The Case for Palestinian Independence
Maybe it's time to give them what they want. They won't like it.
by Rod D. Martin
November 29, 2012
Israel's case against a UN-sanctioned Palestinian independence isn't wrong. The initiative all but scuttles the Oslo peace process and, newly reinforced by a Muslim Brotherhood-dominated Egypt, very likely scuttles Camp David as well. It is not a two-state, but a one-state solution the Palestinians have in their sights.
Doubters need only listen to Palestinian Authority (PLO) President Mahmoud Abbas at the UN last fall: "They talk to us about the Jewish state, but I respond to them with a final answer: We shall not recognize a Jewish state."
Responding to Abbas, senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (who rejects the UN process) doubled down: "[We] do not beg for a state. States are not built on UN resolutions. States liberate their land and establish their entities."
The Palestinian seal shows a Palestine that has completely obliterated Israel. The PLO, today's Palestinian Authority, was founded by the nephew of the Mufti of Jerusalem, a Nazi who collaborate…