What Do Ordinary Palestinians Think About The Bahrain Economic Vision?

Inon Dan Kehati leads a group known as The Home, a grassroots organization promoting peace between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs, working on the inside, with the people who are directly and personally affected. They see the problems blocking efforts towards peace created by outside interference of self-appointed peace envoys and promises of money coming from the United States and the European Union -- money that ends up lining the pockets of the Palestinian Authority.

And now they see Jared Kushner's peace plan, or at least the economic part of it: Peace To Prosperity
Kushner claims that the Palestinian Arabs have no reason not to trust Trump.

But is that true?

How Palestinians Use Water As A Weapon Against Israel

Yochanan Yisser, a freelance journalist and the director of Missing Peace Information, writes about How water became a weapon in Arab-Israeli conflict, noting that until now people have been content to believe claims made by Palestinian Arabs that Israel has been deliberately withholding water:

However, a thesis titled “The Politicization of the Oslo Water Agreement,” written by Lauro Burkart, a Swiss graduate of the Institute of International and Development studies in Geneva gives a more accurate and impartial picture of the topic of the scarcity of water in the Palestinian Authority. [see embedded copy of the thesis at the end of this post]

Burkart interviewed many key players in the water conflict, Palestinians and Israelis as well as representatives of NGOs and the donor countries. He also examined many original documents such as the minutes of the meetings of the joint Israeli Palestinian Water Committee (JWC).

Here are some of the most important conclusions in Burkart’s thesis:

Video: Pat Condell on Patronising The Palestinians With Western Racism

Here is Pat Condell's first video of the new year.

While Condell has spoken often of Muslims and Islam, this time he is talking directly about the Palestinian Arabs -- and the Western racism that continues to make excuses for the Palestinian Arabs and their terrorist attacks.

Here is the video:

When Israel Is Not Involved, Both Arabs And UN Are Content To Let Palestinians Suffer

For all of the talk about the centrality of the issue of the Palestinian Arabs for prospects of peace and stability in the Middle East, it is surprising how apathetic and at times even antagonistic other Arabs in the Middle East feel about the Palestinian Arabs.

Thus, Khaled Abu Toameh explains Why Arabs Hate And Kill Palestinians:

The Palestinians have a long history of involving themselves in the internal affairs of Arab countries and later complaining when they fall victim to violence. They complain they are being killed but not saying why they keep getting into trouble.

Toameh brings a number of examples from over the decades to illustrate his point:

Palestinian Arabs To The World: You Owe Us!

I suppose that the Arab worldview and perhaps the incompetence and corruption of the Palestinian Authority can be explained in part by the fact that the Arabs living in Judea and Samaria take no responsibility for their actions. That is the point made by Evelyn Gordon when she examines Raja Khalidi’s Revisionist History:

Last week, the Palestinian Authority sought an urgent Arab League meeting to discuss its financial crisis: PA employees received only half their salaries in July, because donor states had delivered only one-third of their promised $970 million in aid. The delinquents were mainly Arab states, not Western ones, and UN development economist Raja Khalidi offered an instructive explanation for this fact in an interview with Haaretz this week:

“Even two generations after 1948, no Western donor, especially European and American, can be oblivious to their historic responsibility [for the Palestinians’ plight], and to the immediate security and political interests that the continuation of this conflict implies. Hence anything needed to keep a lid on things is to be expected, and indeed comes without asking the cost. As for Arab donors, they do not feel at all the historic responsibility for this situation.”