{"id":19102,"date":"2023-01-13T01:17:25","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T22:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/majalatalfiniq.com\/mag\/?p=19102"},"modified":"2023-01-19T01:35:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T22:35:10","slug":"make-them-lose-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/majalatalfiniq.com\/mag\/make-them-lose-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Make them Lose Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cMy argument is that a just resolution of the conflict requires the Palestinians to lose hope. Only when they give up their war goal of eliminating Israel will the conflict come to an end. Israel must win, and the Palestinians must lose.\u201d <\/em>Daniel Pipes, in interview with Jerusalem Post<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

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Lose hope and capitulate! This, in essence, is Daniel Pipes’ argument for a \u201cjust\u201d resolution of the Palestinian struggle, which he presented in a long interview published in the Jerusalem Post on Saturday, January 7, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those who do not know Daniel Pipes, he is an ardent Zionist with extreme right-wing views that prompted some academicians to label his views on Islam as racist and Islamophobic. He is the author of a few books including \u201cGreater Syria, The History of an Ambition\u201d. He is also the founder of Campus Watch, which, according to its website, “reviews and critiques Middle East studies in North America with an aim to improving them.” However, its critics say that it is \u201ca pro-Israel lobbyist organization involved in harassing, blacklisting, or intimidating scholars critical of Israel.\u201d  (Wikipedia<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daniel Pipes is visiting Israel to gain insights for a new book he is writing on how to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The summary of his argument is: \u201cThe Palestinians must lose, and Israel must win.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pipes doesn\u2019t know what Israel must do to win. When specifically asked, he offers the following:  \u201cI prefer to posit Israel victory as a policy goal, without going into detailed strategy and tactics. Yet, he offers two \u201ccreative examples\u201d. The first, \u201cgive the Al-Aqsa Mosque to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Ben Salman to add to his collection of Islamic Sanctuaries\u201d. The second, \u201cIsrael announces that a single missile attack from Gaza means a one-day border closure: no water, food, medicine, or fuel crosses from it to Gaza. Two missiles means two days, and so forth. I guarantee this would rapidly improve Hamas\u2019s behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pipes\u2019 arguments throughout the interview are not less baffling than those two \u201cexamples of creativity.\u201d Here are some of those arguments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rejecting Oslo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Oslo Accords \u201cpromoted not victory, (for the Israelis) but hope for the Palestinians\u2026 It theorized that nice apartments, late-model cars, fine schools and excellent medical care would vest the Palestinians in prosperity, de-radicalize them, and make them true partners for peace.\u201d It is obvious that Pipes here is confusing the Palestinian Authority (PA) lackies with the Palestinian people. Under Oslo, the Palestinians lost 78% of Palestine, in exchange for VIP treatment to its official if they provide Israel with intelligence and keep the Palestinian street quiet. Thirty years later the Palestinians don\u2019t have their promised state. On the contrary, the remaining 22% of Palestine has diminished considerably since Oslo was signed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having said all that, Pipes maintains that \u201cthe two-state solution is the best long term bad deal for Israel\u201d!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Military Victory<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While Pipes extols the 1967 six-day war victory, he conveniently skips over the October 1973 war which posed an existential threat prompting American intervention. He also skips over Israel\u2019s withdrawal from Lebanon without condition in 2000, Israel\u2019s defeat in its 2006 attack on Lebanon, and its futile attacks and incursions on Gaza. Interestingly, Pipes does acknowledge that even the 1967 victory did not break the Palestinians, on the contrary, it emboldened them, and they proved to be \u201cmore determined and persistent.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rejectionism<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Pipes contends that \u201cthe Palestinians refusal to accept any aspect of Judaism, Jews, Zionism, or Israel in Eretz Israel (land of Israel) is at the core of Palestinian rejectionism which, according to him, began with Haj Amin Husseini a century ago. The Palestinians never rejected \u201cany aspect of Judaism or Jews.\u201d Most Muslims and Christians revere the Old Testament. For the Christians, it is a foundational document to their faith; for the Muslims, the Jews are \u201cAhlu-Kitab\u201d, people of a Book. Jews lived and thrived not only in Palestine, but in all Natural Syria\u2019s main centers such as Beirut, Damascus, Aleppo, and Bagdad. They lived there for millennia. For them, Jerusalem was a spiritual center. Even though they might have prayed \u201cnext year in Jerusalem,\u201d there was never a serious attempt from Jews in those centers to migrate to Palestine, until the Zionist movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did the Palestinians reject Zionism? Yes. But so did many Jews. Here are a few: Lord Edwin Montagu, British cabinet minister and fierce opponent of the Balfour Declaration, who accused the British government of antisemitism<\/a> for its intent to issue the declaration; Alfred Lilienthal, Israel\u2019s Flag is Not Mine, 1949; Moshe Menuhin, The Decadence of Judaism in our Times, 1969; Lilienthal, The Zionist Connection; Ilan Papp\u00e9, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine; and many other courageous Jewish voices who opposed Zionism. (Please visit this this site<\/a> for more.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not the first time Pipes promotes his idea of Palestinian surrender. Back in 2019, he floated what he called, \u201cThe Israel Victory Project<\/a>\u201d. There is nothing in the new proposal that was not in the old one. However, in the new interview, he makes of list of things that have been tried but failed to subdue the Palestinians. He says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPrior ideas included expelling the Palestinians either by force or voluntarily, the Jordan-is-Palestine scheme, erecting more fences, finding a new Palestinian leadership, demanding good governance, implementing the Road Map, funding a Marshall Plan, imposing a trusteeship, establishing joint security forces, splitting the Temple Mount, leasing the land, withdrawing unilaterally, and so on. None worked; none will work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the face of such failure what should Israel do to win? \u201cDefeat and victory remain imperative\u201d, answers Pipes. How? Pipes goes back a full circle to, “not time to discuss \u201cStrategy and Tactic”!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In summary, this so-called historian is calling for Israel to win conclusively, while listing every cruelty that has been imposed upon the Palestinians, for over a century, to no avail. There is no doubt that he is missing something. What could it be? It is the trans-generational love of Palestine, as demonstrated by the two pictures below, that the Israelis and their worldwide supporters have not been able to crush.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Andrew Bisharat, son of the fourth generation of Palestinian refugees, standing of in front of his family\u2019s villa that was built by his great grandfather in 1926. He came to Palestine, with the memories of his family and their right, and with determination no less than his predecessors, carrying the same picture because \u201cTHE YOUNG WILL NEVER FORGET.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 2019 Interview, Mr. Pipes says that for the conflict to end, one of the two sides must be totally defeated. He is probably right. But the Palestinians refuse to be the defeated party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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