By now, most Americans know that the “two-state solution” is no solution to the war that supremacist Muslims have been waging against the state of Israel since its rebirth in 1948. Most Americans in public life know it too, but in public, nearly all of them pay lip service to the idea of a Palestinian state. To do that plausibly, they have to studiously avoid any public mention of facts about the Palestinians that make it glaringly obvious that a Palestinian state is not in America’s national interest; and glaringly clear that empowering the Palestinians and the forces and ideas they represent is a self-destructive policy — a threat to our national security and a defeat for our values.
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In the last Republican primary debate of 2011, Newt Gingrich broke the rules, giving voice to three undeniable facts about the Palestinians. He said: “These people are terrorists,” with an “invented identity,” and they teach their children that hating and killing Jews is their highest purpose in life. Michele Bachmann quickly backed him up with a factual account of the ubiquitous Saudi-financed textbooks that teach precisely that, from pre-school through university. Proper foreign-policy types, on and off the stage, reacted as if all this truth-telling were somehow akin to profaning a sacred script, but the Iowa audience was with the truth-tellers. They applauded wildly.
THE “TWO-STATE SOLUTION” IS NO SOLUTION The “two-state solution” wasn’t always sacrosanct. In the 1940s and ’50s, it didn’t even exist. There were no Palestinians then, although the territory had been called the British Mandate for Palestine (after the old Roman name for Israel, Palestina). Arabs had never called themselves Palestinians; the few Jews who had called themselves that in the 1930s no longer did. There were only Arabs and Jews, and the openly avowed goal of all the Arab states surrounding Israel was to drive the Jews into the sea, and divide up the land amongst themselves. Arabs inside Israel were no less committed to that same pan-Arab goal. It was only in the 1960s, after the abject failure of repeated multi-state military assaults by massed Arab armies, that Arab rulers finally accepted the fact that Israel was not yet weak enough for them to destroy in open warfare.
Worse — from their perspective — each time Israel’s 5 million or fewer Jews defeated the Arabs who attacked her with hordes that numbered in the tens of millions, Israel gained in size and strength, and in the respect and admiration in which most of the world held her. We tend to forget now, but in earlier decades America was not Israel’s only ally. Europe was also pro-Israel then, and the two biggest, most rapidly developing Muslim nations in the region — Turkey and Iran — were Israeli allies. They were our allies too, in those days. Then as now, the Arab world was unified against Israel and against the West, but the Muslim world was not, and Europe had yet to capitulate to the Islamists.
After their major military defeat in 1967, Arab rulers finally faced up to these realities, grasped their implications, and rethought their war strategy. They realized then that, to win, they had to first attack with Taqqiya, not tanks. Taqqiya — lies to deceive the enemy into making himself vulnerable — is a venerable Arab weapon, one that Arab states have wielded for centuries, and they are quite skilled at it. They saw that before attacking Israel again, they had to first win what we call a propaganda war, in order to discredit Israel, strip away her allies, and apply enough diplomatic pressure to wring from her a mounting series of concessions that would, in the end, render the Jewish state indefensible. For a propaganda war like that, enlisting the aid of non-Arabs was critical, and the old Arab rallying cry — “Join your Arab brothers in driving the Jews into the sea” — was not helpful for that purpose. Neither was the image of 22 Arab states — with some 300 million people, millions of square miles of sparsely populated land, and vast amounts of oil wealth — ganging up on a few million Jews, who were clinging to a resource-poor strip of seacoast about half the size of the small ancient state of Israel.
Arab kings and dictators saw that they needed a small ersatz victim group to champion, in order to compete with the all-too-real victim image of the Jews, so they invented one, picking up the name the British had used — Palestine — to conjure up a new Arab people — the Palestinians. And of course, to demand a 23rd Arab state for them. They did this suddenly and in virtual unison, catching by surprise many Arabs in Israel who had no idea they were Palestinians. And from that day to this, Arab leaders have pushed the great Taqqiya relentlessly in every international forum, using the huge amounts of money and leverage their oil wealth gave them to court politicians, diplomats, journalists, and educators around the globe, and to saturate media markets and schools everywhere with their great lie.
Thank you for the excellent history lesson. I have always thought of Mohammad as something of an anti-Christ figure, but still wonder why if there are so many peaceful Muslims in the world, where and how did part of Islam became perverted into the radical hate-filled extremists networks we see today.
"Radical hate-filled extremists" are actually the devout Muslims, living and practicing their religion to the letter. "Peaceful" Muslims I question as not being truly Muslim at all. Muhammad is a manifestation of the anti-Christ, denying His divinity and claiming true revelation from "God"; however Allah's attributes in the Qu'ran are manifestly contradictory to those of the Christian/Jewish God. Islam actually allows believers to feign friendship (i.e., lie) until they are strong enough to continue the fight. Be skeptical of anything Islamic.
Great article, thank you and write more on this subject.
