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The Distant Fantasy Of Two States Living Side By Side In Today’s Reality

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Israel and its supporters have long desired to see a Jewish State existing peacefully in the broader Arab Middle East since before the modern State of Israel was founded, while Arab states and pro-Palestinians have refused the formulation. The two most notable examples were Zionists’ acceptance of the United Nations General Assembly 1947 Partition Plan which was met with Arab refusal and launching a war to destroy Israel, and Israel’s refusal to annex Gaza and the land East of the 1949 Armistice Lines (E49/”West Bank”) after the 1967 Six Day War in the hopes of trading land-for-peace, which was met by the infamous Khartoum Resolution of “Three No’s” from the Arab world.

The world has now cast a narrative that the situation is inverted, and that Israel refuses the two-state formula for two-states coexisting in peace while the Arab world embraces it. On its face, it seems accurate but is actually far from it.

On July 17, 2024, the Israeli Knesset overwhelmingly voted to reject a resolution for the establishment of a Palestinian state by a vote of 68-9, with many members of the 120-member parliament not voting. The vote seemingly confirmed the world’s portrayal of Israel stifling Palestinian independence and sovereignty to enable a peaceful two-state solution.

The United Nations Secretary General lambasted Israel in January 2024 – before the vote – that the Jewish State’s rejection of a two state solution was “unacceptable” and that “this refusal, and the denial of the right to statehood to the Palestinian people, would indefinitely prolong a conflict that has become a major threat to global peace and security.”

Lost in the charge is that the U.N. refuses to acknowledge current reality and prefers the fantasy. Its formula for two states living in peace includes a new Jew-free Palestinian State with a fully functioning military, and millions of antisemitic Arabs moving into Israel.

Anyone observing the region knows that the U.N. formula is the opposite of two-states living in peace but a direct call for the annihilation of the only Jewish state.

Hamas’s brutal attack on Israelis on October 7 was supported by 75% of Palestinian Arabs. In July 2024, support for Hamas still remained at twice the level of the relatively more moderate Fatah. Palestinians voted Hamas to 58% of parliament with the most antisemitic genocidal charter ever written. The leader of Fatah and the Palestinian Authority continues to state that Israel has no right to exist, and 93% of Palestinian Arabs are antisemitic.

Masses of Palestinians beat a dead Jewish Israeli woman who was hauled into Gaza, October 2023

Recognizing the impasse that Palestinians still want to destroy the Jewish State, several Democratic senators tried to advance a “compromise” of sorts, in which a demilitarized Palestine could be established next to Israel. The hope is that while the Palestinians would still want to destroy Israel, they would be unable to achieve their goals.

Palestinians haul Israeli women into Gaza, October 2023

That vision was expressed in a March 2024 letter from several Democratic senators to Democratic President Joe Biden “to publicly outline a path for the United States to recognize a nonmilitarized Palestinian state.” That letter was signed by  Sens. Tom Carper (D-DE),Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chris Coons (D-DE), Dick Durbin (D-IL), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ed Ma1aheen (D-NH), Tina Smith (D-MN), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Elizabeth Warren (-D-MA), Peter Welch (D-VT) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI).

Palestinian terrorist in Israel, October 2023

The mainstream media lies that regular Palestinian Arabs hate Hamas to make the genocidal maniacs appear like an imposed fringe group rather than representing the mainstream. The U.N. lies that Palestinians favor a two state solution when they reject it in every poll.

Home in Israel torched by Palestinian terrorists, October 2023

Today, as in the past, Israel hopes for a two-state solution, as laid out by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2009. However, the reality of the current “deformity of Palestinian political culture,” as so labeled by Palestinian activist James Zogby, prevents such action today.

Destroyed and bloody home in Israeli kibbutz after being attacked by Palestinian terrorists in October 2023

Pushing for a Palestinian state in the shadow of the Palestinian military butchering innocent Israelis is either harmful whitewashing of Arab genocidal intent or a vicious call for the ethnic cleansing of Jews. Adorning the violent charge with decorative language of “coexistence” and “living side-by-side in peace” will do nothing to protect Jews from being slaughtered again.

