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Source: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-694350
Has the Palestinian "Apartheid Assault" Backfired in the Middle East?
(Jerusalem Post) Dan Diker - The decades-long Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) strategy seeks to replace Israel with "Palestine" by recasting the Jewish and democratic state as another white supremacist apartheid South African regime. While the apartheid libel continues to damage Israel and wound diaspora Jews in violent anti-Semitic attacks, the PA's growing popularity in the West has failed it in the Arab East. Abbas' pivot to Turkey and Iran has backfired among the PLO's strongest Arab League supporters, weakening it regionally, while its internal corruption has damaged it domestically. The writer directs the Program on Political Warfare at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.