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You may think that this conflict is just too complicated to understand, much less to solve. The following video outlines this convoluted historical and ideological issue to its most essential facts.
VIDEO - Why Isn't There a Palestinian State?
By David Brog, Executive Director of the Maccabee Task Force
No matter how much spin advocates of two states put into their cause, the fact remains that Arabs have rejected the Two States Solution many times.
The root of the problem is that according to Muslim ideology once a territory has been conquered and dominated by Islam, it is the will of Allah that it should automatically belong to Islam from then on, even when the native inhabitants of the area fight back and reconquer their land.
That's why you may sometimes hear Muslims advocating for the retaking of Spain, for example, because for a few centuries it was under Arab domination.
It is not a matter of what is just, legal, possible, or fair in the Muslim claim to a piece of land. It is a religious mandate for Muslims to control lands that they once temporarily conquered but lost.
That is why you hear the Muslim absurd claim that Jerusalem belongs to Islam, although this city and the entire land of Israel have been Jewish for thousands of years, while the Arab conqueror invaded and occupied them only in the seventh century.
After the defeat of the Jews by the Romans in the first century AD, Israel became part of the Roman empire, then of other world powers, including the Muslim Ottomans, and finally of the of British empire after World War I.
While the Jews once had their ancient kingdoms of Judea and Israel (see map), with Jerusalem as their capital, none of the subsequent invaders created another country in that same land. They just occupied it.
So Israel is not "occupying" anybody else's country. Between the kingdoms of Judea and Israel and the modern state of Israel, everything in between was foreign occupation.
Muslims living in Israel today are the descendants of Arabs from the Arabian peninsula who violently conquered the Middle East and Africa. But Jews are the descendants of the original inhabitants of Israel.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
- One factor never mentioned in discussions about the Jewish-Arab conflict is the Jews' own conflict amongst themselves, and the ongoing betrayal of Israelis by their own authorities.
- The 19th and 20th century Jewish pioneers who drained the swamps and made the desert bloom were socialists. They had no interest in their religious heritage.
- Israeli leaders in 1967 were also socialists and non-religious, so they made no real effort to secure Judea and Samaria (west bank of the Jordan river) and religious sites such as Temple Mount, as a legitimate part of the state of Israel.
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Soon after the liberation of the most sacred site in Judaism, Temple Mount in 1967, politicians gladly gifted it to the Arabs as a gesture of conciliation because Arabs had built a mosque on top.
Israeli police arrests Jews for praying
at their most sacred site, Temple Mount.
because politicians handed it over to the Arabs - This leftist Jews' disregard for their land heritage and religious sites, and never-ending concessions to the Arabs have backfired.
- They have resulted in a simmering conflict, as Arabs take Jewish ambivalence as a sign of weakness, and so they put more violent pressure on Jews to make further concessions.
- Current PM Benjamin Netanyahu wears the disguise of a right-winger, but he is very much in tune with the Jewish left's desire to partition Israel to create another Arab terror state. He has been one of the strongest advocates for the Two States Final Solution.
The following is a video by Christian journalist Faith Goldy, with Rebel Media. She explains why she stopped supporting the Two States Solution after an eye-opening trip to Israel.
More videos by Faith Goldy on Rebel Media
Her Twitter account
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Countries in green are Muslim-ruled. The rest of Africa is heavily populated by a Muslim population. Israel is that tiny sliver of land in red. The Arabs want it too.
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT - Why isn't there a Palestinian state?
If Israel just allowed the Palestinians to have a state of their own, there would be peace in the Middle East, right? That’s what you hear from UN ambassadors, European diplomats and most college professors.
But what if I told you that Israel has already offered the Palestinians a state of their own – and not just once, but on five separate occasions?
Don’t believe me?
Let’s review the record.
After the breakup of the Ottoman Empire following World War I, Britain took control of most of the Middle East, including the area that constitutes modern Israel.
If Israel just allowed the Palestinians to have a state of their own, there would be peace in the Middle East, right? That’s what you hear from UN ambassadors, European diplomats and most college professors.
But what if I told you that Israel has already offered the Palestinians a state of their own – and not just once, but on five separate occasions?
Don’t believe me?
Let’s review the record.
After the breakup of the Ottoman Empire following World War I, Britain took control of most of the Middle East, including the area that constitutes modern Israel.
Seventeen years later, in 1936, the Arabs rebelled against the British, and against their Jewish neighbors.
The British formed a task force – the Peel Commission – to study the cause of the rebellion. The commission concluded that the reason for the violence was that two peoples – Jews and Arabs – wanted to govern the same land.
The answer, the Peel Commission concluded, would be to create two independent states – one for the Jews, and one for the Arabs. A two-state solution. The suggested split was heavily in favor of the Arabs. The British offered them 80 percent of the disputed territory; the Jews, the remaining 20 percent. Yet, despite the tiny size of their proposed state, the Jews voted to accept this offer. But the Arabs rejected it and resumed their violent rebellion. Rejection number one.
Ten years later, in 1947, the British asked the United Nations to find a new solution to the continuing tensions. Like the Peel Commission, the UN decided that the best way to resolve the conflict was to divide the land.
On November 7, 1947, the UN voted to create two states. Again, the Jews accepted the offer. And again, the Arabs rejected it, only this time, they did so by launching an all-out war. Rejection number two.
Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria joined the conflict.
But they failed. Israel won the war, and got on with the business of building a new nation. Most of the land set aside by the UN for an Arab state – the West Bank and east Jerusalem – became occupied territory; occupied not by Israel, but by Jordan.
Twenty years later, in 1967, the Arabs, led this time by Egypt and joined by Syria and Jordan, once again sought to destroy the Jewish State.
The 1967 conflict, known as the Six Day War, ended in a stunning victory for Israel. Jerusalem and the West Bank, as well as the area known as the Gaza Strip, fell into Israel’s hands. The government split over what to do with this new territory.
Half wanted to return the West Bank to Jordan and Gaza to Egypt in exchange for peace. The other half wanted to give it to the region’s Arabs, who had begun referring to themselves as the Palestinians, in the hope that they would ultimately build their own state there.
Neither initiative got very far. A few months later, the Arab League met in Sudan and issued its infamous “Three No’s:” No peace with Israel. No recognition of Israel. No negotiations with Israel. Again, a two-state solution was dismissed by the Arabs, making this rejection number three….
In 2000, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak met at Camp David with Palestinian Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat to conclude a new two-state plan. Barak offered Arafat a Palestinian state in all of Gaza and 94% of the West Bank with East Jerusalem as its capital. But the Palestinian leader rejected the offer. In the words of US President Bill Clinton, Arafat was "Here 14 days and said ‘no’ to everything."
Instead, the Palestinians launched a bloody wave of suicide bombings that killed over 1,000 Israelis and maimed thousands more – on buses, in wedding halls, and in pizza parlors. Rejection number four.
In between these last two Israeli offers, Israel unilaterally left Gaza, giving the Palestinians complete control there. Instead of developing this territory for the good of its citizens, the Palestinians turned Gaza into a terrorist base, from which they have fired thousands of rockets into Israel.
Each time Israel has agreed to a Palestinian state, the Palestinians have rejected the offer, often violently.
So, if you’re interested in peace in the Middle East, maybe the answer is not to pressure Israel to make yet another offer of a state to the Palestinians. Maybe the answer is to pressure the Palestinians to finally accept the existence of a Jewish State.
I’m David Brog, Executive Director of the Maccabee Task Force, for Prager University.
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