France, Saudi Arabia, and the UN Are Preparing a Plan to Impose a ‘Palestinian’ State

France and Saudi Arabia, and of course the United Nations, are the three weird sisters hoping to give birth to this thalidomide baby of a state of “Palestine.” Who will draw this state’s borders? And what will happen to the half-million Israelis living in Judea and Samaria (a/k/a the West Bank)? And who will rule the state — Hamas, or the Palestinian Authority, who are at daggers drawn with one another, or a tertium quid whom no one yet knows about? More on this wretched idea can be found here: “France, Saudi Arabia, and the UN Want to Impose a Palestinian State; Here’s Why It’s a Disaster,” by Jason Shvili, Algemeiner, May 20, 2025:

Next month, France and Saudi Arabia will host a conference backed by the United Nations to create a plan for the establishment of a Palestinian state, without regard for Israel’s interests. In other words, the conference is designed to impose a two-state solution whether Israel likes it or not.

They intend to impose a “Palestinian” state on Israel? Well, all I can say is — “You and what army?” Will the French Foreign Legion, that hasn’t seen combat for years and was last viewed marching à pas lent down the Champs-Élysées on Bastille Day, or the UN’s white-helmeted peacekeepers who were afraid to confront Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, or the Saudi army that took two full weeks to take back — with the help of French commandos — the Grand Mosque in Mecca that the Otaibah clan had seized in November 1979, be able to wrest Judea and Samaria from the IDF?

Clearly, it doesn’t matter to the French or the Saudis that a Palestinian state would present an existential threat to Israel — or be a reward for the Palestinian terrorism of October 7, 2023. It doesn’t matter that the leaders of such a state would be publicly committed to Israel’s eventual destruction. And it doesn’t even matter that polls show neither Israelis nor Palestinians want a two-state solution.

The “Palestinian state” that the French and Saudis are hoping to impose would require Israel to give up Judea and Samaria, where Jewish history was made over 3500 years, territory that the League of Nations assigned to the Mandate for Palestine, for incorporation in the future Jewish state. A “Palestinian state” would require Israel to agree to be squeezed back within the 1949 armistice lines, that Abba Eban famously called the “lines of Auschwitz.” Israel would be stripped of its defenses in the Jordan Valley, and would have a nine-mile-wide waist from Qalqilya to the sea. How could Israel in such a configuration possibly defend itself against an invader coming from the east?

The leaders of France and Saudi Arabia also forget, or perhaps choose to ignore, the fact that the Palestinians have been offered statehood on several occasions, dating back to the 1947 UN partition plan. Indeed, within one decade alone, Israel offered the Palestinians statehood three times in the 2000s. Each offer was more generous than the last, and included nearly the entirety of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), the Gaza Strip, a capital in Jerusalem, and even territory within pre-1967 Israel. The Palestinians said no to each of these offers and responded to them with terrorism and bloodshed.

When the Palestinians refused those offers, the offers simply evanesced. As every first-year law student knows from Contracts 101, it’s a case of Offer-and-Acceptance. An offer refused cannot then be revived, and accepted. And after the atrocities of October 7, 2023, no Israeli government will any longer be inveigled into the folly of “land for peace.”

Moreover, for 18 years, there already was a de-facto two-state solution. In 2005, Israel completely withdrew from the Gaza Strip. The Gazan Palestinians were given complete autonomy to govern themselves and build a state. Instead, they turned Gaza into a base from which to attack Israel with the ultimate aim of destroying the Jewish State. Gaza’s Hamas rulers launched several wars against Israel, ultimately culminating in the October 7th massacre — the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust. At the same time, the Palestinian Authority had autonomy in almost all of the West Bank.

The two-state solution died on October 7, 2023 — as it became clear that right now, the Palestinian have no desire to peacefully live alongside Israel (opinion polls show that Oct. 7 is still supported by a majority of Palestinians)….

A more practical response would be for Israel to present the upcoming conference with a list of demands in exchange for Palestinian statehood.

First, the Palestinians must accept that Israel is the national home of the Jewish people. In other words, say yes to a Jewish state — yes to thousands of years of proven Jewish history and sovereignty in the Holy Land, and yes to the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their native homeland. This must be done with actions, not just words.

Second, the Palestinians must renounce their so-called “Right of Return” — the right of millions of Palestinian “refugees” (which are largely non-direct descendants of refugees, including many who left on their own volition) to “return” to what is now Israel — a land that most of them have never seen, let alone lived in — so that they can erase Israel’s Jewish majority, and therefore, the Jewish state itself….

Sixth, and finally, once a Palestinian state is created, the Palestinians must renounce all claims to any part of Israel and declare that their conflict with the Jewish State is finished….

France and Saudi Arabia are determined to present Israel with a fait accompli: a state of “Palestine” to be carved out of the very territory that the League of Nations assigned to the Mandate for Palestine, and that would, the League believed, in time become the Jewish state. They will have no power to enforce this “two-state solution” that three-quarters of Israeli Jews, after the events of October 7, 2023, now oppose. Unless France, Saudi Arabia, and their allies want to take on Israel militarily — which few would advise, given Israel’s prowess — there will be no state of “Palestine.” Instead, the Israelis will give the Arabs in Judea and Samaria and east Jerusalem as much autonomy over their own lives as is consonant with Israel’s security.

They will, in Prime Minister Netanyahu’s lapidary phrase, “have all the power to govern themselves, but none of the power to harm us.”

In Muslim jurisprudence, the model of treaty-making between Believers and Infidels is the Treaty of Hudaibiyya, a truce that Muhammad made with the Meccans in 628 A.D. That agreement was to have lasted for 10 years, but after 18 months, having realized his forces had become much stronger, Muhammad broke the treaty and attacked the Meccans. That agreement has been the model ever since for Muslim treaty-making with non-Muslims. Given that, the only way for Israel to maintain peace with the Arabs is through deterrence. Israel must remain, and must be seen to be, much more powerful military than any conceivable Arab enemy or enemies, whether terror groups or nation-states. Deterrence, after all, kept the peace between the West and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Finally, for the sake of argument, imagine that Israel were to agree to the creation of a “state of Palestine.” The Palestinians would, at a minimum, have to accede to six conditions — as spelled out in the article above — laid down by Israel.

France and Saudi Arabia can make their plans but, I am pleased to say, those ill-laid plans do not just gang agley — they are dead on arrival.