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.
Jordan is the country the “Palestinians” are supposed to be part of.
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Right?
And if Gaza is an example of a ‘palastinian’ run state, well, why has it gone so badly so far?
When does enough become enough?
They’ll tell you directly. From the river to the sea.
I suppose at some point people will refer back to the book mad Mohammad wrote that muslims are to kill Jews wherever they find them. And since mad Mo was the last prophet and his word was the word of God and is final and unchangeable, well, they will never stop in their efforts, regardless of the circumstances, to destroy the Jews and their legitimate homeland, Israel. There will never be peace given it is a requirement of their “peaceful” religion. I think the Israelis understand that, and tread carefully while doing an incredible global balancing act with hundreds of millions of muslims surrounding them. Now if only the rest of the world understood what Islam is really all about. Read history and learn. Or face that same music that’s been playing for the past 1,400 years.
Insanity...
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
Is / was Gaza not a Palestinian state? How did that work out?!
Indeed.
>>>Send everyone in Gaza to Iran.
Nope, it’s all Islamic. Even if Pali’s were sent to Mars they would still hate the Joooos. The hatred is koranic teachings, blame Allah & Moh.
Make Sinai the Palestinian state. Hard border with Israel.
Build up the new Palestinian state using the green agenda. No fossil fuels for either construction of day to day business. Move the UN to the new capitol of the Palestinian state to show the entire world how the UN’s climate change agenda is working.
On the day of the big celebration, nuke the place from orbit just to be certain.
We don’t hear the Palis or Hamas talking about a two state solution. They want to commit genocide, which is apparently not a problem for the left. Nor is murder, rape, torture or infanticide.
Jordan is the second state in a two state solution.
But even Jordan expelled the notorious “palestinians”.
“Black September (Arabic: أيلول الأسود Aylūl al-ʾAswad), also known as the Jordanian Civil War,[9] was an armed conflict between Jordan, led by King Hussein, and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), led by chairman Yasser Arafat. The main phase of the fighting took place between 16 and 27 September 1970, though certain aspects of the conflict continued until 17 July 1971.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September
More:
“On 17 September 1970, the Jordanian Army surrounded all cities with a significant PLO presence, including Amman and Irbid, and began shelling fedayeen posts that were operating from Palestinian refugee camps. The next day, 10,000 Syrian troops bearing Palestine Liberation Army (PLA) markings began an invasion by advancing towards Irbid, which the fedayeen had occupied and declared to be a “liberated” city. On 22 September, the Syrians withdrew from Irbid after suffering heavy losses to a coordinated aerial–ground offensive by the Jordanians. Mounting pressure from other Arab countries (such as Iraq) led Hussein to halt his offensive. On 13 October, he signed an agreement with Arafat to regulate the fedayeen’s presence in Jordan. However, the Jordanian military attacked again in January 1971, and the fedayeen were driven out of the cities, one by one, until 2,000 surrendered after they were encircled during the Ajlun offensive on 23 July, formally marking the end of the conflict.[11]
Jordan allowed the fedayeen to relocate to Lebanon via Syria. Four years later, the fedayeen became involved in the Lebanese Civil War, which would continue until 1990. The Palestinian Black September Organization was founded after the conflict to carry out attacks against Jordanian authorities in response to the fedayeen’s expulsion; their most notable attack was the assassination of Jordanian prime minister Wasfi Tal in 1971, as he had commanded parts of the military operations against the fedayeen.”
Lunatics try the same thing over and over, and each time expect a different result.
You want your Palestinian state? Gaza could have been that. Instead, they kept trying to kill Jews until they hit the f@#$ing jackpot. So here’s their f##$ing prize.
Blinker is such a huge embarrassment to America!
Every day he spews forth another idiotic statement
as if he’s living in an alternate universe
what kind of hashish is he on, anyway?
they need to reassign him stateside to a job he actually can do without making such an ass of himself
digging postholes for our southern border fence?
In the parody cartoon, “Fritz The Cat”, they gave NJ to the crows and they destroyed it. The same thing will happen if they give the Palestinians autonomous government and location. The same thing is happening to our blue governed cities.
Excellent article - so many good points and I particularly like this one. I guess nearly 80 years isn’t enough of a track record to have figured it out yet...
“”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.”””
Palestinian state run by terrorists and financed by our money!
Can you believe it?!?
Who would voluntarily live next to a cannibal village unless they were desperate. ???I believe the analogy has been proven time and again.
If the UN is still willing to feed and clothe the s0-called Palestinians, then the location is sort of immaterial. They have been conditioned for decades to accept aid instead of putting their intelligence and energies to work in building a viable state (on a nice location on the Med that could have been a new Singapore TBH). But that is a lost opportunity. Put the aid distribution point somewhere well away from Israel and the problem is solved. If you build it, they will come.
Why does Blinky always look as though he’s about to cry?
Why does Blinky always look as though he’s about to cry?
This guy is supposed to be Sec. of State? Who picked him? No...wait & let me guess.
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