In this op-ed, Uri Elitzer argues that the foremost concern of Israel should be the abandonment of the peace process and the complete elimination of terrorism everywhere.
The “vision of a Palestinian state” is something we have already tried. In the 10 years since Oslo, particularly the last three, we have seen what the Palestinians intend to do with the tools of independence and statehood, if they are given them.They already had a state-in-the-making, and they used it to build a huge terrorist base and a society mobilized and incited to hate Israel.
The Palestinian Authority did nothing to promote its own people’s economy and welfare. It used all the tools of government in its hands in order to cultivate the terrorist capabilities of many systems and organizations, and in order to educate masses of people from kindergarten to old age towards war, hatred, and suicide terrorism.
If the PA has been a swamp of terrorism, corruption and incitement, then the Palestinian state will be a whole lake. It will grow a center of international terrorism, and will be totally mobilized towards war over the next phase of “liberating Palestine.”
I absolutely agree. I firmly believe that legitimate government authority is derived from the protection of individual rights; something that the Palestinian Authority does not do.
