Gaza was a great opportunity to test the two-state solution theory. It was a disaster!
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Gaza was a great opportunity to test the two-state solution theory. It was a disaster!
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Who should run the “Palestinian State?” The Biden administration and US policy has been consistently to have a two-state solution. But there is absolutely no option of anybody leading the lives of Arabs in this artificial State except for a pro-terrorist entity that rewards terror with funds for the families of terrorists.
The Arab population inside of Judea and Samaria largely believe that Israel is occupying their land, despite the fact that for every possible reason, the Jewish people are the one’s with a much stronger claim to the disputed areas of Judea and Samaria. The terminology that Arabs use is one of pure hatred and resentment of everything Jewish. There is one difference between Arabs in Judea and Samaria and Arabs in Gaza – geography. Gaza is not in the central part of the State of Israel. It is in the southwest corner of the country. Judea and Samaria is smack in the middle of the country.
Nearly all of the major cities of the State of Israel are within a 20-30 minute drive from Judea and Samaria. Jerusalem itself is in the very heart of Judea and Samaria. Tel-Aviv is 25 minutes away from Samaria. Netanya is 20 minutes away from Samaria. Beer Sheva is around 25-30 minutes away from the hills of Judea. The difficult reality is that the millions of Jews who live in these cities all live less than 30 minutes away from a few million Arabs who want to kill them.
The solution to give Israel’s self-proclaimed and proud-of-it killers their own State is pure madness akin to the decision that Israel made to walk away from Gaza. Weakness is not only completely ineffective, it is completely counterproductive. Gaza went from a dangerous Arab city with pockets of terror into a full-fledged terror State with miles and miles of terror tunnels that terrorized the entire southern and central part of Israel. We must learn from terrible mistakes.
Support of a two-State solution is support of creation of a terror center that will terrorize every major Jewish city across the State of Israel.
A senior Hamas official has openly admitted that his terror group will never accept a two-state solution — and boasted that its Oct. 7 attack proved it is possible to expand the Palestinian territory and wipe out Israel.
Khaled Mashal — a key figure helping to run the terror organization from Qatar — claimed in a videotaped interview with Kuwaiti podcaster Amar Taki last week that Gazans and Israelis cannot co-exist, a sentiment he said was made all too clear after Oct. 7.
“I would like to say two things about the two-state solution. First, we have nothing to do with the two-state solution,” the 67-year-old terrorist said in a translation provided by MEMRI TV. “We reject this notion, because it means you would get a promise for a [Palestinian] state, yet you are required to recognize the legitimacy of the other state, which is the Zionist entity.
“This is unacceptable,” he added. “We demand to be liberated, to get rid of the occupation and to have our independence and our state.”
The Hamas leader said his group’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which claimed the lives of more than 1,200 people, mainly civilians, was a clear indicator that his group could do just that.
“I believe that the dream and the hope for Palestine from the river to the sea and from the north to the south has been renewed,” he said, referencing a chant that calls for the erasure of Israel. “This has also become a slogan chanted in the US and in Western capital cities by the American and Western public.
“The Palestinian consensus — or almost a consensus — is that we will not give up on our right to Palestine in its entirety, from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea, and from Rosh HaNikra to Eilat or the Gulf of Aqaba,” Mashal added.
“I believe that Oct. 7 has enhanced this conviction, has narrowed the disagreements and has turned the idea of liberating Palestine from the river to the sea into a realistic idea that has already begun,” he said. “It is not something [merely] to be expected or hoped for. It is part of the plan, part of the agenda, and we are standing on its threshold, Allah willing.”
Mashal’s adamant rejection of any peace between Israelis and Hamas suggests that the war in Gaza will not end until one of the groups is destroyed.
Israel has vowed to eradicate Hamas, laying siege to Gaza and already killing more than 25,000 Palestinians, according to the local terrorist-run health ministry. Whole towns in Gaza have been all but obliterated in the fighting.
Meanwhile, Mashal and his Hamas cronies live in luxury in Qatar while their people languish in poverty and are treated like human shields.
Mashal alone is worth more than $4 billion, according to the Israeli government.
He especially has been a target of Israeli forces in the past.
In 1997, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to assassinate Mashal by having Israel’s elite Mossad agents spray poison on his ear as he walked through the streets of Amman, Jordan.
Then-US President Bill Clinton, desperate to keep Mideast peace talks alive, eventually helped convince Netanyahu to provide the antidote to a dying Mashal, who ended up recovering, according to Time magazine.
Netanyahu himself has repeatedly rejected a two-state solution, most recently denying the possibility for Palestinian sovereignty on Saturday despite America’s push for such an outcome.
“I will not compromise on full Israeli security control over all the territory west of Jordan — and this is contrary to a Palestinian state,” Netanyahu said in a statement.
The prime minister reiterated that the IDF will not stop its airstrikes and advances in Gaza until the more than 130 hostages are freed and Hamas is eradicated.
This is what happens when you fall victim to a social contagion.
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