The Palestinian Delusion by Robert Spencer

Author:Robert Spencer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: N/A
Publisher: Post Hill Press
Published: 2019-09-19T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

Hudaybiyya Revisited

Refusing Israel

The Camp David Accords’ “Framework for Peace in the Middle East” declared that “Egypt, Israel, Jordan and the representatives of the Palestinian people should participate in negotiations on the resolution of the Palestinian problem in all its aspects.”1

This posed an insuperable problem from the moment that Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin, and Jimmy Carter signed the documents. While the Arab League accepted the PLO as the “sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people,” and the United Nations likewise saw it as “the representative of the Palestinian people,” the government of Israel refused to accept it.2

There was a very simple reason for this: the PLO refused to accept Israel.

The Palestine Liberation Organization’s Palestinian National Charter, adopted in May 1964 and revised in July 1968, declared that “Palestine, with the boundaries it had during the British Mandate, is an indivisible territorial unit,” and that “the partition of Palestine in 1947 and the establishment of the state of Israel are entirely illegal…. The Balfour Declaration, the Mandate for Palestine, and everything that has been based upon them, are deemed null and void.”3 What’s more, “claims of historical or religious ties of Jews with Palestine are incompatible with the facts of history and the true conception of what constitutes statehood.”4

Consequently, “the Arab Palestinian people, expressing themselves by the armed Palestinian revolution, reject all solutions which are substitutes for the total liberation of Palestine and reject all proposals aiming at the liquidation of the Palestinian problem, or its internationalization.”5

If Palestine was indivisible and partition illegitimate, the State of Israel illegal and “the total liberation of Palestine” the goal, then the PLO, which had a better claim than any other group to be “the representatives of the Palestinian people,” was committed to Israel’s complete destruction. If the PLO rejected “all proposals aiming at the liquidation of the Palestinian problem,” there was no point in Israel’s opening up any negotiations with the group, and no desire among the Palestinian leadership for negotiations anyway.

Thus the Camp David Accords’ determination to resolve “the Palestinian problem in all its aspects” was a dead letter. Making matters worse was the fact that the Palestinians and their allies continued jihad terror attacks against Israeli civilians, culminating in the First Intifada of 1987–1991, during which the United Nations began its now well-established practice of condemning Israel without taking into account Palestinian actions or Israel’s security requirements.

However, the intifada and the rise of a murderous new jihad group led to a new round in the “peace process.”

“Israel Will Rise and Will Remain Erect

Until Islam Eliminates It”

With the intifada in full swing, a new group arose that thoroughly alarmed the Israelis and drastically altered the course of the “peace process”: the Islamic Resistance Movement, Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah, known by its Arabic acronym, Hamas.

Hamas was founded in August 1988 as an Islamic alternative to the PLO’s secularism and willingness to negotiate. The Hamas Charter criticized the PLO (whose own charter makes no reference to Islam at all) for forsaking Islam under the sway of

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