“... more than anyone else, it was Fayyad’s Israeli and U.S. champions
who betrayed him. His resignation was in no small part because of punitive
financial measures that the United States and Israel recently took against the
PA, which Fatah then used to whip up protests against Fayyad’s economic
policies. The United States and Israel also punished Fayyad for Abbas’ decision
to apply for an upgrade in status at the UN General Assembly in November 2012,
and failed to show the Palestinian people that Fayyad’s program of close
cooperation with Israel and the United States would advance them toward
independence...”
In an alternative point of view published in The Jerusalem Post, 18 April 2013, by Caroline B Glick, the author notes that Elliott Abrams similarly wrote, “Israeli governments also gave him less
cooperation than he deserved.”
Caroline Glick continues (my own emphasis added):
To that we answer, Fayyad was nothing more than a Western delusion, like
Arab peace with Israel.
Fayyad didn’t have a chance of leading the Palestinians because he never
personally killed a Jew. And the Palestinians only accept murderers as their
leaders...
Fayyad dutifully used donor funds
to pay the salaries of terrorists in Judea, Samaria and Gaza every month.
He led the Palestinian branch of
the boycott, divestment and sanctions war against Israel. He made working for
Israelis and buying Israeli goods criminal offenses. Fayyad personally led
raids into private homes to inspect people’s refrigerators to see if they had
Israeli cottage cheese on their shelves. He organized and attended bonfires
where they burned Israeli goods.
Not to put too fine a point on
it, but this is not the sort of behavior you would expect a peace partner to
engage in.
The
Americans who insist on mourning Fayyad’s departure refuse to accept the
obvious fact that Palestinian aspirations for statehood are a cheap, shoddy,
for-export-only Arab product. The Palestinians don’t want a state. They want to
destroy Israel. Unable to accept this basic fact, the Americans invent lies like
Fayyad-as-peace partner and try to shove them down Israel’s throats. Well good
riddance, Salam Fayyad.
Obviously Fayyad is not the last
word in Western delusion. They will think of a new perfect solution to replace
him in short order...
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