National Review
Senator Warren’s disgraceful involvement in Israeli politics
This week, Senator Elizabeth Warren implored Israeli opposition parties to unite and remove Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu so that the United States can facilitate the creation of a Palestinian state. Although Democrats have quietly meddled in Israeli elections several times over the decades – from the Clintonists to the Obamaites to the now disgraced Lincoln project – I don’t remember a U.S. senator ever democratically intervening. in the democratic process of an ally. In a conference held by the pro-Palestinian group J Street, Warren lamented Israel’s reluctance to go along with the “two-state solution”, which would, in fact, mean accepting the demands of Hamas and the more “moderate” Palestinian Authority. , which diverts hundreds of millions of dollars in international funding for monthly salaries, free education, insurance and health care for terrorists and their families. Instead of demanding that Palestinians stop firing rockets at Israeli civilians or stop spreading anti-Semitic conspiracy theories among their population or reduce the “martyrdom fund,” Warren said the only way to change Israel’s trajectory is for the opposition to unite against Netanyahu. . Warren claims that Netanyahu “precipitated four deadlocked elections in two years in his frantic effort to immunize himself against well-documented allegations of corruption,” which is a strange way of showing that the prime minister called for elections after the coalition collapsed. Imagine, if you can, Warren’s reaction if a foreign political leader openly offered the GOP advice on how to regain the presidency. Foreign interference, indeed. Warren argued that “the majority who oppose [Netanyahu] he has to decide what to do next. Will they continue to fight among themselves and, in the process, support a corrupt leader who puts his own interests before those of his country? “Netanyahu, who has been prime minister since 2009, may soon find himself in the wild. But in Israel, allegations of political corruption are as plentiful as falafel, and the fight between them is national amusement. Israel has a justice system that prosecutes allegations of corruption and an impractical parliamentary system based on governments. Israel’s “majority” is not a single embodiment of Warren’s aspirations, but a series of parties, some with a lot of ideological malleability and others with a strictly narrow accent. In essence, Warren implies that the nation’s largest party, the right-wing Likud, should not have even run in the national elections because it is upset that the prime minister does not want to hand over Jerusalem to Mahmoud Abbas. Warren went on to say that “the United States cannot stand for security, human rights and dignity, and at the same time I am turning a blind eye to the suffering of Palestinians under Israeli occupation.” Indeed, the suffering of the Palestinian people is largely perpetuated by its own corrupt leadership, which has rejected agreement after agreement, condemning generation after generation to unnecessary poverty and hope. Warren now has a more radical stance on Israel than the Saudi or Egyptian Arabs. And like most Democrats today, when he talks about the Middle East, Warren has nothing but harsh words for the region’s only liberal democracy. As for the Palestinian allies, the Iranian mullahs – who vowed to destroy Israel and killed hundreds of American soldiers – Warren wants to send them money, while using foreign aid as a cudgel against Israel. “Jewish settlers in the West Bank are receiving vaccinations, while few Palestinians have access to rescue fire,” the Massachusetts senator continued, trying to create the impression that Israel is undermining such efforts. By “settlers,” of course, Warren means Jews living in cities in Samaria and Judea — the only place on earth where it is acceptable for an American politician to demand ethnic purity. This kind of purity propels the Palestinian Authority to reject COVID aid to its people simply because the plane from the United Arab Emirates with the cargo of vaccine first landed in Israel. Palestinians have regularly prevented people with COVID from going to Israeli hospitals for treatment. The Palestinian Authority, by their own admission, did not even ask for Israel’s help – apart from the vaccinations for its health workers, which were provided. When Israel tried to open a vaccination site at the Al-Aqsa complex on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to inoculate thousands of Palestinian believers, including the virus, the Abbas declined the offer. But not for him. As reported by the New York Times, Palestinian leaders have been accused of “siphoning off some of the few doses allocated to Palestinians and distributing them to the upper echelons of the ruling party, media allies and even family members of top dignitaries.” However, the harshest words Warren could gather about this totalitarian regime is to suggest that perhaps he should have choices as well. We do not know when Abbas, now in the second decade of a four-year term, will finally let his people vote. However, the problem is that holding a vote would mean that Fatah loses control of radical theocratic forces. The last time Fatah lost the election, the opposition celebrated with a mass defenestration. That’s how Hamas breaks the deadlock. And this is how a Palestinian state could easily look like. The harsh reality learned by the Israelis is that “peace” processes with the Palestinians usually end with unbearable demands, frustration and mass violence. It is very unlikely that even the Israeli center-left will engage in the national self-harm that Warren has in mind. The last time the Israeli Left tried such a thing, it was decimated in the elections. Then again, Elizabeth Warren does not consider their interests or those of Israel.