The idea of a Palestinian State has gripped the West with such force that even the most well-known defenders of Zionism speak about its necessity while providing no answers to how that can be achieved. The esteemed New York Times journalist, Brett Stephens, in his current Australian tour reiterated the view that Zionism is fulfilled by the establishment of a self-governing Palestinian state alongside the Jewish State.
The likelihood of that occurring in the foreseeable future was given a further blow by the Hamas attack on Israel from Gaza, which the Palestinian Authority neither rushed to condemn nor was able to prevent. In fact, Mahmoud Abbas’ statement a full five days after the attack on October 7 was ambiguous at best: ‘We reject the practices of killing civilians or abusing them on both sides.’
Not even this statement is true, since the Palestinian Authority under Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, has been involved in terrorist attacks and intifadas against Israel, targeting civilians at bus stops, restaurants, and markets for decades. The difference between Hamas and the PA is only partial, since both teach their children in school textbooks that the killing of Jews is a religious act, instructed by the Koran, that automatically elevates the murderer into a martyr. The compensation given to families of terrorists (‘pay for slay’) is another example of this belief, as was the jubilation in the Palestinian streets on October 7.
Therefore, the pro-Palestinian marches in Australia, infiltrated and promoted by Hizb ut-Tahrir, a banned terrorist group in most Western countries, align themselves with this belief. As they chant ‘from the river to the sea’ they call for the elimination of Israel, whose name they cannot bear to utter, calling it ‘the Zionist entity’.
The delusions of the West, including our government, that a Palestinian State is either desirable or possible can only be entertained if one ‘disappears’ the history of the last 75 years in which the possibility of such a state in peaceful co-existence with Israel has been repeatedly rejected and undermined by Palestinians themselves.
