By Victor Sharpe | July 22, 2024
There has never in all of recorded history existed an independent, sovereign Arab nation called Palestine. It is a fraudulent history of a fraudulent people in a fraudulent land.
The phrase “Two State Solution” has been embraced by politicians and journalists alike, repeated endlessly, and touted as the panacea for a “just and equitable” solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
It has assumed the repetitious role of a muezzin’s call to Islamic prayer. But it is based on erroneous geography and history, on a mixture of wishful thinking, naiveté and a brilliant Arab propaganda campaign of disinformation and falsehood. To understand why, it is necessary to learn a small but vital chapter of Middle Eastern history.
Shortly after the conclusion of the First World War and the total defeat of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, which had ruled most of the Middle East from 1517 to 1917, Britain was made trustee by the League of Nations for the geographical and non-state territory known as Mandatory Palestine. Incorporated within the Mandate was the 1917 Balfour Declaration, which specifically referred to the historical connections of the Jewish people with Palestine and to the moral validity of reconstituting within it the Jewish National Home.
The British Mandatory power, however, arbitrarily tore away 80% of the Palestine Mandate which lay east of the River Jordan in 1921/22 giving it to the Hashemites, a Bedouin tribe with links to Mecca. Only the tiny portion west of the River Jordan remained from the original Mandate territory promised to the Jewish people as a National Home.
Jewish residency was immediately forbidden in all the Muslim occupied land east of the River Jordan, which in time became known as Trans-Jordan and then as the Kingdom of Jordan.
The U.N. Partition Plan of 1947 proposed two states, Jewish and Arab, which were roughly equal in size. But these two states were to occupy only the remaining miniscule western geographic area of Mandatory Palestine – from the Mediterranean Sea to the River Jordan – barely 40 miles wide and a mere 20% of what now remained of original Mandatory Palestine.
This plan was reluctantly accepted by the Jewish leadership with deep reservations, but as a pragmatic solution to the plight of the 850,000 Jewish refugees who were being driven from Arab lands at the time of Israel’s rebirth. The Arab League rejected the plan.
The diminutive size of the proposed state was also but reluctantly accepted in order to facilitate the absorption of the surviving Jewish remnant of the Holocaust still languishing in European Displaced Persons (DP) camps.
The State of Israel, thus barely reconstituted in part of its ancient and Biblical homeland in May 1948, was immediately invaded by seven Arab armies in order to completely destroy it and drive the surviving Jews into the sea.
The Jordanian Arab Legion, led by British mercenary officers, occupied the eastern half of Jerusalem along with Judea and Samaria (aka the ‘West Bank’), driving the Jews out of their towns and villages. In the south, the Egyptians occupied the Gaza Strip, similarly driving the Jews from their homes in Gaza.
The Jewish state astonished the world by surviving the Arab aggression. The Arab states, however, again totally rejected the existence of a Jewish state in the Middle East and an uneasy armistice remained in force routinely broken by acts of Arab terror.
In June 1967, the Egyptians, Jordanians, and Syrians, launched a new aggression against Israel with the avowed intention of annihilating it. Israel again defeated her Arab enemies in six amazing days and in so doing liberated and reclaimed the eastern half of Jerusalem, along with Judea and Samaria (aka the ‘West Bank’), from the Jordanians. At the same time, Gaza was freed from Egyptian occupation.
Despite foolishly repeated offers by Israeli governments to give away territory in return for a hoped for true and lasting peace with the Arab belligerents, the Arab world continued to support terror and refused to accept a reborn Jewish state within the Middle East.
In April 2009, the Holocaust denying and current leader of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, Israel’s supposed peace partner, formally rejected any willingness to accept Israel as a Jewish state; a sure indication of the falsity of any Arab claim to live in full and lasting peace with Israel.
True, a peace exists today between Israel and Jordan and between Israel and Egypt, but it is a frigid, cold, and precarious peace with neither Jordan nor Egypt truly interested in full and mutually beneficial relations. Thus ends the history lesson.
The creation of a Palestinian Arab state within the mere 40 miles separating the Mediterranean and the Jordan River is a recipe for war and for the piecemeal destruction of the Jewish state. Such a hostile Arab state will soon fall under the control of the same Islamist Hamas movement, itself a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, which seeks a worldwide Islamic Caliphate. Gaza, and what it has become, is living proof.
Israel would again be reduced as it was before 1967 to a nation a mere nine miles wide at its most populous region. When President Bush was still Governor of Texas he flew over Israel’s then tiny width and remarked, “…why, in my state we have driveways longer than that.”
To repeat: The present-day Kingdom of Jordan occupies four-fifths of geographical Palestine. This large territory consists of the land east of the River Jordan, extending north to Syria, east to Iraq and south to Saudi-Arabia.
Compared to Israel, it dwarfs the Jewish state, yet it originated in an act of unprincipled perfidiousness by the British government of the day and remains an Arab state that has from its inception forbidden Jewish habitation within its borders, even though it includes territory promised in Britain’s 1917 Balfour Declaration and by the League of Nations as a Jewish National Home.
Jordan’s population is currently made up of 75% Arabs who call themselves “Palestinians” with the remainder being Hashemite Bedouins. As it is on land originally forming four fifths of Mandatory Palestine, and as the population is three fourths Palestinian Arab, it follows that the “just and equitable” solution to the creation of a Palestinian Arab state should be within most of the present-day Kingdom of Jordan and, therefore, east of the River Jordan.
In a peaceful and sane world, Arabs should be urging that ‘Jordan is Palestine.’ But, alas, in their world, peace and sanity is a rarity.
