PLO: Israel election results 'destroy chance for peace'
BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- Senior PLO officials on Wednesday strongly condemned the results of Israel's general election, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party took 30 of the Knesset's 120 seats.
Israelis walk past by campaign posters showing Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu on March 12, 2015 in the Israeli city of Ramat Gan.
(AFP/Menahem Kahana)
"The results of the Israeli elections are the natural outcome of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's policies throughout his previous tenures of generating fear, hostility and distrust, as well as shifting the whole terrain of political discourse to the racist extreme," PLO Executive Committee Member Hanan Ashrawi said.
Netanyahu's policies are liable to plunge the whole region into more "extremism and violence," the senior official said, adding that under such a regime Israel will continue to be a "rogue state" which is contributing to its own "isolation and delegitimization."
"We believe it is the responsibility of the international community and its institutions, including the International Criminal Court, to end Israel's impunity, to curb Israeli violations and to prevent Netanyahu from carrying out his dangerous plans."
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It isn't rockets, terrorists, or suicide bombers that generate fear and distrust... it's government policies related to how to respond to those attacks.
Yeah... that makes sense. 
In every post you've ever made here, you've been an unquestioning, undeviating defender of whatever the Likudniks have called for.
You've never condemned any of the West Bank settlements.
You've never condemned anything the IDF has done in the West Bank.
You never questioned anything that was done to Gaza.
And you've repeatedly equated any condemnation or questioning of any of the above as "anti-Israel"
and, by implication, antisemitic).
You pretty much post the AIPAC line, day after day.
So what was in any sense inaccurate about anything I said in that post?
You do unquestioningly endorse the right-wing myth that the conflict is all the Palestinians' fault, and that they are driven by nothing but bigotry.
Well I sure as hell am not your mom - of that you can be sure! 
We could be such proud parents, H2O 
from Jerry Springer? 
You know a peach from a poison plum!
how much I *adore* your avatar? It just rocks
I just resized it from one I found. I'm a Stark.
Palestinians have been fighting dispossession-that's something anyone would fight anywhere. And they aren't bigots for fighting that.
Yes, they have had horrible leaders(as has Israel, in equal measure-Palestinians have every right to regard the Occupation and the settlements as totally unjustified acts of collective punishment and oppression) but they also have legitimate grievances.
And for all the sanctimony about "terrorism", the Israeli government and the allegedly "world's most moral army" the IDF) have suppressed not only people engaged in armed struggle, but also almost all nonviolent protest. And they have harassed the Palestinian population collectively in completely unjustifiable ways-such as the destruction of solar panels built to provide energy for Palestinian villages just because the Occupation authorities hadn't approved the construction of those panels(even though there is no possible way to weaponize solar energy).
If you want Palestinian violence to end, you have to defend their right to resist nonviolently without getting violent repression in response. And the basic humanity of the Palestinian people has to be acknowledged, as well as their equally deep connection with the lands in question. This can be done without putting Israel's existence into question-and it must be done if there is any hope of getting Palestinians to change in the way you want them to change(and the way I'd like to have any reason at all to ask them to change).
And if you want peace, you have to back, at the very minimum, a two-state solution, and at the earliest possible date. It's only possible to get a more reasonable Palestinian leadership once they have gained independence. Keep them under Occupation, and all that can happen is the encouragement of the exact same "circle the wagons" mentality that just re-elected that murderous bastard Netanyahu(a man Palestinians have just as much right to consider a terrorist as Israelis have to consider the Hamas leadership one). If the Israel government keeps trying to block the creation of a Palestinian state, it has no right to expect or to ask the Palestinian people to try to change their leadership at all, and no right to expect the surrounding Arab states to make peace(it's impossible for them to simply abandon the Palestinians, since virtually everyone in the Arab/Muslim world is a committed supporter of Palestinian self-determination)and despite the cynical and insensitive attempts by the Israeli right to revive the idea, an Israeli-Jordanian confederation in which Palestinians are denied self-government will never be acceptable to any significant number of people in the West Bank-if they'd been ok with that idea, they would not have founded the PLO in 1964, at a time when the West Bank was still under Jordanian rule.
Finally, Israel has to be willing to accept at least partial physical RoR, with those who aren't allowed to return physically being given apologies for the expulsion of their ancestors in 1948 and an official acknowledgment that they have the right to identify as Palestine and to see Palestine as their home(in addition to compensation for any monetary or property losses). And Israel should be willing to accept those people, if they aren't allowed to move to their families' homes in pre-1967 Israel, being allowed to move to the West Bank and to at least visit the family homes they forfeited. It's cruel to say they can't ever see the places where their grandparents lived.
Israel has a right to exist(although Netanyahu's insistence that it be recognized by Palestinians "as a Jewish state"-a demand the Israeli negotiators NEVER made of Egypt or of Jordan, btw-is petty and childish, since simply recognizing the state by definition recognizes is as a Jewish homeland)but Palestinians equally have a right to self-determination in the West Bank and Gaza. And while the massive injustices done to European Jewry that led to Israel's creation still need to be urgently addressed(in some ways the creation of Israel may, unintentionally, have let Europe and North America's antisemites off the hook by pretending that the creation of this state, by itself, was enough to clean the slate) it needs to be acknowledged, in my view, that it was never really fair for Israeli propaganda to cast the Palestinians and the other Arabs as the successors in villainy to Hitler, the tsars, Torquemada, and the Roman Empire. The Arab/Palestinian position on Israel, while sometimes expressed in an antisemitic-sounding way(which was always unacceptable) was not driven by the same things that drove the murderous actions of Christian Europe and Pagan-then-Christian Rome-it was driven far more by questions of control of the land and by a wish to avoid Western influence in the region.
Both sides in the I/P dispute made a lot of mistakes, and both sides, equally, need to change.
But there's no way "staying the course" on the West Bank and Gaza can lead to positive change on either side. Preserving the status quo is the worst of all options, since it means preserving a complete lack of hope.
Don't you know there aren't any?
"No one here is stupid enough to believe that dishonest bullshit." My my, you do tempt me, but I don't think anyone who's read your posts could take that claim seriously.
