Malkin Award Nominee II

"Abu Mazen’s goal is not independence — which was available in 1948 and at many points thereafter — but rather to stay in office and not concede any/all of his mentor Arafat’s three touchstones of the Palestinian revolution: ● an independent Palestine without conceding the legitimacy of Israel’s sovereignty; ● its capital in Jerusalem; and ● the entry of Palestinians who left the area in 1948–49 and their descendants into pre-1967 Israel with the rights of citizenship. The Palestinians have for decades been masters at producing new, inventive, and bloody ways to hang on to those demands, drain money from Western coffers, subvert Israel and avoid penalty for the multi-generational ruin of their own people: hijacking airplanes; wrecking Lebanon; two bloody uprisings; subverting treaties; destroying Jewish antiquity under the Temple Mount; bigger and more accurate rockets from Gaza; and the BDS movement… [Abbas] wrote his Ph.D. thesis in Moscow on “secret relations” between Nazis and Jews and was the bag man for the Munich Massacre," – Shoshana Bryen, NRO.