(Gatestone Institute) Khaled Abu Toameh - Last week, several Palestinians were invited by Jewish leaders in the West Bank to an iftar meal, with which Muslims end their daily fast at sunset during Ramadan. Scenes of Muslims and Jews sitting to eat together are the kind of heart-warming events that promote tolerance and lay the foundations for real peace. But instead of welcoming the event, many Palestinians are expressing outrage over the encounter and denouncing the Palestinian participants as "traitors." Some of the Palestinians who attended requested in advance that their names and photos not be made public. In other words, they were afraid for their lives because they committed the "crime" of eating with Israelis. The critics are also angry because Israelis and Palestinians had the audacity to talk about "economic cooperation." Economic cooperation does not serve the agenda of the terrorists. They want Palestinians to continue living in poverty so that they can go on blaming Israel for Palestinian misery. Unemployed Palestinians are much easier to target for recruitment as terrorists than Palestinians who are able to feed their families. If a Palestinian cannot share a meal with an Israeli without being labeled a criminal, how would any Palestinian leader dare to sign a peace agreement with Israel?
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