Given President Obama’s pro-Palestinian bias, we can’t expect much from the Mideast peace talks launched last week, said Moshe Dann in Israel’s Yedioth Ahronoth. “No matter what Arab terrorists do,” Obama supports the Palestinian Authority. When Palestinian terrorists murdered four Israelis last week, Obama viewed the attack as an attempt to undermine the talks. But Palestinians attack Israelis week in and week out, talks or no talks. “Framing this attack as politically motivated distorts the nature and meaning of Arab terrorism against Jews.” It’s about hatred and anti-Semitism, not politics. But Obama refuses to see that. With him, the Palestinian Authority “can get away with murder—and does.”
Obama actually believes that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas wants peace, said The Jerusalem Post in an editorial. Abbas may be “far better intentioned than his malevolent predecessor, Yasser Arafat,” but his Fatah faction still routinely demonizes Israel and opposes its very existence. Under his rule, Palestinian terrorists are given state honors. The Ramallah street that houses the Palestinian Authority’s new presidential compound, for example, was named for Palestinian “arch-terrorist” Yihye Ayash, the bomb expert who devoted himself to sabotaging the Oslo peace process. The “glorification of ‘heroic’ terrorists, ‘martyred’ in the cause of murdering Israelis,” is a state project in Gaza and the West Bank alike. Until Abbas takes real steps toward changing that poisonous climate, he can’t be considered a peace partner.
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