There
Should Be No Palestinian State
Caroline
B. Glick is the author of "The
Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan for Peace in the Middle East" and
the senior contributing editor of The Jerusalem Post.
When
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven announced his decision to recognize the
non-existent state of "Palestine" earlier this month, he inadvertently gave the
game away.
"A
two-state solution requires mutual recognition and a will to peaceful
coexistence," Lofven said. "Sweden will therefore recognize the State of
Palestine."
The
Palestinians refuse to recognize or peacefully coexist with the State of
Israel.
Like
his coalition partner, the Hamas terror master Khaled Mashaal, and despite his
sweet talk to Western audiences, the P.L.O. chief Mahmoud Abbas has pledged,
repeatedly, over decades that he will never, ever recognize Israel as the Jewish
state, meaning he will never recognize Israel. During his speech to the U.N.
General Assembly last month he reverted to P.L.O. language from the 1970s,
referring to Israel repeatedly as "the occupying Power," and "the racist
occupying State."
So
when Lofven recognized "Palestine," he joined the Palestinian campaign to
destroy Israel. He used the language of the "two-state solution" to reject the
Jewish state.
The
former British foreign minister, and Labor member of Parliament, Jack Straw went
a step further this week as he addressed his Parliament before its lopsided
274-12 vote to recognize "Palestine." The vote, he explained, was not about
advancing peace. It was a straightforward bid to harm Israel. In his words, "The
only thing that the Israeli government.understands is
pressure."
Lofven,
Straw and their colleagues throughout Europe aren't stupid. They know what
they're doing. They know that Gaza, which Israel vacated nine years ago, is a
terror state run by the jihadists of Hamas. They know that if Israel succumbs to
their political and economic warfare and cedes its capital city and historic
heartland to its enemies, it will be unable to defend its remaining territory.
And they know that like Gaza, those areas will quickly be taken over by Hamas,
which will use them to launch a war of annihilation against Israel in
conjunction with its jihadist brethren in surrounding
states.
In
other words, they know that in recognizing "Palestine" they are not helping the
cause of peace. They are advancing Israel's ruin. If they were even remotely
interested in freedom and peace, the Europeans would be doing the opposite. They
would be working to strengthen and expand Israel, the only stable zone of
freedom and peace in the region. They would abandon the phony two-state
solution, which as Straw and Lofven revealed, is merely doublespeak for seeking
Israel's destruction and its replacement with a terror
state.
With
strategic blindness and moral depravity now serving as the twin guideposts for
European policy toward Israel, Israel and its supporters must tell the truth
about the push to recognize "Palestine." It isn't about peace or justice. It's
about hating Israel and assisting those who most actively seek its
obliteration.
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