ISRAEL HAYOM
by Mudar Zahran
July 9, 2015
…If Israel were to disappear and be replaced by a Palestinian state, the Palestinians would most likely end up with another Arab dictatorship that oppresses them and reduces them to poverty. We have partially seen that with the Palestinian Authority and the “liberated” areas it rules. I regularly visit the West Bank and have interviewed scores of Palestinians there. I can confirm that, as much as they hate Israel, they still openly yearn for the days when it administered the West Bank. As one Palestinian told me, ”We prayed to God to give us mercy and rid us of Israel; later, we found out that God had given us mercy when Israel was here.”…To those Arabs, Muslims, Westerners and others insisting that Israel must be erased from face of the planet, I say: Don’t bet on it, as Israel is becoming stronger every day through its democracy and innovation, while Arab countries are getting weaker through dictatorship and chaos. READ MORE