The Palestinians have done nothing to warrant nation consideration

"Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity"

Abba Eban

Meet the New Boss

The terrorist, anti-Jew, anti-Israel, anti-Infidel "Party" Hamas won a majority of the vote in the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) elections that transpired this week. Today, PNA President Mahmoud Abbas has announced he will allow Hamas to form the new government a la carte, as his Fatah Party has abandoned ship and declined to have any role in the impending Cabinet.

President George W. Bush, and the rest of the world leadership actually at all interested in resisting the urge to completely supplicate to Islamofascist thuggery, are rightly viewing this as a step rearwards in the process to end the regional conflict.

What no one is acknowledging is from how already far backward and behind this latest retrograde stride was taken, and that it is a regression not just for Israel, but for every part of the world facing their local version of the global Jihad.

It is not as if Hamas is succeeding a Whig or Democrat-esque assemblage, and we are losing a stalwart ally in the anti-Islamist effort. The PNA, led by Fatah, recently passed legislation guaranteeing $25,000 up front and a lifelong stipend to the families of suicide bombers.

Abbas, a.k.a. Abu Mazen, after all, inherited the leadership of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Fatah Party from the Godfather of modern terrorism, Yasser Arafat.

Tarnished

Arafat's Noble Peace Prize winning feats of woman and child murder and Intifada detonation of all accords with the Jewish state are legendary, and from the PLO's 1964 inception until a 1993 politically necessary but sincerity questionable recension, its charter called for the destruction of their partners in peace.

And Abbas was there from the very beginning, helping Arafat found the Fatah Party in 1957 and the Organization seven years later. Despite this lifelong intertwined history, the United States, evidently viewing Abbas as the most moderate of the choice array, expressed a rooting interest in his winning the election to succeed Arafat, which he did on January 9th, 2005.

But as such concurrent annals would clearly indicate, Abbas himself is no font of even pseudo-modernism or temperance.

From March to October of 2003, Abbas served as the first Palestinian Authority, i.e. Arafat's, Prime Minister, resigning because he felt he was not receiving enough support from (wait for it ...) Israel and the United States, as well as in response to "internal incitement" against his government.

Which means as radical and violent as the Arafat Administration was, it was not nearly enough so for the Palestinian street.

Abbas' ideological variances from peace and accord with the concept of a Jewish state go back much farther than merely this millennium, and in fact span his entire existence on the planet.

This Did Not Exist

In 1982, Abbas wrote a doctoral dissertation denying Germany's wholesale slaughter of Jews in World War II, or stipulating at the very least that the assessment of the Third Reich's Semitic massacre was greatly exaggerated. He expressed doubt as to the German use of gas chambers to exterminate Jews, and suggested that the actual number of Semites murdered by the Third Reich was "less than one million". He also alleged secret ties between the Nazis and the Zionist movement.

(Editor's Note: Oh, it was only a million Jews? Well, in that case, we must immediately undertake to rethink our assessment of Nazi Germany and their Holocaustic efforts. And the notion that the Zionist movement would seek out a relationship with the political body then currently engaged in their attempted extermination, or that the Nazis would be amenable to said overture, is absolute asininity of the kind that can only emanate from the truly hate-addled mind.)

Abbas' thesis was later converted into book form, entitled The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism.

And looking back even further, it was Abbas who provided the money that made the 1972 Olympic murders in Munich, Germany possible, although he was said to have been unaware of where his coin was being directed.

(Eleven Israeli athletes were kidnapped and slaughtered by a Palestinian group called Black September, now known to have been a front group for Arafat [and Abbas] and Fatah.)

Mohammed Daoud Oudeh, allegedly one of the Munich kidnappers and executioners, proffered in his autobiography, Memoirs of a Palestinian Terrorist,

Though he didn't know what the money was being spent for, longtime Fatah official Mahmoud Abbas, aka Abu Mazen, was responsible for the financing of the Munich attack.

So Arafat brought the long knives, and Abbas the bank backing.

The Dichotomous Mind of Mahmoud Abbas

For Abbas to be this ignorant whilst this involved for this long is to be either willfully so or engaged in cognitive dissonance of the sort that would have to eventually drive the practitioner mad.

The purpose of this grand exercise in historical revisitation (as opposed to the Islamist practice of historical revisionism) is to point out that the current state of the discussion of a Palestinian state is still markedly premature. For those unStated seeking to be so are still woefully far from exhibiting behavior that can be deemed even remotely worthy of membership in the League of Civilizations.

(They should not feel alone, as a great many of their Islamic brethren actually recognized as nations do not warrant League membership either [See: Iran, Syria, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Yemen, and Libya].)

The argument for over four decades was that the Palestinian people were unwilling subjects of, and subjected to, the Arafat regime, and his endeavors to dismantle the perpetual peace process were unilateral in nature, reflective only of his barbarity.

