Arts, appeasement and AIDS bombs.
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism.
âWe pay the Palestinians HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and get no appreciation or respect,â President Trump tweeted. âWith the Palestinians no longer willing to talk peace, why should we make any of these massive future payments to them?â
The President of the United States has a very good point. But itâs not as if the Islamic terrorists in the West Bank and Gazan territories of Israel have ever been willing to do more than occasionally talk peace before getting bored and stomping away from the table. And then stabbing a few children to death.
The United States has paid the PLOâs Palestinian Authority billions to occasionally pretend to talk about peace. There isnât a dollar amount high enough to get the terrorists to actually agree to peace.
We know two things about the terrorist leader who will succeed Arafat and Abbas. His name will start with an âAâ and like Arafat and Abbas, heâll wait around for the perfect moment in a peace negotiation with a lefty president before, as Arafat did to Clinton and Abbas did to Obama, breaking it all up.
And thatâs one of the priceless things that the fake terror statelet of the Palestinian Authority gives us for our hundreds of millions of dollars. Every decade its leader will lead on a lefty and then leave him at the altar. It may cost us another few billion, but somewhere around 2026, President Cory Booker will be certain that heâs finally solved the Palestinian problem only to sit there confused with egg on his face.
Is that worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year? Maybe not. But itâs also a good lesson to lefties that they donât understand the Muslim world and that no matter how hard they try, they never will.
But thatâs not all that we get for our money.
The peace process with the PLO was the original test case for the Arab Spring and the Iran Deal. All three were founded on the same stupid belief that if you give the terrorists almost everything they want, they wonât kill you. Every year that passes shows that no matter what you give them, the terrorists will kill you. Bribing killers doesnât work. Meeting their demands is impossible because there are always more.
If we had paid more attention to Arafatâs lying smirk, maybe we wouldnât have fallen for the Arab Spring or the Iran Deal. And thatâs another thing that the terrorists give us in exchange for all our hundreds of millions of dollars a year. The Palestinian Authority is a living museum of terrorist treachery. Its peace negotiations are an ongoing demonstration of the folly of appeasing terrorists.
Most small children learn not to put their hands on a hot stove at a very young age. Unfortunately none of them become politicians. And so every time a new president starts thinking about appeasing Islamic terrorists by letting them take over Egypt or develop nuclear weapons, he can test his terrorist appeasement theories in the confines of the smaller sandbox of the West Bank and Gaza.
Decades of testing have thus far produced no peace and no smarter politicians. After a few hundred years of peace negotiations, there still wonât be any peace. But maybe there will be smarter politicians.
Of the two impossible things in this scenario, smarter politicians are more plausible than nicer terrorists.
If we can just keep the peace process going for another few centuries, maybe our distant descendants will finally figure out that appeasing terrorists really doesnât work. Not even if you offer them parts of Jerusalem, freeze settlements and agree to build a giant statue of Mohammedâs flying demon horse.
But thatâs not all that we get from the hundreds of millions of dollars that we lavish on terrorist welfare.
Consider the arts.
The PLOâs takeover of the territories in â67 Israel unleashed an unprecedented burst of artistic creativity. Thereâs hardly a gray concrete wall anywhere in Ramallah that isnât decorated with murals of a smiling Arafat beaming down on the wretched suckers he spent his life ripping off. And then there are the posters of the suicide bombers, the ritual burnings of American flags and the Jihadist poetry readings.
âOur blood is food for the revolution/Yasser Arafat, for you we shall dieâ and âSons of Zion, most evil among creation/barbaric apes and wretched âpigsâ are examples of the arts that we subsidize. And while those poems may sound pretty horrible, theyâre still better than what we get for our money at the NEA.
And then thereâs the pioneering technological research being carried out by top PLO scientists.
Before the Car Jihad could be efficiently deployed on the streets of New York, Nice, Barcelona and London, it was field tested by expert Palestinian researchers in Jerusalem. Suicide bombings, airline hijackings and many of the other tools of the modern Islamic terrorist were refined in the PLO lab.
The hundreds of millions of dollars we spend each year funding the PLO is an investment in new terror tools and techniques. The terrorists of tomorrow are counting on us to fund their research. And every dollar we give the Palestinian Authority is an investment in helping the terrorists kill us in new and interesting ways. The possibilities are as horrifying as they are endless.
Back in â04, a member of the PLOâs Fatah faction tried to build an AIDS bomb.
Rami Abdullah, an engineering student, wanted to blow himself up while carrying blood from a donor infected with AIDS. “After a period, it will kill a lot of people,” he explained.
Abdullah has already promised that if he gets out, heâll try to live the dream of building an AIDS bomb.
An AIDS bomb plot by Tanzim, the most violent terror arm of the Palestinian Authority, was planned over Passover back then. But the lab Jihadis never figured out how to make it work. One day though, if we keep funding them, they might figure it out. And then we too can enjoy AIDS bombs in our cities.
And isnât that worth a mere few hundred million dollars a year?
We could stop funding terrorists. Also we could stop smoking, running full tilt into glass doors and finally pull off that New Yearâs resolution to stop drinking antifreeze. Those would all be good ideas. And they would make us safer and happier. So you can expect Washington D.C. to reject them out of hand.
The experts are convinced that if we donât fund the terrorists, theyâll behave even worse. So far we havenât actually tested this theory. No one wants to find out what they can come up with thatâs worse than an AIDS bomb.
But if anyone in Washington D.C. can stop doing that stupid thing all the experts insist we need to do, itâs President Trump. And so just maybe this can be the year we stop running into glass doors, drinking antifreeze and funding terrorists. We may lose out on some Arafat murals and AIDS bombs, but the Americans who are regularly killed every year by Palestinian Islamic terrorists will thank him for it.
And if not, we can always look forward to President Elizabeth Warren being humiliated by President Ahmed of the PLO as he walks away from the table despite being offered 99% of Israel and Netanyahuâs first-born son. And then unleashes toddler stone throwers and AIDS suicide bombers across Jerusalem.
Because thatâs what we get for our hundreds of millions of dollars. Thatâs all weâll ever get from the PLO.
Source: FrontPage Mag