As the new year is a time of new beginnings, here’s an old joke about the end of the world. A giant meteorite is headed toward Earth and will destroy all human life on impact. The pope addresses the Catholics: “The bad news is, we’re all going to die. The good news is, the faithful will be rewarded in heaven.” The Indian prime minister addresses the Hindus: “The bad news is, we’re all going to die. The good news is, we’ll be reincarnated.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the Jews: “The bad news is, we’re all going to die. The good news is, there will be no Palestinian state.”
There never was a Palestinian state. There never was a Palestinian people, either. The Palestinians are a modern invention, summoned into being by Soviet and Arab rejectionists and now sustained by Islamists and Western leftists. The Palestinians are the twisted mirror image of Zionism, the most successful of all postcolonial liberation movements. This is why the only notable Palestinians are modern terrorists and their apologists: Hitler’s chum Haj Amin al Husseini, the Soviet pawns Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, various airplane hijackers and suicide bombers, the academic fraudster Edward Said, the loony leftie Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), and now the psychotic criminals who lead Hamas.
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The Palestinian Arabs were first offered a state by the British in 1937 as a reward for terrorism. In 1936, the Arabs of the Palestine Mandate launched a brutal Islamist war against Jewish civilians and their British patrons. The British needed to secure the flow of oil from the Middle East, and their empire was crumbling. They stopped Jewish immigration into Israel just when the Jews of Europe needed it most and offered 80% of the much-promised land to the Arabs. The Arabs rejected the British offer and became enthusiastic allies of Nazi Germany.
This scenario was replayed in 1947, 1967, 2000, 2008, and 2020. The actors change, but the song remains the same. It makes no difference whether the Palestinian leaders are Islamists, Arab nationalists, or communists. They refuse to believe that the Jews have national rights. They deny any historical fact that demonstrates Jewish peoplehood. They deny the existence of the Temple in Jerusalem and destroy the archaeological evidence. They deny the Holocaust ever happened, though they would like it to happen again. The world indulges these lies when it calls Judea and Samaria “the West Bank,” a name concocted by the British as they cut and ran in 1948.
The Palestinians deny that Jews have individual rights, too. Under the otherwise lawless Palestinian Authority, selling a house to a Jew is a capital crime. The same law is on the books in another American-funded, Jew-free farce of a state, Jordan. Regardless of the fact that more than a fifth of Israeli citizens are Arab, the leaders of all Palestinian factions insist that no Jews will live in a future Palestinian state. These are your tax dollars at work.
The Palestinians do, however, want to kill Jews and destroy the Jewish state. They have devoted all their ingenuity to this effort. Under the tutelage of Hamas, the young scholars of Gaza have lately made considerable progress, Palestinian-style: a circular path of self-destruction. Yet again, they have proved that they want to settle their dispute with the Jews by mass murder. Yet again, they deserve to lose.
When the White House, the State Department, and the media tell you, “Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people,” they know they are lying. Yes, not all Palestinians are Hamas members. Still, the majority share Hamas’s genocidal goal of destroying Israel and see Hamas as the most likely party to achieve it. The people of Gaza elected Hamas in 2006. Should Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, be foolish enough to call elections in the West Bank, Hamas will win. Given the chance, the Islamists would also topple the puppet king of Jordan, where the majority of the population is of Palestinian descent.
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As is traditional, the Biden administration now wants not just to spare the Palestinians from the consequences of their own depravity but also to reward them. The administration is talking up the “two-state solution” as though subsidizing the creation of yet another Islamist basket case is in the American interest. This is stupid, and it’s bound to fail, but at least it’s consistent.
The most the Palestinians can get now is local autonomy under tight Israeli control in Judea and Samaria and even tighter control in Gaza, perhaps under Israeli-Gulf Arab-Egyptian rule. This is more than the Palestinians deserve but less than they desire, so they will continue their war. The least the United States can do is to stop funding and encouraging the dysfunctional state of the Palestinians. That’s the bad news. The good news is, there will be no Palestinian state.