Sunday, November 8, 2020

Opuscula

For whom
Do Arab MKs
Really work?

ISRAEL, UNLIKE MOST COUNTRIES, allows men and women to sit in its parliament (Knesset) whose primary goal is the destruction of Israel.

That would be similar to allowing Communists to be members of the U.S. Senate. (There are members of the U.S. House of Representatives who openly profess support for the government’s over throw.)

The question: If these Members of Knesset (MKs) oppose Israel, who DO they support?

 

NOT ISRAELI ARABS.

Not the people who live in “Palestine” or Gaza.

Who do they represent?

They represent the despots who control “Palestine” and Gaza: the “leaders” of the PLO/PFLP and Hamas/Islamic Jihad.

According to Israel Today, the ways in which Arab-Israeli Knesset members are failing to work to realize the interests of the Arab citizens of Israel who elected them and whom they are meant to represent. Rather, they are working for the interests of the Palestinian Authority (PA). Arab Knesset members are taking advantage of their position to advance the Palestinian issue—an issue in which most Arab countries have lost interest—at their own constituents’ expense. (Cited by BESA Center, https://tinyurl.com/y4dnfscp)

Arab List candidates, 2015

Israel has normalization — not exactly peace — agreements with (thanks to U.S. ex-President Trump) with several Muslim countries in the region: United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan. It also has shaky peace agreements with Egypt (thanks to Anwar Sadat and Likud’s Menachem Begin ) and Jordan (King Hussein bin Talal and the leftist Israeli PM du jour).

Hopefully, even with an Obama throwback government the treaties will remain in force.

The fact that traveling to either Egypt or Jordan is difficult and Israelis are not welcomed by the general populace so far has not caused the peace agreements to collapse.

Abu Mazen had even offered to meet with Israeli negotiators, seeing as he did, Muslim countries normalizing relations with Israel. That offer, now that Bidacq and soon-to-be president Kamala Harris-Emhoff are in office probably will be withdrawn.

It’s interesting. Abu Mazen prevents the average “Palestinian” from going to Israel for medical care, but cabinet members and their kin, specifically Chief Palestinian Propaganda Minister Saeb Erekat, is (was) being treated at Hadassah hospital in Jerusalem … along with an unnamed Jordanian general.

Abu Mazen recently reluctantly agreed to accept tax money Israel collects for the PLO, apparently realizing he has lost millions in aid from Muslim countries that are weary of his unwillingness to realize the reality that is — or at least was — on the ground. Europe’s leftists continue to line his pockets (as they did for his predecessor, the Egyptian Arafat).

The Arab Knesset members are angry that the Abraham Accords do not address the issue of Palestinian statehood and do not contain any real concessions for the Palestinians. One member, Sami Abu Shehadeh, hurried to be interviewed by Aljazeera on the day of the vote. In his interview, he repeatedly stated that he considers himself a Palestinian and that he opposes the whole agreement, which he deems no more than “a weapons deal.”

This is an MK ! Anti-Israel, but an MK.

He also is anti-”Palestinian” man in the street, but he is pro “slay for pay.”

Israeli Arabs or Palestinians in Israel?

Amnesty International, the organization that ignores the PLO’s rights abuses in “Palestine,” set up a special web site. The Israeli branch of the human rights organization established the website due to its perception that Arab Israelis, or "Palestinian citizens of Israel" as the organization refers to them, are undergoing a "severe attack" and need to operate in an organized and collective manner to fight for their rights as a minority in Israel.

Are they “Palestinians” in Israel or are they Israeli Muslims who prefer Israeli citizenship to life under Abu Mazen? Certainly there are no Jewish citizens of “Palestine; Jews are not allowed to live in Abu Mazen’s heaven-on-earth. (Unlike Muslims from “Palestine” who come into Israel to work, to shop, and to receive medial treatment, Jews are injured or killed for venturing into Abu Mazen’s utopia.)

Either way, the Arab List lends more support to Abu Mazen et al than to Israeli Muslims.

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