{"id":16060,"date":"2024-02-26T00:47:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T00:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/26\/bidens-vision-for-a-palestinian-state-doomed-experts-say-an-explicit-recognition-of-hamas\/"},"modified":"2024-02-26T00:47:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T00:47:47","slug":"bidens-vision-for-a-palestinian-state-doomed-experts-say-an-explicit-recognition-of-hamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/26\/bidens-vision-for-a-palestinian-state-doomed-experts-say-an-explicit-recognition-of-hamas\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s vision for a Palestinian state doomed, experts say: \u2018An explicit recognition of Hamas\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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JERUSALEM \u2014 Reports the Biden administration and a small group of Middle East states will soon begin pushing a new peace initiative with the aim of creating a Palestinian state have drawn pushback from the Israeli government, which declared this week it will not accept \u2018international diktats.\u2019 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Regional experts also say such efforts are doomed to fail as they have in the past.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Last week, the Israeli government, including more moderate members of what is considered to be the most right-wing cabinet Israel ever, unanimously declared its opposition to any unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state, saying such a move would only reward terrorism and prevent a future peace settlement.<\/p>\n

\u2018If a settlement is to be reached, it will come about solely through direct negotiations between the parties, without preconditions,\u2019 a\u00a0statement issued by the government said.<\/p>\n

An Israeli media report over the weekend suggested Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had, however, presented his\u00a0security cabinet members with a discussion paper about Gaza, stating clearly that Israel plans to maintain security control over all land west of Jordan, including Gaza and other parts of the territories where Palestinians hope to establish an independent state.<\/p>\n

Israel has been battling the Iranian-backed terror group Hamas in the Gaza Strip since Oct. 7 when thousands of its terrorists crossed the border, murdering 1,200 people and taking some 240 people hostage. Even as Israeli troops gear up for what could be the final phase of the war, Netanyahu and his defense chief Yoav Gallant remain reluctant to discuss any broader future arrangements for the war-torn enclave.<\/p>\n

Prof. Efraim Inbar, President of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security, told Fox News Digital efforts by the U.S. administration to find a solution to the decades-old intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict were nothing new and, as in the past, efforts to bring about a Palestinian state, particularly under the current conditions, were unlikely to succeed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018What the Americans want, a\u00a0revitalized Palestinian Authority, is nothing new. \u2026 We saw a similar attempt\u00a0during the Bush era,\u2019 Inbar said. \u2018I think the question we should be asking is why would a Palestinian state look any different to the Palestinian entities we\u2019ve seen so far?\u2019<\/p>\n

