The Palestinians are a backward people, indoctrinated toward brutality. They don’t rate a sovereign state or anyone’s help until they civilize themselves...Regardless of whether there really are scattered Palestinian moderates, it is a dangerous fantasy to assume the Palestinian people, as a whole, are ready to be anyone’s peace partner.
We are enabling their hatred when we provide support without insisting that the Palestinian people — not just Abbas and Fatah, but the people — convincingly foreswear revolution, terrorism, violence, ethnic-cleansing, and the goal of eliminating Israel. We are a generation or more, at least, from any hope of such developments. In the meantime, as long as we subsidize the hatred, we shall be buying more of it, while giving the Palestinians no incentive to reform.
Our Terrorists Are Better Than Your Terrorists Andrew McCartney NRO hat tip Andrew Bostom
Supporting Fatah, the Bush administration makes a deal with the devil.
In the Palestinian civil war, the Bush administration has unabashedly cast its lot with Fatah. The United States, in the midst of its own global war against Islamic radicalism, is promising additional millions in foreign aid for a cabal which maintains its own jihadist wing, and which is so thoroughly corrupt — having pocketed much of the foreign aid billions that poured in over the last two decades — that Palestinians opted for the more transparent Hamas terrorists when given the option.
Fatah is the creation of the late terror master, Yasser Arafat. It is currently led by Abbas, formerly Arafat’s close aid. When last we left Abbas, the administration’s favorite “moderate,” he was laying a wreath at The Great Man’s grave — the Palestinians, by the way, have turned the site into an Arafat shrine, telling us everything we need to know about them.
Abbas proceeded to urge a throng of 50,000 Palestinians to re-aim their guns at the “occupation” (that would be Israel) instead of turning them on each other: “[W]ith the will and determination of its sons, Fatah has and will continue,” he brayed. “We will not give up our principles and we have said that rifles should be directed against the occupation.... We have a legitimate right to direct our guns against Israeli occupation....”
That was less than six months ago — despite administration assertions on Monday that Abbas is “a partner who is committed to peace.” And none of it was a surprise. When Abbas was seeking election in 2005, he declared to a cheering mob in Gaza that Palestinian terrorists being sought by Israel were “heroes fighting for freedom.”
FATAH’S CONSTITUTION
And just what are these Fatah principles that the moderate was referring to at the founder’s tomb? Abbas’s American boosters don’t talk about them much, but Fatah itself is not so bashful. They are spelled out, for all to see, in the Constitution of Fatah (the name, by the way, means “Conquest” … and would anyone want to take a wild guess against whom?).
Here is what we’re getting for millions in U.S.
taxpayer dollars:
... We all must sacrifice ourselves, our effort
and time; these are the weapons of honest patriots. Don't, therefore,
dear brother bring your march to a halt! Proceed in your march, armed
with the patriots’ resolution, the true believers’ determination, and the
fighters’ patience... Let’s not forget for a while that our enemy is strong, and
that the fight is fierceful [sic] and long... Consequently, determination,
patience, confidentiality, commitment, and abiding by the revolution’s goals and
principles keep our march unremittingly steady and makes [sic] our road to
victory much shorter. Proceed, then my brother, forward... to the
revolution. Long live Palestine, a free Arab state.
“FATEH” is a national, revolutionary movement and
its membership is top confidential. … The Palestinian struggle is
part and parcel of the world-wide struggle against Zionism, colonialism and
international imperialism. … The Zionist Movement is
racial, colonial and aggressive in ideology, goals, organisation and method. …
The Israeli existence in Palestine is a Zionist invasion with a colonial
expansive base, and it is a natural ally to colonialism and international
imperialism. … Liberating Palestine and protecting its holy places
is an Arab, religious and human obligation. … Palestinian National Liberation
Movement, “FATEH”,
is an independent national revolutionary movement representing the revolutionary
vanguard of the Palestinian people. … The crowds which participate in the
revolution and liberation are the proprietors of the Palestinian land.
[Our “Goals” include:] Complete liberation of Palestine, and
eradication of Zionist economic, political, military and cultural
existence. … Establishing an independent democratic state with
complete sovereignty on all Palestinian lands, and Jerusalem is its
capital city[.] …
Read it all, every least shred of evidence.
