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@EinatWilf - Dr. Einat Wilf

The tragedy of the Palestinian people is that they have been made to serve as the receptacle of the world's failed ideologies from Nazism to Soviet Communism, from Jihadi and Iranian Islamism to Western Left-wing extremism. These ideologies were all united by the need to politically organize against the Jews as the highly effective means of diverting attention from their abject failures to serve their societies.

@EinatWilf - Dr. Einat Wilf

Dear Western funders of @UNRWA - What exactly did you think you were supporting all these years? When you sustained, nourished, supported and indulged Palestinians, generation after generation, in the belief that uniquely among the world’s peoples in the wake of WWII, they don’t need to accept new realities, new borders, and move on with the lives; that they possess a non-existent “right of return” into Israeli sovereign territory, that their land was “stolen” and that they have the right to take it “back” by “all means” - what exactly did you think the outcome would be? Peace? Two states? Ever since the publication of “The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream has Obstructed the Path to Peace” @Adi_Schwartz and I met with numerous Western diplomats from the countries that fund UNRWA. We explained to them that the Palestinian ethos, as sustained by UNRWA, has always been focused on a singular goal: no free Jews in the land, no sovereign state for the Jewish people on any part of the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Hence “Free Palestine” and “From the River to the Sea”. We explained that by indulging Palestinians in the notion that the war of 1948 is not over, that they are somehow, now into the fifth generation “refugees” from that war, and that they possess a non-existent “right of return” into sovereign Israel, by which they can undo Israel’s existence, UNRWA and its funders are ensuring that there will always be new recruits for Palestinian terrorism, whether Fatah or Hamas. We explained the UNRWA provides ideological sustenance and international legitimacy through the letters “UN” and continuous Western funding, for the Palestinian belief that Israel is a temporary aberration in the region and that the clock on it could be turned back through “return”. Almost everywhere we were met with dismissal and disbelief - “it’s just about the occupation”, “they need better conditions in Gaza”. We begged those official to stop “Westplaining” and give Palestinians the respect of taking them at their words, actions and key decisions for over a century and realize they all amount to one thing - a singular dedication to eradicating the Jewish state. If anything will come out of the current hellscape, let it be that the world will see the Palestinian “cause” for what it is, stop indulging it, and maybe, just maybe finally lead them, 75 years too late, to “embrace defeat” (the name of John Dower’s book about Japan in the wake of WWII) and become a people focused on building a nation rather than destroying one.