Why won’t a Palestinian state emerge? Because neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians want it
Globalists are still obsessed with a Palestinian state. But there are several reasons for the Palestinians’ reluctance (not to mention the Israelis) to reach an agreement about a two-state solution, and a lasting end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
- FIRST, Any Palestinian leader who has recommended an end to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has been denounced by his people as a traitor and killed. That outcome would seem quite a disincentive. As the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said, “Do you want me sitting up there having tea with Sadat?” Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1978, was assassinated for it by his own people in 1981.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, now in the 19th year of his four-year term, cannot recognize Israel as a Jewish state. To do so would contradict a basic doctrine of Islam — that any land once conquered by Muslims, as the entire region was under the Ottoman Empire until its collapse in 1922, must forever be regarded as belonging to Allah and preserved by Muslims as a waqf (a holding or endowment)…
In Islam, the world is divided into two groups: the Dar al Islam (The House of Islam) and the Dar al Harb (the House of War). The struggle (jihad) must persist until everyone resides in the House of Islam, either as a Muslim or as an inferior, tolerated resident who accepts the sovereignty of Islam.
Included are territories conquered by Islam — Andalusia in Spain, much of Portugal, Sicily, Malta — all of which were once part of the “House of Islam.”
- SECOND, modern Islamic theology claims that Jews do not exist as a nation. Muslim theologians refuse to recognize the existence of Jewish kingdoms on Land of Israel; according to them the First and Second Temple and all Jewish history are fiction and myth. Furthermore, Abraham (Ibrahim), Moses (Musa), David (Daud) and Solomon (Suleiman) were the forefathers of Islam, “stolen” by Judaism. Jews, they believe, do not constitute a nation, but a disparate group of tribes who happen to be practicing Judaism. As such, Jews supposedly do not have the right to own land and statehood.
- THIRD, In the Arab culture, “honor” and “land” are paramount values. “Honor” does not allow “dhimmis” — “protected” people who were captured and chose to live as tolerated, third-class residents paying “protection” (the jizya tax), instead of converting to Islam or agreeing to be killed — to own land. Dhimmis may not dictate their wishes to the “People of Allah.” Israel, according to this belief, even in the borders of 1967, is purportedly Arab land. Both Egyptian President Sadat, as noted, and Jordanian King Abdullah I were assassinated by Muslims – King Abdullah I in 1951 – for advocating peace with Israel.
- FOURTH, From a Palestinian perspective, Israel is a non-Muslim, supposedly “colonial,” alien entity, and a “cancer” on the body of the Arab world. Generations of Palestinians have been brought up on such views, which are promoted in schools, mosques (here and here), the media, summer camps, sports and even in crossword puzzles.
The Hamas Charter with its goal of destroying “the Zionist entity” has not yet been canceled. An instructional book, the Palestinian Terminology Guide, released by the PA Ministry of Information, suggests alternative meanings to the following terms: “Israel” is replaced by “The Israeli Colonialist Occupation;” “Israel’s Defense Minister” by “Israeli Minister of War,” and the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) by “Israeli occupation forces.” “Martyrdom-Seeking Operation” replaces “Suicide Bombing,” “Temple Mount” by “Hiram al-Sharif,” “Wailing Wall” by “Al-Buraq Wall,” and, finally, the “Shield” or “Star” of David” is replaced by “Six-pointed Star.”
- FIFTH, PA President Mahmoud Abbas, like his predecessor, Yasser Arafat, represents a generation of revolutionary “national liberation movement” militants, nurtured in The Peoples’ Friendship University in the former USSR. An abundance of sympathizers, both in the West and Israel, allows Palestinians often to realize their aims of replacing Israel through unilateral actions, without negotiating any of the disputed areas as agreed to in the Oslo Accords. The donations that the Palestinian Authority and Hamas have received since 1993 could have turned the West Bank into a thriving area, and Gaza into a “New Singapore” or “Dubai on the Mediterranean”; however, the leaders evidently had other priorities for that cash.
One aim of Abbas seems to be to preserve his own wealth, estimated at $100 million, and the prosperity of his sons, who own the largest businesses in the Palestinian Authority.
If donors keep throwing gigantic amounts of money at one – especially unconditionally — why not take it?
Why should he and his “fat cats” take responsibility for public administration when they can, without exposing themselves to the slightest risk and without doing anything, collect gigantic funds around the world and transfer them to their bank accounts in Abu Dabi and Swiss banks?