Israelis do not have the luxury of surrendering to the fantasy of peaceful coexistence when the counterparty celebrates butchering women and children.

Perhaps in forty years. Perhaps sooner, after the militants are vanquished and the toxic Palestinian culture is reoriented towards respecting the humanity of Jews and rights to live in their ancestral holy land.

Related articles:

The Three “Two-State Solution”s (December 2023)

The Failed Palestinian State (December 2023)

What Palestinians Talk About When They Talk About Hamas (October 2023)

“Two States For Two People” And An Arab “Right Of Return” Are Mutually Exclusive (September 2023)

UN Lies About Palestinians Favoring Two States (December 2022)

The Debate About Two States is Between Arabs Themselves and Jews Themselves (April 2019)

The Left-Wing’s Two State Solution: 1.5 States for Arabs, 0.5 for Jews (January 2016)

Considering a Failed Palestinian State (July 2015)

Demand Planned Parenthood Rescind Endorsement of Rape Denier Jamaal Bowman

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Planned Parenthood is an organization that focuses on women’s access to medical treatments for matters related to reproduction such as birth control, sexually transmitted diseases and abortion. It also focuses on issues related to female bodily autonomy, so discusses and advocates about rape and sexual assault.

It is therefore horrifying that the organization has given an endorsement to Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY16) when he loudly, publicly, and deliberately mocked the rape of Israeli women as a matter of “propaganda” and “lies.”

Planned Parenthood 2024 endorsements in New York

Bowman’s challenger in the June 25 Democratic primary, Westchester County Executive George Latimer, has a long history of protecting women’s rights, including fighting rape. Why would Planned Parenthood ignore Latimer and actively endorse Bowman, who chants that Jewish women cannot be believed when they are raped?

Demand Planned Parenthood pull their endorsement of Jamaal Bowman and condemn his comments about the brutal rape of Israeli women.

ACTION ITEM

Call Planned Parenthood at 212.261.4433. Also call their donor line about your disgust about backing a rape denier like Bowman at 800.430.4907or 212.274.7200. Email them at https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/donor-services

Holocaust Remembrance Day 2024 Echoes Pre-Holocaust Arab Riots

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Holocaust Remembrance Day, Yom Hashoah, is when Jews around the world remember how Nazi Germany systematically slaughtered its own defenseless Jewish citizens. In 2024, the day shared focus with recent events, coming in the shadow of the worst mass slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust on October 7 by Palestinian Arab sadists from Gaza.

To help mark the day, local jihadists in the United States wanted Jews to focus on more than their 6 million Holocaust and newly dead; they sought to have Jews become overwhelmed by anarchy and antisemitic chants.

  • Pro-Hamas groups assembled at Columbia and Hunter Colleges in a “Day of Rage”
  • Students on campuses shouted “death to Zionists“
  • Students chanted in the streets of New York City to “Globalize the Intifada”, to kill Jews everywhere
  • Columbia University canceled its main graduation ceremony
  • Hunter College canceled classes and moved online
  • Police descended onto the streets to protect the Met Gala, even as universities admitted that they couldn’t guarantee safety so capitulated to the mobsters

The Jewish population in Palestine in 1936 was 400,000, and Arabs rioted to stop Jewish immigration and to halt the creation of a Jewish State. The Arabs effectively got the British who were administering the mandate to cap Jewish migration to only 75,000 Jews over the following five years, sealing the fate of hundreds of thousands of Jews fleeing Europe.

The inheritors of that same strain of antisemitism are now rioting in New York City’s streets, this time to destroy the Jewish State.

Telegram from Nazi Heinrich Himmler to Palestinian Grand Mufti of Jerusalem about the common enemy of the Jews

The United States in 2024 is not Nazi Germany of the 1930s, but the radical mobs on college campuses are echoes of the Arab riots of the 1930s, seeking to terrorize Jews and alter the government’s position on the Jewish State. Consequently, Jews on this Holocaust Remembrance Day will not just remember the atrocities of the Nazis but of Palestinian Arabs who helped facilitate the death of hundreds of thousands of Jews.

