Friday, August 01, 2025

Independent Palestine would be a disaster for Palestinians by Michael Rubin

Recommendable!

P.S. Perhaps, the Sinai peninsula could be used for a Palestine state.

Some western leaders (e.g. Macron, Starmer, Merz, Carney, Albanese) even think that the 89 year old Mahmoud Abbas and his long discredited and failed terrorist organisation Palestinian Authority were the right choice for a Palestine state. Ridiculous!

"... Palestinians have long been the world’s largest if undeserving welfare case, for decades sucking up more money per capita than any other humanitarian cause. Such short-sighted generosity has come at the expense of Palestinian agency. Palestinian politicians knew naïve donors would always bail them out and so never developed functioning governance or services, preferring instead to embezzle money or funnel it into tunnels and terrorists.

As a result, there is only one certainty: An independent Palestine will be a disaster for Palestinians. Should the international community cudgel Israel into accepting a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem, the result will be a morass of misery.

There is no shortage of examples of new states descending into failure. It has been almost 15 years, for example, since the world recognized South Sudan as its newest independent state. Today, South Sudan is a disaster.  ... Transparency International ranks it as the world’s most corrupt country, worse even than Somalia. Its politicians, tribes, and militias quickly took up arms to use against rivals. More than 400,000 South Sudanese have died in the civil war that erupted two years after independence.

South Sudan has been the rule, not the exception. Consider other newly independent states:
Kosovo has only now emerged from the political and economic instability that marked its first 15 years of independence, with organized criminal gangs taking advantage of its weak institutions.
Eritrea, which gained independence in 1991 after a 30-year war, enslaves its population with open-ended national service, rivals North Korea as a police state, and is the world’s leader in transnational repression. Even a so-called success story such as Timor-Leste remains weak. Its per capita income remains only one-quarter that of Indonesia, the state from which it won independence in 2002. ..."

Independent Palestine would be a disaster for Palestinians | American Enterprise Institute - AEI


Mahmoud Abbas, officially the "President of Palestine"


Photo dated 2023. More evidence that Macron is a fool!


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