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The Knife and the Message: The Roots of the New Palestinian Uprising

(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Hirsh Goodman and Yossi Kuperwasser, eds. - The latest wave of Palestinian violence against Jews is something new, an insidious wave of seemingly un-orchestrated attacks, perpetrated by unlikely assailants, and generally untraceable to any particular organization. These attacks were also characterized by brutality, viciousness and randomness, and the purposeful use of the knife, to drive home the intent of bringing a new and unrelenting wave of slaughter to the Jews; a message to all Israelis that neither they, nor their children, will ever be able to live in this land in peace. As this document will show, the Palestinian president and those under his authority are indeed instructing young Palestinians what to do, goading them into action through deliberate messaging, distortion and fabrication, aimed at keeping the conflict alive and portraying the Palestinians as the victims in a whitewash of terror. There is a guiding hand in all this, the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian faction that leads it, Fatah. What is being witnessed today is the end-game of a strategy adopted by Fatah in 2009 and culminating in Mahmoud Abbas' speech to the UN General Assembly on September 30, 2015, when he announced that the Palestinians are no longer bound by the Oslo (peace) Accords. A carefully calibrated policy of incitement and cynicism has brought the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a new level, one that generates terror without fingerprints, but which adroitly serves Fatah's strategy of an endless war of attrition, by varying means, against Israel.
2016-02-29 00:00:00
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