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Do Palestinian Leaders Believe Their Own Rhetoric?

(Gatestone Institute) Khaled Abu Toameh - As the current wave of stabbings, car-rammings and shooting attacks continues, PA President Mahmoud Abbas insists we are witnessing a "popular and peaceful uprising," as he said to a group of Arab Israeli journalists in Ramallah last week. Abbas seems to consider knives and automatic weapons "peaceful" tools that Palestinians are entitled to use. Rather than seeking to calm the situation, Abbas glorifies the Palestinian assailants, encouraging others to join the "peaceful uprising" against Israel. Palestinian leaders have a long history of shirking responsibility for the travails of their people. In doing so, they have brought disaster to generation after generation of Palestinians. The Palestinian youths who are goaded by the Palestinian Authority to murder Jews are also victims. They are victims of failed leaders who push them to their death by lying to them about Israeli and Jewish "conspiracies" against Arabs and Muslims and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. The Palestinian leadership is now seeking to leverage the violence to call for an international peace conference, toward receiving international "protection" for the Palestinians and an overall solution imposed upon Israel. Thanks to the poison with which the PA has indoctrinated its people, Palestinians are now unable to condemn the murder of any Jew or even call to keep their teenagers from becoming deadly attackers. The Palestinian leaders have made it impossible even to talk about peace with Israel. Such is their journey to a healthy and prosperous society and state. Despite the old saying that you can't fool all of the people all of the time, Abbas and company are doing pretty well fooling many people much of the time.
2016-02-19 00:00:00
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