Western powers like France, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom are rewarding jihad and encouraging further violence by embracing a Palestinian state that lacks borders, governance or unity.
Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, and Khaled Abu Toameh, a senior fellow at the JCFA and the Gatestone Institute, deliver an acute analysis of the international community’s recent push to recognize a Palestinian state and the dangerous fallout already unfolding.
Abu Toameh, a top Arab affairs journalist and longtime observer of the Palestinian street, explains how the Palestinian Authority’s decade-long diplomatic campaign has culminated in a global public-relations victory that Hamas is now capitalizing on.
Diker traces the origins of this diplomatic warfare to PLO chief Yasser Arafat, coupled with U.N. resolutions in the 1970s, which show how history, law and logic have been sidelined by anti-Israel sentiment and strategic confusion in the West. Together, the hosts warn that these recognitions don’t bring peace, but will embolden Iranian-backed jihadist groups, fuel instability in Judea and Samaria, and undermine any real hope for coexistence.
Topics covered:
- The P.A. and Hamas’s two-pronged anti-Israel strategy
- How Oct. 7 is being retroactively justified
- The rise of Iranian-backed terror cells in the West Bank
- The “Hebron First” tribal governance alternative
- Why Qatar is not a mediator, but a co-conspirator
