Posted on 01/17/2024 8:28:38 AM PST by SJackson
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As hard as it is to believe, Secretary of State Antony Blinken was absolutely serious when he recently called yet again for the creation of a Palestinian state and promised that it would be the magic solution that would finally bring peace to the region. Get in line, Mr. Blinken. You’re only about the ten millionth person to make this confident recommendation, and to demonstrate that you haven’t learned the most basic and obvious lessons from what has happened to Israel ever since the Arabs rejected the first offer to create a Palestinian state back in 1947.
The Jewish Press reported Wednesday that Blinken said at a press conference about his latest trip to Israel: “We continue to discuss how to build a more durable peace and security for Israel within the region. As I told the prime minister, every partner that I met on this trip said that they’re ready to support a lasting solution that ends the long-running cycle of violence and ensures Israel’s security. But they underscored that this can only come through a regional approach that includes a pathway to a Palestinian state.”
Well, great. There’s just one problem: This “lasting solution” has been offered to the Palestinians numerous times, and they have always rejected it. Not only has it never worked, but it never will work, as it fails to take note of one of the most important elements of the conflict.
Oblivious to these facts, Blinken plowed on: “In today’s meetings I was also crystal clear: Palestinian civilians must be able to return home as soon as conditions allow. They must not be pressed to leave Gaza. As I told the prime minister, the United States unequivocally rejects any proposals advocating for the resettlement of Palestinians outside of Gaza, and the prime minister reaffirmed to me today that this is not the policy of Israel’s government.” As far as Blinken was concerned, that left the Palestinian state as the only other option: “To make this possible, Israel must be a partner to Palestinian leaders who are willing to lead their people in living side by side in peace with Israel and as neighbors. And Israel must stop taking steps that undercut Palestinians’ ability to govern themselves effectively.”
Blinken didn’t explain what “steps” Israel has taken to “undercut Palestinians’ ability to govern themselves effectively.” Mahmoud Abbas has done that well enough by himself; he is now 88 years old, and is in the eighteenth year of his four-year term as president of the Palestinian Authority. Then there are the Hamas top dogs Ismail Haniyeh, Khaled Mashal, and Mousa Abu Marzouk, who have become billionaires by siphoning off aid money the witless Western left has sent to the Palestinians.
Even worse, which Palestinian leaders are “are willing to lead their people in living side by side in peace with Israel and as neighbors”? Is there even one? Blinken didn’t offer any names, and if he had been asked, he wouldn’t have been able to come up with one unless he had resorted to lying. Arab intransigence has been clear from the beginning of the conflict: back on November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly passed Resolution 181, calling for the creation of an Arab state and a Jewish state in Palestine. The Arabs had rejected it immediately. Neither Biden nor Blinken, nor anyone else who still advances the “two-state solution” and Resolution 181 as the only path to peace for both Israelis and Palestinians, ever seems to ponder why so many years have gone by since Resolution 181 was originally passed without ever being implemented even for a single day. They don’t seem to regard the seven decades of its not being in force as any indication that maybe it isn’t the path to peace after all. There has been no indictment of its status as the “lasting solution that ends the long-running cycle of violence and ensures Israel’s security.”
What Biden, Blinken, and the rest of the foreign policy establishment fail to realize, or refuse to realize, is that the UN partition plan failed for one reason only: The Muslim Arabs of Palestine and the surrounding Arab countries will never accept a Jewish state, even if it were the size of a postage stamp. As The Palestinian Delusion shows, that refusal is rooted in Islamic concepts and commands, most notably the Qur’anic command to “drive out those who drove you out” (2:191) and its underlying assumption that any land that has been ruled by the Muslims at any time belongs to the Muslims forever and can never be ruled by anyone else. If a Palestinian state ever were established, it would quickly become a jihad terror base, as did Gaza when the Israelis withdrew from it.
Those who tout the two-state solution today seem to think that somehow, in the decades since the tumultuous period following the end of World War II, this situation has changed. But it has not, and it will not. Islam is still Islam. Its Qur’an has not changed; neither has its theology. The imperatives that led the Muslim Arabs to reject a two-state solution in 1947, and to go to war to destroy the nascent Jewish state in 1948, still exist and are still believed by millions of Muslims worldwide. It is only by ignoring this, or by remaining in blissful willful ignorance of it, that diplomats and kings and presidents and pretend presidents such as Old Joe Biden could ever have thought that a negotiated agreement can be hit upon that would enable Israelis and Palestinians to lay down their arms and live side by side in peace.
