Krauthammer on the Roadmap
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A clear view on the “roadmap” from Charles Krauthammer, who points out an irrefutable truth—that to date, Abu Mazen has done absolutely nothing to uproot and extinguish the culture of incitement and terrorism that grips the Palestinian Authority: The Middle East ‘road ahead’.
WASHINGTON—On May 23, just a week ago, the official newspaper of the supposedly reformed Palestinian Authority carried a front-page picture of the latest suicide bomber dressed in suicide-bomber regalia. It then referred to the place where she did her murdering as “occupied Afula.”
The town of Afula is in Israel’s Galilee. It is not occupied. It is not in the West Bank or Gaza. It is within Israel. If Afula is occupied, then Tel Aviv is occupied, Haifa is occupied, and Israel’s very existence is a crime.
This bit of incitement and delegitimation was, to my knowledge, reported in not a single American newspaper. It is simply too routine. It is the everyday stuff of Palestinian newspapers and television, schoolbooks and sermons. Appearing, however, after the Palestinians had presumably adopted new leadership committed to (1) ending terrorism and (2) accepting Israel, this outrage caught the eye of Robert Satloff of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Satloff brought it to American attention noting that “it is difficult to imagine a more chilling message to Israelis who doubt Palestinian commitment to a two-state solution.”