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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.
Hamas instigates violence, and essentially extorts ‎‎“protection” by threatening to “burn down the house” ‎while “hedonist” Israel tries to use a ridiculous ‎fan against the smoke. ‎
In miserable timing, the PLO’s Executive Committee announced that the Palestinian Authority has turned to the International Criminal Court at The Hague to open proceedings against Israel over its decision to evacuate Khan al-Ahmar east of Jerusalem within the framework of Israel’s “settlement crimes.”
This isn’t apartheid; it’s a realization of the Jewish people’s right to self-determination in its only homeland.
The better their situation, the more the Arabs envy Israel’s achievements and see it as an enemy to be eradicated.
As far as the Palestinians are concerned, ‎Palestinian nationality is permitted, but Jewish ‎nationality is forbidden.
Hamas is akin to Amalek, the ancient biblical ‎nation, in its desire to destroy the State of ‎Israel, to harass it, and exhaust it physically and ‎morally as part of its religious creed.
While the Trump administration is busy consolidating a regional peace plan, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas is losing whatever cards he has left to play.
The Arab states that survived the specter of Sunni Islamism in the Arab Spring of 2011 are now preparing to confront the Iranian nuclear threat—with help from the United States and Israel—and their attitude towards the Palestinian conflict and an end to it has changed.