His sympathy for the "stateless, dispossessed, and dispersed Palestinians" did not blind him to the ineptness of their leaders. He had met enough Arab and Palestinian politicians to know just how inadequate they were to the tragedy of their peoples and the tasks facing them. In all his writings, notably an influential 1996 New York Review essay entitled "Israel and the End of Zionism," he was distinctly evenhanded in acknowledging the errors of both sides. But the historic mistakes of the Palestinians had come primarily before 1948, whereas Israel was overwhelmingly responsible for the disastrous missteps that followed its great victory in 1967.
Zionism, as Amos came to realize, had outlived its usefulness.
Ineptness?
Evil.
Hate.
For those leaders, past and present, it is not a question of "Palestine" or any "Palestinianism" but of thwarting Jews from achieving their rightfull claims to their national homeland and their nationalism. It is all a negativistic campaign with nothing of any positive value or worth for their own character.
And:
the historic mistakes of the Palestinians had come primarily before 1948
is all wrong.
They were terrorists, adopted the worst form of terrorism and continue to do so.
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