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The United Nations’ Sinister Attack On The Jewish State As Part Of Holocaust Event (January 2023)

Conspiracy Theories About Jewish Power and Control (November 2022)

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Hamas’s Willing Executioners (July 2021)

The Progressive New World Order Flips The Holocaust From Anti-Semitism To Woke Fodder (November 2020)

Considering Nazis and Radical Islam on the 75th Anniversary of D-Day (June 2019)

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Extreme and Mainstream. Germany 1933; West Bank & Gaza Today (October 2014)

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Comparing Gaza And Egypt Shows The Failure Of Embracing Hamas

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To listen to the media, would would imagine that Gaza is the worst place to live, much worse than neighboring Egypt for example, which controlled the Strip from 1949 to 1967.

Here are the statistics as reported by the World Bank.

Table 1: Life statistics in Gaza and Egypt

The average life expectancy in Gaza is 74 years, about 1.5 years longer than in Egypt. There are roughly 2.5 fewer deaths per 1,000 people in Gaza than in Egypt, with death rates of 3.8 and 6.3, respectively.

The medical care in Gaza is quite good and has extended the lives of Gazans beyond those found in neighboring Arab Egypt. The United Nations providing healthcare to its adopted wards similarly helped the young Gazans.

Table 2: Infant mortality rates per 1,000 live births in Gaza and Egypt

As seen in Table 2, babies born in Palestinian territories do significantly better than they do in Egypt. This is primarily driven by free healthcare services provided by the United Nations to Palestinian Arabs but not to Egyptians.

The United Nations also provides free education to Palestinian Arabs but not to Egyptians.

Table 3: Literacy rates for Palestinian Arabs and Egyptians

The gap in literacy scores between Palestinian Arabs and Egyptians is staggering. According to the World Bank, Palestinian literacy rate is 96.2%, while it is a terrible 67.4% for Egyptians. The Palestinian literacy rate is slightly higher than Saudi Arabia and is only surpassed by Jordan among Arab countries in the region.

Despite the better education and healthcare, Palestinian Arabs have a weaker economy, especially in Gaza.

Table 4: Wealth and poverty in Gaza and Egypt

Gaza is much poorer than the West Bank or Egypt. Until roughly 2017, the poverty rate between the two Palestinian territories were somewhat in line. Those trends broke and now the poverty rate for Arabs in the West Bank was 13.9% while it was 53% in Gaza in 2019. This can be seen in the workforce rate where unemployment in Gaza in 2023 was 45.3% and 13.1% in the West Bank. The unemployment rate in Egypt is much better at 6.96%, while GDP per capita is much higher than in Gaza. The latest poverty rates for Egypt are 27.3%, close to that in the West Bank.

Gaza’s economy is much weaker than in Egypt or the West Bank as the territory is ruled by the Hamas political-terrorist group. Israel and Egypt have a blockade around the area to stop the flow of weapons into the strip which has launched five wars against Israel since it seized the area. Many countries won’t trade with the region because of its violent jihadi leadership which pours its resources into waging war rather than to develop society.

Local Gazans often incorrectly attribute “social services” to Hamas, when the healthcare and education are principally provided by the United Nations. The similarity in healthcare and educational statistics in Gaza and the West Bank prove this out.

Despite Hamas failing Gazans, it remains extremely popular. According to a September 2023 poll, Palestinians would elect the leader of Hamas (58%) over Fatah (37%) to the presidency. Much of that is because 53% of Palestinian believe that the pathway to end the “struggle” against Israel is via violence (as pushed by Hamas), while only 20% support negotiations (as voiced by Fatah).

The United Nations has given Gazans the very best healthcare and education among the region’s Arab nations, all for free. Despite the better education and physical health, Gazans focus their efforts on destroying Israel and in the process, their own economy, and now, their infrastructure.

