Many people have suspected that a state would be declared on the West Bank for many years. It is not inevitable but close to it and Israel is in a very difficult situation in exerting military control over a territory they are not exerting sovereignty over and which has uncertain status.
Try and make the best of it. On the plus side, much of the complaining the Palestinian Arabs make will be defanged in the eyes of the world. No doubt the PA’s will simply move on and agitate in exactly the same fashion for the right of return and other issues but their main goal will be seen to have been achieved in the eyes of the West and any violence emanating from a new Palestinian State will not be looked at with sympathy by the West.
Israel will have in fact been relieved of a great burden. One can argue that Israel is simply changing one burden for another but the status quo is untenable and without an end game and maybe moving on into the future, however uncertain, is preferable to guaranteed strife and hostility.
No one is forgetting that Israel is fully capable of defending itself and if there is the slightest chance of chopping away at the ostensible reasons for so much Islamic violence then any continued violence on the part of Islam in this matter will have little credibility.
The West is more pragmatic than is Islam about this matter and they are not going to hold Palestinian hands in the name of the PA’s getting every single thing they want – they just won’t. There is what is reasonable and attainable and real and there is fantasy. The West has indulged PA fantasies up to a point and one may well find other Islamic nations saying shut up already as they are not so stupid that they don’t realize that they too have suffered and are threatened by this continued strife.
One could easily argue that the thousands dead in Iraq and Afghanistan are part of the cycle of violence that has emerged from the Israeli/PA deadlock. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best and trust that the U.N. won’t push this any further than it has. Diminishing returns is a real phenomenon and the PA’s could find themselves on the outs if they get a state and push too hard for more, especially if it involves violence.
It actually makes me ill to think how much money will be given over to a state if one is declared and attains fruition but hopefully there will be strings attached involving saber rattling.
Although it is true there are elements in the West working to help the PA’s, there are also certainly other elements that are getting genuinely sick of Islamic demands for attention and respect they do nothing to earn other than by doing the equivalent of shouting and claiming things as theirs that they in reality have nothing to do with.
One has only to read comments in the middle eastern press about Islam already being some kind of guardians of democracy due to street protests to realize how unhinged this society is and how arrogant. Arrogance and oil will only get a culture so far and to date the only things emanating from the middle east have an entirely negative aspect to them.
What is even one thing that anyone can name that Islam brings to the table that makes this world a better place to live? Then think of the negative things Islam brings to the table globally and one can easily see that the PA’s and Islam in general are treading on very thin ice. No matter how left leaning liberals in colleges agitate and connive, the fact is that Afghanistan and Iraq were certain warnings to muslims to knock off the crazy stuff. Not every one runs scared like they do in Madrid and in case a Palestinian state is declared, then the public relations battle you claim Israel has lost will decidedly turn in its favor. Not every one is in love with mental cases who clock around the rock and think they’re better than every single person in the world and that that world revolves around them.
