Europe's Diplomatic Malpractice Invites More War, Not Peace in the Mideast

Spain, Ireland and Norway formally recognized a non-existent state of “Palestine” today. They thus indulged in the sort of European virtue-signaling that has brought us such past “triumphs” of diplomacy as the 1928 Kellogg-Briand pact that banned war. 

 

Now as then, such delusional preening only emboldens aggressors, and makes achieving a real, let alone a durable, peace infinitely less likely.

 

Let’s be clear: Today’s tripartite malfeasance is nothing less than a reward for the terrorists of Hamas and their part in the murderous invasion of Israel on October 7th. In fact, there simply is no Palestinian leader, political party or official entity that is actually committed to living “side-by-side in peace” with Israel. 

 

To the contrary, they all seek the destruction of the Jewish State. And, were they to get one of their own, it would only advance that cause. 

 

This is Frank Gaffney.