They say we are not a nation, and we have no right to stand up to them. This is why Israel's demand for recognition is critical.
And this is why people who are wedded to the twostate solution are trying desperately to get out from under it. Livni, Peres and Lapid, along with the State Department and the EU know that the Palestinians will never recognize Israel. And they know that the minute they acknowledge this plain fact, they are going to have to answer some difficult questions about the nature of their continued focus - indeed, in many cases their obsessive focus - on the two-state formula.
For instance, since the Palestinians refuse to acknowledge Israel's right to exist, why do they continue to say that the two-state plan is a viable policy? Obviously it won't lead to peace. After all, the Palestinians won't live at peace with a state they refuse to recognize.
All the good people who say Palestinian aims and intentions are irrelevant also demand that Israel capitulate to all of the PLO 's territorial, strategic and political demands. What are they trying to achieve? For the Israelis the answer is fairly clear.
The likes of Livni and Peres have based their entire political identity on their support for Palestinian statehood in the framework of the two-state solution.
They have no political existence beyond it. If it is exposed as a lie, they will be exposed as liars. And their careers will be over.
Lapid has less of a personal stake in the perpetuation of the two-state fallacy. But his political party is backed by people who are ideologically and politically committed to it. So he has joined them in trying to undermine Netanyahu by pretending that Palestinian non-recognition signifies nothing.
As for the Europeans, from reports of their internal deliberations, it is apparent that many European leaders agree with PLO /Arab/Islamic bigotry. They too reject the Jewish peoples' right to assert our peoplehood and our right to national self-determination.
In December 2011, Haaretz reported that in a working paper authored by European ambassadors in Israel sent to Brussels, the EU ambassadors called for the EU to champion the communal rights of Israeli Arabs as a "core issue, not second tier to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
In other words, the EU is interested in undermining the legitimacy of Jewish rights to sovereignty. If a Jewish government of a Jewish state does not have the right to enforce its laws without prejudice toward both Jewish and non-Jewish citizens of the Jewish state, then Jewish rights are meaningless. Israel is demoted to the position of a Jewish communal organization.
This brings us back to the Obama administration, and the fact that it is taking its first steps toward backing away from supporting Israel's demand for recognition.
To date, Abbas and his supporters have done everything possible to show that they don't want peace - beginning with their demand for Israel to release a thousand terrorist murderers from its prisons as a precondition for talks, and ending with their rejection of Israel's rights to exist.
All along, despite daily proof of Palestinian radicalism, anti-Semitism and bad faith, Netanyahu has maintained his commitment to the peace process and the two-state formula. He has done so largely because he hasn't wanted to give Obama the ability to blame Israel when the talks inevitably fail.
Obama's decision to abandon his previous support for Israel's demand for recognition shows that Netanyahu is being played for a fool.
With Psaki's statement, it is obvious that Obama will not allow the facts get in the way of his policy. The fact that the Palestinians are uninterested in a twostate solution because they remain committed to the annihilation of the Jewish state is no cause for alarm in the White House.
And that is because Obama's goal in pursuing a phony peace process is not to achieve peace. It is to weaken and discredit Israel.
