If you support a Two State Solution, you support the destruction of Israel

Does Israel Really Need Another Existential Threat?

Hamas Combatant - This is what the IDF faces daily and who would attack Israeli civilians if not for the IDF standing in their way

My statement may be shocking. I expect that some will be saying it’s unfair, that they just want to live their lives, or that no one should live without a national identity. That would be true if that was what the Palestinian people’s aspirations were, or even if all they wanted was peace and to live normal lives.

Sadly, the Palestinian people have stated repeatedly, and unequivocally, what they really want. In every PLO and Hamas charter, every founding document, every poll, and in every election, they make it clear that they only want one thing: no more Jews!

First proposed 76 years ago, the “two-state solution” has been seen by some as the path to peace in the Middle East, particularly during the last 40 years. The theory is that if the Palestinians are given a state alongside the state of Israel, peace will result. To accomplish this, Israel has repeatedly given land to the Palestinians, the U.N. has dedicated a special agency to them, the United Nations Refugee Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), while the U.S. and other countries have given billions of dollars to this effort.

It is important to understand that the U.N. providing a dedicated agency did not result in a benefit to the Palestinians, but rather it excluded them from the benefits of the UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the U.N. agency responsible for all refugees other than Palestinians) and led to the transformation of UNRWA into a terrorist organization.

The UNHCR uses the 1951 Refugee Convention definition of “refugees” to determine to whom it provides help. UNRWA on the other hand devised its own definition to inflate the number of refugees it oversees, which serves to maintain Palestinians as victims, keeps UNRWA funding at a high level, and makes it perpetual. Because of this difference in definitions only 1% of the “refugees” defined by UNRWA actually meet the definition of “refugee” as defined by the 1951 Refugee Convention.

It is unclear how many Palestinians are actual refugees as defined by the Refugee Convention. In 2013 the U.S. approved an amendment to the annual State Department foreign operations appropriations bill requiring the State Department to report how many Palestinians refugees actually left Israel during the 1948 Arab invasion of Israel. “Rather than reveal the number, which is estimated to stand at 20,000, or 1% of the number UNRWA claims, the State Department classified the figure in 2015. It still refuses to release it.” (Caroline Glick, The Jerusalem Post-Column One: Why the concern for UNRWA?)

A large part of UNRWA’s inflation of the refugee numbers is the result of including, unlike UNHCR and the 1951 Refugee Convention, ALL descendants of the original 20,000 refugees, even though their descendants may have never resided in the territory they are refugees from. Rashida Tlaib, a U.S. Democrat Congresswomen, is still designated as a refugee by the U.N. Think about that, a sitting U.S. Congresswoman, born in the United States, at the pinnacle of public power, is designated a “refugee.”

Regardless of the definition of refugee, UNHCR unlike UNRWA, has found asylum and resettled 66 million refugees, while UNRWA has resettled 0 Palestinians in its over 70-year history. This despite 1 million Gazans wanting to leave (50%-75% of the population, depending on how you count the population).

Additionally, UNRWA has been shown to be a terrorist organization composed of Hamas members. UNRWA hospitals, schools, and administrative buildings are used as shields from which Hamas has been able to launch rockets and other armaments. The command centers of Hamas, as well as the tunnels, are located in, and below, UNRWA facilities: with the full knowledge of UNRWA. UNRWA schools routinely teach about the greatness of killing Jews in their classrooms, they even have textbooks, puzzles, school plays, and children’s TV shows dedicated to the subject. We are increasingly finding out just how much of a terrorist organization UNRWA has become, with multiple stories like the recent news that 450 UNRWA teachers participated in the Oct 7 massacre.

How do the Palestinian people express their desire for peace and their own state? They commit acts of terrorism aimed not at military targets, but at civilian Jews. They regularly use the genocidal phrase “from the river to the sea,” also now a regular feature of campus antisemitism, to express this goal. That phrase specifically means a Palestine that goes from the west of the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. In other words: every single inch of Israel. But you ask, what about Jews who would be living among them? Well Gaza has NO Jews, in fact most countries in the region are Jew free, because Jews were killed or exiled from those countries. In contrast, in Israel there are over 2 million Arab/Muslim Israelis (21.1% of the population), who all enjoy the full rights of citizenship.

