Then there was this. YWN reported the following horrific event that demonstrates their endless resolve to ge their land back. All of it.
Ttwo IDF reserve soldiers were murdered and eight injured in a severe and unusual terror attack at an IDF checkpoint outside the Palestinian village of Tayasir between the northern Shomron and the Jordan Valley early Tuesday morning.
This is how they are indoctrinated, and this is what they grow up believing. Supporting a two-state solution with Palestinians is completely absurd when dealing with a population that wants to eradicate our existence entirely. And willing to fight to the finish to achieve it. And these are West Bank Palestinians. Not civilians of Gaza being subjected to the consequences of Hamas’s massacre of over a thousand Jews on October 7th.
Which brings into question: how in Heaven’s name has the U.S. government, over the course of several administrations (of both parties), supported the creation of a Palestinian state along Israel’s border on the West Bank?
I have always known that Palestinians hated us. How could they not, having been indoctrinated from cradle to grave to see us as Nazis. With books like Hitler’s Mein Kampf and pamphlets like The Protocols of the Elders of Zion found in bookstores wherever they live. I also knew that their hatred of us was religion-based and, therefore, hard - if not impossible to overcome.
But what I also believed (a long time ago) was that common sense would push them to agree to a two-state solution anyway as a practical matter so that at least they wouldn’t have to be in a constant state of war and could instead live and prosper in their own land. Trump’s proposal about giving livable habitats for a few years and ther letting them return to a better place than they lived in even before the war destroyed it should have been greeted with a sense of relief. They would not only have better homes and living conditions when they returned, but would be able to live in relative comfort until they did.
I was obviously very wrong in my belief that a common sense would prevail. But I didn’t realize how wrong until now. The war and everything since has revealed the deep nature of their hatred, making a two-state solution impossible. Unless they completely changed their educational structure with respect to the Jewish people. And even if they did that today, it would take at least a couple of generations to erase that hatred and make a Palestinian state possible.
The people in the State Department whose job it is to know these kinds of details were either clueless, indifferent, or misled by the ‘moderate’ Palestinians of the PA, or Muslim academics who easily pulled the wool over their eyes. Whatever the case may be, the U.S. insistence on a two-state solution all the way through the Biden presidency was misguided in the extreme. Now more than ever. What Israel should do with this knowledge is a mystery to me, but the one thing they must never do is agree to a Palestinian state on the West Bank. At least not in my lifetime or that of my children.
Another enlightening thing that became apparent to me was about Hamas. It was revealed after the ceasefire. I have always known just how popular Hamas was in Gaza. A popularity that has increased since the war began, despite the tragedy Hamas has brought upon Gaza.through Israel’s response to their massacre of Israelis on October 7th.
Instead of blaming Hamas for what has happened to them, they seem more committed to Hamas than ever. Young Palestinians are more eager to join Hamas now than before the war. Hamas’s popularity does not end in Gaza. They are just as popular among West Bank Palestinians. In an election against the Palestinian Authority, Hamas would win in a landslide.
Although I knew this, and although I knew that Hamas terrorists embedded themselves among the civilian population in Gaza - especially in hospitals and schools - what I didn’t know was that a lot more of those so-called civilians were actually Hamas terrorists than even Israel thought. They just weren’t wearing their uniforms. They were wearing civilian clothing.
This became evident during the recent hostage releases, where Hamas terrorists in full uniform, masks in place, started streaming out of those civilian locations. Which probably means that many more of the supposed civilians killed by Israeli airstrikes were actually Hamas terrorists.
Not that the antisemitic nations of the world that comprise the U.N. would acknowledge the obvious. They will side with the lies that make up the Palestinian narrative every single time.
All of that is why I am glad that the Trump administration, which never had much use for the idea of a two-state solution, is now in power. The vast majority of his foreign policy team is on the right side of this issue and isn’t fooled by pro two-state solution rhetoric.
That being said, there are a couple of lower-level foreign policy advisors who are not all that pro-Israel. But I have confidence that the "big guns" like Secretary of State Marco Rubio will have Trump’s ear far more often than the lower-level unfriendly voices.
I don’t know if the liberal side of the political aisle and their supporters in the media will ever see the truth about Palestinians. They are all married to the notion of a two-state solution as the only way to achieve a peaceful resolution to the conflict and do not want to be confused by the facts. The political conservatives that now control foreign policy will not be there forever. But I hope that at least some of them are open-minded enough to see the truth.
If enough of them are, then maybe progress toward Israel making peace with all of its neighbors becomes a real possibility. Where Hamas and all Jihadist groups will be defeated, educational reform will take hold, Jew-hatred eliminated, and Palestinians will be forced to accept self-determination the way it was presented by Trump in his first term.
One can dream…
