The latest world congress of antisemites concluded last Wednesday after world leaders once again reassured each other that those evil Jews are, in fact, starving children, and that therefore they must not be left to peacefully coexist, secure in their own sovereign nation. The outcome of the conference fully justified the Trump administration’s decision to boycott the conference, which it called “an unproductive and ill-timed … publicity stunt.”
Of course, evil is never so blunt. Rather, Saudi Arabia and the recently radicalized France co-hosted a “High-Level International Conference for the Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the Implementation of the Two-State Solution” at the U.N. headquarters in New York City. But when world leaders discuss settling the “Question of Palestine” and implementing a “Two-State Solution” in a U.N. context, no one can miss their meaning.
The conference produced a seven-page document that endorsed a renewed effort to achieve a two-state solution between Israel and Palestinian Arabs.
The plan insisted that Israel agree to an immediate ceasefire and prevent the starvation of children in Gaza, before it eliminated Hamas or effected the return of the remaining hostages. Seventeen individual countries, the European Union, and the Arab League all signed onto the document.
The closest the document came to balance was a declaration that “Hamas must end its rule in Gaza and hand over its weapons to the Palestinian Authority … in line with the objective of a sovereign and independent Palestinian State.” The call for Hamas’s disarmament is apparently a first for Arab nations like Qatar, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. But the framing presumes that a Palestinian state ruled by the Palestinian Authority would produce different outcomes than one ruled by Hamas — a highly contestable assumption.
However, the country that stole the most dramatic headlines at the conference was the United Kingdom. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer threatened that his government in September will follow France into recognizing a non-existent state of Palestine “unless the Israeli government takes substantive steps to end the appalling situation in Gaza, reaches a cease-fire, makes clear there will be no annexation in the West Bank, and commits to a long-term peace process that delivers a two-state solution.”
The illogic of Starmer’s ultimatum was apparently lost on his government. His threat only has leverage insofar as Israel dreads international recognition of a Palestinian state. But he demanded that Israel recognize a Palestinian state, which would result in broader international recognition of a Palestinian state.
In other words, Starmer’s declaration amounted to an announcement that the U.K. will recognize a non-existent Palestinian state within Israel’s borders, regardless of Israel’s position. Of course, he paid lip service to even-handedness by insisting that Hamas also “sign up to a cease-fire, disarm, and accept that they will play no part in the government of Gaza.” But Starmer ignored the reality that this is Israel’s war aim, which it will lose all leverage to effect if Israel accepts his terms
Thus, the U.K.’s recognition of Palestinian statehood will be as empty as it is insulting. Since it jettisoned its imperial holdings after World War II, the U.K. no longer controls events in the Middle East, nor even seems to follow them very closely. Foreign Secretary David Lammy called Israel’s rejection of a two-state solution “wrong morally and it’s wrong strategically,” which indicates nothing but Lammy’s own tenuous grasp of morality and strategy.
This mystifying mountain of malice directed at Israel prompts us to ask why Israel faces such criticism. Of course, Israel always faces a background environment of antisemitism around the globe. But the more proximate cause for this criticism is the recently resurrected lie that Israel is starving Gazan children. “There seems to be a diplomatic tsunami against the Jewish state, and it’s fueled … by much of what’s happening in the media,” observed CBN Middle East bureau chief Chris Mitchell on “Washington Watch.”
“It’s a media campaign that Hamas is running, talking about starvation in Gaza,” Mitchell added. “The media is actually pushing countries like the U.K. and other countries to go ahead and declare a Palestinian state.”
For decades, propaganda has been the most powerful weapon of Israel’s terrorist enemies, and this time has proven no different. Even President Donald Trump, one of the friendliest world leaders toward Israel, said Monday that he “doesn’t mind” Starmer’s new position on Palestinian statehood because the U.S. is “looking [to] get people fed right now. That’s the number one position, you have a lot of starving people.”
But “like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight” (Proverbs 26:2). The rhetorical punches thrown at Israel never land a solid hit because they are only thrown at strawmen. The tsunami of criticism directed at Israel does not — or should not — change the unfairness and unworkability of a two-state solution. International leaders are holding Israel to a double standard that no other nation faces, while Hamas remains free to play at ruling without an actual, functioning state.
Two-state solution already tried and failed
...the demand for a two-state solution ignores the fact that this policy has already been tried, and it failed. “That’s what we had prior to October the 7th, in effect. We had Gaza self-governing … There was no Israeli involvement whatsoever. And it was nothing more than a launchpad for terrorism,” argued Perkins.
In fact, “October 7th was the fruit of what they actually did 20 years ago, where they actually unilaterally pulled out of the Gaza Strip,” argued Mitchell. “There were many people at that time [who] warned, ‘If Israel pulls out of the Gaza Strip, there would be a terrorist state to take its place.’ That’s exactly what happened. Two years later, Hamas took over from the Palestinian Authority and created … the biggest terror base in the world. So that, in a sense, was a Palestinian state for almost 18 years.”
This Palestinian state did not fail from any lack of funding or well-wishing. Countries around the globe “donated billions and billions of dollars to Gaza over the 18 years that Israel wasn’t there,” Glick recalled. “Billions of dollars [were] just taken [and] diverted by Hamas to build the most complicated, complex defenses ever seen: again, 450 miles of subterranean tunnels whose sole purpose was to wage war against Israel, to hold terrorists, to hold hostages, to hold missiles.
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This is not about antisemitism. GOD is not antisemitic. In fact he sent his only SON and our Lord and Savior to give salvation for humanity in this very area of our planet amongst those that reside there knowing that he would be rejected and crucified but in doing so eliminating the need for traditional sacrifice as he became the lamb of sacrifice. He is just fulfilling his word by making Jerusalem a burden and Gaza is just a prelude to what comes next.
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