By Steve Kramer
KFAR SABA, Israel — President Joe Biden, a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” insists that Hamas must be rewarded for its genocidal war against Israelis with a state of its own, a State of Palestine. Lately, support for two states west of the Jordan River has plummeted to less than 25%, according to a 10/23 Gallup poll. The “Palestinian” state would supposedly be demilitarized and governed by a reconstituted and improved Palestinian Authority, an extremely unlikely outcome. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken shares this unrealistic, improbable demand for two states “living side by side in peace.”
The theme, “From the river to the sea,” has become the outcry shouted by mobs throughout the West and the Arab countries. Especially in the West, the haters – almost without exception – have no idea where Israel is, what river and which sea are pertinent, and who is responsible for the continuous bloodshed. In the US, social media and other sources (including at times the current administration) indict and vilify Israel as murderers of Arabs and war criminals. Washington’s recurring warnings not to commit war crimes are an insult to Israel, which probably is the most scrupulous country when it comes to attempting to prevent “civilian casualties.”
The idea to reward a “State of Palestine” to the Arab barbarians is nonsensical. First, it’s an insult to Israelis, who were wantonly attacked on 10/7/23 in a horrific manner, with much murder, rape, mutilation, and kidnapping. Second, Arab leaders consistently have turned down a state, in 1948, 1967, 2001, and 2008. Why? Because the Palestinian Arabs want everything “from the river to the sea.” That’s all the territory west of the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, with Israel erased. And who would rule it? Hamas, not a “reconstituted Palestinian Authority” which has feared to hold an election since 2005 because of its unpopularity.
President Biden lately has apologized to Michigan’s Arab population, regretting that his government has backed Israel excessively and that Israel’s military response to the barbaric Hamas is “over the top.” This in spite of the fact that deaths of Arab “civilians” are probably among the lowest soldier/civilian ratios ever. Additionally, the figures of casualties are suspect: their unreliable source, no breakdown of combatants versus civilians, no accounting for rocket misfire casualties, and combatants routinely fighting while dressed in civilian attire. The first response to all of these accusations should be automatic, loud and clear: BLAME HAMAS. Yet, I rarely hear it.
The Jewish population in America has lately awakened to its perilous situation. As someone born at the very end of WWII, I grew up in a time when American Jews experienced a “Golden Age.” By the time I attended college, there were no bars to admission, especially among the elite schools. Job opportunities in large corporations were numerous, company boards boasted many Jews, college presidents were often Jewish, college faculties included many Jewish lecturers and professors, synagogues were burgeoning, country clubs accepted Jews routinely, and being Jewish (in most places) was not at all dangerous.
Contrast that with the present, when militant Muslims and their non-Muslim “useful idiots” harass and endanger Jews, students hide their Jewish identities, Jewish college presidents are disappearing, job opportunities for Jews are diminished, the prejudice against Jews (and often Asian Americans) is widespread, and these same two minorities are considered to be “white oppressors.”
After Israel defeats Hamas, rehabilitating its image as a potent Middle Eastern power, I would expect an enlargement of the Abraham Accords. But if Israel succumbs to Washington’s demands to legitimize a jihadist Palestinian Arab state, Israel’s future will be dark – and eventually so will the future of the West.
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Steve Kramer is an American-Israeli freelance writer based in Kfar Saba.
Why should Jews accept a non Jewish state on their Jewish biblical homeland as a peaceful solution that clearly symbolizes the complete denial of their trimillennial history and culture there, including their 2000 years of forced exile from their rightfully reclaimed land and that of their ancestors just to give their archennemies the opportunity and satisfaction by doing so to cause a repeat of their most nightmarish fears of a second holocaust especially after witnessing an immense, unrelenting, unjust, unjustified wave of genocidal antisemitism in all of the socalled democratic world that clearly claims to eradicate them forever from the face of this earth while requesting that they adhere to levels of morality sufficient to guarantee their own destruction?
Why should Jews and Israel be held accountable to standards of international laws that to begin with, were created without their participation, postdated their tragic history by centuries, ignored their plight regardless of the the immensity and unspeakable the horrors of the holocaust that their present ennemies refuse to even acknowledge???
Leslie Artman commented: So sad and depressing. Spot on as usual. The old story of scapegoat, re-emergence of Antisemitism but also on such a large scale and almost everywhere We wait for the rally to overcome this and it will happen. Am Yisrael Chai.