Palestinian human rights activist Bassem Eid said Israel’s endless efforts for peace throughout history have been met with rejection from “anti-Semitic” Palestinian leaders who value “personal power over the interests of the people.” He accused them of having been constantly exposed to “blood-curdling violence.” “Palestinian agitators” favor “endless conflict” and the complete destruction of the Jewish community over peace, and call for the ouster of the Palestinian leadership.
in newsweek essay Bassem Eid, a Palestinian peace advocate based in Jerusalem, said in a Sunday publication titled “My fellow Palestinians: It’s time to remove our leaders and accept Israel’s peace offer,” Israel The Palestinians have repeatedly offered peace and compromise, but Palestinian leaders say they are prioritizing power over peace. , reject these offers.
“Israel has made consistent and genuine efforts toward peace, only to be met with rejection, betrayal, and blood-curdling violence from the Palestinian side. This pattern of refusal is the real obstacle to peace. It becomes.”
read my latest information @Newsweek: https://t.co/ZqGbjeH8lx— Bassem Eid (@realbassemeid) January 28, 2024
“It is Israel, and the pre-independence Zionist Jewish community, that has consistently proposed compromise, dialogue, and a two-state solution,” he wrote, going on to say: They rejected these outright offers, supporting endless conflict and the desire for the Jewish community to be completely destroyed. ”
“It is the Palestinian Arab nationalist movement that has betrayed the Palestinian people and consistently opposed peace,” he added.
Unfortunately, the views of “anti-Semitic Palestinian political leaders” overshadow the views of ordinary Palestinians who want peace, highlighting the recent rallies by Gazans denouncing the terrorist organization Hamas as the cause of the current situation. Mr. Eid argues that this is often the case.
Evacuated Gaza residents hold anti-Hamas rallies, holding posters calling for the release of the hostages and chanting, “The people want an end to the war!” “We want to go home!” #hamas #Gaza pic.twitter.com/liSXhzi9B0
— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) January 24, 2024
“But it’s not just Hamas,” he points out. “The Palestinian leadership has sold out its people since the beginning of the last century, despite the Jews’ repeated attempts to provide them with a state.”
Mandate of Palestine (1922)
Eid, who headed the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, said there was a duty to establish a Jewish national homeland in Palestine more than a century ago, but the creation of Jordan by Britain and the subsequent establishment of a Jewish community by Arabs It is pointed out that the number has been significantly reduced due to the attack.
he writes:
In 1922, the League of Nations used a map depicting not only Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza, but also present-day Jordan, where Britain had established an independent Mandate of Palestine in its place. It was unanimously approved to establish the city as the homeland of the people. Arab monarchies cut more than 75 percent of original land grants.
Did you know that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not a territorial dispute? In 1922, #UK ceded 77% of the British Mandate #Palestine create arab #Jordan. But to this day, Palestinians have not asked for land in Jordan. pic.twitter.com/ReuLeZt9VB
— Eretz Israel (@EretzIsrael) April 13, 2023
Although that vision was “dramatically diminished with the creation of Jordan,” the Jewish community at the time “saw it as an opportunity for coexistence,” he explains.
“The reaction? A series of Arab attacks in the 1920s and 30s terrorized Jews in Palestine and destroyed ancient Jewish communities such as Hebron under the direct gaze of British rule,” he points out.
Royal Commission on Palestine (1937)
And he drew attention to the fact that, some 15 years later, the Jews accepted yet another partition plan, only to be met with Arab rejection and refusal of peaceful coexistence.
July 7, 1937
The British Empire recommends the Peel Commission. Peace agreement between Arabs and Israelis. Desperate as Jews were fleeing the Nazis and the Holocaust, Israel accepted only 20%. The Arab world refused. Arab leaders will only support Hitler. pic.twitter.com/jGDSEdOkSr
— Eretz Israel (@EretzIsrael) July 8, 2023
“When the British Peel Commission proposed the partition of Palestine in 1937, the Jewish leadership accepted it in a spirit of compromise, despite the small size of the proposed Jewish state,” he said. writing.
“But, as would become a recurring theme, this gesture of peace was met with an outright rejection from the Arab community,” he added, noting that the argument was not simply a rejection of the terms, but “the possibility of peace.” They even refused to accept their sexuality.” Peaceful coexistence with Palestinian leaders like Haji Amin el-Husseini. Haji Amin el-Husseini acted as a Nazi collaborator in World War II and recruited Muslims from the Balkans into the SS.
This is Haji Amin al-Husseini, the Palestinian leader and Mufti of Jerusalem, who met with Adolf Hitler in Germany as the Holocaust raged. They established a partnership between the Arabs of Palestine and the Nazis.
When will the Palestinians apologize for supporting Hitler? pic.twitter.com/EJZzBonZvs— Uri Pylichowski (@RationalSettler) April 29, 2022
United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (1947)
And Eid refers to the United Nations vote to separate the Jewish and Arab states 10 years later, which again resulted in acceptance of Jews, rejection of Arabs, and subsequent invasion of Arab armies. was hit by.
