Death of the Two-State Solution

"The framework for recognizing Palestine that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney set forth on Wednesday attempts to bring us closer to that goal [of two democratic states for two peoples, living in mutual recognition of one another], but suffers from several fatal defects -- with respect to the conditions it includes, the conditions it fails to include and, most importantly the fact that it gets the paradigm backwards, granting recognition before the necessary conditions are met, rather than after."

"If Canada moves forward with this framework, it will almost certainly be complicit -- however inadvertently -- in the creation of another authoritarian terrorist state in the Middle East, rather than a peaceful democratic one, thereby decreasing, rather than increasing, the possibility of securing a lasting peace in the region."

Irwin Cotler, international chair, Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights

Noah Lew, director of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights 

 

 

Originally, when the United Nations offered up their Partition Plan in 1947 the intention was that two democratic countries would result, for two different groups of people living contiguously in peace, security and mutual recognition of the legitimacy of each other. Israel accepted the UN offer and from 1948 onward has represented the only true democracy in the Middle East, amidst an array of kingdoms, sheikdoms, dictatorships and theocracies.

 

As a Jewish state, albeit an inclusive one, giving citizenship and equality to other ethnic/religious group living amongst the majority Jewish population, Israel has been forced by the hostility of its neighbours to maintain a military presence with the intention of forestalling frequent attempts to destroy its presence on its ancestral Judean landmass, now shared by edict of the United Nations with religious/ethnic factions adamant that it has no place amidst majority Islamic states.

 

Assembled armies of the Middle East attempted time and again to extirpate Israel from its heritage land, to no avail. And while at the present time, some of those originally belligerent states now have forged cordial relations -- or at the very least, tolerate Israel's presence -- the Arab contingent naming themselves Palestinians, taking on the mantle of original dwellers on the land, which they are not, has remained violently hostile, losing no opportunity to lethally attack Israeli citizens. 

 

The Palestinians embarked on a decades' long propaganda of victimhood and slander, convincing an empathetic Western audience that Israel was an illegal intruder into the Middle East, oppressing the Palestinians and taking land meant for them. Their unrestrained and violent antipathy toward Israel, the school curricula teaching Palestinian children to hate Jews and to aspire to martyrdom by killing Jews, the program of the ruling authorities to pay financial rewards to killers of Jews and violence-prone imprisoned Palestinians has ensured that no accord between the two solitudes could ever result in two states, side-by-side. 

 

 

 

Israel has attempted to negotiate peace agreements that would lead to the establishment of an internationally legal and recognized Palestinian state was refused time and again by Palestinian leaders who adamantly refused to recognize the legitimacy of the Jewish state. But although the Palestinians' refusal to compromise to make it possible for the two-state solution to arise, nations that are considered allies of Israel, continue to insist that the 'two-state-solution' must be accomplished in justice to Palestinian aspirations, while setting aside the intransigence of the Palestinian insistence on Israel's destruction.

 

The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank, represented by the Fatah faction of Palestinian denial of an Israeli presence interacts through their leader and the president of the PA, Mahmoud Abbas, as a 'moderate' whose agenda remains that of challenging Israel's legitimacy as a Jewish State. The leadership of the Hamas contingent, a recognized terrorist group, is proudly overt about their intention to destroy Israel by any means possible. Time and again Israeli governments over the years have attempted to reason with both Hamas and Fatah to accept a peace accord and recognize Israel's right of existence.

 

The response has always been an Intifada, and the ongoing resolve to counter Israel's presence with unmitigated violent savagery. Yet France, Britain and Canada, among other nations of the world, insist that the Palestinians must have their recognized sovereign state bordering that of Israel's. While covertly the Palestinians in whose name the West and other geographic nations support statehood recognition, plot to attack Israel and its citizens endlessly.

 

None of the states that see it as imperative that the Palestinians have their state, are faced with the dilemma themselves of a neighbour dedicated to destroying their presence, yet they support the Palestinian entitlement to secure what they adamantly refused in 1947, and have ever since, when it would mean living in peace alongside Israel. Confoundingly enough, Muslim Arab states themselves have little real empathy at this point in the endless terror attacks against Israel for the Palestinian position. For while the West opens its welcoming arms to the presence of Palestinians, the states in the Middle East evade their presence.

