UTTERLY DISGRACEFUL – AT 10:18 A.M. ET:  Next week the Palestinians, divided by two governments – the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, and the whack job Hamas crowd in Gaza – will attempt to gain UN recognition for statehood.  This is an end run attempt to get around direct negotiations with Israel.

The "Palestinian cause" has become a big deal among the left-wing trendies, both here and in Europe.  They're kind of the flavor of the month, or year.  But, while the Palestinians deserve to be treated with dignity, their cause is something else again.  It has a very shady history, one tied to the fascism of the 1930s and 1940s.  A new statement by the Palestinian "ambassador" to the US is shocking, and telling, and should be widely circulated before we create another Mideast monster.  From USA Today: 

WASHINGTON – The Palestine Liberation Organization's ambassador to the United States said Tuesday that any future Palestinian state it seeks with help from the United Nations and the United States should be free of Jews.

"After the experience of the last 44 years of military occupation and all the conflict and friction, I think it would be in the best interest of the two people to be separated," Maen Areikat, the PLO ambassador, said during a meeting with reporters sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor. He was responding to a question about the rights of minorities in a Palestine of the future.

Such a state would be the first to officially prohibit Jews or any other faith since Nazi Germany, which sought a country that was judenrein, or cleansed of Jews, said Elliott Abrams, a former U.S. National Security Council official.

Israel has 1.3 million Muslims who are Israeli citizens. Jews have lived in "Judea and Samaria," the biblical name for the West Bank, for thousands of years. Areikat said the PLO seeks a secular state, but that Palestinians need separation to work on their own national identity.

COMMENT:  Isn't there a term for that?  Isn't that apartheid?  Let's see if the left shows any interest. 

And the "ambassador's" statement is the tip of the proverbial iceberg.  Anti-Christian and anti-Semitic comments come from Palestinian sources all the time.  Christians are called "cross worshippers" and "crusaders," and Jews are called "the sons of apes and pigs."  Real classy stuff.  There has been an out-migration of Christians from Palestinia Muslim areas. 

This ugliness won't affect the vote in the UN General Assembly.  Any Arab cause, including the forced conversion of pigeons to Islam, would get a large majority.  There are 56 Muslim nations, there's a "third world" bloc that goes in lockstep with the Islamic world, there are the red countries, and there are Europeans who simply want contracts in the Mideast.  A little Third Reich hatred won't have much impact.

At the same time, there is increasing worry that some of the "revolutionary" movements in the Mideast, including the ones in Egypt and Libya, may turn out to be revolutionary in the wrong direction.  We'll have a better fix by the end of the year, but we may start pining for Hosni Mubarak.  Maybe a monument in Washington?

September 14, 2011