Mafia style Abbas tries to make “peace” with Israel

First there’s the threat. “You’d better do what we tell you, punk, or else…”

Mahmoud Abbas tries to make “peace” the same way mafia bosses operates. It’s a bit like a transparent – cheap – mafia movie.

Then when, to their exasperation, the warning doesn’t work, they switch tactics. Desperate for the good guy to comply with their demands, they’ll offer most anything to buy him off.

They’ll start slow, with inducements increasingly difficult to turn down.

But the really juicy carrots they’ll keep for last. By the time they offer those, the pressure on the good guy to take the bribe will be so intense – from both his enemies and his friends – it’ll be almost impossible to resist.

He’ll buckle, to his personal ruin, and the enduring detriment of those around him.

As for the cartel, it will have secured both its goal, and its revenge.

The cards it’ll let lie where they fall.

For decades the United States – that is to say, the administrations operating out of Washington DC – has been levering first threats, then promises, to drive successive Israeli prime ministers into playing ball with their peace game.

Intensely, since he entered the White House, the current occupant has been practicing this good cop bad cop technique on Benjamin Netanyahu.

First, upon receiving the presidency, Barack Obama stretched out his hand pledging – apparently from the heart – his best effort to ensure peace and security for Israel, and independence and dignity for the “Palestinians.”

Then the leader of the free world went to Cairo, where he bowed before the Muslim world, messaging Israel of his intention to move America closer to the Arab camp, and away from the Jewish one.

In the ensuing months, Obama used Hillary, his right-hand woman – to squeeze Israel into agreeing to a “settlement freeze” in Samaria and Judea. They tried applying that to construction in Jerusalem as well – with less success.

Source: Jerusalem Watchman.

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