President Joe Biden has continued to push back against Israel and Hamas, despite the fact that doing so would reward Hamas for the October 7 terrorist attack and encourage similar attacks, not just against Israelis. He continues to insist that a Palestinian state will be created at the end of the war.
The idea of a Palestinian state has become something of a fetish in foreign policy circles. In the final years of the George W. Bush administration, the conventional wisdom that united the old establishment right and the new anti-war left was that solving the Palestinian problem would solve all other problems in the Middle East.
President Donald Trump also tried to negotiate a “deal of the century” and a two-state solution before concluding that the Palestinians were not really interested. He stopped thinking about it.
As a result, the Abraham Accords were signed, establishing peace and normal diplomatic relations between Israel and several Arab and Islamic countries.
Lesson: A Palestinian state is not a prerequisite for peace in the Middle East.
Saudi Arabia has learned its lesson, which is why Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS), just before the deal with Israel, advocated only for improved living conditions for Palestinians, not for a Palestinian state.
The only one who didn't learn was Biden and the nerds around him.
In fact, just before October 7, reports emerged that the White House was blocking a Saudi-Israeli peace deal because the Biden administration is insisting on a Palestinian state. (Notably, no new countries have joined the Abraham Accords under the Biden administration.)
Many Israelis were also once enamored with the idea of a Palestinian state, believing it represented an end to the conflict that has plagued local populations for the past century.as recently In 2012, 61% of Israelis supported a Palestinian state. 30% opposed.
Today, the split is exactly the opposite: 65% oppose a Palestinian state and 25% support it.
The reason for the switch is simple. Rather than building a future for themselves, the Palestinians used their control of Gaza to launch rockets and terrorist attacks against Israel.
Those who condone this action argue that Palestinians are still “occupied” by Israel and therefore have the right to “resist”, even though the last Israeli soldiers and settlers left Gaza in 2005. do. Israel (and Egypt) have been blockading Gaza since 2007.
It's not “occupation”. This is a response to the fact that the Iranian-funded and armed terrorist organization Hamas staged a coup and seized Gaza, importing weapons and diverting civilian materials such as cement to construct terrorist tunnels.
In the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority, run by the supposedly more “moderate” Fatah organization, has not fared much better. Police forces armed and trained by the United States have suppressed some terrorist attacks against Israel. However, the government itself pays stipends to Palestinian terrorists and pensions to their families.
Faced with the loss of U.S. aid if he did not stop the “cost of killing,” corrupt Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (now in the 20th year of his first four-year term) refused. .
It is impossible to look at the actions of Palestinian leaders, Palestinian terrorists, and pro-Palestinian activists in Western countries and conclude that Palestinians do not actually want a state.
They rejected the UN Partition Plan in 1947. They deny Israel the right to exist today.
Plus, they don't do anything — there is nothing — to build our own institutions, invest in our economy, and educate our children to build our future. Instead, they indoctrinate their children to hate Jews and hate Jews. jihad against Israel.
Palestinian nationalism is actually a fairly shallow concept. It began as pan-Arab nationalism, a vague desire to affiliate with the rest of the Arab world. Until 1948, “Palestinian” usually meant “Jew.” What we today call “Palestinian” identity emerged later.
There are no public holidays in Palestine, except for Nakba Day, which commemorates Israel's independence. The very concept of the Nakba, the 1948 “catastrophe”, is an attempt to appropriate the Holocaust, which Palestinians believe is the only reason Israel exists.
The Palestinians exist, but they are divided between the Islamists of Hamas and the nationalists of Fatah, the peasants of Gaza and the elites of Ramallah. The only thing that unites them is hostility towards Israel.
By itself, it is not enough to sustain the goal of building an independent state.
And in what condition?
Note that the Biden administration, the European Union, and the United Nations have never asked such questions, nor are they asking the Palestinians to contribute anything towards self-determination.
One day a Palestinian state may emerge. But that will require destroying Hamas and preventing Iranian regime intervention. This would also require the de-radicalization, or de-Nazification, of the Palestinian people, which would be impossible while an ideologue ascended to the papacy from abroad.
Netanyahu is right, Biden is wrong: Whatever a Palestinian state looks like, it is not the answer to the problem this Conflict. And the world cannot desire a Palestinian state any more than the Palestinians themselves desire a state.
Joel B. Pollack is a senior editor at Breitbart News. Breitbart News Sunday Sunday nights from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM ET (4:00 PM to 7:00 PM PT) on Sirius XM Patriot. He published his 2021 e-book “The Zionist conspiracy (and how to join it)' has been updated and a new preface has been added. He is also the author of a recently published e-book. Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 US Presidential Election. He is the recipient of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter @joelpolak.
