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Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) National President Morton A. Klein released the following statement:
It is outrageous that Ireland and Spain, along with Slovenia, Malta, Norway are expected to announce today that they will recognize a Palestinian terror state, which will be a dictatorship. These evil, Israel-hating announcements encourage antisemitic violence and reward genocidal terrorists, including Hamas, Palestine Islamic Jihad, and accompanying Gazan civilian terrorists and Palestinian Authority terrorists, for butchering and holding hostage innocent Israelis.
ZOA has repeatedly explained that a Palestinian state would be another Iranian-proxy terror state, which would threaten Israel’s survival and place Israel’s major population centers within close rocket range. Just look at who would govern such an entity: The Palestinian Authority, which pays terrorists lifetime pensions to murder innocent Jews (“Pay to Slay”) and persistently indoctrinates Arabs to kill Jews, from childhood onwards. And/or Iranian proxy Hamas, whose charter calls for Israel’s destruction and the murder of every Jew throughout the world. Giving these Jew-hating, America-hating terrorists a state doesn’t make them a lovely, peaceful regime. Iran, North Korea, Syria, and Somalia are states. Are they peace-loving regimes? A state only gives them more power to promote their violent, ugly agenda!
Palestinian Arab leaders have repeatedly rejected extraordinarily generous offers for a state on Israel’s lawful lands – because a negotiated state meant ending the Palestinian Arabs’ hostilities to destroy Israel, and recognizing Israel as a Jewish State. The Palestinian Arabs thus rejected “land for peace.” Instead, they want “free land for more war.” Recognizing a state now would simply enable the Palestinian Arabs to continue their hostilities to destroy the Jewish state, from a stronger and larger base.
An Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs post urged Ireland to say “no” to recognition, and explained: “Recognizing a Palestinian state risks turning you into a pawn of Iran and Hamas. Such a move will only strengthen Hamas. . . The fact that Hamas Nazi leaders are thanking you should serve as a wake-up call. Your actions will only fuel extremism and instability. . . . Don’t be pawns in the hands of Hamas.”
Similarly, Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli warned Spain while speaking in Madrid recently: "Unfortunately, the current prime minister of Spain, Sanchez, believes that the Palestinians should be rewarded for the massacre — that this is the time to give them a state. . . It is important to highlight some crucial facts about the Palestinian Authority," said Chikli. “Not a single senior official of the Palestinian Authority has condemned the barbaric massacre of Hamas. Not a single one." In fact, they’ve bragged about their Fatah members having participated in the slaughter of Jews.
Unfortunately, Ireland has a shameful anti-Israel, antisemitic history. In WWII, Ireland closed its doors to Jews seeking to escape certain death at the hands of the Nazis.
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