“We want a two state solution”
“The way to peace is a two state solution”
Two state solution, two state solution, two state solution, blah blah blah yada yada yada etc. etc. etc.
We have been listening to this “sounds good, but no basis in reality” BS for a long time.
The only President in recent times who saw it for what it was – a nice sounding “solution” that no Palestinian Arab leaders – not in Judea and Samaria, aka the west bank, and not in Gaza, have ever given a damn about – was Donald Trump.
Realizing that most of the money the United States was handing over to them was being used for nothing good, he cut our aid to the PA by $200 million dollars, and then cut off funding to the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA), which oversees the schools where Palestinian Arab children are taught little other than hatred and violence.
However, both policies were reversed three months (read here and here) after Joe Biden took office.
Great job, Joe. Now: would you like to see where that money is being spent — the money not expropriated by Palestinian Arab rulers in Gaza and the west bank, who have become fabulously wealthy off the US taxpayer, that is?
Here, in its entirety, is today’s Wall Street Journal editorial on the subject:
Palestinian ‘Pay for Slay’ Keeps Growing
Recently we told you that Palestinian Authority law requires the Oct. 7 terrorists to be compensated financially for a massacre well done. Now the PA has taken steps toward making that a reality. It acted just in time for Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Ramallah.
Last Wednesday’s Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, the PA’s newspaper and mouthpiece, announced 23,210 additional “martyrs,” using the Hamas-supplied Gaza casualty figure that includes every dead Hamas terrorist. The PA pays a one-time lump sum plus a monthly stipend for life to the families of any “martyr” killed attacking Israel or in a confrontation with Israel.
The PA also recognized 3,550 new prisoners held by Israel since Oct. 7. Most were arrested in West Bank counterterrorism raids, though 661 are Hamas terrorists from Gaza. They, too, will receive PA salaries, which rise over time such that the most gruesome crimes yield the biggest payments. This practice has helped earn the program its “pay for slay” moniker.
Itamar Marcus of Palestinian Media Watch explains that “the PA does not differentiate between Hamas terrorists who committed atrocities after invading Israel on Oct. 7, the Hamas terrorists killed by Israel in the ensuing war, and civilian non-combatants killed in the Gaza Strip while being used as human shields by Hamas.” All are treated as heroic martyrs to be compensated by the PA, whose activities are subsidized with Western aid.
Meanwhile, in Ramallah, Mr. Blinken said that PA leader Mahmoud Abbas is “committed” to reform. Where’s the evidence? His four-year term is stretching into its 20th year. Even as the PA complains of a budget crunch, it is readying to move from glorifying the Oct. 7 attack to compensating its participants.
Why, again, does President Biden insist Israel hand over postwar Gaza to this group? Mr. Blinken also talks prematurely of giving it a state. No wonder the PA sees little reason to change.
THAT is where the money is going.
And I urge you to read that last line again: “No wonder the PA sees little reason to change”. It is the great truism of Joe Biden’s (or, more exactly, his puppeteers’) “policy” – if you can call it one – toward Israel and Palestinian Arabs.
As has been pointed out numbers of times in this blog, Barack Obama, in a moment of full candor, is supposed to have said “don’t underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.” Lamentably, his record in the Middle East has shown that assessment to be all too true.
