Andrew McCarthy, the former federal prosecutor who sent the blind shiekh who masterminded the first World Trade Center bombing to jail, makes it clear what it will take for Palestinians ever to have their own state in a "two-state" Palestine.
What's more, McCarthy says it will take a least a generation for Palestinians to show they are worthy of their own state. All the talk about "peace" and a two-state solution presumably just over the horizon should just stop. It just makes the Palestinians believe their terrorism is working.
Palestinians are weaned on Jew-hatred through schools and media controlled by the competing factions and other jihadists. Their national heroes are those dedicated to killing Jews, most especially the “martyrs” (or shaheed) who self-implode in suicide attacks. It is to be expected, then, that when the public is polled in the actual Palestinian territories, rather than in Condi-world, a very different reality is reflected: About three in four Palestinians deny Israel’s right to exist, a figure that soars to over nine in ten when only the fighting-age demographic (between 18 and 25) is considered.
The hatred of Jews and Israel that fills the Palestinian airwaves is no different whether the broadcaster is Hamas or the Palestinian Authority controlled by Fatah.
Let’s be blunt: we are looking at a generation or more before the Palestinians might be prepared to assume the obligations of sovereignty. So we should stop talking about it. Doing so only indicates to the Palestinians that we are more interested in the simulacrum of a settlement than in cultivating a mature statehood that is stable, hopefully democratic, and respectful of its peers — such that it is capable of negotiating with them absent the notion of annihilating them. “Roadmaps” and “peace processes” which hold out the possibility (indeed, the likelihood) of near-term statehood tell the Palestinians that terrorism succeeds and that they can reap enormous benefits while continuing to work toward Israel’s demise.In short, we can help Israel enormously in the here and now — while simultaneously setting the Palestinians on their only realistic path toward long-term prosperity — by making clear that statehood is absolutely off the table until the Palestinians convincingly abandon terrorism, acknowledge Israel’s right to exist, rescind or amend all covenants to the contrary, and demonstrably overhaul their institutions (especially their media and education systems) in a manner that conveys their commitment to this new state of affairs.
In the short run, the U.S. should support Israel in its effort to break Hamas' grip on Gaza and of the Palestinian people. Secretary of State Rice not too long ago claimed that 70% of Palestinians were ready to live in peace alongside Israel. McCarthy calls that statement "preposterous." Many polls show that, despite their suffering and poverty under Hamas, Gazans support their terrorist war on Israel.
If peace is ever to come, the Palestinians' will must be broken. They must know they are defeated and cannot destroy Israel, as both Hamas and Fatah are in their founding documents dedicated to do.
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