The New York Times could not possibly ever see fit to print the following story, to be found at algemeiner.com:
Palestinian Authority (PA) officials are warning of wave of violence in response to the possible annexation of parts of the West Bank by Israel, but at least a few Palestinians on the ground appear to be unconcerned.
Israel’s Channel 13 reported on Wednesday that it had received messages from Palestinians expressing approval and even enthusiasm at the prospect of annexation.
“I am from the town of Jaba,” said one message. “I want the townspeople to be happy. Today, they are subordinate to the PA, and they want [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and no one else.”
“They want an Israeli ID card,” it added.
Another message said, “It’s a million times more preferable that Israel will be responsible for the area.”
“We’re ready to be under the army boots of the Israelis and not the head of Abu Mazen,” it continued referring to PA President Mahmoud Abbas.
“A Palestinian businessman said, “I don’t want a state, I want money. Money is preferable to a state. The entire Palestinian people want this.”
“The PA has plundered and destroyed us,” he asserted.
In an opinion poll taken last year, 91% of Palestinians said they did not “trust” the Palestinian Authority. It’s an astonishing vote of no confidence. And nothing Mahmoud Abbas has done since has decreased that distrust. He has refused to accept $168 million a month from Israel, that sum that represents the taxes Israel has collected on behalf of the P.A.,($190 million a month) after the Pay-For-Slay amounts ($32 million a month)have been deducted. He has refused to even discuss the possibility of a future Palestine state receiving $50 billion in aid. Through mismanagement and corruption, he has brought the Palestinian Authority to the brink of financial ruin. He has been slashing salaries and firing government workers. But Mahmoud Abbas needn’t worry. He lives in a $13 million presidential palace. He has a $50 million private plane. He and his sons Tarek and Nasser have amassed a fortune of $400 million. His cronies have also done well, though not as colossally so as Abbas himself. Hanan Ashrawi, Saeb Erekat, and others are multi-millionaires; they live in villas shielded from public view in the “Diplomatic Compound” in Ramallah. No wonder that Palestinian businessman furiously charges that “the PA has plundered and destroyed us.”
The Palestinians have been able to compare and contrast the Israeli government, a government of laws, where even a former president (Moshe Katsav) and a former prime minister (Ehud Olmert) can go to jail, with the Palestinian Authority, whose corrupt leaders are above the law, and engage in grand theft of the public wealth with impunity. No Palestinian leaders have ever been held to account by those in whose name they rule and whose welfare they claim to promote.
The ordinary people ruled by the P.A. have endured its malign effects. They do not want to be ruled by a gang of thieves who are beholden to no one. One Palestinian sent a melancholy message to Israel’s Channel 13. “I am from the town of Jaba I want the townspeople to be happy. Today, they are subordinate to the PA, and they want [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and no one else.They want an Israeli ID card,” his message added.
Another message said, “It’s a million times more preferable that Israel will be responsible for the area.”
They can see how Israelis live, and what both Jewish and Arab Israelis expect of, and receive from, their government, and can compare that with the arbitrary rule of the grasping and lawless Palestinian Authority. They have seen their living standards stagnate while that of Israelis, including Israeli Arabs, steadily rises. They can see a polity where Jews and Arabs work and study side-by-side, where Arabs serve in the Knesset, sit on the Supreme Court, are sent abroad as ambassadors, teach in the universities, and can even serve, if they so wish, in the IDF. They know that in Israel women have full legal equality; under the P.A., the baleful influence of Islam keeps women in an inferior position, with the Muslim husband the supreme master of his household. The practice of polygyny devalues women. So does the divorce that requires of the husband only the recital of the triple-talaq. The Qur’anically-approved right of a Muslim husband to “beat” his wife should he suspect her of disobedience contributes to the cringing fear of some Palestinian women. Palestinian women and girls have also been the victims of “honor” killings by their fathers, brothers, uncles.
Then there are the arbitrary arrests, in the P.A. territories, of people who dare to criticize the leaders and the regime. How many Palestinians have been picked up by the P.A. police, for sending only a single tweet critical of the government, and held indefinitely without their families knowing where they are until much later? How many Palestinians have been sentenced to significant prison terms by the P.A. merely because, on social media, they didn’t follow the party line of the P.A. leaders but chose to voice their dissent?
In the Palestinian territories, people are arrested on overly broad laws that criminalize such activities as causing “sectarian strife” or insulting “higher authorities.” Detention is used to punish critics and to deter them and others from further activism. In detention, according to a two-year study by Human Rights Watch, the P.A. security forces routinely taunt, threaten, beat, and force detainees into painful stress positions for hours at a time.
Compare that to free-wheeling Israel, where the people engage in a constant lively political debate, with freewheeling discussions about, and criticism of, policies and politicians. Think of the corrosive criticism and insulting cartoons that are routinely directed at Prime Minister Netanyahu, without any consequences, and imagine what would happen to a resident of the P.A.’s territories if he dared to direct similar criticism, or any criticism at all, at Mahmoud Abbas. In the P.A., there is no freedom of speech. In Israel, freedom of speech is as fully protected as anywhere in the Western world.
“We’re ready to be under the army boots of the Israelis and not the head of Abu Mazen,” one of the messages to Channel 13 continued, referring to PA President Mahmoud Abbas. That desire is understandable. Who would choose to live in Communist China, if Taiwan were available? Who would prefer to live in North Korea instead of South Korea? And who, of any sense, would choose to live under the grasping and cruel rule of Mahmoud Abbas and his cronies, if he, or she, might instead live in Israel?
nikhil manek says
I wonder why democratic party members have so much love for the Palestinians and why they hate the Israelis so much!!
