Obtaining Peace by Pressuring the PLO, Not Israel
Let's peel back the blatant double standard behind the media's Jerusalem outrage. And the claims that this will somehow destroy any possibility for peace.
Whenever the problem of peace is discussed, the prescription is always pressuring Israel, not the PLO.
Jerusalem was one of the pressure points.
Trump's move applied pressure to the PLO's Palestinian Authority in exactly the way that the left had wanted pressure to be applied to Israel. He did to the PLO, what Obama had been doing to Israel by covertly backing the PA's statehood moves.
The double standard is that pressuring Israel in this way is deemed a very good thing because the Jews are somehow the obstacles to peace. While pressuring the PLO is a terrible thing because that will destroy the cause of peace.
Why is pressuring Israel a good thing and pressuring Islamic terrorists a bad thing?
That's the bias that needs addressing.
It's the PLO that has rejected every peace proposal. Despite the attacks on Prime Minister Netanyahu, it was Arafat and Abbas who made the decision to walk away from peace negotiations.
If anyone needs to be pressured to come to the table, it's the PLO. And that is what President Trump did.