“When the United Nations General Assembly resolved in 1947 to divide the Mandate into a Jewish state and an Arab state, the Jewish community gladly accepted their proposal,” he writes. “Tragically, however, Palestinian Arab leaders once again rejected even a small Jewish state within their territory.”
“They then invited the armies of seven neighboring Arab countries to invade and destroy the emerging Jewish state, which became Israel’s war of independence,” he added.
Oslo Accords (1993)
Next, the human rights pioneer discusses more recent Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, which were also met with Palestinian rejection and violence.
This trend continued with the 1993 Oslo Accords, when Israeli leaders announced that a genocidal terrorist group called the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), run by genocidal mastermind Yasser Arafat, had taken control of much of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. generously allowed to rule. .
Camp David Summit (2000)
Eid describes the turn of the millennium as a “watershed moment” and looks to the failed Camp David summit, where “Israel made an unprecedented offer for a Palestinian state.”
“They once again encountered the rejection of the Palestinian leadership and the outbreak of the bloody Second Intifada, a wave of suicide bombings that killed nearly a thousand Israeli civilians,” he writes.
“The betrayal shattered any illusions on the Palestinian side of any commitment to a peaceful solution,” he added.
Annapolis Conference (2007–2008)
Almost a decade later, Eid points out, yet another Israeli proposal for the establishment of a Palestinian state was rejected by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who holds an extended presidency.
“And at the Annapolis conference in 2008, Israel again offered a proposal for an independent Palestinian state,” he writes. “Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ refusal to accept this offer was not just disappointing; it was infuriating.”
“Abbas, who came to power in 2004, is currently serving the 19th year of his four-year presidential term, suspending both elections and the constitution in the Palestinian territories,” it added.
Hamas-led genocide (2023)
And Eid falls on October 7, 2023, after the “sneaky” terrorist group Hamas, which he calls the “Palestinian ISIS,” carried out the deadliest attack on Jews since the Nazi Holocaust. Leading up to the current Gaza conflict.
The massacre involved the torture, rape, execution, self-immolation, and abduction of hundreds of Israeli civilians, with widespread Palestinian support.
What you need to know: Horror of Hamas terrorist attack on civilians in Israel’s Kibbutz Beeri
Joel B. Pollack/Breitbart News
He emphasized how Hamas rejects peaceful coexistence and aims to claim all of Israel and eradicate the Jewish state.
“The sworn purpose of Hamas’s founding charter is not coexistence but the eradication of Israel,” Eid writes.
He continues:
Just this month, Khalid Meshaal, Hamas’ former chief and current top leader, clarified Hamas’ position on the two-state solution: [Palestinian] state, still you ReI was asked Recognizing the legitimacy of another country, which is a Zionist entity…We will not renounce our rights to the whole of Palestine. [Jordan] to the river [Mediterranean] Ocean. He asserted his belief that October 7 only “strengthened this conviction.”
Eid concludes by pointing out that Israeli peace efforts have consistently been met with Palestinian rejection and violence.
“The history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the two-state solution reveals a harsh reality: Israel has consistently made genuine efforts toward peace, but has been met with rejection, betrayal, and bloodshed by the Palestinians. “We were only faced with freezing violence,” he said. is written.
“This pattern of denial is particularly typical of groups like Hamas and represents a real obstacle to peace,” he added.
He concluded by calling for the current Palestinian leadership to be replaced to move towards peace.
“The time has come to openly admit this truth. Those who claim to want peace must confront and challenge rejectionist elements within Palestinian society, including Hamas,” he wrote.
“We need to get rid of the Palestinian ruling class that has ruled for 15 years without actually representing the Palestinian people,” he added. “Only then can we pave the way for a peaceful two-nation future.”
Eid, who has focused on human rights abuses by the Palestinian leadership, was once arrested by the Palestinian Authority (PA) after he began monitoring human rights abuses among Palestinians.
he has explained He called a two-state solution “impossible” and argued that “Israel uses its own rockets to protect its people, while Hamas uses its own people to protect its rockets.” He blasted progressive arguments that Israel commits genocide. Palestinian.
“Everyone should remember that this is a war imposed on the Gazan people by Hamas, not Israel,” he said of the current conflict.
Israel fights terrorism: Is Israel’s response to Hamas legal and just?
Joel Pollack
So-called two-state solution — phone The terrorist-supporting Palestinian Authority (PA) will ostensibly establish a Palestinian state in parts of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and eastern Jerusalem in exchange for ending the conflict with Israel and living in peace with the Jewish state. That’s what it is.It has long proven to be a dismal failure.
Despite numerous proposals, every time Israel attempts to offer land concessions to a Palestinian state, it has been met with a wave of fear. After years of failed negotiations and Israel’s disastrous withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005, which resulted in Hamas occupying the area and triggering repeated rocket attacks from there, the Israeli The proportion has become even more skeptical of a two-state solution, with most rejecting any idea.Withdrawal from the West Bank, according to Pew Research Center investigation Occurred before October 7, 2023.
Since the October 7 massacre, Israelis have desire Two-state solution.
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