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Ken Cohen

Ken Cohen is editor of Facts and Logic About the Middle East (FLAME), which publishes educational messages to correct lies and misperceptions about Israel and its relationship to the United States.

For Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas to formally withdrawing from signed pacts would change nothing in the Middle East, except perhaps to add a note of realism.
Those who doubt any imminent resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict need look no further than the new Palestinian school books to become even more pessimistic.
Arab leaders have moved on to deal with their real problems and opportunities today—most of which can be more easily addressed with an Israeli partner.
There may be valid reasons for Israel to desire disengagement from the disputed territories, but the demographic threat of an Arab majority isn’t one of them.
While the world gathers in Bahrain to figure out ways to offer a ray of hope to the Palestinian people, the P.A. is embarking on an even greater campaign of rejection.
And to think that Americans were concerned that Trump was a pawn of Russia. Clearly, things are much worse: He is a part of the International Jewish Conspiracy.
Whereas other legitimate national movements can point to heroic leaders of the past—emperors, kings, presidents—Palestinian Arabs cannot go much further back than Yasser Arafat, a murderous terror boss who never ruled anything more than a gang of killers. Arafat wasn’t even a native Palestinian Arab.
Israeli leaders over the decades have demurred on many crucial issues regarding the Temple Mount in order to avoid religiously fueled violence and popular uprisings by Palestinian Muslims. But this has only emboldened its adversaries.