(Jerusalem Post) Gil Troy - Palestinian rhetoric and behavior reflect their honest intentions: their official organs and most of their leaders seek Israel's destruction and hate the Jewish people - not just "Zionists" - so much, they keep their people miserable rather than make any accommodation with the Jewish state. If Palestinians want a state, let them build one. Rather than turning their people into "the world's largest per capita recipients of international foreign aid," as a recent Congressional Research Service report observed, let them tap the entrepreneurial genius reflected in the Palestinian diaspora and build the Palestinian economy. Imagine what would have happened if the Palestinians had accepted Secretary of State John Kerry's $4 billion plan to double the Palestinian economy. Instead, the Palestinians rejected Kerry's plan. The PA's economic adviser, Mohammad Mustafa, said the "PA's priorities are not economic." But they could achieve more politically through financial power rather than violence. The writer is professor of history at McGill University.
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