Giving terrorists a state only leads to more terrorism.
“We must keep pursuing peace. We must keep pursuing a path so that Israel and the Palestinian people can both live safely, in security, in dignity, and in peace. For me, that means a two-state solution,” Biden lectured Israelis during his visit.
A two state solution dividing up Israel into a state for the Jews and a state for the Muslim terrorists has been on the minds of Biden, administration officials, EU leaders and the media.
Before his visit to Israel, Biden called Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and scheduled a meeting with him. Secretary of State Blinken had met with Abbas the day before.
According to an official of Abbas’ Fatah party which runs the Palestinian Authority, “Blinken even demanded before he met with him that there be a condemnation” of the Hamas attacks. But no such condemnation was forthcoming. Nevertheless the media falsely reported that Abbas had disavowed Hamas. In reality, a statement was planted in a readout of a call with Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro without Abbas’ knowledge. When Abbas found out, he had it removed.
Abbas’s actual reaction to the Hamas murder of women and children was to assert the right of the “Palestinian people to defend themselves against the terrorism of settlers and the occupation forces”.
While Biden and Blinken were preparing to meet with the terrorist leader, a terror unit that is part of Abbas’ Fatah party was claiming credit for collaborating with Hamas on the attacks.
A spokesman for the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades boasted that the “together with the rest of the Palestinian resistance factions” it “carried out several operations behind enemy lines as part of ‘the Al-Aqsa Flood’ battle”, which is the Hamas name for the attacks, and claimed that “we killed and took captive occupation soldiers” as part of a “joint operations room”.
Biden’s alternative to Hamas was actually killing Israelis in coordination with Hamas.
While the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades appears on the list of foreign terrorist organizations, making it a crime for Americans to fund it, its parent organization, the Palestinian Authority, benefits from massive infusions of cash and political support from Washington D.C.
Last year, Biden met with Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas and bragged that, “I reversed the policies of my predecessor and resumed aid to the Palestinians — more than a half a billion dollars in 2021.”
The meeting between Abbas and Biden didn’t happen on this trip, not because the leader of the free world refused to meet with a terrorist leader, but because the terrorist leader refused to meet with Biden in order to protest Israel’s bombing of Hamas terrorists. Half a billion dollars didn’t even buy Biden a photo op with the terrorist he would like to see running a country.
None of that has stopped Biden and D.C. officials from continuing to talk about the “Two-State Solution” and to warn that if Israel defeats Hamas in Gaza, it must replace it with the Palestinian Authority and its terrorists to begin the cycle of violence and terror all over again.
But Biden didn’t bother to ask the “Palestinians”: 72% of whom don’t support a two-state solution in “which an independent Palestinian state existed alongside an independent state of Israel”. Among the young, there’s only 16% support for coexistence with Israel. 81% of them don’t believe that a permanent peace will ever be achieved. Two-thirds believe that life was better before the Oslo Accords began the two-state solution process and support abandoning it.
If an election were held, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh would defeat Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas by 58% to 37% which explains why Abbas has not held a presidential election since 2005. After Hamas won legislative elections in 2006, all elections were canceled.
Despite the clear evidence otherwise, Secretary of State Blinken put in a call to Abbas to tell him, “that Hamas terrorists do not represent Palestinians”. He didn’t mention that the only reason they don’t is because the Palestinian Authority won’t hold elections to allow them to.
As the Hamas attacks were underway, Al Jazeera reported that mosque “minarets in the West Bank began making calls of ‘Allahu Akbar’ in an expression of support” and “massive processions set out in a number of places in the West Bank… in Jenin, Tubas, Ramallah… in Hebron, and Bethlehem… to celebrate the ‘Al-Aqsa Flood’ battle.”
The Palestinian Authority’s television rejoiced that “Gaza landed a blow that this occupation will yet remember… We are talking about dozens of detainees and captives, both dead bodies and captive soldiers and settlers… Today they are imprisoned in the Gaza Strip.”
