Palestinian Authority: wannabe state without rules of state

The New Year unfolded with more terror from Islamists. The Paris gunmen, reportedly an Al Qaeda terror cell with Yemeni connections who murdered 12 people at a leftist French satirical magazine, may give courage to Muslim-based wannabe states like the Palestinian Authority that try to bully authentic nations.

The close of 2014 brought a defeat for the Palestinian Authority as it attempted to fast-track statehood, hoping to bypass negotiations with Israel via a UN Security Council resolution. The United States stood strong with their ally and vetoed the resolution that would give the P.A. official recognition in three years time regardless of the incendiary political circumstances that blister the Holy Land. Rebuffed in the action, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas immediately started drafting requests to join a number of other international organizations in hopes that they would give him the acknowledgment he desperately craves. The first in line was a threat to join the International Criminal Court, which membership was denied in 2012. Nothing has changed since then other than the observer status granted by the UN General Assembly, which action does not a state make according to the ICC's own rules. Despite that, Abbas went forward January 2 and submitted the documents to the UN requesting membership as "Palestine," a true fiction based on Greek and Roman terminology. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was correct in his assessment that the ICC should reject the Palestinian Authority submission to join as it does not meet requirements: it "is not a state." Then late January 7 immediately following the Paris attack on Charlie Hebdo, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon said the state of Palestine would become a member of the ICC April 1, 2015. There is one snag--there is no such state. And as the Obama administration decides whether the Palestinian Authority should continue to receive $440 million in aid, Senator Rand Paul submitted a bill to block aid if they continue their bid for ICC membership.

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The irony of the Palestinian Authority's rationale for joining the judicial organization is its claim against Israel of committing war crimes; illusory war crimes that mirror what Hamas, the terror group with which the Authority has a compact, actually inflicted on Israel from its base in Gaza, not the other way around. Here we have the non-state allied with war criminals that assaulted their neighbor, which is a recognized nation, claiming to have been harmed by the victims. Is there not a problem with this assertion? Along with this non-state (P.A.) accusing a real state (Israel) of war crimes that were actually committed by the non-states' friends and partners, their (P.A.'s) own charter denies the existence of the so-called perpetrator (Israel). How do you accuse something, that you swear doesn't even exist, of wrongdoing? And for proof that the majority of Middle East nations refuse to accept the legitimacy of the State of Israel, there is the once-respected publishing house of HarperCollins' new atlas that was designed to appease the Arab pipedream. The atlas, printed for use in Arab schools, simply omitted Israel from their maps. Whatever would possess a publisher to redraw national boundaries according to a few rogue entities' wishful thinking is beyond understanding. It matters not that HarperCollins now says it recalled the books and have since "pulped" them. That the atlases were created and actually printed demonstrates a political agenda that is anti-Israel, but moreso, that they have destroyed any reputation they may have had for integrity. To recap, what remains is a contradiction in terms as non-states battle something they deny, blaming that non-entity with crimes perpetrated by themselves and their allies, in order to gain faux justice for acts that were supposedly committed by something that, according to the accuser, doesn't exist. Go figure... but it might drive you insane. Not to let a good thing go to waste, according to CNS News, the Palestinian Authority has applied for membership in all these international institutions: "Among the other treaties the P.A. has now applied to join are the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime; Convention on the Law of the Sea; nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; Convention on the Political Rights of Women; and Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity." This is the gist. The Authority wishes to join organizations that:

1. Frown upon organized crime, while it condones illegal arms dealing;
2. Enforce maritime law, while it encourages flotillas carrying illegitimate supplies/arms to break embargo;
3. Restrain nuclear proliferation, while it supports Iran's bid to build nuclear weapons;
4. Promote the political rights of women, while it turns a blind eye to Islamic groups that exploit and enslave women; and last but not least
5. Deny statutory limitations on war crimes when they give their blessing to suicide bombers, homicidal drivers and other terrorist acts performed against their non-existent neighbor, Israel.

This twisted, self-indulgent, calculating projection is rife among dictators, despots, religious zealots and terrorists and, unfortunately, a growing number of elected and appointed officials here in the United States who are more focused on retaining position and power than serving their constituents. Take note, the bullies of the world hate our free society and will stoop to any means to kill us because true liberty threatens to loosen the chokehold they keep on their own people.