Today’s Jerusalem Post posted an article today about the peace talks Washington is hosting between Israel and the Palestinians.

First of all, if you have read this blog for a while, you have heard my favorite quote regarding the Palestinians:

“Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist has stated, “Why is it that on June 4th 1967 I was a Jordanian and overnight I became a Palestinian?””

The ‘Palestinians’ made no claims to any of the land they now swear is theirs while that land was in the hands of Egypt and Jordan. 

Anyway, the Jerusalem Post reports:

“Just four days after meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Washington, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday threatened again that the Palestinians will pull out of the direct talks if the construction freeze in the settlements, due to expire later this month, is not extended.”

Later in the article:

“Abbas said that he made his position clear to US President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Netanyahu during last week’s launch of the direct talks in Washington.

“Abbas stressed that he would not make any concessions to Israel.”

So why are we having these negotiations?  Israel refuses to ban building in its own capital city (would we put a ban on building in Washington to pacify another country?), and President Abbas says if you don’t stop building, and give me the 1967 borders, I’m not negotiating.  What is the world is that?

The Palestinian state that now exists is a failed state.  Any money received from a well-meaning international community goes to rockets and weapons–not to infrastructure.  The economy is run on a ‘favoritism’ basis–if you know the right people and do the right thing, you prosper.  It is not unlike Chicago under Al Capone.

Again, President Abbas,  if you truly want peace, acknowledge Israel’s right to exist, stop teaching hate to your children, prosper your country within the boundaries you have, and stop sending rockets into the civilian population of Israel.  The land you have now prospered when the Israelis ran it–there were greenhouses and other ways for people to make a living.  If you are not willing to work to build the land you now how into a viable state, give it back to Israel–do not simply assume you are entitled to more of their land.