US Government Made Palestinian Terrorists Respectable

[From article]
A kleptocratic, corrupt, racist, terrorist-sponsoring political organization led by liars and thieves feels sufficiently emboldened to demand of the U.N. Security Council recognition of its sovereignty – and almost succeeds.
How did we get here?
The Palestinian leadership submission of a resolution to the U.N. Security Council on December 30th to recognize the State of Palestine was an act of hubris that makes Vladmir Putin’s interference in the Ukraine look like small potatoes. And doomed though it was, the fact that the Palestinians had the temerity to take such action, in violation of international commitments they have made, in abdication of their responsibility to negotiate all final matters of the disposition of the West Bank territories in good faith with the State of Israel, is an indication of how woefully removed is the world from any sort of balanced perspective on the Middle East conflict.
Blame for this atrocious mess can be meted out to many, but let’s start with the United States itself.
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It should never be forgotten that the Palestinian Authority was a creature of the Oslo Peace Process; it was formed from the bones of the PLO – a terrorist organization – to provide a trustworthy face of Palestinian intentions to the world – one in which its leader, Yasser Arafat, a life long terrorist, would be transformed into a statesman. The idea was that if Arafat were given this badge of respectability he would take his statesmanship role seriously and would forswear violence for the sake of negotiation. If it worked in Ireland, then why not in the Middle East?
It was the first mistake. Arafat never lived up to any of his commitments and then turned a blind eye to terrorism from within his own ranks. Then in the year 2000, when he walked out of the Camp David peace talks between himself and Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, he decided to renounce statesmanship altogether in a return to terrorism.
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It should be recognized that Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority is no different in character from Arafat’s version of the same entity and has transformed into just another rogue regime, opposed to the United States and U.S. national interests.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/01/palestinians_can_thank_the_us_for_their_international_stature.html

January 3, 2015
Palestinians Can Thank the U.S. For Their International Stature
By Avi Davis