How Americans, Europeans Embolden Palestinian Terrorism

In this mailing: - Bassam Tawil: How Americans, Europeans Embolden Palestinian Terrorism - Daniel Greenfield: Virginia Military Institute Went Woke, Enrollment Fell 25% [] [How Americans, Europeans Embolden Palestinian Terrorism]( by Bassam Tawil • October 27, 2022 at 5:00 am [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [WhatsApp]( [Telegram]( [Send]( [Print]( - Instead of assuming its responsibility for halting terrorist attacks from areas under its control, the Palestinians continue to violate the agreements they signed with Israel. - In the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian Authority did not take real measures to stop Hamas from building a massive terrorism infrastructure. Hamas later used its weapons arsenal not only to attack Israel, but also to overthrow the PA regime and seize full control of the Gaza Strip. - The same scenario is now being repeated in the West Bank, specifically in areas controlled by Mahmoud Abbas's security forces. - This is the twisted logic of the Palestinian leadership: Instead of denouncing the terrorists for targeting Israelis, as they have officially and repeatedly committed to doing, they lash out at Israel for defending itself against the current wave of terrorism. - When a senior Palestinian official such as Habbash says that the terrorists are entitled to carry out "resistance" attacks, he is actually telling them to continue targeting Israelis. Such statements are not only a violation of the agreements the Palestinians signed with Israel, but also incitement to launch more terrorist attacks against Israelis. - The Palestinian leadership, in a policy is known as "pay-for-slay," already provides monthly stipends to Palestinian terrorists..... The families of the Nablus terrorists will also presumably benefit from these payments. - The Palestinian leadership's endorsement and glorification of terrorism comes as no surprise. What is surprising – and intensely disturbing – is that those foreign governments that are providing financial and political aid to the Palestinian Authority, especially the Americans and the Europeans, are not calling out Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian leadership for their public support of terrorism and their ongoing breach of the agreements they voluntarily signed with Israel. - "We will not resort to weapons, we will not resort to violence," Abbas declared in his last speech before the United Nations General Assembly, "we will not resort to terrorism, we will fight terrorism." His words were directed to the international community, not to his own people. - The silence of the Americans and Europeans toward the actions and rhetoric of the Palestinian leaders is tantamount to a green light to the Lions' Den and other terrorists to continue their terrorist attacks. - If the Biden administration and the Europeans believe that Abbas or any other Palestinian leader is going to stop a terrorist from murdering Jews, they are engaging in staggering self-deception. The silence of the Americans and Europeans toward the actions and rhetoric of the Palestinian leaders is tantamount to a green light to the Lions' Den and other terrorists to continue their terrorist attacks. If the Biden administration and the Europeans believe that Abbas or any other Palestinian leader is going to stop a terrorist from murdering Jews, they are engaging in staggering self-deception. Pictured: Members of the Palestinian Lions' Den terrorist group at a funeral in the city of Nablus on October 23, 2022. (Photo by Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP via Getty Images) The Lions' Den is a new terrorist group based in the West Bank city of Nablus, which is controlled by the Palestinian Authority (PA). The group consists of dozens of gunmen affiliated with a number of Palestinian factions, including Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the ruling Fatah party headed by PA President Mahmoud Abbas. The PA, which has hundreds of security officers in Nablus, has failed to take any measures to rein in the Lions' Den terrorists, who have claimed responsibility for a series of shooting attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians in the Nablus area over the past few weeks. Instead of assuming its responsibility for halting terrorist attacks from areas under its control, the Palestinians continue to violate the agreements they signed with Israel. Article XV of the 1995 Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip states: [Continue Reading Article]( [] [Virginia Military Institute Went Woke, Enrollment Fell 25%]( by Daniel Greenfield • October 27, 2022 at 4:00 am [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [WhatsApp]( [Telegram]( [Send]( [Print]( - The institution that gave us Patton, Marshall and Byrd now asks about your "gender role", urges you to reimagine "masculinity" and spews hate toward anyone who happens to be white. - Virginia Military Institute's woke leaders are doing their best to turn the proud institution into just another woke college campus. And the fall in enrollment shows that it's working. - If there's any ambiguity left about how much the VMI administration loathes and discriminates against white people, there's a direct link of "anti-racism resources" as a "resource to white people". Black people and other races, it's understood, cannot be racist. Only white people. - The resources also include not only the 1619 Project, which claims that America was built on racism, but also "The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution" and Howard Zinn. - "Misinformation regarding our initiative for diversity, equity and inclusion and the thought, the notion, the misinformation about the institute and what it's doing or what it's not doing with critical race theory is certainly having an impact, we believe," Win complained. - Except it's not "misinformation". It's the DEI agenda that's right there in VMI's resources. - The Virginia Military Institute deserves better than Win and wokeness. So do the great men who came out of it. And their nation that needs the service of the heroes of tomorrow. The institution that gave us Patton, Marshall and Byrd now asks about your "gender role", urges you to reimagine "masculinity" and spews hate toward anyone who happens to be white. Pictured: Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia. (Image source: Kipp Teague/Flickr, CC by-NC-ND 2.0) The Virginia Military Institute is celebrating the 25th anniversary of the presence of women at the nation's oldest state military college with an appearance by Kimberly Dark: a fat rights activist and author of lesbian fanfic who wants to "reimagine masculinity". "Why couldn't we see that America has been racist forever, sexist forever?" Dark ranted in a post titled, "For those who do not want a Trump presidency — this is what we will do now." Under Superintendent Cedric Wins, this is what the Virginia Military Institute has become. Young men who once turned to VMI for its tradition of excellence and were eager to serve their country are now going elsewhere. [Continue Reading Article]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [RSS]( [Donate]( Copyright © Gatestone Institute, All rights reserved. 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