The Fantasies That Feed the Palestinians

The Palestinians live in a fantasy world where they are the indigenous people of “Palestine,” Jews have “stolen their land,” and Israel is “a settler-colonial state” — even though Jews were living in the Land of Israel (a.k.a. to the Arabs as “Palestine”) for three millennia before a single Muslim Arab appeared. In addition, the IDF is accused of committing “genocide” in Gaza, when in fact, the ratio of civilian-to-combatant deaths in Gaza is just slightly above 1:1, an unheard-of achievement in the annals of military history. That ratio reflects the tremendous effort by the IDF, that in order to minimize the number of civilian casualties has dropped millions of leaflets, send millions of text messages, and made millions of robocalls to warn Gazans away from sites soon to be targeted.

More on the fantasies on which the enemies of Israel batten can be found here: “The United Nations and the Fantasies That Feed the War,” by Micha Danzig, Algemeiner, September 23, 2026:

Two days before Emmanuel Macron told the UN General Assembly that Hamas had “never been active” in Judea & Samaria (aka, the “West Bank”), a Hamas terrorist named Qadri Samara murdered Netanel Shukron, a French citizen and father of six, in his car in Judea and Samaria, on the eve of Yom Kippur. Shukron’s last words to his son were an order to run. Macron must have known about this attack. He recited the line anyway.

He didn’t invent it. In October 2023, Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef, to malign Israeli security operations in Judea & Samaria and to support the claim that Hamas is just an excuse for supposed Israeli aggression, told Piers Morgan that “Hamas has no control over the West Bank,” asking viewers to imagine “a world without Hamas” and “name this world the West Bank.” Three years later, the President of France repeated the substance of that claim from the UN floor. A talking point from a comedian/activist graduated to head-of-state doctrine, three years later, without a single fact intervening to stop it.

The facts were never hard to find. Hamas’s leader in Judea & Samaria, Hassan Yousef, has run operations there openly for decades. Between 1994 and 2005, Palestinian suicide bombings killed nearly 1,000 Israelis and wounded over 10,000, a large share of them Hamas operations: the 2002 Park Hotel bombing in Netanya, 30 murdered, traced to a Hamas cell in Tulkarm; the Patt Junction bus bombing in Jerusalem that same year, 19 murdered; the Matza restaurant bombing in Haifa, 15 murdered.

Between October 2000 and mid-2003, 35 suicide attacks originated from Jenin and Nablus alone, murdering over 160 Israelis. Since Oct. 7, 2023, Israeli security services have logged over 1,200 attacks originating from the northern West Bank in a single year, with 24 Israelis killed, and Hamas has publicly claimed West Bank operations, including the June 2023 shooting at Eli that killed four civilians and a failed Tel Aviv suicide bombing in August 2024 that Hamas took credit for the day after. This is not intelligence buried in an obscure classified file. Hamas announces it.

None of this was unknown to the French government. It was simply inconvenient to the speech Macron wanted to give….

Macron did not misspeak. He laundered a fantasy, a lie, and gave it the authority of a Security Council member head of state on the floor of the UN. He added one more plank to a scaffold that has been under construction since Haj Amin al-Husseini, built to hold up a fantasy that has cost Palestinians 78 years of peace and statehood in exchange for a promise that has never once come true, and never will.

Macron has tried to backtrack, claiming that the French phrase he uttered at the UN — “le Hamas n’a pas jamais sévi en Cisjordanie” — was misinterpreted. The U.N. interpreter rendered it in English as “Hamas has never been particularly active in the West Bank.” The French then said that the proper interpretation was “Hamas has never governed the West Bank.” That is false.

The verb “sévir” means to “rage” or “cause havoc.” The verb is used for “destructive forces like a storm, a disease, or “a war spreading and causing damage in an area.” That is exactly what Hamas has been doing in Judea and Samaria. It’s a “destructive force… causing havoc,” spreading damage in the land.

Meanwhile, the rich fantasy life of the Palestinians continues, as they try to convince the world that they are the original inhabitants of the Land of Israel (or as the Romans rename it, “Palestine”), that the Jews came and “stole” it from them. And in the face of this outrageous rewrite of history, how many macrons and burnhams have chosen to remain silent and allowed the lie to spread?