Let’s say though that we treat their language in charters and genocidal slogans as rhetoric and take a look at the opinions of the average Palestinian. 75% of Palestinians support the Oct 7^th attacks. The so-called moderates in Judea and Samaria, aka the West Bank, are even worse, with an astounding 83% supporting the Oct. 7 massacres. Overall, 86% reject coexisting with Israel and 75% support a genocidal Palestinian State that encompasses all of Israel at the end of the conflict. Additionally, 89% of Gazans, who elected Hamas by an overwhelming majority in 2006, believe that Hamas plays a “somewhat to very positive role,” and have not held elections or elected anyone else in the years since. The Palestinian Authority (PA), who run the semi-autonomous Arab regions in Judea and Samaria, and Hamas, have both stated that their goal for a two-state solution is to create a unity government which would put them in position to eventually destroy Israel.

Then there is observable behavior. Hundreds of Gazan civilians participated in the Oct 7 attack, among them men, women, young and old. That included “journalists” and employees of UNRWA, as stated earlier. They attacked as a wave after the Hamas attackers and were responsible for many of the rapes and some of the most grotesque torture and murder.

Additionally, many of the rescued hostages were held by civilians, teachers, doctors, UNRWA employees, and ordinary families, all of whom the media like to refer to as “innocent civilians.” There have been almost 3,000 violent attacks on Israelis from Judea and Samaria, 12,000 rocket attacks by Hamas, 100,000 Israelis displaced from their homes in northern Israel, and over 2000 rockets fired into Israel by Hezbollah, since that fateful day.

And let’s not forget that they were given the infrastructure and land to be another Singapore, as Ariel Sharon put it, but instead they spent at least $15 billion in aid (the figures are hard to compile, but this appears to be a low estimate) building a network of terror tunnels larger than the London Underground and did so with the full knowledge of the population. Even after Oct. 7, in Judea and Samaria, where the PA, not Hamas is the government, construction of tunnels continues.

Where is the evidence of a peaceful, innocent people?

If the brutal rape, murder, torture, and kidnapping of 1200 Israelis results in the creation of a Palestinian state, including the return of thousands of convicted murderous terrorists (another Hamas demand), after decades of failed attempts at giving them statehood, the lack of which Western elites cite as the source of the entire conflict, what message will it send to the Palestinian people? Will it encourage them to be even more violent and to repeat Oct 7^th? I would say that the answer is an extremely obvious “yes.”

What is left of an Israeli home after Hamas killed the occupants and burned the home

The risk is real. The closest Israeli towns, villages, and kibbutzim to the Gaza border in the south, and the Lebanon border in the north, are only hundreds of yards at the closest, and a few miles at the farthest, from people who have made it clear that their only goal is genocide. After Oct. 7, are we really willing to gamble again with Jewish lives?

How do you think the U.S., or the world, would react if that Palestinian state attacked Israel? Would they take Israel’s side? Given that, right now, the U.S. is more concerned with Palestinian casualties than killing terrorists, when dealing with a formal state where the terrorists ARE the government, why would the U.S. side with Israel at all?

So, what IS the solution? The ONLY solution is resettlement of the Palestinians from Gaza, Judea, and Samaria to the handful of countries that have offered to take them (Scotland, Turkey, Canada, and Chechnya). As a result of the Ukraine war, 8 million Ukrainians have been resettled, so why isn’t that an acceptable solution here? The main reason is that, astonishingly, the U.S. and the U.N. both oppose any Palestinian resettlement outside of “Palestinian territories,” contrary to their position on every other group they consider to be refugees.

For its part, UNRWA, which is Hamas, has made resettlement very difficult by using various political means, financial coercion, and outright force. The U.N. isn’t doing any better, and the U.S. opposes resettlement, Gazans leaving even temporarily, and has verbally attacked those in the Israeli government who have even suggested resettlement.

It is also true that the countries which share a border with Israel have refused to take Palestinians who wish to leave. Egypt has built one of the most intimidating and secure border walls in the world at the Israel/Egypt border in Rafah, specifically to keep Palestinians out. Jordan was part of “British mandate Palestine,” and upward of 81% of their population is Palestinian. It would be the obvious choice to accept all Palestinians who wish to leave, because it is already effectively the “Palestinian state.” But they also refuse to accept any new Palestinians as “refugees.”

So, what can you do? Call your representatives, call the White House. Make it known that you oppose a two-state solution. In November vote against EVERY candidate that supports this dangerous, irresponsible, and immoral idea. Do the same with anyone opposed to Israel finishing off Hamas AND bringing every last hostage home. This is an existential threat to Israel and the Jewish people. We must act now. Don’t support our destruction.