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Source: https://www.jns.org/trump-and-rubio-reject-the-palestinian-victimhood-narrative/
The U.S. Rejects the Palestinian Victimhood Narrative
(JNS) Jonathan S. Tobin - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week that Washington was barring officials from the Palestinian Authority from entering the country to attend the meeting this month of the UN General Assembly in New York. Together with a ban on visitor visas for those carrying PA passports, Rubio's order is a gesture aimed at undermining the effort by various Western nations to use the General Assembly to promote the fiction of Palestinian statehood. Spiking the renewed campaign for Palestinian statehood is an important objective, since Oct. 7 is glaring evidence of what the Palestinians would do if they were granted sovereignty over Judea and Samaria as well as Gaza. The claim that Abbas is a peace-loving "moderate," which is at the core of the statehood push, is a myth. The PA continues to subsidize terrorism in the form of its "pay-for-slay" program that also applies to those who committed the crimes of Oct. 7. He has refused peace offers from Israel, making it clear that he will never accept one that compels them to recognize the legitimacy of a Jewish state, no matter where its borders could be drawn. Abbas has never condemned the Oct. 7 atrocities in Arabic to his own people. The U.S. is right to hold him accountable and to refuse to participate in a UN charade in which he pretends to be the head of a non-existent state. It is hardly unreasonable for the administration to look at the political culture that has rejected every peace offer, including those of statehood alongside Israel. The post-Oct. 7 war began with an orgy of mass murder, rape, torture, kidnapping and wanton destruction that was committed by ordinary Palestinians rather than just Hamas fighters. The hostages were mostly held captive by ordinary Palestinians, not Hamas fighters. The denial of visas is a long-delayed and entirely justified reaction to a century of a Palestinian culture of hatred and intolerance, in which a war against the Jews became an inextricable part of their national identity.