Regarding America falling for the Palestinian nonsense, I believe it is due to an exploitable quirk of human nature best explained by Bertrand Russell in his essay, ”The Superior Virtue of the Oppressed”. The Left, "the enlightened ones" manage to leverage the perceived "oppressed party" into possession of the Moral High Ground. Once there, the historical truth, actions, ethics and morals of the oppressed become unassailable and un-examinable; the quixotic effect of possessing the moral high ground.
Judeo-Christian positions on the matter of Israel are reduced by the Left to merely false history, and the arcane dogma of a by-gone era which is repressive, and regressive.
It should be added that the lefts ideology is that of the oppressive kings of Europe; that the left has co-opted language by switching the definition of the word regressive with the definition of the word progressive.
The age of enlightenment was the age of protestant Christianity; the age of the founding fathers of our nation. In reviewing the religions of the founders you will see that every single co-signer of the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution is on record as being self professed Christian. That this nation was not founded on a word –Secular- that did not come into existence until 1851; a word that still has no clear definition.
If we follow your logic that only biblical borders matter why don't we give California and Arizona back to Mexico while we're at it?
Your attempt to paint all palestinians as western hating extremists is about as valid as me stating that all Israelis are religious orthodox zealots who believe women shouldn't be seen.
The reality is the majority of Israelis and Palestinians want peace and the majority on both sides accept a two state solution is the best way forward
Regarding CA and AZ, I thought we won that war and then, after we won, we BOUGHT the land from Mexico!
As far as the Gaza and Golan is concerned, Israel won that war also. In fact, they also took the Sinai (the place with the oil). They offered the Gaza back to Egypt when they GAVE them the Sinia and Egypt basically said, "no thanks", ceding the territory to Israel. Syria didn't want Golan back either in 1967 (they preferred to not have peace with Israel). Thay accepted a small strip back after 1973 war and it is "patrolled" by the UN.
If the arabs had won any of the wars they have waged against Israel does anyone believe they would offer to give any of it back? If they had been capable of taking 1-square foot of Israel it would be used as a monumemt to the superiority of the Muslim soldier!
"empowering the Palestinians and the forces and ideas they represent is a self-destructive policy — a threat to our national security and a defeat for our values"
Is there a possibility that a Palestinian teenager might throw a rock and hit the US?
Why not, a bunch of Saudi teenagers did. But seriously, the problem is much bigger than Israel and the Palestinians. We should be thankful that Israel is on the front line and we are not yet.
Fantastic. Annex the West Bank and then treat it like America treats the areas conquered by the US - give citizenship to all the residents with full rights to them. After all "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." External Link
Don't forget, the Bible talks about the land from the Euphrates to the Nile. Take it all and make all the people full citizens.
Then again what about this can-of-worms brought up by Ron Paul.
"Why is it right that Americans must fund Israel with their debt and taxes?"
Why? Why is it wrong not to support Israel? America is $15,100,000,000,000 in debt. We're going to go even deeper in debt to support Israel?
Now, why is the USA even involved in the foreign aid program like it is right now? Egypt has M-1A main battle tanks and F-16 aircraft. They didn't buy them. The American taxpayer had to fund the purchase. Now there is a chance those weapons will be used by the future radical Islamic government against Israel. Why did the poor taxpayer even get involved with it in the first place?
Ron Paul was 3rd place in Iowa. However, everybody forgets that we are $15,100,000,000,000 in debt and there is an excellent chance the debt bubble will burst in 2016.
It is criminal to enslave your children and grandchildren with debt!
Who cares about Israel, Egypt, and the Middle East. It's a shame the Ottoman Empire still isn't around to run this mess.
We spend money all over the world funding and protecting our allies. In Israel, it is a small amount of money most of which comes back in purchases to US companies. We also get a tremendous cooperation of a very technologically advanced nation, who works with the US on numerous projects. Also, Israel supports us in the UN. But most important, Israel protects itself, unlike S. Korea, Japan, etc. There are no US bases in Israel. So Israel is our army in the Middle East, and we don't risk one US soldier. I know that we need to save our money, but we really get our money's worth from Israel.
When the Christians conquistidores came to the new world, the indigenous people were conducting human sacrifices. Not everything in the bible is perfect, but where would we be without it?
Where would we be without the bible? Better off. Seriously, find me the scripture that comes down on slavery and says it's wrong. And you're actually using this book as a moral guide?
Always a pleasure to finally be told the truth about the "non existence" of Palestine. All that history about the ancient Roman area of Syria-Palestine and the British Mandate of Palestine were false. The only reality is to resurrect a place that was called Israel sometime in the BC era and then get people to accept it so the apocalyptic fantasies of Fundamentalist Christians and Secular Jews can launch World War Whatever and the end of the world. Actually those Christian Crusader Kingdoms during the 12th and 13th Centuries were a lot more fun I think. Hey! There was a real American General not all that long ago who said he would lead a Crusader Army there.