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The Reasons Behind The Spike In Palestinian Terrorism

Waiting For Bad News

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Social media sites like Facebook have enabled features for people to post whether they are safe when a particular crisis hits. It is meant as a quick tool to alert friends and families in real-time that one has escaped tragedy.

When war strikes Israel – especially on a holiday – Jews around the world await the pain of loss.

The popular Palestinian Arab political-terrorist group Hamas launched a massive attack against Israel while Jews celebrated the end of their holidays celebrating the Torah. This year, the two-day religious observance of Shemini Azeret/ Simchat Torah in the diaspora outside of Israel, coincided with the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Hamas deployed thousands of missiles and militants into Israel to mark the day in a new war.

As horrible news leaked into synagogues about the war in Israel over the holiday, many Orthodox Jews had to wait until Sunday night to learn about the status of friends and family inside the Jewish holy land, as they do not use any electronic devices over the holiday.

A friend’s son serving in the army killed.

A friend’s cousin taken hostage.

A friend’s best friend killed.

A friend’s child’s roommate killed.

Each frantic call and review of social media was one of trauma.

There are few Jews in the world. While there are 8 billion people who are at most six degrees of separation from any other person, the 15 million Jews are at most two degrees of separation for one another. When hundreds of Jews are murdered, everyone is touched. Everyone mourns.

The Hamas website, which operated openly for years proclaiming its war against the Jewish State, was blocked as it posted videos of its grisly operation killing and kidnapping civilians. Its effort to let Jews know that they are never safe was viewed as too cruel to be given air at this time.

Palestinians pose with the Palestinian flag on an Israeli tank that was destroyed in an attack launched by Hamas on October 7. Behind the tank, the fence separating Gaza from Israel can be seen as destroyed, allowing more inflitrations. Photo: Hani Alsahaer/Anadolu Agency)

But information slowly dribbles in. And it continues to be horrific.

In addition to the over 700 dead are over 100 who have been taken captive, spread throughout the terrorist enclave of Gaza. Children as young as three. Wheelchair-bound Holocaust survivors.

The scale of the loss of life is difficult to comprehend. The number of hostages taken means that the current dangerous situation will be present for a long time.

There is no hashtag for Jews to mark themselves safe, nor an emoji to relay the deep pain at the loss of life and trauma felt for friends trapped at the center of evil.

As Jews around the world wait for bad news, they assess the actions each can take to seize the day from the implacable foe.

ACTION ITEM

Write White House “Support Israel. Cut all funding to Palestinians immediately.”

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US Embassy In Israel Only Invites Muslims To US To Study

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For the twentieth year, the US embassy to Israel invited only Muslims from Israel to come to the United States for an all-expense paid year of study abroad.

On September 12, 2023, the embassy posted an advertisement that the U.S. State Department “is seeking a group of Arab citizens of Israel secondary school students to participate in a Study- in-the-USA initiative for high school students during the 2024-2025 school year.” (bold in original) It is backed by the YES Program Scholarship which gives “many countries with significant Muslim population an opportunity to study at American high schools and live with American host families for one academic year,” funding “all expenses in connection with the study tour including airfare, room and board, pocket money and most other costs.”

Israeli Jews are not invited to participate. It is a program solely focused on Muslims.

The YES program brings in Muslims to U.S. schools from around the world in addition to Israel, including Ghana, Jordan, Indonesia, Malaysia and Morocco.

This effort is taking place while college antisemitism is reaching new staggering levels, mostly coming from Muslim students. The AMCHA Initiative has done numerous studies which show a direct correlation between Students for Justice in Palestine and other anti-Zionist groups and antisemitic incidents on campus.

Canary Mission tracks many of these antisemites and anti-Zionists, including Yasmeen Mashayekh, a student at University of Southern California, who tweeted “I want to kill every motherf**king zionist” and “curse the Jews.” She has repeatedly praised Palestinian terrorists after they slaughter Jews in the streets. As can only be imagined in California, she is a student ambassador on the school’s committee for diversity, equity and inclusion.

