What will it take for the world to confront the evil realities being carried out in the name of “Palestinian liberation?”
I still have a vivid picture of the stunningly beautiful Bibas children with their red hair — full of life and laughter. Violently kidnapped from their home in Israel, they have now returned from Gaza in coffins, as forensic evidence revealed having been brutally murdered.
When will the world have the courage to face the true nature of the Palestinian issue?
In 1917, after World War I, Britain legally controlled the region of Palestine, a territory, not a country. This is why there has never been a Palestinian king or queen, Palestinian currency, or a defined Palestinian people.
In 1937, 95% of the area was offered to the Arabs, with only 5% proposed for the Jews. The Arabs rejected this offer.
In the 1947-48 UN Partition Plan, half of the territory of what had been called Palestine was offered to the Arabs, and the other half to the Jews.
The Arabs could have accepted it, just as the Jews did, creating a thriving and peaceful nation on the Mediterranean.
Instead, fueled by Islamic Jihadism, the Arabs chose war in an attempt to destroy the Jewish state. Once the primary national founder and first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion declared the State of Israel, Tel Aviv was attacked by Egyptian Air Forces, as well as the armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and other forces.
At that time, these countries outnumbered the Jews 40 to 1 in troops, 100 to 1 in population, 1,000 to 1 in military equipment, and 5,000 to 1 in land mass. Israel had 1 rifle for every 5 men, no artillery, an air force made up of a few planes, and a navy consisting of a few old ships.
But against all odds — and, on the heels of the Holocaust, the Jews prevailed, and the Arabs were defeated.
To this day, Palestinian Arabs refer to this period as the “Nakba” (the day of catastrophe) — an event that might be better understood in the West as “shooting yourself in the foot.”
What is clear is that the Arab states went to war with the State of Israel because they denied the historical connection of the Jewish people to the land of Israel, instead, insisting that the territory be a single, unified Arab and Islamic state.
Nothing has changed. It is the same reason the Palestinian Arabs have rejected the offer of statehood five times.
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