- SIXTH, The entire Palestinian culture is imbued with hatred of Israel. Hitler is the most popular world leader and Mein Kampf has become best-seller.
An opinion poll conducted by Birzeit University’s Arab World for Research & Development (AWRAD) revealed that after the October 7 attacks,
- 98% felt more proud to be Palestinian;
- 89% supported al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas;
- 90% responded that “coexistence is increasingly impossible”;
- 98% said that [pay attention: after the monstrous massacre of Jews] they will “never forgive and never forget.” What a monstrous paradox!
This is from the point of view of the Palestinian Arabs. Now let’s look at it from the point of view of the mass of Israelis.
Even before October 7, 2023, the Israelis in their entirety had turned away from the idea of “peaceful coexistence.”
Much Israeli resentment seems a result of sad empirical experience. In the early 1990s, most of the Israeli public supported peace agreements and concessions. The optimism, however, soon faded away. Twice — during the term of Prime Minister Ehud Barak at Camp David in 2000, and under that of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Annapolis in 2008 — Israel offered the Palestinians (Palestinian Presidents Arafat and Abu Mazen, respectively) maximum concessions: about 94-95% of the West Bank (with the option of exchange for other territories) and East Jerusalem (within the framework of US President William Jefferson Clinton’s plan). Olmert was ready to consider returning 1,000 refugees a year for a period of five years on “humanitarian” grounds — and in addition, to establish a program of “family reunification,” which, in practice, means absorbing tens of thousands of Arabs. Olmert agreed to allow “safe passage” between Gaza and Judea. Olmert even offered to transfer the control over Temple Mount to a consortium: Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the U.S., Israel and the PLO. Abbas refused without so much as a counteroffer.
After rejecting Clinton’s plan, Arafat launched a terrorist campaign the “second intifada” – which took life of more than a thousand Israelis.
Waves of deadly terror attacks against Israelis resumed in the mid 1990s and at the beginning of the 21st century. In a situation where every attempt to achieve peace turns into another bloody war-experiment, most Israelis have apparently concluded that they would be better off without “peace.”
After the rapes, tortures, beheadings, and burning babies alive of October 7, 2023, the very idea of peace with the Palestinians looks to most Israelis like a mockery or sick joke.
Finally, we can ask ourselves: do the Sunni countries in the region really want an Iran-backed terrorist Palestinian State? After seeing what the Palestinians have done to every country that has tried to help them – Jordan, which they tried to overthrow during Black September (1970-71), then Lebanon, where they began an unprovoked war in 1992, were exiled to Tunis, and finally to Israel – which, in 1993, with the benefit of 20:20 hindsight, foolishly granted the Palestinian authority legitimacy.
Of course, the last thing they want is a “Palestinian state” — a hotbed of terror, violence and instability, a haven for jihadists of all stripes and Iranian puppets.
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At this point, whatever happens with a ceasefire or not, the region clearly does not seem ready for any kind of “Palestinian state” — to say the least.
Alexander Maistrovoy is a journalist and publicist, published in Times of Israel, Arutz Sheva/Israel National News, Jihad Watch, Frontpage Mag, Сanada Free Press, Liberty Unyielding and others. He is the author ofAgony of Hercules or a Farewell to Democracy (Notes of a Stranger).
Walter Sieruk says
There is not nor was there ever a genuine land that is “Palestine.” That is a modern fiction.
“The land of Israel was renamed Syria Palestrina by Hadrian, the Roman Emperor. Following the second revolt against Rome in AD 132- 135. The Philistines had always been the enemy of the Jews .and as such it was an insult to the Jewish people.” [1]
It should also be added, that Hadrian had deliberately intended the renaming of Israel to be an insult and offence to the Jews.
[1] Miracle of Israel by Gary Frazier and Jim Fletcher, page 65.
Walter Sieruk says
History reveals that the ancient Philistines recorded in the Bible and history reveals the people who came from the Greek Islands and some parts of the mainland Greece and the Island of Crete They have no connection, at all, the to the Arab /Muslim of modern times who called themselves the “Palestinians.”
From those ancient people, the Philistines, the word “Palestine” .came into being.
There is no genuine ethic group or race who are the “Palestinians.”
Early in the last century a anyone living in that land, Arab or Jew, who lived in that land was called a ”Palestinian.”