Yasmeen Mashayekh, antisemite who sits on USC’s DEI committee

Naye Idriss, a student at Columbia University, tweeted a picture supporting Diaa Hamarsheh, who slaughtered five Israelis in Bnei Brak in central Jerusalem, adding “All support and glory for any action that creates an atmosphere of fear and insecurity for the settlers. They will know neither security nor peace on stolen land!”

The list goes on.

The toxicity snowballs. With government sponsored Muslims on campus from countries including Malaysia, Columbia University naturally invited the proud antisemitic Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to speak on campus. He is infamous for calling Jewish people “hook-nosed” and claiming “Jews rule the world by proxy.”

Jews are trying to have a normal college experience but over 200 chapters of the Students for Justice in Palestine and other anti-Zionist groups are making their lives a living hell. At the same time, the U.S. State Department is actively focused on bringing in Muslims onto college campuses – with your tax dollars.

American College campuses have stopped becoming a place for civil discourse and have morphed into incubators for antisemitism and disinformation campaigns. And it’s directly funded by your tax dollars.

ACTION ITEM

CONTACT WHITE HOUSE “What is the interview process of the YES program that brings in hundred of Muslims into the United States every year to make sure they are promoting coexistence and not antisemitism? Perhaps it is time to bring in Jewish students from around the world to combat the rampant Jew-hatred on college campuses.”

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Jordan’s Deep Hypocrisy and Stupidity About Jerusalem

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On September 5, Papua New Guinea became the fifth country to open its embassy to Israel in Jerusalem. It joins the United States, Kosovo, Guatemala and Honduras in moving its diplomatic headquarters from the major Israeli city of Tel Aviv to Israel’s capital. Representatives of three continents now have their embassies to the Jewish State in Judaism’s holist city.

The location is in a high-rise building opposite Jerusalem’s biggest mall, the Azrieli Malcha Mall, located near former mayor of Jerusalem Teddy Kollek Stadium, west of the invisible 1949 Armistice Lines with Jordan.

Jerusalem’s Malcha Mall and Kollek Stadium

The Jordanian Foreign Minister was outraged.

Ambassador Sinan Al-Majali, the official spokesperson for the ministry, issued a statement that condemned the action as a “flagrant and significant violation of international law and international legitimacy resolutions.” He added “that any actions or decisions aiming to alter Jerusalem’s status or its legal position are null and void, holding no legal weight. He reiterated the importance of achieving a just and comprehensive peace as the sole means to attain a two-state solution based on international legitimacy resolutions. This solution should culminate in the establishment of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem as its capital, based on the June 4, 1967 borders.”

Consider these comments coming from Jordan about Jerusalem.

  • Jordan illegally invaded Israel in 1948
  • Jordan committed a crime against humanity in ethnically cleansing all Jews from land it seized in 1949, including the Old City of Jerusalem
  • Jordan illegally annexed eastern Jerusalem and all of the area that became known as the West Bank in 1950, a move not recognized by the entire world other than the United Kingdom and Pakistan
  • Jordan issued a disgraceful citizenship law in 1954 that specifically excluded Jews
  • Jordan committed a crime against the basic human rights of Jews to live and pray in Jerusalem while it controlled the Old City
  • Jordan illegally attacked Israel again in 1967
  • The Papua New Guinea embassy is located WEST of the 1949 Armistice Lines, which even the Jordanian statement says will be part of Israel

Jordan is a laughing stock, issuing ridiculous and noxious statements that could emerge from a camel’s anus. It is performing a theater of the absurd which highlights its stupidity and hypocrisy. Only fools could be convinced that such inanity whitewashes Jordan’s illegal, belligerent and antisemitic acts.

Such as the Palestinian official news agency, Wafa.

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Official Palestinian Propaganda Turns Terrorist Into Assassinated “Palestinian Youth”

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Wafa is the official news agency of the Palestinian Liberation Organization established in 1972, a few months before the group killed Israeli athletes at the Summer Olympics in Munich. The agency has a mission “to influence the public opinion at the local and international levels,” to advance its cause to “ensure an appropriate information environment for decision makers to take informed decisions.”

The PLO does this by manipulating adjectives and nouns throughout its story-telling of current events.

