Netanyahu Lauds the Prospect for Peace with Arabs While Abbas Spews Lies and Hate

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a stirring address on September 22^nd to the United Nations General Assembly, in which he declared that Israel is "at the cusp" of a historic breakthrough in fully normalizing its relations with Saudi Arabia.

The failure for decades to reach peace agreements with Arab countries beyond those signed with Egypt and Jordan, he said, was the result of the false premise that peace with the Palestinians must come first. However, the Abraham Accords that Israel entered into with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco created a new paradigm for peace and represented “a pivot of history.” The Abraham Accords, Prime Minister Netanyahu said, “brought Arabs and Jews closer together” and broadened cooperation in “commerce, energy, water, agriculture, medicine, climate and many, many other fields.”

There is no question the Abraham Accords heralded the dawn of a new age of peace

“There is no question the Abraham Accords heralded the dawn of a new age of peace,” Israel's prime minister declared. “But I believe that we are at the cusp of an even more dramatic breakthrough – an historic peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Such a peace will go a long way to ending the Arab-Israeli conflict. It will encourage other Arab states to normalize their relations with Israel. It will enhance the prospects of peace with the Palestinians. It will encourage a broader reconciliation between Judaism and Islam, between Jerusalem and Mecca, between the descendants of Isaac and the descendants of Ishmael.”

Prime Minister Netanyahu also extolled the potential for the building of “a new corridor of peace and prosperity that connects Asia through the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Israel to Europe.”

At the same time, Prime Minister Netanyahu emphasized that reaching separate peace agreements with Arab countries before resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict does not mean that the Palestinian issue will be shelved. To the contrary, Israel’s prime minister said, “The Palestinians could greatly benefit from a broader peace. They should be part of that process, but they should not have a veto over the process.”

The Palestinian leadership has no intention of meeting such reasonable conditions for achieving a real peace with Israel

In addition, Prime Minister Netanyahu cautioned that the Palestinians must want a “genuine peace” in which the Palestinians have reconciled themselves to the enduring existence of the Jewish state of Israel and “abandon the fantasy of destroying Israel.”

Prime Minister Netanyahu added that for there to be such a genuine peace, "Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas must stop spreading the horrible anti-Semitic conspiracies against the Jewish people and the Jewish state.” Moreover, “the Palestinian Authority must stop glorifying terrorists" and “its ghoulish pay to slay policy of giving money to Palestinian terrorists for the murder of Jews.”

The Palestinian leadership has no intention of meeting such reasonable conditions for achieving a real peace with Israel. It is continuing its path of rejectionism and its condoning of acts of terrorism against innocent civilians in the name of so-called “resistance.”

Abbas went so far as claiming recently that the genocidal murderer Adolf Hitler was not an anti-Semite. In a classic example of blood libel against the Jewish people, Abbas said that Hitler did not persecute Jews because they were Jews but rather because of “their social role, which had to do with usury, money, and so on.”

In his speech to the UN General Assembly on September 21^st, Abbas showed no interest in peace except on terms that would effectively mean the end of the Jewish state. Abbas repeated the false accusations that Israel engages in “apartheid” and “continues to assault our Islamic and Christian sacred sites.” He denied Jewish history in referring to the Western Wall, Judaism’s special holy site, as the “Al Buraq Wall,” which he claimed was included in the Aqsa Mosque and “recognized as an exclusive place of worship for Muslims alone.”

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This rewrite of history is part of the blatant lies that the Palestinian leaders

Abbas once again used the phrase “Palestinian Nakba [catastrophe] of 1948” as shorthand for the Palestinians’ claim that Israeli independence and the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that followed led to the forced mass displacement of Palestinians from their homes. He asked that the 15th of May of each year be designated as “an international day to commemorate the anniversary of the Nakba, to commemorate the lives of the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who were killed in massacres committed by Zionist gangs. Palestinians whose villages were demolished and who were forcibly displaced from their homes.”

This rewrite of history is part of the blatant lies that the Palestinian leaders and their enablers spread to undermine the legitimacy of the independent Jewish state of Israel. Abbas brazenly went further in his General Assembly speech and asked the international community to “criminalize the denial of the Nakba” – i.e., to “criminalize” the denial of the Palestinians’ fictional narrative.

Abbas equated Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israelis with “peaceful, popular resistance” and referred to the terrorists either slain or jailed for attacking Israelis as “our righteous martyrs and our brave prisoners.”

Sadly, the Palestinians’ leadership rejects Prime Minister Netanyahu’s invitation to join the peace process between Israel and the wider Arab world in good faith. Abbas, much less Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, refuses to accept the fact that Israel is here to stay as a Jewish state and refuses to sincerely renounce all acts of terrorism. As long as the Palestinian leaders remain in their own fantasy world rather than embrace opportunities offered to them for genuine peace, their people will continue to wallow in self-inflicted misery.

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