Palestinian folly continues

Your articles and (Michael) Ramirez’s political cartoon depicting Hamas Palestinian terrorists given statehood underscore the continued futility of Arabs “in the street” because of failing, unelected (!) “leadership” and hate-driven policies.

There are no moral, political, historical or cultural bases for establishing in Israel proper a Palestinian nation, even on paper with a U.N. letterhead. There was indeed a 1948 U.N. plan for creating an Arab “Palestine” in Trans-Jordan; this was rejected by multiple Arab states that attacked and failed to wipe the newly formed Israel off the map.

Since then, persistent pan-Arab belligerency, rejections of previous Israeli land offers and refusal to negotiate directly make this recent statehood quest asinine, at best.

The corrupt West Bank politicians living with E.U., U.N. and U.S. subsidies and Swiss bank accounts should go back to their origins in Jordan and re-establish a state there, or return to Gaza and deal with their Iran-based, missile-firing Hamas buddies who cleaned their clocks several years ago.

These fanatics who deny Israel’s very existence, yet obsess about housing developments, now want more of her land? Say it ain’t so! Kurds, Basques and Tibetans have more legitimate national aspirations and they’re not on the U.N. agenda.

Joseph Harari

Spokane