An example can be seen in an event on August 1, 2023, when a 20-year old Palestinian Arab terrorist shot and wounded six Jewish civilians in a mall in Ma’ale Adumim, who was subsequently shot and killed. Wafa reported on the event with the headline “Palestinian youth shot and killed in an illegal Israeli settlement east of Jerusalem.”

While news agencies like AP News reported that “Palestinian opens fire in West Bank settlement, wounding 6 people before being killed,” properly reporting on the events in sequence, Wafa sought to inflame local and world opinion that Israelis are “illegal” and out-of-control, arbitrarily killing Palestinian children.

And it is effective.

When Tor Wennesland, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process addressed the United Nations Security Council last week, he said that “children must never be the target of violence, used or put in harm’s way,” never questioning the Palestinians’ mislabeling youth nor condemning Palestinian society for the prevalent recruiting, training and arming of Arabs under 18 years old. Six countries reacted to Wennesland’s report condemning the targeting of children, placing the blame on Israel.

Palestinian propaganda has deeply infiltrated the United Nations, inverting case and effect, and whitewashed Palestinian crimes against both Israel and its own children.

ACTION ITEM

Palestinian propaganda has deeply infiltrated the United Nations, inverting cause and effect, whitewashing Palestinian crimes against both Israel and its own people, in recruiting and arming children under 18 to kill Jews, and mislabeling those over 18 as ‘youths’

Email US Mission to the United Nations

Email Canadian mission to UN canada.un@international.gc.ca phone 212-848-1100

Email Australian mission to UN: australia@un.int phone 212-351-6600

Email United Kingdom mission to UN: ukmissionny@gmail.com phone (+1) 212-745-9200

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The Settler Intifada

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The brewing anger of Israeli Jews living east of the 1949 Armistice Lines (E49 / “West Bank”) started in May of 2021 principally from two events: a Palestinian-American terrorist shooting three people and killing one, and the Israeli government failing to enforce its own laws.

Palestinian-American Muntasir Shalabi, age 44, did a drive buy shooting in E49 and killed a teenager and injured two other 19-year old boys on May 2, 2021. He was sheltered by Palestinians for a few days but was ultimately captured and sentenced to life in prison. His home, in the wealthy West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, was demolished in June despite American protests.

The fact that a well-off American citizen would commit such an outrageous act of terrorism in shooting three unarmed young men standing on a road, undermined any narrative that terrorism is a matter of poverty and opportunity as opposed to an evil ideology. Israelis also saw that the new American Biden administration was going to be much more supportive of Palestinians than the Trump administration had been over the prior four years.

Just a week after the terrorist attack, the Israeli government decided to not enforce its own laws and allowed Palestinian Arab squatters to remain in homes in Sheikh Jarrah and continue to not pay their Jewish landlords any rent. The political-terrorist group Hamas launched missiles from Gaza over the threat of the squatters’ evictions, and West Bank Arab support for killing Jewish civilians inside of Israel immediately began to climb.

The message that violence trumps Israeli laws was internalized by both Palestinians and Israelis.

While Gazans always favor killing Israeli Jews, West Bank Arab support started to climb in May 2021 and escalated much further in the fall of 2022.

While West Bank Arabs had always committed terrorist attacks, the Israeli Jews in the area did little in terms of revenge.

Consider the heinous Arab murders of the Fogel family in 2011, in which the parents and three children were stabbed to death – including an infant. The Jewish residents mourned the event but did not commit revenge attacks.

That slowly started to change with young Jews living in hilltop settlements committing “price tag” attacks in which small groups would attack Palestinian Arabs in proportion to those whom Arabs had previously attacked. The extremists would sometimes also attack Israeli soldiers for failing to protect the Jewish communities in E49.

