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Ruth Vanita's avatar

Yes, good for them and for us that they would reject any offer of a state, as they have consistently done since 1948.

Seth Daniel Riemer's avatar

Exactly right. Regrettably. You're telling the awful truth.

Noah Otte's avatar

This article is a small masterpiece, Daniel! You are sadly right and everybody outside of leftists and Jihadists, now realizes this. A Palestinian state being created at this time would be a disaster. It would either be a corrupt authoritarian kleptocracy or a theocracy depending on which Palestinian faction ran it. It would immediately set out to finish what was started on October 7th. Rockets would rain down on Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa, PA security forces, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and civilian collaborators would burst into Israel and wage a war of annihilation on the Jewish people. The IDF would retaliate with massive bombing campaign the likes of which the world has never seen on Gaza and the West Bank and the IDF would unleash the full power of its military on the Palestinians. Hundreds of thousands of innocent people would perish on both sides. The West would erupt into partisan, racial and religious war as left and right, Jew and Arab, Christian, Jew and Muslim clashed in the street in a chaotic war of all against all. Western governments would be so overwhelmed and become even more polarized leading to their rapid collapse. It would be bloody and horrific. Jihadist groups would launch a massive offensive against the West and would commit attacks ten times the size of 9/11. Palestinians would be oppressed in this new state. Political dissenters, journalists, free-thinkers, peace activists, women, blacks, gay people, disabled people, young people, and children will all be oppressed in this new state and in the case of the latter two, indoctrinated into hate. Political freedoms? Civil liberties? The rule of law? Bah! None of that will exist! Christians better be prepared to be socially ostracized, harassed, spied on, persecuted, murdered, and run out of the country on a rail. Jews better pray they never enter this new Palestinian state or face certain death. This is why we can’t have a Palestinian state right now! The Palestinian leadership seek only to destroy Israel not to build a state for their people. They are destructive NOT constructive in their worldview. Until they switch those two things around, a Palestinian state there will not be. There is only one solution and it is one I have advocated for many times before and that is Israel must control ALL the land between the river and the sea until such time as liberal, pro-peace and pragmatic Palestinian leadership emerges. None of this is to say that the Palestinian people don’t deserve compassion or human rights or the right to self-determination. But until such time as they have a major shift in their thinking towards Israel and the Jewish people only then can they achieve the latter.

As Daniel said so eloquently said, we must forgive the Palestinian people for their transgressions like Jonah and expect them to change their behavior like Nacham. This could not have been said any better. When statehood becomes their goal, peace will naturally follow! They need to stop being the vanguard of Pax Arabica. They need to assert their independence. Indeed, a state of Levantia must be created! They need to rebrand and build a liberal, pluralistic and capitalist society that will be the envy of the entire Arab world! Levantia must replace Palestine an old relic of a more primitive, more barbaric time in Middle Eastern history with a state that will rival Hong Kong, Singapore and Abi Dubai if not surpass them all. Its blue and golden flag must replace the current black, white, red, and green which represents only hate, sin, intolerance, bloodshed, and genocide. I look forward to the day when my children and my grandchildren will never have to live through times like ours, where the whole world was insane, Jews were hated, Israel the victims of horrific atrocities, and the Palestinian people suffered under the Pax Arabian yolk! I pray that Generation Alpha and their descendants will never know what antisemitism, Islamophobia, racism, or October 7th are except through their textbooks in school and museums. I pray they will never know the hate and tribalism that Gen Z does. I pray they will never see Israelis and Palestinians take up arms against each other ever again. As to Europe, it forgot its reason for being. But I believe it is gradually rediscovering it. Europe is stagnant right now and demographically in big trouble at the moment. To be sure, it is plagued by many problems no doubt. But remember the age old adage, it’s always darkest before the dawn. The dawn is coming and Europe will recover and life will begin anew. The continent has been through much worse than what it faces now. Europeans are survivors and the European people I believe are underrated and that we are all pronouncing their doom, apathy, self-hate, ignorance, impotence, and complacency without giving them a chance to as they always have, to show their resilience as they do throughout history. We’ve all thrown in the towel for Europe and the West for that matter without even putting up a fight. But things are changing, mass immigration will fall, Europe will reform and the Jewish people in Europe will emerge from the current storm and see a new golden age of Jewish life in Europe!

Just as the evil and malignant ideologies of Nazism, Fascism and Communism were defeated so too will overregulation, political polarization, stagnation, demographic collapse, antisemitism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, racism, apathy, and cultural malaise be defeated! The Islamization of Europe will never happen! Just as Hitler tried and failed, so too will Jihadist and their migrant sympathizers! I see a future Europe where birth rates are booming, prosperity is unparalleled, politics works again, European Jews thrive, immigration is regulated and high-skilled, people of all colors love each other, Christians, Jews and Muslims are brothers, the European Union is reformed and reloaded, peace is perpetual, no-go zones cease to exist, far-right, far-left and Islamist hate marches are a thing of the past, and churches thrive again with so many congregants they’ll need to expand their buildings! A strong Europe not a weak one, that’s what I envision in the future and one where all men and women of whatever race, faith or background live not merely in dignity but in majesty! God placed the Jews of Europe there and there they shall remain. No force on Earth can remove them nor has the right to. The same is true of the Middle East’s minorities. Pax Arabica has tried for centuries to get rid of them. But they have failed, the Arabs think it is their right to rule over the Jews, Kurds, Berbers, Bedouins, Copts, Africans, Assyrians, Samaritans, Armenians, Maronites, Mandeans, Druze, Yazidis, Turkmen, and Circassians in perpetuity for all eternity. But they are wrong and they have always been wrong. For as the Bible says, it is the meek who shall inherit the Earth. The Jewish people fulfilled the Biblical prophecy and returned to and restored their homeland. The rest of MENA will in time do the same in due time. Pax Arabica’s days are numbered! It’s high time the Palestinians woke up and realized it. Hate has gotten them nowhere, love will liberate and uplift them. I say the same to Likudniks and Kahanists. Loving your Arab cousins will liberate and uplift you as well! Benjamin Netanyahu and the current ultra-conservative governing coalition in Israel need to go. I couldn’t agree more! But a new Israeli government is far from enough to end this conflict. That will take a huge paradigm shift in both Palestinian politics and the Palestinian people’s hearts.

Fred's avatar

They must completely lose a war and surrender. Otherwise, any "Mandela" would be quickly. assassinated.

Seve Jour's avatar

Il y a déjà un état palestinien c'est la Jordanie. Il y a des gens qui croient vraiment que la Palestine est une solution? Abracadabra! Comment vivrait ce pays? Sur quelle base économique ? Il ne tiendrait pas une seconde et c'est l'Iran qui en profiterait pour se poster aux portes d Israel et on imagine la suite.