The Arabs who call themselves “Palestinians” and who choose to remain in Judea and Samaria should be required to end all terrorism against Israel – hardly an onerous demand – and by finally living in peace could flourish within an Israel whose territory would now formally extend west from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. That would still only be a distance of barely 40 miles at its widest. The United States in comparison is some 3,000 miles wide.
Israel would now formally possess most of her Biblical and ancestral Jewish lands – with the exception of the Biblical Jewish territory east of the Jordan River, the ancestral lands of the Biblical Jewish tribes of Manasseh, Gad and Reuben which languish in present day north-western Jordan. That territory too must in good time be liberated and returned in its entirety to Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel.
- Victor Sharpe is a prolific writer and contributing editor with many conservative and leading websites and periodicals. He is a published author of seven books including the acclaimed Politicide: The attempted murder of the Jewish state.© Victor Sharpe
@Peloni Thank you for clearing that up.
@Sebastien
The former I would argue is a reflection of Trump’s persistance in dealing with rogue leaders, regardless of their history or character. They represent those who they lead, even if the representation is not based on respect for human dignity, but rather upon marshal control. It is an extension of the recognition that the US is not the international policeman, and will deal with whomever is in the interest of America, even if it is not in the interest of a world singing Kumbaya. In any event, too much has changed since October 7 for Abbas to correctly hope to see Trump return to any version of a TSS, something which he has spoken about in the post October 7 period, much less that the PA has any role to play in the future.
The latter remark about Bibi was the result of a poison pill dropped on Trump by Gantz in a successful attempt to sew discord between Bibi and Trump. Gantz confessed this fact while speaking at the Aspen Institute, and also claimed credit for single handedly getting Trump to change his position, post settlement, with regards to Israel receiving 30% of J&S as a signing bonus, so to speak, for Bibi having come to the US and endorse Trump’s reformed version of the TSS in Dec. 2019. No doubt, this will be part of what is discussed between the two men on Friday.
So, I would argue that none of it is disinformation, even as the two statements are based on two very different set of circumstances with very different sets of relevance.
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/24/trump-palestinian-leader-letter-netanyahu-meeting-peace
Trump says Netanyahu “never wanted peace” with the Palestinians
https://www.axios.com/2021/12/13/trump-middle-east-peace-netanyahu
Is all this disinformation?
https://www.jta.org/2024/07/24/politics/donald-trump-thanks-mahmoud-abbas-for-concern-after-assassination-attempt
And By the way–Victor Sharpe’s analysis is 100% correct.
I believe that Israel should not have recognized Morocco’s annexation of the Southern Sahara, because the land rightfully belongs to it native people, the Sahraoui people. (Yes there is a native people in the South Sahara. They are Bedouin of some kind). Israel should not agree to something unjust, even when it is a very advantageous deal for us.
Yes of course Israel was right to establish extend diplomatic relations wuth Morocco when Morocco’s king proposed establishing them. mutual diplomatic recognition. But I think Israel should have politely but firmly refused to recognize Morocco’s unjust, illegal annexation off the Southern Sahara. We Jews should neverr condone injustice towards anyone, anywhere. That would be be contrary to our national traditions.
The Moroccons invaded Morocco some years ago, I don’t remember the precise year, and poured huge numbers of Moroccan settlers into the territory, forcing the native Sahraouis into a smaller piece of lant in the far southern end of the country. The Sahraouis attemped to resist the Moroccan invaders for a short time with arms from Algeria, which had its own “dog in the game, wanting the mineral rich territory for themselves. The Sahaoui surrendered there armed resistance fighters to the Moroccans, but they have not surrendered their political claim to sovereignty over the territory.
The las legal sovereign of the territory was Spain. Spain has not recognized the Moroccan annexation, although it has renounced its own claim to the territory.
@Vivarto, dreuveni partially. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahrawi_Arab_Democratic_Republic
Israel recognized Morocco’s claim as a condition for it’s joining the Abraham Accords.
Ironic twist from before Morocco joined the Abraham Accords.
https://www.newarab.com/analysis/palestinian-sahrawi-solidarity-trumped-morocco-hamas-power-politics-campaigners-allege
– As I’ve mentioned, the sheer hypocrisy of all these nations, so many of whom have disgruntled minorities who claim the right to secede like the Sahwari of Western Sahara who have received recognition from 46 nations.
Somebody could do some really biting satirical skits about all these secessionist movements in all the countries giving Israel a hard time about the Pals.
And Iran, oh, boy. That one we could work with for real if we had a real anti-Iran policy. There are a whole bunch. It’s a very big country sitting on other people’s land, e.g., Azeris, Balochis, Arabs, Kurds, etc.
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Iran has many ethnic and religious minorities, including:
Ethnic minorities
These groups make up more than half of Iran’s population and live in the border provinces, often with ties to neighboring countries. They include:
Azeris: 16% of the population
Kurds: 10% of the population
Arabs: 2–3% of the population
Baluch: 2% of the population
Turkmen: 2% of the population
Lur: 6% of the population
Other Turkic tribes: 2% of the population
Other nomadic peoples: 1% of the population
Religious minorities
These include Christians, Jews, Zoroastrians, and Baha’is. According to the Justice Department, Iran’s constitution protects these minorities, but they still face discrimination and violence. For example, the Sikh minority faces backlash for practicing cremation, and Armenians have difficulty avoiding the perception of being foreigners. The Baha’i religious group has no legal protections at all. “
@dreuveni
Spanish Sahara is currently under Moroccan control. Morocco is a member of the Arab League.
@vivarto: if you want to go into details, most of South eastern Europe and the Iberian peninsula should be Green too – if the Arab argument that any land previously occupied by Islam must be under Islamic control.
The green area on the map should also include the Western (Spanish) Sahara.