This article strikes me as utterly typical of the rejectionist problem. The Palestinians are battling to compromise, but not in the way you and I understand the word:
The Palestinian Authority “will do everything in its power” to advance peace with Israel, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas vowed this week during an official visit to Canada.
The armed struggle against Israel has emerged as one of the key issues being dealt with by Fatah members ahead of the organization’s committee convention.
One side of the movement calls for the removal of militaristic terms from its platform, which was formed during the 1980s. However a rival group, which includes senior members of the organization, demands Fatah be presented not only as a political group but also as a force battling “occupation”.
Everything in its power to advance peace? And yet, Abbas and the PA leadership will not acknowledge that Israel is a Jewish state. And here is what the Palestinians consider a “compromise”:
On the fringes of the debate is a group calling for a compromise, in which Fatah will not abandon its “armed resistance” but also refrain from making it the main tack. These members consider militarism the legitimate right of the Palestinian people where negotiations fail.
Compromise means that the Palestinians won’t give up the option to bomb buses and murder children—but they will put it on the back burner, to be taken out only if they don’t get everything they want. And since the Palestinians have yet to issue one iota of compromise on their demands, well, the “resistance” will continue.
Neatly done. If they don’t get everything they want they resume terrorism and it’s the Israelis’ fault for not satisfying their demands. The western media and diplomats will easily see through this attempt at legerdemain…they might see through it…oh, hell, they’re going to swallow it whole and everyone reading this knows it.