That is not to say that the Israeli-Palestinian problem cannot be managed such that there is a minimum of bloodshed on both sides. But to think that a peace accord can be hit upon that will induce Muslims in the Middle East and around the world to give up Islam’s doctrines of jihad, its deeply rooted anti-Semitism, and its supremacist political ideology is a position that could only be held by the willfully ignorant and historically uninformed. Of course, they’re the people running Washington.
Send everyone in Gaza to Iran.
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Wasn’t Israel turning over the Gaza to Gazans back in 2005, effectively giving them a trial independent Palestinian State and the subsequent militarization of Gaza what kicked this war off in the first place
Message to the “Palestinians” (Jordanians) in the West Bank: If you commit massacres, the US will reward you with statehood.
BTTT
Give them their “state.” Tell the entire world that both sides recognize each other. And that both sides have agreed not to shoot at each other.
How long would it be before the first missiles are flying towards Tel Aviv? An hour? 15 minutes?
The Palestinians must look across the border from their slums and wonder how the Jews made their corner of the the desert into a nice country? I guess it helps if every single member of the government is not a corrupt pig.
Jordan is the country the “Palestinians” are supposed to be part of.
There are already three Palestinian states: Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, and Gaza/Hamastan. What good will it do to create a fourth state?
Thank you. There are so many commonly agreed upon lies that few k ow what’s true. The IN set up a two-state solution. Israel for the Jews; Jordan for the Arabs. The nonsense that’s endlessly peddled would be a three-state solution
Send him to GAZA & CANCEL his return flight.
Of course they want a Palestinian state. They expect such a state to eventually overrun Israel and make the whole Levant a Muslim Metropolis. That is why we should NEVER support a Palestinian state, unless it is where it should be, such as Jordan.
On X, apparently Blinkin’s plane was grounded at Davos with a critical problem.
They had Gaza and look what they did with that, Israel needs a larger Islamic state?
definition of insanity.
Next idea...
Spencer gets to the real point which is, of course, that this is a religious war, not a war for territory. The only “Palestinian state” that muslims will accept is one which stands where Israel now stands, and is basically “judenfrei,” as their Nazi brethren called for.
What really makes me scratch my head is that over and over and over, the Arabs claiming to be “Palestinians” have refused every attempt at giving them what supposedly they want, a state of their own.
Then the world leaders and our own politicians are deaf as a post when the Arabs say that the only thing they want is every Israeli dead and to take all of the land of Israel as their own.
And now, when Hamas has started to do what all of the Arabs in the occupied areas (the Arabs are occupying Gaza, Judea, and Samaria) want them to do, and that is to kill every Israeli, and take their land and homes.
All of the Arabs, men, women and children supported what Hamas did.
So, there will be no peace in Israel until either 1) Israel completely destroys Hamas, and the PLO, and all of the other Islamic terrorist organizations in Israel and runs all of the Arabs out, completely, or 2) the Arabs completely destroy Israel and all of their citizens and run the others completely out of Israel.
Those are the only ways that there will be “peace”in the land of Israel.
But…. We know how this will end. God has given the land to Israel, forever. He made a promise to Abraham long ago, and God does not break his promises.
Why do people write as if leftists don’t know what they’re doing?
If people have learned nothing else from the Brandon years, it’s that the negative consequences of leftist action are intentional. Not only is it impossible for inept people to be so consistently wrong, but the wrongness is coordinated. If that wasn’t enough, they occasionally tell everyone exactly what hell they intend.
Take gun control. They want to be able to rule without reprisal. To do that they need a disarmed people. Therefore no matter how much evidence contradicts the lie that banning guns makes anyone safe, and no matter how many good data about self defense, their answer is always more gun control.
In this case they want Israel gone. We know this because of decades of statements, maps “erroneously” changed, and where they send money. To do that they need the “state” that will supplant it. Therefore a “Palestinian” state must exist and is the answer they give to every problem.
Sadly there is no logical, long term diplomatic solution to establish a peace in the area. An armed, autonomous Palestinian state adjacent to Israel would guarantee future wars. Israel knows that if they lose even one such war, everything they built, accomplished and procreated would be lost. If Israel ever accepted a two state solution, it would be akin to signing a suicide pact. Many warned and were proved correct when Israel ceded Gaza to become a Palestinian entity. The only long term solution for Israel is armed diligence and time. Lots and lots of time.
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