Why is it that the American media is so myopic in its
coverage of world events? Or are they propounding an agenda that restricts what
they chose to report? Did you know that Egypt recently offered the Palestinian
Authority (PA) 618 square miles of the Sinai adjacent to the Gaza Strip for the
settlement of Palestinian refugees. I didn’t … until I just read about it in Commentary Magazine. This offer should
have made banner headlines in the New
York Times but, as of yet, this newspaper and other American media outlets
seem to have run out of ink for such a startling revelation (see: Commentary Magazine Article.) After all the Gaza Strip itself is only 139 square miles. This Egyptian offer
would have more the quintupled the living space in Gaza.
Of course, Mahmoud Abbas of the PA rejected this offer with
the feeble excuse that “[I]t’s
illogical for the problem to be solved at Egypt’s expense. We won’t have it.”
Of course the real reason that Abbas rejected this extremely generous offer is
that the presence of these all-suffering Palestinian refugee pawns in an
over-crowded Gaza Strip is what keeps fulminating the PA’s attacks on Israel …
and what elicits the sympathy of the world to their plight. If a two state
solution to the Israeli-Palestinian eternal conflict is ever going to be
achieved, it will never be done by carving up Israel. This Egyptian proposal
would have opened the door to a real two-state solution and a lasting peace in
this area.
But I guess peace
is not what is deep-down desired. Even for the “moderates” such as Abbas, the objective
clearly is the ultimate destruction of this Jewish state. The sooner the world
comes to accept this reality, the sooner it will stop dreaming the impossible
dream.
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