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Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/the-palestinians-100-years-of-lawlessness/
The Palestinian National Movement Is Addicted to Violence
(Israel Hayom) Dr. Dan Schueftan - The Palestinian national movement has become addicted to a pattern of behavior that combines failed aggression with serial whining. It's important to remind those who insisted on pitying the Palestinians that this behavior is what has brought most of their misfortunes down upon them. At the end of the British Mandate, the Palestinians were offered independence under the Partition Plan, but they chose to cling to the goal of a Palestinian state on the ruins of Israel. The Palestine Liberation Organization was set up on the same basis: to eliminate Israel through armed resistance. At the heart of the Oslo Accords was an Israeli illusion that the Palestinians had changed their ways. It turned out that their addiction to terrorism, insistence on the "right of return," and rejection of the Jewish state eventually convinced most of the backers of the agreement in Israel that there was no Palestinian partner. After the offers former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert made in 2008, PLO Spokesman Saeb Erekat explained that for the Palestinians, even 100% of what they were demanding would only be a first step. The writer heads the International Graduate Program in National Security Studies at the University of Haifa.