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Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/tsunami-shmunami/
Israel Has No Choice but to Dismiss Western Pressure
(Israel Hayom) David M. Weinberg - Israel has no choice but to dismiss Western protests and pressures, such as recognition of ersatz Palestinian statehood, and instead act independently to secure its future. This is because the world has been consistently wrong throughout Israel's history about almost every security issue. Western leaders were wrong about investing disastrous degrees of trust and billions of wasted dollars on the corrupt, dictatorial, human rights-abusing, antisemitic, and terrorist-sponsoring Palestinian Authority. For decades, they have ignored and even at times cooperated in the PA's campaign to demonize and criminalize Israel in international forums, all the while perpetuating the Palestinian victim-refugee-martyrdom identity and applying the soft bigotry of low expectations to the Palestinians. Western leaders and analysts have been consistently blind to the genocidal nature of the Palestinian national movement, both Fatah and Hamas. 3/4 of Palestinians in the West Bank supported the Oct. 7 Hamas-led massacre. And they have been wrong about responsibility for the current war in Gaza, calling almost from day one on Israel to halt its military operations against Hamas. Instead, they tolerate Palestinian "Days of Rage," "Nakba Day" riots, and missile barrage eruptions as expected behavior. As if responsible and reasonable behavior, such as negotiation, peaceful discourse, and normative state-building, cannot be demanded of the Palestinians. Unfortunately, the exaggerated threat of the complete collapse of Israel's diplomatic and economic worlds is an old trick pulled down off the shelf every couple of years to force Israel into submission; to frighten the Israeli public into retreat and withdrawal, to scare-off Israelis from reasonable policies by inflating their dangers. Israel must make its diplomatic-security decisions free of false threats, without having to mollify fidgety forecasters of doomsday. The writer is a senior fellow at Misgav: The Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy.