https://melaniephillips.substack.com/p/how-human-rights-believers-fund-evil?utm_source=email
This week’s Jewish Chronicle features a major story by David Rose, which reveals that Britain has been investing millions of pounds in training the Palestinian Authority in human rights even while the PA has been perpetrating torture and beating a prominent Palestinian democracy and human rights campaigner to death.
David’s story can be read here, here and here.
The opinion piece that I wrote for the JC to accompany the story follows below.
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For many in the west, it has long been an article of faith that peace will only come to the Middle East when the Palestinians gain a state of their own.
Along with the EU and America, successive British governments have promoted a “two-state solution” to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs.
Central to this thinking is a key distinction. Hamas is considered beyond the pale as Islamist extremists who throw gay Palestinians off rooftops to their death and make no bones about their aim to destroy Israel. But the Palestinian Authority headed by Mahmoud Abbas is deemed “moderate” and entitled to run a future state of Palestine that would be part of the community of nations.
The JC has now exposed this faith in the PA as an excruciating misjudgment.
For while Britain has been investing millions in it in the arrogant belief that it can teach it western values, Palestinian officers have been murdering and torturing dissenters who campaign for their human rights.