Here is more of the same pattern I noted in a previous post (Some People Will Believe Anything) about the amazing nonsense that the Palestinian Authority is proclaiming and that others who should know better are either passing on uncritically or making themselves complicit in by ignoring (a sin of omission they would never commit if the perpetrator were any responsible Western government).

The latest whopper from the PA is that Israel is distributing cancer-causing juice to Palestinian children. See this JPost article:

PA: Israel sells us 'carcinogenic' juice

Again, these are not conspiracy-theories being passed around on the Gaza streets, but come straight from the highest levels of the PA government from named sources:

See also this report from Honest Reporting pointing out this story as well as the fact the Google News passed it on.

Add these many nonsense pronouncements together and you get an Israeli electorate that might rightfully ask why they're bothering to make concessions for peace with people who are obviously making no effort on their part to do the same. Not only are they still refusing to take steps to disarm the terror gangs leaving the Israelis to do it themselves (see: LGF: Teenage Death Cult Gang Busted among many, many other examples), but the highest levels of government in the PA continue to spew this incitement -- and incitement is what it is, for what would you do to someone who was trying to intentionally give cancer to kids?

Why should Israelis bother trying to build bridges, why should anyone bother building bridges when those bridges are thrown back in our faces? Even Palestinian NGO's refuse to agree to ensure the money they receive is not used for terrorist activities, they call cooperative efforts with Israeli groups -- even groups of the "Left" -- a sort of trap, as this letter from a long list of Palestinian groups opposing such cooperation attests to.

This unusually well-done report from the IDF -- Security Crossing Improvements in Judea and Samaria -- describes the efforts that Israel has made to not only decrease the number of checkpoints, but make them more comfortable and fast-moving. What do they get in return? More conspiracy-nonsense about Israelis trying to irradiate border crossers -- see: Israel Limits Rafah Radioactive Screening After Protests. The radiation device in question, BTW, was an American device that uses RF radiation and doesn't even penetrate human skin. Not using it wouldn't save anyone. In fact, it ensures people carrying weapons and bombs have an easier time getting through. Thank you, conspiracy-theorists.

Hand it to the Palestinian Arabs -- they have their talking points straight. From the PA itself, to the terror gangs, to the NGOs, the teachers and the doctors in the hospitals, the cult of victimhood, the conspiracies, the refusal to compromise or cooperate is the enforced party line. In a fear-based non-free society, where dissent is not tolerated and uniformity of thought is not tolerated (or at least channelled - in other words, you can dissent about x or y, but a difference on z is not allowed) it is impossible for those who wish to buck the dominant paradigm to organize themselves, and that's a key problem. If only the haters are allowed to combine their voices, it doesn't matter how many "moderate" individuals there are. Ten organized people can control thousands of individuals.

Change is simply not on the march inside Palestinian Arab society. It's where PA society interfaces with the outside world -- in the realm of their press-releases as a start -- that there is an opportunity for change. It's only when they are held responsible for these childishly irresponsible pronouncements by those on the outside -- when we stop humoring them and coddling them and treat them instead like real adults -- that they will start acting in the responsible way adults are expected to act in.