Blaming Israel for Palestinian Authority Tyranny

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Palestinian Authority President Abbas is currently serving out Year 8 of a four year term. Nice work if the international community of suckers can get it for you.

Abbas’ term ended in 2009 but he decided that he was doing such a great job of running a terrorist group/country that he gave himself another four year term without wasting time on elections.

When asked to explain this impressive confidence in his own popularity, Abbas would invariably blame Israel for putting up a lot of checkpoints to stop terrorist attacks… and making it impossible to hold elections.

The real reason is that Hamas had won the last election and is likely to win another one. Since no one wants Hamas running things, especially the people who keep chanting that peace is coming soon, everyone pretends that President-for-Life Abbas is the legitimate representative of the people he won’t allow to vote.

At Gatestone, Khaled Abu Toameh takes apart the Israeli checkpoint myth.

In the past, despite Israeli security measures and checkpoints, Palestinians did have free and democratic elections for the presidency and parliament.

Israeli “occupation” did not prevent Hamas from winning the January 2006 parliamentary election.

Not only did Israel freely allow Arab residents of Jerusalem to run and vote in that election, but for the first time ever, Israel opened its post offices in Jerusalem so that Arab voters could cast their ballots in the 2006 election, and permitted a number of Hamas candidates from Jerusalem to contest the vote.

Since then, Palestinians have held different elections for various bodies in the West Bank, including municipalities, university campuses and professional unions.

Needless to say, these elections were all held despite the presence of Israeli checkpoints.

Israel has never stopped Palestinians from holding free elections or implementing administrative and financial reforms, and there have never been any complaints from Palestinians about Israeli attempts to obstruct these elections or prevent them.

But Israeli checkpoints are a good excuse for anything and everything. And as long as Western leaders continue buying these excuses, the tyranny they subsidize will continue postponing elections and blaming Israel.

  • http://www.adinakutnicki.com AdinaK

    The world refuses to hold any Islamists responsible for their barbaric behavior, most especially their preferred pets, the PA/Fatah junta. Never mind the LEGAL fact that their entity is against international law – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/11/01/pa-statehood-

    Case closed!

    Adina Kutnicki, Israel http://adinakutnicki.com/about/

  • Pulsar182

    There is an eerie déjà vu about an unmistakable and oft-repeated process in the Arab–Israel conflict. The process started in 1937 and has repeated itself with minor variations many times over the subsequent 74 years. The process is as follows: Arabs go to war with Israel, promising Israel’s destruction and the annihilation of its Jews. Israel wins the war and offers peace. Arab leaders reject Israel’s peace offer, renew their promises of destruction and annihilation; and after a while they go to war again, and lose again, and Israel again offers peace. Repeat this process 31 times and you have the history of the Arab-Israel conflict in a nutshell.

    Unfortunately, this process never seems to make it to our mainstream media’s radar screen, nor into many of the classrooms of professors of Near Eastern Studies

  • Raymond in DC

    In "lather -rinse-repeat" fashion, the current pattern is "incite -threaten war -make war – lose war -repeat". How is this possible? Because Israel isn't allowed to "win" a war, and Israel's enemies aren't allowed to lose a war. So those enemies, even if humiliated, are never forced to concede defeat and sue for peace. Rather, they demand to be made whole, to get back what they lost, allowing them opportunity for a "do over". And another.

  • marios

    Cowards Western "useful idiots" in hope that "crocodile will eat them at last turn" betray only one democracy in ME Israel which shares the same value as Western civilization. Cowards Westerns just pretend that they believe all those deceptions and lies about Israel Islamists fed them. Those idiots don't want to realize that paying jazyya (homage, tribute) to barbarians who openly declared "Islam will dominate in the world", "Islam will prevent" , they can not buy safety and future but only kindle Islamic barbarians appetite.

  • marios

    As cowardly Westerns betrayed Czechoslovakia in 1930 and supported thus Hitler to unleash WWII against themselves, the same they are doing now using Israel. Israel destiny is all Western civilization destiny. GW Bush was right to put choice for nations, for people (after terror act 9/11): " you are with us or you are with terrorists". They same applicable concerning Israel: you are with civilized, shared western values democracy Israel or you are with Islamic barbarians terrorists whose goal to conquest all the world to build Caliphate. Stay with Israel if you want future for yourselves and for your children. At stake is our kids life.__

  • Rifleman

    The msm used similarly lame excuses to blame America for the soviets' paranoia and oppression of their own people, when they were forced, for whatever reason, to acknowledge it. Every problem in the world is the USA's fault, except those that are Israel's fault.

    • Seth

      Palestinians, bunch of clowns, and crocodile tears!