The uptick in vigilante attacks started in 2021 and 2022, as new Palestinian terrorist groups emerged in E49. In September 2021, the Jenin Brigades was formed, the Nablus Brigades in May 2022, and the Lions’ Den in August 2022. These West Bank terrorist groups led a series of mass casualty attacks between March 22 and May 5, 2022 which spread from major Israeli cities of Be’er Sheva, Bnei Brak and Tel Aviv to a smaller border town of Elad and the E49 city of Ariel. Jews on both sides of the 1949 Armistice Line did not feel safe, which helped bring down Naftali Bennett’s short stint as prime minister in June.

Things would get worse between August and October, as the Lions’ Den became a force of terror, and Israeli forces went on the offensive to mitigate the mayhem. E49 Jews stepped up their activity, taking matters in their own hands as well.

Terrorist attacks in the West Bank according to Tor Wennesland, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (no data for June)

The Lions’ Den became very popular in the West Bank and polls showed that Palestinians did not want the Palestinian Authority to rein in the group. In his September 2022 address to the United Nations, PA President Mahmoud Abbas essentially said that the Oslo Accords were dead (21:30) and was abandoning security coordination with Israel. At the end of his talk (45:00), Abbas discussed the “hero martyr Nasser Abu Hamid,” heaping praise on the terrorist convicted of killing seven people, who was the founder of the West Bank terrorist group Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.

These events helped usher Benjamin Netanyahu back to being Prime Minister with a more right-wing coalition in December. Yet despite the new right-wing government, Arab violence against Jews continued to increase and become more lethal, even as the United Nations looked away and vilified “Settler violence.”

Palestinian terrorist attacks were increasingly fatal in 2023.

The Israeli Jews living in E49 have become exasperated and are starting to engage in massive revenge attacks.

In February 2023, after Palestinian Arabs shot and killed two Jewish men who were driving in their car, hundreds of settlers burned dozens of cars and homes in Nablus. Netanyahu urged them to calm down, that “when blood is boiling and the spirit is hot, don’t take the law into your hands.”

In June 2023, the dynamic repeated after Palestinian terrorists killed four Jews in a restaurant and gas station. Hundreds of settlers went to Turmus Ayya – the hometown of the May 2021 terrorist – and burned dozens of cars and homes.

To be a Jew in the West Bank is to be a target, of both Arab violence and UN condemnation for simply living. The poisonous legacy of the Arab intifadas has infected the mindset of settlers, as they see an Israeli government unable to stop the murders of innocent Jews driving in cars, eating in restaurants, standing on a road or sleeping in their beds. As the provocations become incessant, the attacks of E49 Jews may naturally morph from retaliatory in nature to constant.

Israel reacted to the First Palestinian Intifada of 1987 by helping create Palestinian political institutions as part of the Oslo Accords. It reacted to the poorly named “Second Intifada” / Palestinian Pogroms of 2000-2004 which were directed by Palestinian leadership, by erecting a security barrier near the 1949 Armistice Line with Transjordan.

This uprising is being launched by nearly half a million Jews living in E49/West Bank. It remains to be seen if their actions will remain restricted to reactive attacks, and what actions the Israeli government and PA will be.

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The Flawed and Inconsistent U.S. Position On Israelis Living In The West Bank

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On May 21, 2023, the U.S. State Department issued a statement about Israeli “Settlements in the West Bank.” It read:

“We are deeply troubled by the Israeli government’s order that allows its citizens to establish a permanent presence in the Homesh outpost in the northern West Bank, which according to Israeli law was illegally built on private Palestinian land. This order is inconsistent with both former Prime Minister Sharon’s written commitment to the Bush Administration in 2004 and the current Israeli government’s commitments to the Biden Administration. Advancing Israeli settlements in the West Bank is an obstacle to the achievement of a two-state solution.”

There were many things covered in this paragraph:

  • Israeli law about whether building in the “Homesh outpost” is legal;
  • The 2004 exchange of letters between Israeli Prime Minster Ariel Sharon and U.S. President George W. Bush;
  • The current Israeli commitments to the Biden Administration; and
  • Whether Israeli Jews “living in the West Bank is an obstacle…to a two-state solution.”

Israeli Law

First, it’s a bit rich for the United States to make comments about Israeli law. I cannot imagine that the U.S. would take kindly to any country opining on its rulings on imminent domain, seizing land to build a wall with Mexico, or any other real estate matter.