 

Emigration, migration, and refugee status has seen a wide influx of Palestinians in democratic nations of the West. And there they continue their fulminations against Israel, spreading their viperous draughts of slanderous venom, reawakening historical levels of international antisemitism to fever pitch, in the process convincing those who now support their cause that Israel is the oppressor, the Palestinians are pitiable victims, in a reversal of reality, but one that resonates with the uninformed, the oblivious and the Jew-haters.

 

 

Israel vs Palestinian Terrorism

"We must deal with the threat just as we deal with the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza, including the temporary evacuation of Palestinian residents and whatever steps might be required."

"This is a war in every respect, and we must win it."

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz

The IDF said Thursday that it had completed its operation in the area around Fara'a, about 15 miles south of Jenin and near the city of Tubas  washingtonpost.com

 

Hamas, in the ten-month aftermath of the terrorist group's invasion of southern Israel leading to an orgy of chaotic mass rape, mutilations, burning of families in their homes, as they entered farming villages near the border with Gaza, has called on Palestinians in the West Bank to rise up. In spirit the general population of West Bank Palestinians has done just that; according to polls that conclude the majority of West Bank Palestinians have no problems approving of the savagery of the Hamas bloodbath that left 1,200 Israelis of all ages and mostly civilian dead, while taking 250 children, women, elderly hostage.

This week Israeli forces launched a considerable operation overnight in the West Bank targeting and dispatching ten Hamas terrorists, and sealing the city of Jenin off. The Israel Defense Forces are fighting a war with Gaza's terrorist governing body, Hamas which had experienced no compunction in their decision to invade Israel and target their border Kibbutzim for a bloody massacre. In the full and certain knowledge that conducting such inhuman carnage in Israel would draw its military into Gaza to hunt down the terrorist operatives which find refuge in tunnels, choosing to sacrifice the lives of ordinary Palestinians to protect their own.

Jenin itself is a hotspot of terrorist activity, proving itself a problem that sends out deadly tendrils of death toward Israel as spontaneous new terror groups materialize, vowing  unendingly to visit death and destruction on Israel and its Jews. With the IDF battling Hezbollah in Israel's northern border, Hamas in Gaza, and the PLFP/Fatah groups in the West Bank, this is a war with many fronts conducted by the proxies of the Islamic Republic of Iran, aided by Qatar's funding.

 

IDF Assault on city of Jenin, June 2023   AP Photo

 

Israel's purpose in Jenin is to root out and prevent attacks; the Palestinian leadership identifies the operation to its population as a strategy to broaden the war for the purpose of expelling West Bank Palestinians from the geography to deprive them of their aspirational state. Israeli military spokesman, Lt.Col. Nadav Shoshani described "large forces" as having entered Jenin, Tulkarem and the Al-Faraa refugee camp. 

There, Israeli forces eliminated a handful of terrorists in a Tulkarem airstrike, another few in Al-Faraa and similar numbers that were arrested, in raids that represent the initial stage of a larger operation in which Israeli forces confiscated weapons, ammunition and military equipment. According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, Israeli forces blocked roads leading to a hospital with dirt barriers, while surrounding medical facilities in Jenin. The Palestinian penchant for using hospitals as military bases is hard to evade.

The IDF, on the other hand, gave assurance that their troops had not entered the hospital facilities, had disrupted nothing there, and the hospitals were open to people to enter or leave their premises. Forces loyal to the PA were called upon by Hamas to "join the sacred battle of our people". A spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mamoud Abbas spoke of the raids as a "serious escalation", urging the U.S. to intervene.

The operations are described by Israel as a requirement in their intention to completely dismantle Hamas along with other organized Palestinian terrorist groups. Since the war's start in October of 2023, attacks on Israelis have risen.

Israeli soldiers stand near a military vehicle during an Israeli raid in Nour Shams camp in Tulkarm, in the West Bank, Aug. 29, 2024. (Reuters Photo)

 

Canada's Flirtation With Terrorism

"'Palestine' is, as it stands, a porous-bordered, non-contiguous hodgepodge, split governance-wise between two mutually suspicious parties united only by their antipathy toward Israel. It is less a sovereign state than a half-baked idea drawn on a cocktail napkin."

