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Reuven Berko

Dr. Reuven Berko was the adviser on Arab affairs to the Jerusalem district police and a writer for Israel Hayom.

King Abdullah understands that if the Hashemite dynasty cedes control over managing Al-Aqsa, the throne will lose its religious legitimacy. They have not forgotten that the Palestinians tried to take control of Jordan and kick out the royal family in the 1970s.
Historical perspective has not been particularly kind to the vision former U.S. President Barack Obama presented in his speech, the regional and global repercussions of which have been destructive.
In the morning, the Palestinians contemplate the use of terror, and at night, they plot to incite Arab citizens of Israel against the regimes of “betrayal and peace.”
The Palestinians are contemptuous of the stupidity and naiveté of the left, and see these as an asymmetry that holds their salvation—not to mention an Achilles’ heel via which they can strike at our people.
Even as it collaborates with Israel, the Palestinian Authority is trying to outdo Hamas by inciting against Israel, hoping that this will improve its standing among the masses and shed its corrupt image.
Throughout the ages, our path has ‎always been riddled with homegrown detractors trying ‎to undermine the elected leadership, however ‎successful and whether elected by God or by the ‎people via a democratic process.
The inter-Palestinian reconciliation is analogous to a death from a thousand cuts. The Gaza Strip and West Bank, two hostile entities towards one another, are not united in anything other than their dream to destroy Israel.
Things may have deteriorated, ‎but it was enough to spark fear in Hamas that the daring ‎intelligence-gathering mission was a prelude to an impending, ‎deadly Israeli blow.‎
There is an Arab saying that “the apology is sometimes worse than the crime.”