While Israeli courts have ruled against approving building on privately owned land, the courts have also legalized previously unauthorized settlements. Countries modify their rulings depending on societal needs of the moment. For example, the Israeli courts had approved Israeli taking ownership of the homes they own in the Sheikh Jarrah section of Jerusalem but then suspended the eviction of the Arab squatters because of violence. Real estate in Israel is a matter of law as well as of security and order.

The 2004 Exchange of Letters

In the middle of the 2000-2005 Arab pogroms which killed over 1,000 Israelis, Israeli PM Sharon decided that he was going to build a security barrier to stop terrorism emanating from the West Bank, and to pull all Israelis out of Gaza. In exchange for these actions, U.S. President Bush issued a letter in support of the actions with U.S. commitments.

The State Department just referenced the 2004 Sharon letter because while Sharon understood there was no chance for peace with Palestinians at that time, he “decided to initiate a process of gradual disengagement with the hope of reducing friction between Israelis and Palestinians.” Sharon’s “Disengagement Plan” called for pulling all Israelis out of Gaza “as well as other military installations and a small number of villages in Samaria,” which included the town of Homesh and three other nearby villages.

The Israeli Disengagement Plan was not a “commitment” as described in the latest State Department statement. In fact, it was quite the opposite. Sharon made clear that it “represents an independent Israeli plan” designed to create space between the parties while terrorism was ongoing.

In addition to incorrectly calling the dismantling of Homesh a commitment, the State Department ignored U.S. commitments that Bush made to Sharon in that exchange of letters.

The Bush letter repeatedly stated that the U.S. is committed to fight Palestinian terrorism and incitement and that it will work to “prevent the areas from which Israel has withdrawn from posing a threat.” That was in 2004 and Israel left Gaza the following year in 2005.

Then what happened?

The Palestinians held elections in 2006 under America’s watch, and the terrorist group Hamas won a majority of Parliament. In 2007, Hamas routed Fatah and took control of Gaza, and proceeded to launch wars against Israel in 2008, 2012, 2014 and more recently.

So much for America’s commitment to preventing the abandoned areas “from posing a threat.”

Further, in another part of his letter, Bush stated clearly that “in light of new realities on the ground, including already existing major Israeli populations centers, it is unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949.” In plain English, that meant that the United States acknowledged that Israel will annex sections of the West Bank.

Yet the Obama Administration broke that commitment to Israel when it allowed United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 to pass in 2016, making it illegal for Israelis to live east of “the armistice lines of 1949.”

In short, Israel made no commitments in the 2004 letter while the United States trampled on its commitments to Israel.

Current Commitment to Biden Administration

Israel met with the U.S. and Palestinian Authority in Egypt in March 2023 and issued a joint statement which covered a number of issues including “an Israeli commitment to stop discussion of any new settlement units for 4 months, and to stop authorization of any outposts for 6 months.” As Homesh was an existing settlement until it was dismantled in 2005, it is debatable whether allowing its redevelopment runs counter to Israel’s statement.

It should be noted that the Palestinian Authority has completely ignored its stated March 2023 commitments, as it continues to incite violence.

Jews As Obstacle to Two State Solution

Roughly 25% of Israeli citizens are non-Jews, so the notion that a theoretical Arab state of Palestine cannot be viable with a small percentage of Jews is ridiculous. It can only be viewed as an “obstacle” to two states if the Palestinian Authority refuses to have any Jews living in the country.

And if Palestine can only be created as a Jew-free state, it should never be admitted to the United Nations or recognized by any country.

Road in Judea and Samaria

The State Department is “deeply troubled” by Israeli action in the village of Homesh because its accounting of history and facts are deeply flawed. More generally, if the U.S. assumes that a Palestinian State must be Jew-free, it should adamantly oppose its existence.

Should pressure mount on Israel to evacuate Homesh again, it should turn to those agitators and get their support for the Israeli Jews to take ownership of their homes in Sheikh Jarrah.

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