Inbar said any future Palestinian state would need to be ready to \u2018make some real\u00a0compromises,\u2019 including recognizing the Zionist movement, accepting Israel as a Jewish state and Jerusalem as its capital and relinquishing some of its territorial dreams.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A Palestinian state would also have to exclude terror entities like Hamas, who Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh recently referred to as being \u2018part of the Palestinian people\u2019 and \u2018a partner in any future political entity.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018These attempts are noble, but they did not succeed in the past, and I do not see that the current Palestinian leadership is ready to change the situation,\u2019 said Inbar.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even Fatah, the Palestinian political faction led by the current Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, \u2018are not the nicest of neighbors,\u2019 he said, noting that, in the past few months \u2018dozens\u2019 of members of the Authority\u2019s official security forces have carried out terror attacks against Israelis and that after 30 years of PA rule, the population had been indoctrinated to \u2018hate Jews and Israel.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m not optimistic about what a Palestinian state would look like at this stage,\u2019 Inbar said. He added the Palestinian people had also given up hope with their own leadership due to corruption and that any future Palestinian state would most likely carry the same political culture as others in the Arab world, namely dictatorships and tribalism.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bassem Eid, a Palestinian human rights activist and political analyst,\u00a0also expressed doubts about the success of a future Palestinian state based on past attempts to create a self-governing entity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018In my opinion, those leaders who are calling for a Palestinian state have forgotten one important thing \u2013 that a state must be built before it is recognized,\u2019 he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eid said there is no suitable infrastructure for a Palestinian state \u2014 no real economy and a society where the majority of the population still lived in refugee camps.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018What kind of state would that be?\u2019 he wondered. \u2018I don\u2019t think that is the kind of state the Palestinians are hoping for.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018My conclusion is that the\u00a0Palestinians are not really qualified for a state,\u2019 he said, describing how the last attempt to create a Palestinian state was when Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon disengaged from Gaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018He wanted to give the Palestinians Gaza so they could start building their own state, but look at what they did there. They turned Gaza from Singapore into ISIS,\u2019 he said. \u2018I don\u2019t think\u00a0that calling for a Palestinian state right now is a legitimate demand.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Eid said he believed Hamas\u2019 Oct. 7 attack \u2018set the Israeli-Palestinian conflict backward 50 years\u2019 and that instead of calling for the creation of a Palestinian state, there should be international efforts to \u2018build\u00a0bridges to bring the Israelis and Palestinians together\u2019 after the trauma.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He also said the focus now should move away from the Palestinian Authority, and from Hamas, who are both \u2018specialists in destroying states,\u2019 and should be put instead on local Palestinian tribes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Let\u2019s call the tribes and give them a chance to rule,\u2019 said Eid. \u2018I believe they will succeed in ruling the Palestinians much better than Hamas or the Palestinian Authority. At least let them try for the next five years, then probably a charismatic Palestinian leader will emerge, we can hold elections and then negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians can start.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Khaled Hassan,\u00a0a political risk and intelligence analyst with over 13 years of experience working in the Middle East,\u00a0also said that prospects for the creation of a Palestinian state under the current conditions were dim.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018The establishment of a state requires tremendous efforts and international support, including a unified nationalist movement, similar to the Zionist Movement in the early 20th century,\u2019 he told Fox News Digital.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018A Palestinian state would, most importantly, need Palestinian unity and Israeli recognition,\u2019 he said, adding that any discussion over who might lead this potential state would \u2018most likely spark a civil war among Palestinians\u2019 and that \u2018Israel was highly unlikely to recognize a Palestinian state.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018A Palestinian state can\u2019t\u00a0be imposed on Israel,\u2019 Hassan said. \u2018Arab states have for decades recognized a Palestinian state, but this has\u00a0led to little to nothing in reality. Although, if there was American and British unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state, that could result in unprecedented political, and legal, repercussions for Israel.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018It might not lead to\u00a0a Palestinian state coming to life, but it would greatly diminish Israel\u2019s standing within the international community,\u2019 he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If such a state did successfully emerge, Hassan added, the Palestinians would grapple with finding suitable leadership.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Hamas is demanding not only to\u00a0be part of a future state, but to lead it,\u2019 he said. He said the creation of a state as a result of the Oct. 7 terror attacks would be \u2018an explicit recognition of Hamas as a resistance movement whose attacks led to the establishment of a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n

\u2018For Palestinians, the legitimacy of a political leader is largely based on their involvement in anti-Israel terror, so any Palestinian leaders who condemn terrorism are perceived as traitors and agents of Israel.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

He noted that previous U.S. attempts to install a more moderate Palestinian leader, one that rejected terrorism, had \u2018been met with staggering frustration.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Public statements by the late Egyptian\u00a0presidents Sadat and\u00a0Mubarak, as well as U.S. President Bill Clinton have\u00a0illustrated this,\u2019 said Hassan, recalling the widespread\u00a0condemnation and boycott of Egypt due to its peace treaty with Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Sadat described Arabs, including Palestinians, who boycotted Egypt over the talks as reckless \u2018children and teenagers\u2019 who should not be entrusted with the fate of Egyptians, Arabs and Palestinians,\u2019 he said. \u2018His words still\u00a0ring true 40 years later\u00a0as the world watches what the recklessness of Palestinian leaders have\u00a0brought upon their people and upon millions of Israelis who did not want this war.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the challenges to creating a Palestinian state appear insurmountable, Omer Zanany, head of the joint unit for peace and security at the Mitvim Institute and the Berl Katznelson Center in Israel, said Israelis under the current government were also likely to thwart the efforts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said Israel faces two choices \u2013 continuing the war in Gaza at the risk of the conflict escalating to other fronts or seizing what might be a \u2018historic opportunity to end the war, bring home the hostages and defeat Hamas by entering into negotiations for a two-state solution.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

Zanany, who heads a joint Israeli-Palestinian task force exploring the options, said there needed to be a gradual process that would bring enduring security for both Israelis and Palestinians. Such a process, he said, would put \u2018hope\u2019 on the political horizon that would help to bring about crucial changes in both societies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018If we know there\u2019s something that we can change, we have to begin with a process,\u2019 he said.\u2019I am not talking about having peace tomorrow but\u00a0about getting into a new track. And I think that\u2019s exactly what Biden, Secretary of State Blinken and the Saudis are saying.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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