The idea that the values of Hamas are fundamentally different from those of Fatah and the Palestinian Authority, and that those differ from the values of the Arab Muslims living in the territories under their control has no basis in actual fact. Politicians keep repeating these evidence-free claims because the alternative is to admit the grimness of the situation.
The two-state solution is based on a myth and a lie. It defies history, geography, and reality. Decades of efforts to implement it have foundered on the simple fact that the issue is coexistence, not territory, and no matter what impossible maps are drawn, the violence never ends because it does not originate in the wars of ‘48, ‘67’ or ‘73, in Israel’s decision to close the Gaza border once Hamas seized power or in anything that happened in the last two centuries.
The myth that the Palestinian Authority, born out of the PLO, was a moderate alternative to Hamas has long since been exposed as a lie, but no matter how often Arafat and then Abbas showed their true colors, how many innocent people were murdered, the big lie was too big to fail. And now in the face of the worst terrorist attack in Israeli history, it’s still too big to fail.
The only way that Biden and the rest of Washington D.C. can countenance removing Hamas is by replacing it with another bunch of terrorists to maintain the “Two-State Solution”.
But the issue is not just one terrorist group. Hamas and Fatah are reflections of their people.
Twenty years ago, a Hamas terrorist disguised as a woman walked into a Passover seder filled with elderly people, including Holocaust survivors, and set off a bomb, killing over two dozen and wounding over a hundred. Next year, the Palestinian Authority sponsored a soccer tournament in the terrorist’s honor to the approval of 71%. (That same poll found that 74% of ‘Palestinians’ supported Saddam Hussein, 82% viewed Hamas as ‘freedom fighters’ and 79% believed that bombing Israeli restaurants and buses were not acts of ‘terrorism’)
“There is no limit to Palestinian barbarism,” the Israeli government spokesman had bitterly observed. The spectacle of “bleeding and dazed survivors” who were “dragging moaning victims across a marble floor streaked with blood and littered with body parts and crushed matzo” set a new standard for evil. One woman saw “a little girl lying dead on the ground with her eyes wide open”. The latest Hamas horrors were more of the same, only executed on a grander scale.
There is indeed no limit to ‘Palestinian’ barbarism and no limit to the lies that the rest of the world will believe to avoid confronting it. The ‘Two-State Solution’ is the worst of those lies. As the Jewish families massacred by Hamas found out, no one can live next door to monsters who lust for the opportunity to torture, mutilate, rape and kill them. That’s the ‘Two-State Solution’.
Biden’s push for a ‘Two-State Solution’ would hand over Gaza from one Islamic terrorist group to another. The Palestinian Authority provides payments to Hamas terrorists and their families as part of its ‘Pay-to-Slay’ program. It celebrates their atrocities and collaborates with them.
The Hamas butchery finally convinced the Biden administration that the terror group needed to go, but the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade has admitted that Fatah took part in the Hamas attacks. Where did the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade come from? It was founded by a member of Tanzim, another Fatah terrorist group responsible for multiple suicide bombings that was created by Arafat and led by Marwan Barghouti.
While Barghouti is serving several life sentences in Israeli prison, if he were to run for president of the Palestinian Authority, polls show he would defeat the Hamas leader, 60% to 37%.
That’s the future of ‘Two-State Solution’.
The ‘Two-State Solution’ is not an end to violence, it’s perpetual violence. If we want an actual solution, it begins with ending our political and financial support for Islamic terror groups in Israel. The experiment of giving the terrorists an independent state has been tried and failed. The death toll from the terrorists of the ‘Two-State Solution’ continues to grow every year.
The solution to terrorism is not more terrorism, it’s ending terrorism.
