Two independent states, one Jewish and the other Palestinian living side by side will not create peace but war. The idea that a two state solution is desirable and inevitable is absolutely untrue.1 The stated goal of the Palestinian leadership is not to live in the disputed areas side by side with Israel as a Jewish State, but to live in all of the land of Israel from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. A recent poll conducted by AWRAD, Arab World for Research and Development, asked respondents to rate certain aspects of the peace process from “essential” to “unacceptable.” Over 83 percent said that replacing Israel with a Palestinian Arab state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea is either “desirable” or “essential.”2 The push for two states is a potential disaster that will create an international conflict in which all the nations of the world will participate. This policy is a deadly Trojan horse filled with militant Muslims who seek to annihilate and remove a Jewish presence from the region. The Obama government continues to push Israel into a corner demanding that Israel be divided along with Jerusalem. This trajectory creates more conflict and the potential to ignite the whole region into a major confrontation. For Jews, the disputed areas and Jerusalem is the historic collective memory of the Jewish people. The constant attempt by the international community to delegitimize the Jewish state of Israel by viewing her as a rogue fascist-apartheid state does not promote peace, but more hostility. The present attempt to delegitimize Israel’s historical right to live came in waves. The first of these waves began with the Haman-Agagite policy 473 BCE, and then the Maccabean period, 167-163 BCE, followed by the Bar Kokhba revolt 135-132 CE, expulsion from Spain 1492, World War Two 1939-1945 and the present Arab-Israeli conflict. Given the general established view, that there is only one solution to the Israeli-Arab conflict, and dismissing other views will bring untold disaster to the whole region. The move to advance the peace process forward by giving up land, creating a demilitarized independent state will not bring peace, even if UN forces were stationed in the disputed areas as a check and balance.
BIRTH OF PALESTINE AS A MONIKER
The name change of the ancient land of Israel occurred when the Roman General Hadrian was exhausted by the stubbornness and determination of Jews to fight back the world-renowned Roman legion. His goal was simple; rename the city of Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina so its memory will no longer be remembered, and to rename the land of Israel to Palestine after the ancient Philistine people. The new name of the city did not bond to the historical reality of the past, but the name change from Israel to Palestine did. So beginning around 132-135 AD the land that was once called Israel was now being called by the new moniker, Palestine. The word Palestine does not exist in the Bible in both the Old and New Testaments. The distinguished British -American scholar of Oriental Studies Dr. Bernard Lewis affirms this view. For over forty years the name Palestine has become the accepted moniker that is used, not only by Palestinians who claim the land as theirs, but by academia and the international community who believe that an independent sovereign country of Palestine once existed.
“In other words, it appears that Palestine never was an independent nation and that the Arabs never named the land to which they now claim rights. Most Arabs do not admit so candidly that “Palestinian identity” is a maneuver only for political reasons as did Zuheir Muhsin”.3
Palestinians have no ancient history they sprung into being in 1967 as a result of the Arab-Israeli war in which Israel destroyed all her enemies. The claim that Palestinians are an ancient people is absolutely false. The Palestinians would like the international community to believe that the land “occupied by Israel” is their ancient land. If the Palestinians are an ancient people like they claim to be and are the original inhabitants of the Holy Land, why didn’t they fight the occupation of the Romans as the Jews did? Or why didn’t they fight the Seleucid Empire (175 BCE) when they controlled the land as the Jews did? The whole historical narrative of the Palestinians is pure fiction and is an attempt to remove any claim to the land of Israel by the Jews. That is why they portray themselves as scapegoats, as people oppressed so they can get the worlds attention to focus on them, so they can remove a Jewish state from a Muslim region. History has shown us, that throughout her pages countries occupy other countries as a result of being attacked first. In Europe, Germans had their lands taken over by Poland and France and partitioned. Russians still occupy portions of the old Japanese homeland decades after their surrender? The British still control Gibraltar, which Spain claims as their own. And why must the world give far more attention to Palestinians than it does to Basques, Kurdish, or Puerto Ricans. The bottom line to all this, is that the Palestinians are receiving far too much attention and it has consumed the resources of many nations in an attempt to have them become an independent state. Peace will only occur in the Middle East if both sides are honest and choose a different path, other then the path of two states living side by side. Then and only then will there be peace.
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