Wednesday's Washington Times posted an article about and a picture of President Obama's meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas with the customary handshake. Along with that handshake, $400 million dollars went to the Palestinian Authority. Just for the record, when it was decided in 1917 that a Jewish state would be established in the Middle East, the land that was known as Palestine was given to the Jews. At that time there were no Palestinians--just a few nomads on camels that wandered through the area. In 1920, at the League of Nations Conference of San Remo, the boundaries for the new state of Israel were drawn up. They included that land that is now Jordan west to the Mediterranean Sea. That land was to be the new State of Israel. In 1921, Britain reneged on that agreement and gave 75% of the land it had promised Israel (then considered East Palestine) to the Hashemites, who had been driven out of Mecca and Medina by the Wahabi Muslims. Thus, Trans-Jordan was established as a Palestinian Arab state with land that had been promised to Israel.
Israel was to have what was considered West Palestine (25 percent of what they were originally promised). I guess that's why I have such a hard time sympathizing with the terrorists who have continually tried to take land away from Israel since 1948.
Contrast the photo-op with President Obama and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas with the total lack of a photo-op when Benjamin Netanyahu visited Washington recently. We as a country are on the wrong side of history in the struggles between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. This administration seems to have a tendency to support tyranny over democracy. This needs to end.
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