Youssef M. Ibrahim asks the question:
Palestinian brothers: you are down and out, alone in a burnt-out landscape shrinking by the day. The question is: why?
The question is rhetorical of course.
Ibrahim knows full well that the Jew/Israel hatred that consumes the Palestinians/Arabs is destroying them.
That destruction has only been slowed by a West that persists in believing that by keeping the Western vision of an independent Palestinian state alive, that its own interests can be advanced.
The Palestinian/Arab vision for an independent Palestinian state has never been the West’s vision, a more then subtle difference the West continues to turn a blind eye to. Nonetheless the West pursues policies intended to be in their interests, but which invariably prejudice both their own interests and Israel’s which they have used as the coin to be spent to advance their self-interested, but self-defeating policies.
If Ibrahim is right that this status quo is eroding the land right out from under the feet of the Palestinians in the West Bank, there will be nothing left of the West Bank to make anything out of, let alone a state.
As for a Palestinian state in Gaza, here again it is too small and resource pool to sustain a nation and it will continue to be nothing more then a gathering area for the biggest number of depraved Jihadists to use as their launching pad against Israel.
At some point soon, Gaza and the WB, if Hamas gains a stronger hold, will again point its guns at Egypt, Jordan and other Arab neighbors.
These Arab nations can already see that writing on the Palestinian wall.
