It is not clear why the Israeli Right neglects the area of human rights as the Left seeks to impose on the Arabs of Judea and Samaria a regime that is violent, racist and brutal as well as a violator of human rights.
Palestinian Authority Chairman Abu Mazen’s request several weeks ago to reduce the volume of electricity that is supplied to the Gaza Strip reveals anew how absurd it is to link human rights to the idea of a Palestinian state.
For some reason, the Israeli Left has managed to turn the idea of a Palestinian state into a right, based on human rights, while the reality shows that the situation is exactly the opposite. The Israeli Right prefers to base its objection to a Palestinian state on many much more important reasons; however it seems that it is indeed possible to include human rights among these reasons as well.
While Abu Mazen, “the most European partner” among the leaders of the Palestinian Authority, (which is, at least, how the Left regards him, forgetting about his Holocaust Denial, funding of the slaughter in Munich and many more things) knows quite well what the effect of reducing the flow of electricity to the Gaza Strip would be, from the humanitarian point of view, he nevertheless chooses to ask Israel to do this only because of his political argument with his rival, Hamas, thus revealing to the entire world that human rights are totally unimportant to him and his cronies.
In the opinion of the European and cultured among the Palestinian Authority leaders, it is the Left which has suggested, more than once, to sign agreements with Abbas since there will not be such a moderate leader in the foreseeable future, so it is more important to crush his political rivals, even if it means that the children of the Gaza Strip will sit in darkness, even if cutting off the electricity that runs life-support machines will cause sick people to die, even if it will result in conditions of inadequate nutrition and deplorable sanitation ,which are deteriorating every day due to the shortage of electricity.
But Abu Mazen does not care, because what are human rights in his eyes? They are worth nothing. Abu Mazen’s behavior is not exceptional in the Mediterranean landscape, especially in the Palestinian Authority, which seeks to be a state within the Land of Israel.
With spectacular demagoguery, the Israeli Left has managed to label the fight for a Palestinian state as a fight for Palestinian human rights. The Right heard this and cringed, dropped the flag of human rights and left it in the hands of the Left, despite the fact that it is ironically the Right, in its desire to apply sovereignty while granting rights of citizenship to the Arabs of Israel, that really represents the values of human rights.
It is enough for us to see how political battles are conducted in the Palestinian Authority in order to understand how human rights would look in such a state, if, Heaven forbid, such a state is established. After all, when Hamas won the majority, its people led the leaders among the resisters, Abu Mazen’s people, to the city squares for a humiliating march, almost totally naked, and then carried out a mass lynch on them, in front of an enthusiastic crowd.
A change of power there is not accomplished with a mutual handshake and an overlap period, but with violent outbursts into hospitals and disconnecting patients that belonged to the losing group, Fatah, from the live-support systems and intravenous infusion, so that they would die a painful death without pills being wasted on them. These changes of power also included the horror of throwing members of the other side from the roofs of tall buildings to their deaths. So giving such people as these a state is a fight for human rights?
And what about Abbas and his gangs who sow terror in the streets of the cities and villages of Judea and Samaria, who abuse members of minorities, loot stores, demand protection money as an integral part of the payment that is due to them, persecute the Christian population to the point that anyone who can, escapes to the other side of the ocean while he still can? And what about the normalization of torture, “without the High Court and without Human Rights organizations”, that are used not only against those who are suspected of collaboration with the Zionist enemy, but also toward anyone who is dissatisfied with the government? And what about the court, which threatens anyone who sells land to Jews with a death sentence? And in the name of what human rights and pagan morality do they murder babies and slaughter families? Are these the human rights that the Left demands for the Arabs of Judea and Samaria?
And we have still not talked about the rights of women, whose voices will not be heard and whose beating is accepted by the religious authorities, and the rights of minorities, which are trampled, or actually, do not exist at all. And what about the handicapped and disabled, who find themselves excluded from society? And we have not even mentioned the required condition of Judenrein, in the state that the ra’is wants to establish, and the anti-Semitic definition that is attributed to Jews as the descendants of apes and pigs. All of these are in the name of what human rights, freedom and equality?
The time has come when the Israeli Right should enter full strength and without any feelings of inferiority into the depth of the of the discussion on human rights and prove how ruinous the horrible idea of a Palestinian state would be even from this point of view and for the Arabs themselves, and make clear that ironically, it is the Right’s political scenario that stands for the values of human rights. The right to vote, which the Left enthusiastically promotes, is only one of the many human rights that the Left prefers to ignore, and which have more influence on the average person’s daily quality of life.