A sovereign state run by Mahmoud Abbas’s terror-rewarding and supporting Palestinian Authority isn’t an “existential necessity.” Rather, it would be simply another international beggar state that in time would fall into the hands of jihadists like Hamas, just as stronger regimes like Syria and Iraq have imploded into warring jihadist factions.
Israel’s “growing pariah status” is due to the predominance of the false narrative that lack of Palestinian statehood, not lack of Palestinians willing and able to conclude a genuine peace with Israel, is the cause of continuing conflict and suffering.
Morton A. Klein
Zionist Organization of America
New York