WTH There Is No "State of Palestine". Elliott Abrams Explains.

After splashy announcements from our European, Australian, and
Canadian allies, later this month, the UN will vote to “recognize
a Palestinian State”. While theatrical and without legal import,
the vote can only be understood as a reward for terrorism and
October 7th. Hamas and too many Palestinians have no interest in
state building, institutions, democratic elections, or taking
part in the “two state solution” and never have. And yet, while
Hamas is still holding hostages and blocking humanitarian aid,
the UN is displaying its bias against Israel. Will a “state” ever
satisfy Palestinian nationalism? Are European leaders just making
a play for domestic favor? Will the Jordanian option ever see the
sun? And if we wanted to, how would we return to status quo ante
October 7?


Elliott Abrams is a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at
the Council on Foreign Relations, the Chairman of the Tikvah
Fund, and the Chairman of the Vandenberg Coalition. He previously
served as deputy assistant to the president and deputy national
security advisor in the administration of President George W.
Bush, where he supervised U.S. policy in the Middle East for the
White House, and as Special Representative for Iran and Venezuela
in Donald Trump’s first administration.


Read the transcript here.


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