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While wishing the ’POTUS' (President Of The US) "house be destroyed" in traditional Arab fashion, Abbas may have destroyed his own house, the Palestinian Arab one built of cards.
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SHEVA by Dr. Mordechai Kedar, 15/01/18
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Mahmoud Abbas, chairman of the Palestine
Liberation Organization, has delivered a speech triggered by his rage at the
President of the United States Donald Trump, going so far as
to hurl the most bitter curse in the Arabic language at the
POTUS: "May your house be destroyed."
This imprecation does not merely relate to someone's present home,
but to all the members of his family being thrown into the street to lead lives
of destitution, humiliation and shame. Only someone familiar with Middle
Eastern culture understands the real significance of this curse.
The question that naturally rises is what
happened that brought Abbas to the point where he is willing to burn his
bridges with the US President and deliver a speech whose import is the severing
of relations with the country which serves as chief funder of UNRWA, also
pushing the US president towards a negative stand on the "Palestinian
Issue."
"Jerusalem, Capital of Palestine," is an idea created
after the Six Day War and further developed after the Oslo Accords were signed
in September 1993. Arafat turned it into a mantra, while official Israel –
Shmon Peres, Yossi Beilin, Alon Liel and their cohorts – did nothing to stop
him. They told us that the expression is meant for a Palestinian Arab audience,
i.e. for "internal use" only. "Millions of shahids are on the
march to Jerusalem!!" Arafat shouted day and night, but they told us to
ignore it, that these were empty words, merely a pipe dream.
The world perpetuated the "Palestinian refugee problem"
despite the fact that not one refugee remains of all the others who existed in
the 1940s. Even Germany, which absorbed and rehabilitated the Sudetenland
residents expelled from Czechoslovakia, did not demand that the Arab world do
the same and absorb the "Palestinian refugees," whose problem was
created as a result of the Arab armies' invasion of Israel one day after the
Jewish State declared its independence.
The world did not recognize Jerusalem as
Israel's capital and allowed Jerusalem to turn into another major bargaining
chip in the "Peace talks" whose only purpose – at least according to
t he Arab side – was to weaken and shrink the State of Israel and bring it to a
state of collapse that would make the Jews lose hope and leave the region for
the countries they had lived in before they came to rebuild their ancient
homeland.
Trump and the House of Cards
Enter Donald Trump, a businessman who deals with construction –
not houses built of cards, but the kind meant to last for generations. He
understood that the Palestinian structure is made of cards, left standing only
because of the world's going along with European leadership, American liberal
circles, the Arab states and a few Israelis suffering from burn-out. Trump
understood that the Palestinian ideological structure is full of holes and
decided to pull two foundational cards out of the ephemeral structure: the
Jerusalem card and the refugee card.
From the minute Trump recognized Jerusalem as
Israel's capital the Palestinians – both Hamas and the PLO – began engaging in
frenzied activities, disturbances on the ground and political maneuvering in
international corridors. They understood that Jerusalem as Israel's capital is
an insurance policy of sorts for the Jewish statee. To the Jews,
Jerusalem is real, backed up by history and the Jewish religion, while it
is nothing but "fake news" for the Arab and Muslim world.
And then Trump pulled the refugee card from the
house of cards by announcing that he would cease to fund, support and
perpetuate it. That act is a thousand times worse than recognizing Jerusalem as
Israel's capital, because the refugee issue has been capitalized on for seventy
years, with billions of dollars poured into it, all going to waste. UNRWA
operates a massive system of wage-earners, schools and aid services running on
American money, whose cessation is sure to limit the organizations' ability to
breathe life into the "refugee problem" .
Abbas cannot let that happen for several reasons: First, he
himself is a refugee born in Safed in 1935 and his own legitimacy as a
Palestinian leader is based on that fact. Second, the refugees have become
addicted to living on foreign aid and taking it away will force them to work
like everyone else. Third, every refugee whose funding has ceased will decide
to solve his problem independently: Some will emigrate to other countries,
others will be absorbed in their current locations, and the refugee problem will
disappear after all those decades spent keeping it alive with massive amounts
of European and American money.
Abbas understands that his house of cards,
lacking Jerusalem and refugees, is about to collapse and disappear and with it
all the plans to destroy Israel. The feeling that he has lost his compass is
what made him lose his temper and abandon the discretion that has always
characterized his behavior, leading him to return to the depths of Arabic
culture with an imprecation aimed at Trump –"May your house be
destroyed."
He used the worst of Arab curses, expressing the wish
that Trump's home be destroyed, his family thrown out into the street and
that he and they live in poverty and shame, turning into homeless objects
of pity to passersby. There is no more fitting expression for Abbas' despair
and disappointment as he witnesses the collapse of the Palestinian Arab house
of cards once Trump removed its Jerusalem and refugee foundations.
Abbas also does not have the Arab world
standing behind him. Quite the contrary, the Iranian issue has pushed
many Arab states closer to Israel and since the Arab nations are mired in a
plethora of their own internal problems, the Palestinian problem is now seen by
them as nothing more than a nuisance. Abbas' speech this week, one in which he
dug his own grave, symbolized the collapse, death and burial of the
"Palestinian issue" and this is the time to find an out-of-the-box
solution for it – on the lines of the "Emriate Solution," the
only socio-political model that works successfully in the Middle East.
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