NEW Opinion. Tradition. FACTORY JORDAN IS A MEANS THE KEY TO STIFF-NECKED DOUBLE MIDEAST PEACE PEOPLE THE BAMBA A2. A10. A11. THE algemeiner JOURNAL $1.00 - PRINTED IN NEW YORK FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019 | 17 ADAR I 5779 VOL. XLVII NO. 2395 Visegrád Group Vandals Desecrate 90 Jewish Graves Cancels Summit in East France in Israel After Ahead of Marches Poland Row BY REUTERS & ALGEMEINER STAFF Vandals have daubed swastikas and antisemitic slogans on around 90 graves in a Jewish cemetery in eastern France, local officials said on Tuesday, shortly before planned marches nationwide against a rise in antisemitic attacks. French President Emmanuel Macron visited the cemetery on Tuesday in the village of Quatzenheim, near the city of Strasbourg, following the overnight desecration, walking through a gate daubed with a swastika as he entered the graveyard. Jews from all over the world partici- pate in the “March of the Living,” . Photo: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90. Strasbourg’s Grand Rabbi Harold-Abraham Weill inspects graves desecrated with swastikas in Herrlisheim, north of Strasbourg, France, Dec. 14, 2018. Photo: Reuters / Vincent Kessler. BY JNS.ORG said that the leaders of the Czech “I am the son of Holocaust survi- “It’s important for me to be here with you today,” a Republic, Slovakia and Hungary vors, we will never forgive and never solemn looking Macron told local leaders and members of The Visegrád group of four would instead hold separate meeting forget, and there were many Poles the Jewish community after paying respects at one of the central European countries with Israeli leaders this week. who collaborated with the Nazis.” desecrated graves. announced it has cancelled their “It will not be called Visegrád, Quoting former Israeli Prime Many French political leaders, though not Macron meeting in Israel after Poland’s because this entails the presence Minister Yitzhak Shamir, Katz himself, are due to join Tuesday evening’s march in Paris decision to pull out of the summit of all four,” an Israeli official said. added that “Shamir said that every against antisemitism, which remains a scourge in France. following comments by Israel’s “It’s going to be a summit with Pole sucked antisemitism with his Figures released last week showed there were more foreign minister about alleged Visegrád members.” mother’s milk. Nobody will tell us than 500 antisemitic attacks in 2018, a 74 percent increase Polish collaboration during the On Sunday, the same day that how to express our stance and from 2017. Holocaust. Netanyahu appointed Yisrael Katz how to honor the dead.” The Israeli Foreign Ministry Israel’s new foreign minister, Katz Polish Ambassador to Israel Continued on Page A3 told Israel’s i24 News channel that Continued on Page A3 Remembering ShabbatCalendar Parshat KI TISA Times for New York City, Friday Candle Lighting Shabbat Begins: 5:21pm | Shabbat Ends: 6:21pm פרשת כי תשא Jackie Robinson P.O.B. 208 East 51st St, Suite 185 New York, NY 10022 page A8 Tel: (718) 771.0400 | Fax: (718) 771.0308 Email: [email protected] www.algemeiner.com © Copyright 2018 The Algemeiner Journal - All Rights Reserved. A2 | FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2019 Opinion. Why Jordan Is the Key to Israeli-Palestinian Peace a “plot against the Palestinian cause,” skipped Israel or the United States since 2017 that the event altogether. Arafat and his successors shrewdly played on But looks can be deceiving — especially Israel’s willingness to sacrifice land for peace — DANIEL ARBESS when it comes to the Middle East. entertaining Oslo’s “two state” discussions only NEW YORK The Trump administration is construc- as cover for their ultimate cause of rejecting tively giving its erstwhile allies a chance to show and resisting the existence of the Jewish state. their true colors, and that itself has intrinsic That ship has sailed. The Jewish nation value. The Europeans will eventually get in line is a regional military and economic force. Last week’s Mideast security conference on Iran or suffer the economic consequences. Everyone, especially West Bank Palestinians, Jordan’s King Abdullah (left) with Israeli in Poland might have looked like a bust for The Arab states are already aligned with the would be better off if Israel were to eliminate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2014. the Trump administration, which hoped to US relative to Iran, and Saudi chatter won’t the confusion and mixed signals of simultane- Photo: Kobi Gideon/GPO. consolidate European support for a harder obscure the fact that the Arabs were fed up ously settling and negotiating away territory, One critically important caveat: The line on Iran, and Arab support for Trump’s with the Palestinians long before the Iranian finally declare victory in the Six-Day War, and transition from Oslo and the end of the Pales- as-yet undisclosed “Deal of the Century” for regional menace got this far. And what might annex and stop