David says
Because they are anti-Semitic, and backed by muslim voters!
Dude says
Of course they are. They want to open up a new front on the battlefield to increase the strength of their position. Then they could destroy Israel from within like they are currently so successfully doing in Britain, Europe, Canada and the ROTW.
Sex is the greatest strategy to dominate the world. And that’s all they care about – that is, sex first, world domination second. It’s so clever, using man’s greatest weakness to trick him into living like a demonic moronic monster. And the leader gets 20% of the booty. I imagine he came up with the scam. And what a scam!
How do they think God has anything to do with such foolishness? Has their attachment to sensual pleasure completely stolen their common sense? Life is not that cheap.
Linde Barrera says
To Dude- I appreciate your thoughtful comments, and what you state as the real possible motive for Palestinians to advocate being under Israeli rule; to take over and cause Israel to become Muslim majority.
I truly do not believe that most Muslims who want to live in an area controlled by Israel would try to take over. Those Muslims are not brain-washed as many other Muslims are. Those Muslims want to live in peace, and they know Israel offers that peace. Hamas, the PA, the PLO, the Muslim Brotherhood and all other Islamic associated groups do not offer peace. They just talk it up. A lot. They are phonies.
Dude says
That’s what they say in Canada, feigning stupidity, and I’m sure that’s what they said in Britain, Sweden, Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, Indonesia, Philippines, all the modern-day no-go zones.
Their HIJRA gameplan is published and proven; they are commanded to follow it. I can’t trust a word even one of them says. If they were decent humans they would walk away as soon as they read that God wants them to murder, rape, rob, and enslave for Him. They’re all bright red deal-breakers for any sane person; only a very twisted miscreant could continue reading.
gravenimage says
Also a possible factor, Dude–troubling.
David says
Are you thinking of 72 virgins in Paradise?
Marttheman says
Please don’t let the do-gooders in the West get a whiff of this article. It will surely burst their Free Palestine bubble. Now they have to put all their pro-Palestina paraphernalia up for sale on Wallopop. Fortunately there are still plenty other leftard hobbies they can get their teeth into and protest about.
Goofy says
Maybe the Muslim way of life is not that glorious after all unless you have secured for yourself a position that that of the prophet himself? Maybe that is why all the Muslims seek refuge in Europe and the US to find opportunities for themselves abroad where they may carve out a prophet role for mass theft Mohammed style?
RonaldB says
My suggestion would be that if Israel annexes the West Bank or parts, it should create a class of citizens who have full legal rights and political rights, but abridged voting rights. For example, the West Bank Muslims could have a non-voting representative with full observer and speaking rights in the Knesset, but no vote. Maybe the same for West Bank Christians. Selected West Bank residents could gradually attain voting rights through certain requirements: service in the army, honorable discharge, special appointments by the Israeli government, or whatever. It’s a mistake to bring in people with different history and customs to impact a political system all at once.
If the West Bankers want to live under the Israel government, they definitely don’t want its nature to be changed through an influx of identity voters.
Ray Jarman says
RonaldB,
You are correct. From the beginning, David Ben-Gurion warned about annexing lands containing Arabs. He said that they would out number the Israelis over time and the Arabs would eventually own the elections. The Jews would be vanquished and as Robert Spencer keeps reminding us that perfidy is perfectly permitted in the cause of Allah because Gabriel told him so and also war is deceit.
somehistory says
Unless a person is just full of evil desire and intent, all people want the same things…to pursue happiness and fulfillment, to enjoy life, doing things they wish to do and not being controlled, bullied, dominated,, persecuted, demeaned, robbed and destroyed by others with power.
Just as most Americans didn’t agree with “o” even when he was saying “that’s not who we are” in order to include **all** Americans as agreeing with him, other people in other countries may have to endure the government that rules over them doing things with which they strongly disagree.
So, if given a choice in the matter, who wouldn’t want to boot the evil pa with its corruption, lies, greed and support for terrorism and terrorists? Only those persons who are evil in desire and intent…and get paid to terrorize and murder the innocent.
GreekEmpress says
somehistory,
Good to see you posting!
I hope you are safe and well.
gravenimage says
somehistory, the problem is that if Muslims take Islam seriously they *are* full of evil desire and intent. I just hope these “Palestinians” have gotten tired of this.
And I join GreekEmpress–glad to see you posting here again. Hope you are well.
Tony Naim says
Because these people know they will be treated humanely better than their own people treat them!
Simply look at the neighboring states that surround Israel. NO value for the individual nor for civil rights nor for citizenship.
I know because I am a Christian born in Lebanon, I witnessed the savagery of the PLO.
gravenimage says
Thanks for that view on the ground, Tony.
gravenimage says
Some Palestinians Enthusiastic For Annexation
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Fascinating.
Of course, most of the “Palestinians” will be wringing their hands–for public consumption, at least…
Alexandra Thrift says
I am British . I live in a beautiful place called Bournemouth on the South Coast of England. There is nothing “no go” about it ! Come and visit after the pandemic.If it is such a terrible place , why does everyone want to live here ? You tell me.
gravenimage says
Alexandra, I am very glad that you do not live in a No Go Zone.
This does *not* mean that Muslim No Go Zones are not a problem in Britain, though–nor that you would want to live in one.
And Muslims wanting to live in Britain *does not* mean that they all embrace British values. Many Muslims just want to impose Islamic law on the West.