Only after 1964 did the Arab/Muslims start to refer to themselves , exclusively , by the word “Palestinian.”
The reason for that is that they felt that by giving themselves that title they would appear to have some kind of valid claim on that land.
Walter Sieruk says
There never has been nor are there now any genuine ethnic or race of people who are the “Palestinians.”
In reality, they are the Arabs of the area of the Middle East. The idea that there are a distinct “Palestinian people’ is a modern fiction. Likewise the “Palestine flag is a fake flag.
Those Arab/Muslims who call themselves “Palestinians” have applied that term only for themselves in the hope of giving them some kind of “valid” claim on the land that is the State of Israel, in the view in the people of the other nations of this world.
Walter Sieruk says
There is an important question, which is “Are there really an ethnic or race of people who may be , rightly called the “ Palestinians” or is that just a hijacked term that the Arabs of the area in the Middle East now exclusively only to themselves without valid genuine proof that such a term is actually fitting for them.
Many reliable scholars and historians on Israel and the entire Middle East have ,rightly, answered that question. Two of them had together have compiled a book on this subject and had revealed, “The Palestinian leadership has repeatedly sought to legitimize their right to the land, by claiming it belongs to them and not the Jews. One of their BIG lies is that the land was always referred to as Palestine. Historically, this is inaccurate ! There has never been a Palestinian state in the history of the world.”
The authors further explain that “The Roman Emperor Hadrian , following the second Jewish revolt led by Simon Kochba , changed the name of Israel to Syria Palestina which he took from the Hebrew word Pelesheth, which we know as Philistia . Why ? Because the Jews hated the Philistines and this was a slap in the face to them.”
Those writers also added that “”What difference does this make ? …. “ They then explained, because it gives the false impression that there was a land of Palestine in ancient times and perpetuates the lie that the Jews took away the Palestinian land.”
In conclusion, “Palestine’ is a man- made fiction therefore, there is no ethnic group or race of people who are real“ Palestinians.” Likewise, the “Palestinian flag is a fake” flag.”
By great contrast, Israel is an historic and Biblical reality, Psalm 135;4.
The book source is entitled Miracle of Israel by Gary Frazier and Jim Fletcher , pages 177,178 179.
Cynthia says
This is pure anti Semitism because everyone knows a Palestinian state will be a terrorist state. They have never wavered in teaching and practicing hatred and violence, whether in Gaza or the territories.
One only has to look at last names of “Palestinians” to see their origin from Syria, Jordan and Egypt. This was a recent move from poverty stricken countries being drawn to Israel for better paying jobs.
Mike says
Cynthia: not just those countries, but also Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia (the Maghreb), and also Libya and Iraq.
There are even Palestinians who are Bosnian Muslim in origin. Yasser Arafat was an Egyptian from Cairo.
James Lincoln says
A so-called “Palestinian state” would look just like Gaza – before the October 7th, 2023 Hamas invasion of Israel.
Skeptiker says
Der Islam ist wie ein Krebsgeschwür für die moderne, aufgeklärte und zivilisierte Welt. Der Islam leistet keinen Beitrag für den Fortschritt und die Verbesserung der Lebensbedingungen für die Menschen. Innovation, Erfindergeist und Kreativität sind für den Muslim nicht vorgesehen.Der Islam ist ein wissenschaftsfeindliches, denkbehindertes und rückständiges, sinnentlehrtes kulturelles Vehikel, das mit missionarischem Eifer jedem gebildeten Menschen auf den Sack geht.
Michael says
Palestinians arguing that “the Jews stole their religion” is a perfect example of how impossible it is to establish a civil society based on lies. Westerners who support them are cut from the same cloth, and buy and large are working to establish uncivil societies in their own countries, and doing a pretty good job of it. In a perfect world they’d be deported to those parts of the world they admire so much and the rest of us could work to rebuild what they’ve destroyed.
joanofark06 says
The first think that hit me hard, was knowing that Trump had to come back into office again, and against all the odds that was thrown at him, he made it. He had to be Pres. again, because God has a use for him. He’s using him to bring in the 7 year Tribulation period. The signs are all there. Like his name being short for “trumpet”, and quite a few are blown in Revelation. And with him definitely NOT being a Christian, he could have name his peace document with any name at all. But he gave it an important name, from a person in the bible.