Abbas would be better off not threatening us with his own demise. Israel can manage without him and his Palestinian “authority.”

Today’s Palestinian letter to Israel mixes fact with fiction, is maximalist and threatening, and indicates no real desire to negotiate – only to place Israel in the international dock of criminality.

Treating Israelis and Palestinians side by side is a delicate balancing act. Israel gets almost no international credit for its manifold humanitarian medical activities.

The EU has been the deepest honey-pot the Palestinians could ever hope for. It has poured good money down the drain, and bankrolled extremism and obstructionism.

There is little doubt that Palestinian authorities are assaulting the Temple Mount and other antiquities in the West Bank so as to erase any vestige of archaeological evidence for Jewish (and Christian) history.

Perhaps the Shalit deal, albeit risky and humiliating, will move us into a new period of tactical and mutually-beneficial understanding with Hamas.

How can a Jew fulfil the religious obligation of joy and prayer before God with terrorist lulavs from Gaza?

The Palestinians are far from being “ready” for statehood for reasons ranging from impotency to insolvency, and from maximalist expansionism to raw anti-Semitism.

The Palestinian Authority president blew his last chance to prove he is a moderate, compromise-seeking leader.

By ignoring Israel’s concessions for peace while treating the Palestinians like a spoiled child, the world is pushing off the chances for peace.