"But, let me make this final point: that in the long run, the only real way to solve this problem is to make sure that we've got a Palestinian state side-by-side with an Israel that is secure."
Barack Hussein Obama
"Obama, like many liberals, believes against all evidence that the reason for Islamic violence against Israel is that the Palestinians don't have a state. Create a state, and the violence will stop--"the only real way to solve this problem." But the Palestinians could have had a state long ago, if they had wanted one. That was never their priority.The Palestinians rejected statehood twice:
"The liberal view is that the Palestinians' "resistance" arises from the fact that their territories are occupied. But we know for sure that this is false. Gaza isn't occupied, and hasn't been for several years, but the violence has gotten worse, not better--contrary to the prediction of every liberal, both here and in Israel. Now suppose that Gaza were a state, in combination with the West Bank. What reason is there to think that the violence against Israel would decline? Why wouldn't Hamas and other terrorist groups import arms by land and by sea and use them against Israel, just as they do now? Hamas already rules Gaza; why would it beat its swords into ploughshares if the entity it rules were denominated a "state"?
Powerline Blog
October 2000, Camp David Accord. Palestinians under Yasser Arafat reject an Independent Palestinian state, including 95% of the West Bank; Gaza; and half of Jerusalem: Arafat would not accept the Jerusalem arrangement, and insisted on the Palestinian “Right of Return”.
May 2003, the Roadmap to Peace. Drafted by the US, UN, EU, and Russia, the Roadmap insists that a two state solution cannot occur without a cessation of terrorist activity. Palestinians rejected it, and increased terror attacks on Israel.
The Palestinians have not been bashful about insisting that Israel has no right to exist and that the Palestinians are the rightful owners of Israel. Obama is completely out to lunch here. The Palestinians want a one state solution: all Palestine under Muslim control, with Hamas at the helm. They already have a de facto two state solution which they could easily leverage into international acceptance, except for the fact that they don't care about that at all.
It has been claimed that Hamas cannot lose in this situation; the world opinion mongers support Hamas in its suppression of its own people via its bellicosity and its consequences, which makes the Gazans "victims". And if Hamas were to be given statehood despite its bellicosity, then Hamas has won, too. Either way, Israel is under attack, and will remain so. It would seem that keeping its citizens "victims" is in the longer term benefit of the terrorists, because as an official state, the aggression toward Israel is no longer capable of being rationalized as victim activism.
But regardless of Gaza, Israel is in far more trouble on other Islamic fronts. If Turkey and Iran are truly in an "axis" of aggression, then Israel must either act or suffer immense losses in the near future.
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