Establishing Palestinian State a Fraud

Here's an interview with 'Palestinian' former terrorist Walid Shoebat.

Peace Preparation Palestinian Style

The 'Palestinian' court system is preparing itself for 'peace' with Israel by reiterating the death penalty for any 'Palestinian' who sells land to Jews.

Judge Ta'et At-Twil, according to a report by the Palestinian news agency Ma'an, ruled that selling, or attempting to sell, land to a foreign country was a criminal offense which could result in the death penalty.

In a statement released following the ruling, the Palestine General Prosecution said the move represented "a consolidation of the previous legal principle," adding that the "ruling aimed to protect the Palestinian national project to establish an independent Palestinian state."

Last year, a Palestinian military court sentenced a man to death by hanging for selling land to an Israeli company, with then prosecutor Issa Amer saying that the defendant had sold land that didn't belong to him in the village of Beit Ummar using forged documents.

What could go wrong?

By the way, that report is apparently only in Maan's Arabic version - I haven't seen it in the English one (and yes, I follow Maan English on Twitter).

posted by Carl in Jerusalem

Palestinians Do Not Want Statehood

Unfortunately, the Americans are laboring under two flawed assumptions.
1. Palestinians want statehood.
2. Palestinians won't allow Iranian nuclear missiles on their land.

The Palestinians Do Not Want a State

Ehud Yaari, a less optimistic commentator, sat for five weeks in the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and wrote a paper entitled “Armistice Now: An Interim Agreement for Israel and Palestine.” ....

Yaari’s basic assumption is that the Palestinians do not really want a state, not if it entails resigning themselves to dividing the land. The Palestinian strategy is to collapse into the arms of Israel. From Israel’s perspective, that is disastrous. It must force them to establish a state. Since they are incapable of signing a comprehensive agreement, they must be compelled to establish a state as part of an interim agreement.

It appears that Yaari’s basic assumption is correct. Abu Mazen and his colleagues in Fatah are missing two vital ingredients for the establishment of a state—willingness to impose painful concessions, and the desire and ability to take responsibility for everything that the day-to-day running of a state requires. The only one in the Palestinian leadership who is working seriously in this direction is Salam Fayyad. It is no accident that he is not a member of Fatah. It is no accident that he sees David Ben-Gurion, rather than Yasser Arafat, as a model to emulate. ....

Source: Laura Rosen, Politico