Another massive blunder by self-appointed Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas is 87 and clearly mentally unfit, yet there is no way he can be removed from his position as fantasy president of the fantasy "State of Palestine."
Rarely in modern times has any people suffered from three such disastrous leaders in succession as Amin al-Husseini, Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas. Between them, for over a century, driven by their obsessive hatred of the Jews, they have led the Palestinians into defeat after self-inflicted defeat. They have rejected every attempt at compromise, every peace plan, every territorial settlement, always holding out for complete victory, until they have led the Palestinians into the complete dead end where they now find themselves.
But the Palestinian people have not only been betrayed by the catastrophic stupidity, corruption and incompetence of their own leaders. They have also been betrayed by their false friends, the "Friends of Palestine", in the western left, who have encouraged them in their delusions by urging continued "resistance" from the safety of their university campuses. True friends of the Palestinians would be urging them to agree to direct talks with Yair Lapid's government to find a territorial settlement while one is still possible.
Lapid is the first since Ehud Barak (1999-2001) who does not come from the conservative-nationalist wing of Israeli politics.
Having said that, Lapid is probably not in the mood right now to believe any claims that the Palestinian Arab Muslim political leadership and militia want to live in peace with the Israei Jewish people he has sworn an oath to protect:
