Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: Hanan Ashrawi

Monday, July 10, 2023

Comparing 1921 Zionists with 1994 Palestinians

On Sunday, I saw a tweeter quoting a 2019 Hanan Ashrawi tweet:

This is a ridiculous theory, so I responded:

Somehow, between 1921 and 1948, under full British control, Zionists managed to build a prosperous economy and effective governance.

Palestinians have had since 1994 with more autonomy than Jews had. And yet they blame Israel for their failures.

As usual when I strike a nerve, I got a lot of angry responses , nearly all of which are the usual mindless anti-Israel drivel. But a few people made one reasonable point.

So I answered that point and elaborated on my initial tweet.

The only reasonable response to this has been that the Zionists had large amounts of capital from the Jewish diaspora.

This is true - and it proves my point. Jews didn't depend on anyone else to build their nation. They funded it themselves, they drained the swamps themselves, they built their government themselves, they built cities from scratch themselves, they built an economy themselves. They had no foreign aid, no NGOs giving advice, and the British didn't allow them to do a great deal.

Now let's look at Palestinians since 1994.

They've received tens of billions of dollars - from the EU, from the Arab world, from the US. They have more NGOs advising them than anyone else on Earth does. They have an automatic UN majority for political support. They got the world to recognize their "state" before it exists.

And yet they haven't built squat. Three decades later they are dysfunctional, corrupt, divided, and immature. All those billions were wasted instead of invested. Instead of working to build, they are spending all their political capital to fight Israel in international fora.

The most honest Palestinian government comes from the Hamas terrorists. At least they don't pretend - they want Palestine to be a stage towards a pan-Islamic ummah. The PA tells the world it wants peace but it admires and financially supports terrorism.

Neither Hamas nor the PA have shown the slightest interest in building a real independent nation - only the trappings of one. Neither have shown any interest in making the lives of their people better. Their goals are the same: blame everything on Israel and work to destroy it.

Everyone knows all of this. But it is a convenient fiction for the West to pretend that the PA actually cares about its people and actually wants an independent state. The PA focus on "return" shows that its goals lie elsewhere.

So, no, Israel isn't the reason the Palestinians have a dysfunctional and corrupt statelet.

The Jews built Israel despite the difficulties, the Palestinians avoid building a state despite the financial and political support of nearly the entire world.

Adults take responsibility for their actions. Palestinians do not. Instead they blame all their problems on others.

Any objective observer can see that they are the ones who have architected their own problems by making poor decisions for decades and never abandoning Arafat's "stages" program to destroy Israel.

If the Palestinians were serious about peace and building a nation, they'd have no better partner than Israel.

But leaders that responded to a peace plan in 2001 with a terror spree that they remain proud of today are not leaders.

They are antisemites.

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Member of Congress Ritchie Torres tweeted during the Jenin operation:

The Palestinian Authority has all but abandoned Jenin, leaving behind a power vacuum that has been filled by terrorists.

In the past six months, those terrorists made Jenin a launching pad for more than 50 shooting attacks against Israelis.

Israel is responding with a counterterrorism operation aimed at surgically removing these terrorists and their terror infrastructure.

There’s a word for this: self-defense, which is the right of every sovereign country, including Israel.

There is not a word in this tweet that is inaccurate. So, naturally, it upset the Palestinians.

Torres is Black and a progressive, which are two categories that Palestinians think that they have complete control over, but Torres is also an unapologetic Zionist - and this drives them crazy.

So crazy that even the most politically astute Palestinians reveal their racism and antisemitism when foaming at the mouth about him.

Commenting on Khaled Elgindy's fact-free tweet criticizing Torres, Hanan Ashrawi, the much honored grande dame of Palestinian politics, writes about Torres, "He's just mindlessly reciting what his AIPAC masters sent him as a mouthpiece of Israeli hasbara. Shameful."

In one sentence, Ashrawi evokes two bigoted tropes.

One is that Black people - even charismatic, clearly intelligent Black people like Torres - are too stupid (mindless) to come up with their own opinions on Israel and the Palestinians.

The other is that Torres - like other members of Congress - are controlled by a powerful cabal of Jews who are their puppet masters.

Racism and antisemitism in one tweet!

Ashrawi cannot claim that his skin color is irrelevant to her statement, because if that is true, then the progressives no longer can claim that every criticism of Ilhan Omar and other people of color for their opinions is racist and/or Islamophobic. If these are the rules they set for others, they must follow them as well. Additionally, while most criticisms of Omar describe exactly why her opinions are wrong, Ashrawi simply slurs Torres as being "mindless" with no supporting evidence that his tweet was at all wrong.

Similarly, one cannot say that AIPAC is not a proxy for "Jews" in her statement because the trope of powerful, presumably rich Jews controlling the government is well known; Ashrawi is clearly evoking a classic antisemitic canard.

You don't need the IHRA working definition of antisemitism to show that her statement is antisemitic; the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism that the Left loves says:

What is particular in classic antisemitism is the idea that Jews are linked to the forces of evil. This stands at the core of many anti-Jewish fantasies, such as the idea of a Jewish conspiracy in which “the Jews” possess hidden power that they use to promote their own collective agenda at the expense of other people. This linkage between Jews and evil continues in the present: in the fantasy that “the Jews” control governments with a “hidden hand” ....

Antisemitism can be direct or indirect, explicit or coded. For example, “The Rothschilds control the world” is a coded statement about the alleged power of “the Jews” over banks and international finance.

The phrase "AIPAC masters" is about as explicitly antisemitic as it gets - according to the favored anti-Zionist definition of antisemitism.

By the Left's own standards, Ashrawi fits every definition of racist and antisemite.

Yet somehow I don't see a single "progressive" calling Ashrawi to task for her outrageous and bigoted statements. Indeed, her fans doubled down on antisemitic statements in response.

People tend to reveal who they really are when they tweet without going through an editing process. Ashrawi has just informed the world who she is - a hateful, antisemitic racist and bigot.

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