Biden regime Secretary of State Antony Blinken has ordered the State Department to begin looking at options for recognizing a Palestinian state once the Gaza war is over. Yes, you read that right: Hamas brutally massacres 1,200 Israelis, Palestinians celebrate the murders, and the Biden regime’s first thought is “How can we reward the Palestinians?”
Blinken, of course, insists that a Palestinian state would bring peace. It wouldn’t. Here’s why.
Axios reported Wednesday that the Biden regime is “linking possible normalization between Israel and Saudi Arabia to the creation of a pathway for the establishment of a Palestinian state as part of its post-war strategy.” This is in large part because the Saudis are insisting on it: they have, says Axios, “publicly and privately made clear since Oct. 7 that any potential normalization agreement with Israel would be conditioned on the creation of an ‘irrevocable’ pathway toward a Palestinian state.”
Accordingly, some Biden regime apparatchiks have decided that recognizing a Palestinian state “should possibly be the first step in negotiations to resolve the Israel-Palestinian conflict instead of the last.”
Yes, of course, they do because they have no idea what the real causes of the conflict are. Nor are they willing to learn the lessons of Israel’s voluntary withdrawal from Gaza in 2005. That withdrawal is the inescapable antecedent of the Oct. 7 Hamas jihad massacres in Israel. Around 35 rockets were fired into Israel in 2002; by 2006, after the Israeli withdrawal, the number had grown to 1,777. In 2014, there were 4,500.
The world has now forgotten that Gaza hasn’t been “occupied” since 2005; after the Oct. 7 Hamas jihad massacres in Israel, innumerable pro-Hamas commentators blamed the nonexistent Israeli occupation for the attacks. But aside from providing abundant refutation of the claim that Israel is attacked only because of its “occupation,” the withdrawal from Gaza also shows the hollowness of all the “two-state solution” analyses.
Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza was supposed to herald the dawn of a new age of peace between Israel and the Palestinians. It was sold to the world as a chance for the Palestinians, free at last from alleged Israeli “occupation,” to get on with their lives.
Publishing magnate Mortimer Zuckerman so firmly believed this that he tried to facilitate that return to normalcy by spearheading the purchase (for $14 million) of greenhouses the Israelis had constructed in Gaza. He gave them to the Palestinians for free, so that once the Israelis were gone, they would have places to work. Instead, Palestinians immediately gutted the greenhouses; some were even turned into weapons-smuggling tunnels.
This time, however, the Biden regime apparently thinks that a Palestinian entity free of alleged Israeli interference would not increase jihad activity, but would actually bring peace. Yet why would an independent Palestinian state be any different from post-withdrawal Gaza?
Egyptian Muslim cleric Muhammad Hussein Ya’qoub answered that question in January 2009 when he said: “If the Jews left Palestine to us, would we start loving them? Of course not. We will never love them. Absolutely not. The Jews are infidels — not because I say so, and not because they are killing Muslims, but because Allah said: ‘The Jews say that Uzair [Ezra] is the son of Allah, and the Christians say that Christ is the son of Allah. These are the words from their mouths. They imitate the sayings of the disbelievers before. May Allah fight them. How deluded they are.’” The quotation is from the Qur’an (9:30).
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Ya’qoub explicitly rules out what is conventional wisdom in the U.S.: that the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is simply over land and can ultimately be resolved if Israel makes the right concessions. Ya’qoub makes it clear that even if Israel were the size of a postage stamp, Palestinians (and other Muslims) would still reject it.
He says that if all the Jews left the region, Muslims should still hate them, because it is their responsibility before Allah to do so: “It is Allah who said that they are infidels. Your belief regarding the Jews should be, first, that they are infidels, and second, that they are enemies. They are enemies not because they occupied Palestine. They would have been enemies even if they did not occupy a thing. Allah said: ‘You shall find the strongest men in enmity to the believers to be the Jews and the polytheists.’”
That’s Qur’an 5:82. Yet what Antony Blinken and his henchmen persistently refuse to acknowledge is that Islam plays any role in this conflict at all. Yet its centrality for the Palestinians and their supporters ensures that even if the Biden regime does strong-arm Israel into giving up more territory and a Palestinian state is established, peace will not dawn on the region.
The Palestinians have a divine command to “drive them out from where they drove you out” (Qur’an 2:191). Even though they weren’t driven out, but were told to leave by the Arab League in 1948, the command remains. A Palestinian state won’t erase it from the Qur’an.
