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Peace Process

So what if he doesn't?


By Ryan Jones
November 03, 2005

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Wednesday reportedly told a pro-Israel advocacy group in America that the Bush administration believes the Palestinian Authority needs to do more to combat anti-Jewish terrorism, and needs to do it now.

That naturally begs the question: What will happen if the PA and its leader, Mahmoud Abbas, again, for the umpteenth time, ignore foreign pressure to meet their obligations?

The US - along with Israel and sometimes Europe - has been repeating this demand ever since Abbas took office nearly a year go; before that it consistently demanded the same of Arafat, for over a decade.

In light of the fact the PA has never disarmed or dismantled even one terror group, but has rather facilitated and allowed the establishment of even more, isn't it time to move on from simply making verbal demands and threats?

The PA and its leaders are harboring, assisting and turning a blind eye to the activities of terrorist organizations; and even when Abbas does take notice of their actions, his response is to pander to the terrorists as ?brothers.?

Similar support for terrorism by the regimes in Damascus and Tehran result in diplomatic isolation and attempts to take economic and even military action against them by America.

It is high time the United States stop treating the PA's complicity in terrorism as a mere annoyance, and start dealing with Abbas and his underlings in the same way it does Syria's Bashar Assad or Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Of course, that is not going to happen.

Unlike Syria and Iran, the ?Palestinians? are at the forefront of an effort that underlies secular Western foreign policy - the division of the land of Israel.

The Palestinians are not held accountable because to really do so would undermine this effort, which America's last two presidents have bound their legacies to.

Fully aware of that fact, Abbas and his PA can be expected to react to Rice's latest statements in familiar fashion - by doing nothing.

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