It was said that should the people have the opportunity to voice their will free of Arafatic totalitarianism, the moderate partner in peace for which Israel had so long sought would emerge.

That Israel wasted so much time, at the cost of so many innocent Israeli lives, endeavoring negotiations with this unelected madman (whilst under the gun aimed at them by Arafat's Arab League anti-Israel brethren, which was fired in 1948, 1956, 1967, 1970, 1973, 1982, 1987, 1990 and yet again in 2000) is a foolhardy but marked tribute to their genuine desire to merely exist in peace.

That the world community, such as it is and embodied by the farce that is the United Nations, repeatedly and vehemently insisted that they do so is second only (and intrinsically related) to its capitulation to Communism as the greatest black mark on the global record in the last half of the 20th century.

We now have the latest Palestinian ballotory answer, and it is Hamas. A year after their first election post-Arafat, in which they chose to maintain the already deadly PLO status quo, they have lurched even further towards violence and Islamic fanaticism.

That this paramilitary Islamist thug mafia is the majority Party in the PNA government says a great many things about those doing the choosing; the commonality of them all is that the Palestinians are not ready for prime time.

No

Israel was forced for half a century to attempt negotiations with a man who either could not or would not control the murderous practices of Hamas conducted from within the Palestinian midst. There is absolutely no rational reason to expect Israel to now sit down with representatives of that group as the next stage in the boundless and fruitless peace process.

The PLO has (at least tacitly and for show) forsaken the goal of the obliteration of Israel; Hamas has not. (That this distinction played a part in the electoral decision making process is hardly in question.)

We would not take seriously a suggestion from Israel or anyone else that we sit down to talks with Osama bin Laden. Any similar ridiculous request made of Israel with regard to Hamas or any other terrorist group, elected or not, should be likewise summarily dismissed.

Instead, the fifty-year long leash that has been holding Israel back from fully defending itself should (finally) be removed. How many more indicators that their opposition wishes to remain exactly that, in opposition to any sort of peaceful resolution, do we need?

We have Hamas now popularly selected to lead the Palestinian charge, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calling for Israel's destruction whilst simultaneously denying the Holocaust (sound at all familiar?), and bin Laden (and every other Islamist leader) claiming that the two driving forces of his (and their) global insanity are (again, wait for it ...) Israel and the United States.

The Twain Meeting Yet Again

What needs to be acknowledged and accepted is that our endeavors at and chances for victory over worldwide Jihad should be, and are, identical to those of Israel. Theirs is but a crystallized and distilled version of the situation we face. Our advantage is that we have two oceans that serve (somewhat) as protective moats; Israel is in the thick of it, immediately surrounded by many enemies who wish them (and us) dead and gone.

There is absolutely no delineation to be made between the Islamist dispute in Palestine, the Islamist dispute in Kashmir, the Islamist dispute in Saudi Arabia or the Islamist dispute in New York City and Arlington, Virginia. The overarching commonality is the Islamofascist wish of death to all Infidels.

We must fully realize the distinction of this indistinction between our fate and that of the Jewish state if we are to win this, the Fourth World War.

What we in fact need to be is more like Israel, while at the same time allowing Israel to be even more like Israel.

The United States and the West must stop dismissing Islamist words of war as mere inconsequential rhetoric. We once thought we could afford to do so; Israel has always known better. The Islamists are and have been blatantly telegraphing their passes; we choose to (continue to) ignore them at our great and growing peril.

We must take Iran on the verge of nuclearity as seriously as Israel took Iraq's brinksmanship in 1981.

And we must ignore our domestic Lefts, who refuse to see the Jihad forest for the many Islamist trees. We now have ample evidence that Saddam Hussein was engaged in both the training and support of the worldwide Jihad, hosting many camps in northern Iraq and funding Palestinian suicide bombers to the tune of $25,000 per.

(As an aside, he also had weapons of mass destruction, which we here have always asserted, that were exported to Syria immediately preceding our invasion.)

We have bin Laden fomenting chaos and turmoil in, and with local assistance culled from, amongst many others, Afghanistan, Sudan, Pakistan, Yemen, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Spain, France, England and the United States.

Hamas Broadening Their Approach

This is a worldwide enemy that we, and the Israelis, face; this idea, this Caliphate. It is not just Al Qaeda, it is not just Hamas. And all who are in on the need for Jihad are so together. The enemy may not like any or all of the other factions in their midst, but their hatred for us and Israel, which unites them, is far stronger than any dislike for each other that might divide them. So they bring it on all together.

Of all the great dangers we currently face, failing to understand and accept this concordance of opposition may very well be the greatest. Until we accept this fact, as Israel long since has, and begin moving forward accordingly, we are not properly or fully conducting the operation to end this evil.