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Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch

Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch, a former IDF Director of Military Prosecution for Judea and Samaria, is a leading expert on Palestinian incitement and legal strategies. He currently serves as head of legal strategies at Palestinian Media Watch and directs the Initiative for Palestinian Authority Accountability and Reform at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Hirsch has also advised Israel’s Ministry of Defense and chaired an advisory committee in the Ministry of Interior. A passionate advocate for Israel, he regularly provides expert analysis in the media to expose bias and misinformation.

In the worldview of the Palestinian Authority leader, the creation of Israel was a catastrophe. For there to be peace, the Jewish state must submit to an invented Palestinian narrative and self-destruct.
Mahmoud Abbas, the leader of both the PLO and Fatah, is almost 86 and is in the 17th year of his first four-year term as PA chairman. When he goes, Fatah will be divided, and the continued role of the PLO will be unclear.
While combating the P.A.’s “Pay-for-Slay” payments is not simple, and will take time, it is nonetheless a moral imperative.
At 85 years of age, reportedly in ill health and with the Palestinian street demanding his resignation, all signs are that the Abbas era is over.
Elections that allow the participation of convicted terrorists, including mass murderers, are not a demonstration of democracy.
In the war that the Palestinian Authority has been waging against Israel using the court, reason, facts and legal arguments have failed. Now is the time for real action.
Is the Biden administration or the European Union going to accept the participation of designated terror organizations in the Palestinian electoral process?
While the P.A. may hope to deceive the uninformed, the truth is incontrovertible: For the P.A., rewarding terrorists is not about social welfare, but about incentivizing and rewarding terror and murder.
The United Nations should be warned that all of its Israel staff will be declared personae non gratae if the ICC moves ahead with its politically motivated case against the Jewish state.
With the sum the Palestinian Authority will disburse to terrorists this month, it could have purchased 387,143 coronavirus test kits or 465 ventilators.
The stubborn fact is that the PLO and P.A. are still living in 1947, and reject the very existence of Israel. They will never accept anything short of its destruction.
P.A. donor countries must demand that it explain its squandering of billions in aid on non-functioning bodies and terrorist organizations.