Walter Sieruk says
With that horrible demonic and horrendously fiendish villain , Joe Biden sitting in the Oval Office of the White House masquerading as a real ,genuine US President . Biden treacherously betrays Israel and supports the murderous forces of Islamic terrorism as of Hamas and Hezbollah
Therefore is wise to remember that as in the days of Nehemiah when he and his men were busy in the reconstruction of the walls around Jerusalem and the Arab became furious and indigent at this at this grand project of the rebuilding of the walls. Neh 4:1 and they thus despised the Jews , Neh. 4:4 ,and schemed terrorist attacks against them.
So the Jewish men set up watch for such attacks, Neh 4:8, therefore ,on this watch they set up guards to be ready for those terrorists attacks , Neh 4;16.
Likewise, in this twenty –first century about the seventy fourth anniversary of the rebirth of the nation of Israel that all the future Islamic terrorists attack against the State of Israel.
The Israel security force and military Israeli police as well the citizens of the modern State of Israel need to keep aware vigilant and on guard against Hamas , Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad attacks, just an in the day of Nehemiah in ancient Israel.
cathy mission says
Excellent comment with parallel Bible commentary. Thank you
James Lincoln says
Another excellent article by Mr. Greenfield.
Hamas/Palestinians clearly want a one state solution – after the extermination of Israel/Jews.
somehistory says
Yes, James. Clearly stated.
somehistory says
It has always been terrorism….give us everything or we will take it and kill you in the process.
It’s like bait and switch….one thing is offered, but the real deal comes after the *customer* shows that he wants to buy.
The demon book of evil filth commands mozlums to murder and steal and lies about them having a *right* to do that. And they take the commands and the lies to heart.
Raghu says
Well said. Secondly where ever these Islamists are present it is terror ground.
Daniel Bielak says
testing testing
Daniel Bielak says
The PA In Their Own Words:
Palestinian Media Watch:
https://palwatch.org
https://www.youtube.com/@palwatch
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Arafat planned that Oslo Accords would chase away Israelis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1AmL9Qoiek
Al-Quds al-Arabi Editor-in-Chief, Abd al-Bari ‘Atwan:
“After the Oslo Accords were signed, I went to Tunisia to visit him [Arafat] in July. I told him: ‘We disagree. I don’t support this agreement. It will harm us.‘
[Arafat] told me: ‘By Allah, I will drive them crazy. I will make these [Oslo] Accords a disaster for them [Israel]. It won’t be in my lifetime, but you will see the Israelis run away from Palestine. Have a little patience.’
The Al-Aqsa Brigades [Fatah terrorist wing] were founded and armed by him [Arafat] as a reply, as a counterweight to the historic mistake of the Oslo Accords.”
ANB TV Feb. 16, 2006
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Abbas rejects Israel’s legitimacy in any borders: All of Israel is an ”occupation”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CspkE4Tfh4s
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Abbas: I will never recognize Israel as a Jewish State
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq3-mvE_sak
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Abbas: “We will not recognize Israel as a Jewish state”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HpSFd-4U-8
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Abbas: The PA is absolved of all agreements with the US and Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7e-GUXyQyM
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Abbas: Hitler killed the Jews because of their social role, usury and money – “they caused ruin”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcJLeWiexOg
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Abbas’ advisor: Jews are Satan in human form
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aiu9S-miC4I
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Abbas on terrorists: Our Martyrs and prisoners are the most sanctified
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOqfG5CnqqA
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Abbas praises terrorist killers of hundreds at Gaza ceremony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUlFC8jEMEU
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Abbas confirms continued salaries to terrorist prisoners
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6InzkvzQFwE
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PA TV from Gaza praises Hamas terror massacre on Israel, calls all hostages “settlers”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXk8hVOvB00
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Israeli cities Acre, Be’er Sheva, and Ramle are in “Palestine” in PA TV song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTg8QG10Qe4
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“Fatah denies Jewish history at the Western Wall, claims Jews have no connection to it”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UekPAP2m5I
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Mahmoud Abbas fabricates history: “The Bible says the Palestinians existed before Abraham…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBvXZIu0fEI
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PA TV: Moses was a Muslim who led Palestinian Muslims out of Egypt and liberated Palestine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqjwLKdg9ro
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Girl demonizes Jews on official PA TV: Treachery is Jewish nature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwJh0ny-f5Q
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PA: Murderer of pregnant woman and child is “heroic” and victim of “kidnapping” by Israel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9KLf9Bh16k
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Abbas: We won’t allow Jews with their “filthy feet” to “defile our Al-Aqsa Mosque”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4Mq63fUwEo
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“West Bank Palestinians demonstrate in support of Hamas and its terror atrocities”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgdSiaNefaQ
gravenimage says
Thanks for all of those links, Daniel.