apologizing for settling Judea tinian Authority (PA) would need to be closely Israeli-Palestinian peace. Neither of those the Palestinian leaders be suggesting is their and Samaria. managed to avoid disrupting the security at things happened, but, in the process, plenty of true “cause” by not showing up at all? Seems The Palestinian homeland is Jordan, the Jordan River. Coordinating security with stage-setting was accomplished. unlikely to be peace negotiations. the majority of whose population is in fact Jordan and Israel was probably the only useful Many European leaders stayed home, Israel is a strong nation, but it has always Palestinian. Jordan should restore Palestinian role played by the PA; there needs to be conti- and Saudi Arabia, whose king recently had a weakness for peace. This is what led citizenship benefits (abandoned 30 years ago) nuity after Oslo reaches its terminus. Jordan’s stripped reformist Prince Mohammed bin Israel to allow the Biblical territories of Judea to West Bank Palestinians, and the Hashemite Hashemite monarchy could remain, but its Salman (MBS) of his responsibility for the and Samaria (miraculously won in the multi- kingdom should give Palestinians on both ongoing legitimacy, and therefore stability, “Palestinian file,” accused Israeli Prime front 1967 war meant to destroy the Jewish sides of the Jordan River legitimate consid- would require greater investment of resources Minister Netanyahu of misleading the Israeli state) to be designated as “disputed” — which, eration in the affairs of Jordan. Law-abiding in the well-being of its Palestinian citizens. people into believing that relations with with 50 years of Palestinian obstinance, are West Bank Palestinians could remain in Israel Whatever happens with the Arab-Israeli Israel’s Arab neighbors would continue to now being positioned as “occupied” and as permanent residents, with all of the civil alliance, the outcome of the upcoming Israeli improve without a resolution of the “Pales- eventually even “apartheid.” rights as other inhabitants of Israel. They don’t elections, and Trump’s “Deal of the Century,” tinian issue.” Other Arab leaders jumped on Nonsense. Israel agreed to the Oslo need another nation state in the Biblical heart the United States and Israel shaping incen- the bandwagon, restating their old trope that two-state framework in 1993 and unilater- of Israel. tives for Jordan to assume a larger role in the the “Palestinian issue” — not their own exploit- ally walked away from Gaza in 2005. For Under this “True State” scenario, Israel security and administration of its West Bank ative authoritarian and, is some cases, Islamist their part, Palestinian leaders have over the and a newly legitimate Jordan would collabo- Palestinian citizens could be one of the most terror-promoting regimes — is the root cause decades proposed nothing for final status rate more closely than ever on both security constructive stabilizers for the entire region. of instability in the region. peace negotiations, instead dismissing several and economic integration of West Bank Pales- Daniel J. Arbess is a policy analyst and Trump official Jared Kushner told the Israeli initiatives that would have given them tinian residents in Israel’s economy. Ask the investor, the CEO of Xerion Investments LLC. conference that both Israel and the Palestin- most of the West Bank territories captured in West Bank Palestinians (not their corrupt He is a lifetime member of the Council on ians would have to compromise for the “Deal the Six-Day War. “leaders”) where in the Middle East — or Foreign Relations and co-founder of No Labels, of the Century,” while the Palestinians, whose It should finally be clear from the Pales- anywhere else, for that matter — they would a bipartisan US political organization. chief negotiator described the conference as tinian Authority’s refusal to engage at all with enjoy a better life. New York Times Claims Osama Bin Laden Motivated by ‘News Coverage of Displaced Palestinians’ the Algemeiner Journal many American Jews and Christian Zionists. this nonsense. TheTimes reported in 2002: (USPS 927800) is published weekly But that’s just a mild precursor compared Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, (except for the week of Passover IRA STOLL to the Times September 11 revisionism, sought to distance himself unequivocally which comes in a paragraph of the article from Al Qaeda in an interview published and Succos) BOSTON Subscription rate $40 per year that immediately follows the description of today, warning Osama bin Laden to stop Jerusalem. TheTimes reports, “The suffering of justifying attacks in the name of Palestinians. Algemeiner Journal the Palestinians has long been an animating “I’m telling him directly not to hide cause for Al Qaeda, a stand-in for the victim- behind the Palestinian cause,” Mr. Arafat 508 Montgomery Street The New York Times is suddenly and ization of Muslims at the hands of Western was quoted as saying in The Sunday Times Brooklyn, N.Y.