UTJ Viewpoints

the Arab narrative

1. Israel usurped Arab/ Islamic land

2. Jews have no right to sovereignty in Israel

3. Neither Hamas nor Fatah are prepared to concede a Jewish state

4. Arabs may live in Israel but no Jews in Palestine

5. Because Jews have no legitimate claim

   1. Israel is oppressor and occupier

   2. Arabs are new Jews the victims

6. Archeological war

   1. eliminate claims of Israel to land

   2. Arabs are Canaanites

7. Israeli Arabs observe Naqba

   1. catastrophe is Israel identity’

   2. freedom of speech vs freedom to denounce Israeli existence’

   3. moral equivalent of flag burning

UN and League of Nations recognized Jewish homeland

1. Arabs reject this narrative

2. Fashionable to reject Israeli side for politics

PA has Never altered its narrative

1. Look for concessions to be demanded

2. Look for zero change in core narrative, that Israel has no right to its nation, narrative or land

   1. The Palestinian Authority continues to use sporting events to glorify terrorists and present them as role models for children. This week,

   2. a football tournament named after terrorist Abu Jihad was sponsored by Fatah in a town near Jerusalem , while the lottery for another football tournament named after terrorist Abdallah Daoud took place in Bethlehem.

   3. In the Gaza Strip , a football tournament featured a team named after the terrorist Majed Abu Sharar.

   4. A Fatah representative spoke at the “ Shahid (Martyr) Abu Jihad tournament,” and told the children that they should see the terrorist as a role model:

   5. “He reminded our children that we shall follow the same path of Abu Jihad and Yasser Arafat .”

   6. Abu Jihad headed PLO’s military wing, and was responsible for the deaths of dozens of Israeli civilians. Among other attacks, he directed the worst terror attack in Israel’s history, in which 37 were killed in a bus hijacking.

   7. The lottery for a football tournament named after terrorist Abdallah Daoud was held in Bethlehem. Daoud was responsible for many terror attacks, and was one of the terrorists who stormed the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in 2002, using the monks and the religious site as shields.

   8. A football tournament held in the Gaza Strip included the “ Shahid (Martyr) Majed Abu Sharar” team. Majed Abu Sharar was a senior Fatah and PLO terror leader in the 1970s .

Too weak to develop infrastructure and economy

Romans ended Jewish state in 70 CE

1. Never gave up claim

2. Arabs sided with Hitler against British; Jews were loyal to British

America coddles enemies and alienates allies

1. Has not objected to incitement

2. Has not objected to armed struggle

De facto freeze even in Jerusalem

American response

1. Israel will have to give more for regional peace

2. Martin Indyk: Israel must choose between its electorate and the Obama agenda

3. Israeli attitudes Maagar Mohot Poll

   1. Israeli Jews oppose Obama imposed settlement 83-8

   2. construction freeze 70-19

   3. USA guarantee demilitarized Palestine 80 -12

   4. Israel should not give up land needed for security 69-22

   5. meaning:

      1. consensus vs. radicals

      2. compromise on the table

when under Arab sovereignty holy site accesses denied; under Jewish sovereignty no one denied access

The Challenge

1. David Suissa challenge

2. Jewish Times of LA

3. Clinton Plan at Taba

   1. two state

   2. populations stay in place

   3. PA withdraws demand for Arab right of return, accepting Israel as a Jewish state

   4. Jerusalem shared

4. 60 day to consider take it or leave it

5. Test : Arabs always reject peace because their narrative will not allow it

zero movement

Arabs never fail to fail to seize moment

all action follows from we want it all narrative

Israel demands narrative change

make offer to show their hands their bloody hands