Asking the Wrong Question

This is a most interesting op-ed in today's Ynetnews.com website. It asks where is Israel's equivalent to Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sorry, but that's the wrong question.

The right question would be where is the Palestinians' Martin Luther King, Jr.?

Where is the Palestinian equivalent to King Hussein of Jordan or Egypt's Anwar Sadat, both of whom put their lives on the line to make a peace deal with Israel, and Sadat paid the ultimate price for that with his 1981 assassination at the hands of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Palestinians have no such leaders. They are cowards who continue to perpetuate anti-Israel and anti-Semitic filth, indoctrinating yet another generation of Palestinians to hate. They preach jihad and honor suicide bombers who murder women and children.

Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas received a degree in Holocaust revisionism, and that is an all too common theme among those who seek Israel's destruction, particularly among the Arabs that refuse Israel's existence. The Palestinians don't want a two-state solution, they seek to supplant Israel entirely.

They don't want to see Israel contained within its pre-1967 borders. They want no Israel at all, and they use the so-called right of return as a club.

Abbas can't choose the path of peace because he refuses to lay the groundwork and renounce the one-state solution that he and his fellow Palestinians have preached to Palestinians for generations. Abbas can't choose that path because he doesn't have the ear of many Palestinians in any event; Hamas, which recognizes Israel only to the extent that it uses maps of Israel for targeting purposes, controls Gaza and is even more extreme in their desire to destroy Israel, even if it means Gaza's ruin.

Israel has been out of Gaza since 2005. Gaza is fully in Palestinian hands, and all the Palestinians have done is use the territory as a launching pad for attacks on Israelis.