While Melanie Joly is joining the faddish call for Palestinian statehood, she must know deep down that the Palestinian territories look nothing like a state and likely won't any time soon. Her performative virtue signalling only further harms her credibility as Canada's top diplomat."

Rahim Mohamed, journalist, National Post

 

Nothing very 'diplomatic' in tone or expression, much less adherence to recognition of reality and loyalty to a fellow democracy in strained relations between the Trudeau Liberal government in Canada and its behaviour toward Israel under this 'post-national' administration that has embraced DEI-woke-Critical Race Theory full bore as an enlightened 'progressive' government dragging Canada kicking and screaming into a national culture of anything goes, which includes promoting LGBTQ-2 rights beyond reason in its support of transitioning children toward pharmaceuticals and surgeries that deny their biological genders.

 

As for giving credence and support to a fellow democracy located in the Middle East amongst Islamist theocracies, kingdoms, sheikhdoms and terrorism-guided countries loyal to the darkest issues of pure Islamism, that too has been abandoned in favour of leaning toward equating fantasies and slanders issued by terrorist groups on an equal footing with that of a legitimate sovereign government. Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly's recent declaration of Canada's willingness to support statehood for 'Palestine' a case in point.

 

Palestine, as a combination of the West Bank and Gaza, two territories that comprise 'Palestine' in the minds of outsiders, but not reflected in the aspirations of Fatah and Hamas each of which controls one-half of the Palestinian 'Territories', since they envision Israel off the map and 'Palestine' comprised of the entire region, 'from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean sea'. And they have worked assiduously over the years, since Israel's rebirth to persuade the international community of Israel's illegitimacy as a state on land purloined from the 'Palestinians'.

 

Yet from the authoritative and well-considered wellspring of a mind versed in international law we hear: "Canada is prepared to recognize the State of Palestine at the time most favourable to a lasting peace, not at the last step along the path". Alongside voting against Israel in the United Nations, Canada has now committed itself to full betrayal of international law with one eye cocked on the considerable Muslim voting base in Canada and the other at catering to the elements within the United Nations for which Israel's existence is an abomination.

 

Both the West Bank, administered by Fatah/Mahmoud Abbas and the Gaza Strip, ruled by Hamas -- both illegitimate entities with a pretense at democracy well versed in the values of the West, and appealing to those values by discrediting Israel at every turn as an oppressor intent on perpetrating genocide against Arab Palestinians, while themselves in full practise of virulent Islamism, actually do make an effort at genocide against Jews, mocking the Holocaust they deny occurred, but promising another one -- are ill-prepared to govern.

 

While Mahmoud Abbas spews racial and religious epithets against Jews and Israel, mounting a never-ending campaign of abuse against Palestinians taught from cradle to grave that Jews are mendacious, untrustworthy, violently greedy, intent on looting more territory inscribed by the heavens above for Palestinian statehood, worthy of death brought to fruition by blessed martyrdom, inspiring and spurring children to aspire to become terrorists as a noble future for the faithful, Hamas goes straight to the core of dedicated mass murder to achieve its goal.

 

And this is prime material for statehood? Statehood with no potential responsible, lawful candidates available for administering a state to live in peace with its neighbours? Even other Arab regional states shudder envisioning what a nightmare that would be. Yet the international community is eager to consign Israel to a fate of everlasting, unending feral deadly attacks against its citizens by a neighbour 'state' that cannot govern sufficiently well to create security and prosperity for its citizens, yet conspires to make life hell for its neighbour.

 

On the other hand, if Justin Trudeau and his cabinet of Liberal progressives would agree to go to the new state permanently as its future executive administrators, most Canadians would be in full and total agreement.

 

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada's longstanding position that a Palestinian state could only be recognized at the end of a process leading to a two-state solution has changed. "We now recognize that it may happen sooner than at the end of the process".   CBC

 

"Unlike resolutions in the Security Council, there are no vetoes in the 193-member General Assembly. Friday’s resolution required a two-thirds majority of members voting and got significantly more than the 118 vote minimum."

"U.S. allies supported the resolution, including France, Japan, South Korea, Spain, Australia, Estonia and Norway. But European countries were very divided."

"The resolution “determines” that a state of Palestine is qualified for membership — dropping the original language that in the General Assembly’s judgment it is “a peace-loving state.” It therefore recommends that the Security Council reconsider its request “favorably”."

Associated Press