Daniel Bielak says
Thank you, gravenimage.
The self-stated attitudes and intentions of Fatah/PLO/PA need to be widely disseminated and well-known by Westerners.
Daniel Bielak says
Here is more:
Arafat compared Oslo Accords to Muhammad’s temporary agreement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEYXAIPct_s
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Arafat: Oslo Accords are like Muhammad’s temporary peace agreement (Johannesburg 1994)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8RRbPbIXe8
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PA Minister of Communications: Intifada already planned when Arafat returned from Camp David
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-SY8JxyUQA
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Arafat on Palestinian Authority TV: Dead Palestinian children are the greatest message to the world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M1Rq4WxEVU
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PA leaders applaud kids singing “I shall saturate you with my blood, redeem you with my life”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG2Lqa8D9Ak
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Yasser Arafat calls for Jihad, struggle, and combat [1996]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yIlszDfp94
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Arafat’s bodyguard: Arafat lied when he condemned terror attacks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8w9QvNnvls
Daniel Bielak says
And More:
Fatah cheers Hamas’ massacre on Israel, calls to “land more blows on the main enemy”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG5zRnQQEVM
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BBC Arabic hosts folksongs glorifying attacks on Jews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcQXI_FHHF4
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Fatah song: “Slice open the enemy’s chest… I have no love other than the love of the rifle”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdHsauhlRlo
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PA TV: Let Gaza become Stalingrad to “teach the Israeli occupation a lesson”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zQq7kLYpu8
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Hamas terrorist praises PA Police officers for participating in terror
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVf4NPREzF0
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Hamas massacre on Israel is “a morning of victory, joy and pride” says Fatah official
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDNF0oF-Ahs
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Fatah praises Nazi ally Al-Husseini and murderers from 1929 Arab riots
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxPrgYQ5Mzg
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Fatah applauds Hamas murderers and rapists: “They are a source of pride, heroism, and honor”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McfeMdGWxic
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Abbas’ advisor on Hamas massacre: “Our legitimate right to defend ourselves”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8zc-Jbms_0
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PA Prime Minister tells Gazans to ignore Israel’s evacuation warnings prior to bombings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCB9d3fgVX0
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Palestinian refugee: Jordanian army told us to leave in 1948 War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iR5nDFhBL0
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Refugee – Arab states told Arabs to leave Israel in 1948 war
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuGqpFxogRg
Daniel Bielak says
Documentaries:
“THE NAZIS AND THE PALESTINIAN MOVEMENT,” by Dr. Francisco Gil-White
https://vimeo.com/127628271
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_abGQY-1qoM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pctJeiRL1nU
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“Nazi and Soviet origins of the ‘Palestinian’ cause (updated),” by Pierre Rehov
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwfDVkXEo-o
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“WHAT IS PALESTINE? WHO ARE THE PALESTINIANS?” by Dr. Francisco Gil-White
https://vimeo.com/77053361
Carina Moses says
As for the Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims; regarding Leftists – with friends like these, who needs enemies?
gravenimage says
The ‘Two-State Solution’ is Terrorism
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Another fine article from Daniel Greenfield. Thank you.
OLD GUY says
These two old guys are smiling all the way to the bank. Profiting off of other peoples pain and suffering for years.