Tuesday, December 18, 2018

The Non Existent Two State Solution

Eight European Union members said today that any future peace plan that was not based on the "two state solution" would fail.

This statement by France, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany and Italy, is not based on any kind of logic. It's not based on any kind of reality. It's not based on anything even remotely sane.

It is based on a policy of appeasement that says that if you give into the unending demands of the Arabs, then surely, SURELY, there'll be peace.

For too long, the whole conflict between Israel and the 'palestinians' has been labelled as Israel’s responsibility. Israel’s fault. Israel the cause. Israel the guilty one. Israel must solve it. Pressure must be placed on Israel.

Well, I maintain a different approach.

There is a conflict, but it’s not between Israel and the 'palestinians' – it’s between the Arabs and themselves. Because if a new country called 'Palestine' was created today, does any logical and reasonable person seriously expect us to believe that peace will suddenly reign across the region? How is it that a 23rd Arab state will be that missing link between peace and war, when 22 Arab states have not been able to achieve that already?

Here’s a newsflash – if Israel ever does disappear, do not expect peace to come to the world. Do not expect people to lay down their weapons and hold hands while dancing around a campfire, chanting songs of love to the moon. Do not expect world hunger to end. Do not expect some kind of outbreak of goodwill to sweep the nations. Not only will none of this happen – the exact opposite of it will. Because without this little bastion of democracy and defiance against the oppressive countries surrounding it, a dark wave of Islamic Fascism will sweep the region and then the world. In Europe this has already begun, and citizens in Germany and France and Belgium and Sweden have lost the sense of security they might have once felt.

Many don't get this blatantly obvious fact, perhaps governed by the oldest hatred of anti-Semitism, or perhaps under the influence of those petro-fumes, or perhaps powered by a naivety in the same way Neville Chamberlain was back in 1938. Too many countries are too scared to call out the Arabs for their lack of human rights, their war mongering diatribes, their racism and their antisemitism. They continue to treat them with a respect they don't deserve. But by refusing to confront them, it hasn't helped peace at all. If anything, it did the opposite, because what this soft attitude essentially did was absolve the Arab world of any responsibility towards the Middle East. And without any responsibility, there is also no accountability.

World leaders are not prepared to deliver this lesson to the Arab world – out of fear that the black gold we depend on will dry up. Instead the world continues to pander to them, stroke their fragile egos, and speak of shared values! I mean seriously - can anyone name one shared value the western democratic world shares with the Arab world - other than the exploding rate of antisemitism!

They treat them and still do with more respect than they do Israel – the country that actually does share many of the same values.

And I could never quite understand how it is that those that call themselves progressive can attack the only country in the region that actually is? Are we supposed to believe that the values people hold in Europe or the USA are more similar to the Arab world and the 'Palestinian authority' than to Israel – values such as freedom of speech, democracy and the right to choose who your partner is?

Because I certainly don’t remember pride rallies in Iran, or freedom of speech in Saudi Arabia, or democracy in Qatar or Kuwait. And celebrating that women can now supposedly drive in Saudi Arabia is not really something to be hailed – when women still need written permission from their husbands or still have to be accompanied by a male relative.

The two state solution was never alive because the Arab leaders were never prepared to accept the responsibility that goes along with the rewards. But there is responsibility for the conflict, and to make Israel the cause of it is an injustice that continues to this day. If you want to look for responsibility look no further than the leader of the 'palestinians,' who refuses to lead. Look no further than their education system that preaches hatred, funded by the United Nations. Look no further than the official imams who spew hatred from their mosques. And considering that they financially reward those who murder children should tell you everything you need to know about their morality.

The stark reality is that we live in a world that places a higher value on fascism than it does on freedom.

The end to the conflict between Israel and the 'palestinians' does not lie in giving up minuscule land that will make no difference to the Arab world. It does not lie in dividing Jerusalem, a city that was never desired as a capital by any other people in history but the Jews. It certainly doesn’t lie in releasing prisoners whose blood soaked hands who will only kill again.

It lies in the Arab world accepting that they can’t have every inch of land in the vast Middle Eastern region. It lies in the 'palestinians' accepting that the State of Israel is not a colonial force or a foreign entity, but an integral part of that region with a history far longer than their own invented one. And it lies in the Arab world accepting their so-called refugees – who are Arabs like them – the way the world has accepted refugees from all over.

Until world leaders start pushing for freedom in the Arab world the way they say they value it, rather than rewarding fascism as they are doing now – then peace will remain as elusive now as it ever was before.

And any peace process is already doomed to failure.