Increasingly Powerless, Marginalized Group Insists Total Victory Imminent

Ever-more-explicit irritation among once-stalwart allies that Palestinians do nothing but whine and demand priority.

Gaza City, May 28 – Opponents of Israel’s existence, who, as the years go by, find themselves with less and less international or even regional support, must spew over-the-top rhetoric to keep global attention focused on them, and find less and less to which they can point as concrete achievements in their century-old campaign against Jewish sovereignty, continued to proclaim today that they stand on the cusp of ultimate triumph.

Leaders of Palestinian factions, governments, and organizations persisted in their increasingly-futile struggle this week even as they insisted that victory lies only a few hours, days, weeks, or months away. The bombast came against an eight-decade backdrop of failure to weaken or undermine the ever-stronger, ever-more-secure Jewish State, despite holding an overwhelming initial advantage in manpower, arms, finances, and international support.

Failure to prevent, and then to abort, the birth of Israel before and in 1948, even though the Arab forces and population vastly outnumbered and outgunned the fledgling Israel, and then losing even more territory in 1967, with multiple smaller failures before and since, has not dampened Palestinian and pro-Palestinian predictions of Israel’s imminent demise. Once-unanimous, full-throated solidarity among Arab and Muslim states in the first several decades of the conflict, along with occasional material support and military operations against Israel, have devolved into mere lip-service at best, outright normalization with Israel at worst. Those developments have not stopped Hamas, Fatah, and other figures from confident assertions that Israel’s days are numbered.

Frequent terrorist attacks – bombings, shootings, and outright massacres – that plagued Israel in its early years, even into the Second Intifada of the early twenty-first century, have faded into nostalgia for Palestinians, who now face formidable security barriers, sophisticated IDF methods, and Israeli defensive technology that renders Iranian-Palestinian rockets and artillery a mere nuisance. The continually-eroding Palestinian ability to score significant body counts, alongside ever-more-explicit irritation among once-stalwart allies that Palestinians do nothing but whine and demand priority, not even working to improve their own conditions, has not diminished the certain tones of Palestinian rhetoricians forecasting curtains for Israel, sooner rather than later.

Experts predict that by 2040, the rest of the world, even such current pro-Palestinian entities as Iran and Qatar, will move on from the futile support for a lost cause and constant reminder of Arab/Muslim shame – but that development will not weaken the orotund Palestinian pronouncements that decisive, vindicating victory over the Zionists is at hand any day now.

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