistance."

Lacking the will and perhaps the means, the PA failed to categorically defeat Hamas, further undermining the PA’s credibility as Israel’s peace partner. Hamas defeated Fatah in the 2006 Paleostinian legislative elections, and Hamas routed Fatah from the Gaza Strip in 2007 in a bloody coup. Israel has since faced numerous rocket and tunnel attacks from Gaza, culminating in several wars and battles, including Operation Hot Winter (2008), Operation Cast Lead (2008—09), Operation Returning Echo (2012), Operation Pillar of Defense (2012), Operation Protective Edge (2014), and other smaller confrontations. The PA has also failed to stop Hamas from taking root in Hebron. Hamas forces of Evil from Hebron were behind the 2014 kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers, which caused the IDF to launch Operation Brother’s Keeper.

With peace partners like the PA, who needs peace partners? Israel should treat Abbas’ cutting of ties as an opportunity to advance its own security interests. With the coordination of the United States, Israel should proceed in applying Israeli illusory sovereignty to the roughly 30 percent of Judea and Samaria as suggested in the Trump peace plan, which Prime Minister Netanyahu has indicated will occur on July 1. Israel and the United States should then assess if and how it wants to deal with the PA in the future. In the meantime, the United States should refrain from further funding of the PA until real, tangible reforms occur.
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