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Pro-Israel foundation makes case for reversal of Palestinian state recognition in letter to Canada's prime minister
The Canadian Antisemitism Education Foundation is calling on the prime minister and minister of foreign affairs to reconsider Canada’s stance recognizing a Palestinian state.
Prime Minister Mark Carney expressed support for a two-state solution at a meeting of the U.N. General Assembly in late September.In a Nov. 17 letter to Carney and Anita Anand, shared with National Post by CAEF executive director Andrea Spindel, she argues “there is no leadership among the Palestinian Authority that seeks co-existence with Israel.” Instead, Spindel asserts, the Palestinian Authority (PA) is a murderous regime that “incentivizes and rewards” terrorist activity, “paying salaries to the barbarians who committed mass murder on October 7th.”
Spindel’s letter refers to Palestinian Media Watch as repeatedly documenting that Palestinian movements “compete for popular support by arguing over who has committed more terror.”
And she cites Jibril Rajoub , secretary general of the Fatah Central Committee (the Fatah party’s most senior institution responsible for developing and implementing strategic initiatives, with members holding top portfolios in Palestinian politics). Spindel says he has publicly urged that the PA unite with Hamas under the Palestinian Liberation Organization framework.
It’s a pattern, she says, that reveals several dangerous messages from the PA such as hypocrisy toward the international community. “On the one hand, the PA seeks international legitimacy and aid, claiming it fights terror. In reality, the PA’s senior officials publicly reaffirm and even boast of its terror history and a desire to ally with Hamas — the very organization the PA pretends to distance itself from in diplomatic settings.”
Further she says that Western audiences and donors may “imagine a Fatah-Hamas rivalry that favours moderation, Rajoub’s welcoming of Hamas shows that the PA does not really want to have Hamas destroyed.”
In mid-October, Spindel says, Palestinian Media Watch released the latest list of “Palestinian terrorist millionaires thanks to the pay-for-slay program. Many of those who received financial rewards were among the terrorists released by Israel in exchange for Israeli hostages.”
Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian National Authority since 2005, says Spindel, “is playing a game of duplicity which you and other Western nation leaders have swallowed, despite decades of evidence that duplicity is how the PA operates … You are demonstrating incredible naivety or willful blindness and neither serves the interests of Canadians.
“PA schools celebrate October 7! This is part of the hate curriculum that has infected Arab children for decades and continues to promote murder and martyrdom.”
Finally, Spindel challenges the prime minister and foreign affairs minister: “If you proceed with the reckless idea of recognizing another terror state in the Middle East, sanctioning the Palestinian Arabs to continue to train killers, reward terrorists, celebrate violence, preach and teach Jew hatred, then please tell us how this is different from supporting Nazism?”
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