Peloni: IDSF’s Lt. Col. Maurice Hirsch offers an important look at how a terror army has grown under the auspices of the Fatah led Palestinian Authority, and now stands at being six times larger than anything agreed upon under Oslo. Hirsch goes on to discuss his recently released report which examines whether the PA, in combination with the Palestine Liberation Organization’s long-standing statutory policy of employing terrorist prisoners and terrorists, along with the pay for slay policies, facilitated Hamas’s ability plan and implement the October 7, 2023 massacre. Hirsch’s full report can be found HERE which can alternatively be found on the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs website.
Humor:
He thinks the problem is one of inadequate diplomacy and policing.He thinks the Concepzia can be reformed. He thinks Oslo was a failure instead of the successful Trojan Horse strategy that it was and is. He thinks the Supreme Court and the other institutions governed by leftists will punish terrorists. I have read and appreciated his books. I am disappointed.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/365095
Arafat’s Grand Strategy
By: Efraim Karsh
“For Yasir Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) leadership, the Oslo process has always been a strategic means not to a two-state solution—Israel and a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza—but to the substitution of a Palestinian state for the state of Israel.
As early as August 1968, Arafat defined the PLO’s strategic objective as “the transfer of all resistance bases” into the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, occupied by Israel during the June 1967 war, “so that the resistance may be gradually transformed into a popular armed revolution.” This, he reasoned, would allow the PLO to undermine Israel’s way of life by “preventing immigration and encouraging emigration … destroying tourism … weakening the Israeli economy and diverting the greater part of it to security requirements … [and] creating and maintaining an atmosphere of strain and anxiety that will force the Zionists to realize that it is impossible for them to live in Israel.”[1]
The Oslo accords enabled the PLO to achieve in one fell swoop what it had failed to attain through many years of violence and terrorism. Here was Israel, just over a decade after destroying the PLO’s military infrastructure in Lebanon, asking the Palestinian organization, at one of the lowest ebbs in its history, to establish a real political and military presence—not in a neighboring Arab country but right on its doorstep. Israel even was prepared to arm thousands of (hopefully reformed) terrorists who would be incorporated into newly established police and security forces charged with asserting the PLO’s authority throughout the territories.
In September 2000, Arafat launched a war of terror against Israel with precisely the objectives he had set for the Palestinian movement in 1968. Some analysts now argue that the Palestinians have lost that war. But the very fact that Arafat could wage it and plunge Israel into one of its greatest traumas constitutes a triumph of his strategy. Certainly the Palestinians have suffered reversals and losses. But Arafat has achieved his goal: he brought the Palestinian war from Israel’s borders into Israel proper by the politics of stealth. He has every reason to hope that the work he began will be continued by the next generation of Palestinian leaders. That work is nothing short of the dismantlement of Israel…”
ibid
https://www.meforum.org/middle-east-quarterly/arafats-grand-strategy
* Is he unaware of this history? I’d like to see statistical studies of how many people in Israel and other countries are unaware of this history or simply refuse to believe it.
I remember arguing with an American Pal sympathizer who had never heard of the Taylor Force Act and didn’t believe Pay for slay existed and wouldn’t so much as google it!
Things didn’t just turn out this way. It’s been this from the start!
“We have nothing to fear but fear itself” (FDR about the Great Depression) should today be: “We have nothing to fear but wishful thinking.”
“it’s good to want things” – Winona Ryder as Dinki Bossetti in “Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael.” (1990)
and
“AI Overview +4 sunk-cost fallacy
“The sunk cost fallacy is the habit of continuing an activity or choice just because you already put time, money, or effort into it, even when stopping is the best choice. A sunk cost is any past resource you can never get back. It is also known as “throwing good money after bad.”
My opinion: Israel must militarily defeat the PA and Hamas, “eliminate” the terrorists, “evacuate” hostile civilian populations, apply sovereignty, redeem and settle the land. Arm Jewish settlers. Not necessarily in that order. Period. There is no practical alternative.
Correction: I confused Maurice Hersh (in the podcast) with Seymour Hersh and I’ve only read the Samson Option by Seymour Hersh, but I stand by my criticism.
Oslo has been declared dead umpteen times since it was signed. There have been so many cases of breaking the accord that it makes no sense to even try to uphold any part of it. For some unknown reason, Israel is expected to do its part even in the face of obvious breaking of the accord by ALL OTHER SIGNATORIES including the witnesses, who then still require Israel to abide by the long buried Two State Solution.
The ammassing of a “police force” armed and trained by the CIA/USA. The EU has been paying the “Pay-for-slay” bendfits since day 1. The fact that Israel still attemps to accommodate them and doesn’t do enough to stop their illegal activities. That shows their true colors.