T. Belman. “This is the best plan that there is for the future. No other Plan comes close”. That was my first assessment.. I have since changed my mind. Wise wants to allow 1.8 million Palestinians into Israel in the belief that they will abandon their hatred of Israel. He doesn’t even discuss how this is to be done. The predominat thought in Israel is Israelis don’t want to live next to a palestinian state let alone invite them into Israel.
Turning the “Day After” into Lasting Peace:
Israel Must Declare Sovereignty and Preserve the Rights of the Palestinians
- Introduction
There is a raging debate with respect to the “Day After” plan for Gaza and the West Bank. What will be the status of Gaza and West Bank after Israel accomplishes its mission in Gaza? President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken have adamantly supported the creation of a Palestinian state as a critical element of the “Day After” Plan. They believe that the fundamental rights of the Palestinian people can only be realized with the creation of a Palestinian state encompassing Gaza and the West Bank (Judea & Samaria) and that a two-state solution is critical for future peace in Israel.
In this plan, we articulate that, to the contrary, the violent story of Gaza under Hamas since 2007 will be greatly exaggerated if Israel withdraws from Judea & Samaria (“J&S”) and facilitates the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state. In the absence of Israeli presence, the J&S will become a haven for terrorism and will lead to a spectacular increase of violence and conflict. Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza led to an existential threat to Israel and such a withdrawal from the J&S will likely only further heighten the risks to Israel and the region.
In this proposal, we outline an alternative plan that best balances the security of the region and the rights of the Palestinian Arabs. The rights of Palestinian Arabs to live peacefully and to prosper and the security of Israelis and Palestinians can best be realized when Hamas, Fatah, and the Palestinian Authority are removed. Israel must declare sovereignty and provide full civil and religious rights for all residents. Today, Israeli Arabs are the beneficiary of living in a democratic society with full civil and religious rights. This plan, through a carefully implemented application process, seeks to provide the Palestinian Arabs of Gaza and the J&S, with the same Blue Israel ID cards that east Jerusalem Arabs hold.
When Israel declares sovereignty and Hamas and the Palestinian Authority are stripped of power, Arab countries who have been targets of the Moslem Brotherhood and are repelled by the corrupt Hamas and PA leadership, will join the Abraham Accords to create a new and prosperous Middle East.
- Palestinian Governance Has Failed
President Biden and his representatives have insisted on a two-state solution as critical for future peace in Israel. Secretary of State Blinken has proclaimed, “Normalization… needs to involve a two-state solution.” In fact, numerous attempts to resolve the Israel/Arab conflict with two-state solutions all failed. In fact, Palestinian governance has failed.
Support for the two-state solution has undergone a fundamental shift as many acknowledge that Palestinian governance leads to instability and violence. Even before October 7, President Isaac Herzog, who originally supported the Gaza withdrawal, said, “It was the right thing to do, but without a doubt, from a security perspective, the disengagement was a mistake. We failed in our assessment that post-withdrawal Gaza would become the Hong Kong of the Middle East. Instead, it has become one big rocket base.” Little did he know or acknowledge the extent of the military threat or the size of the metro tunnel complex.
Israel withdrew from Gaza in August 2005. Four months later Hamas won legislative elections in the Palestinian Arab territories promising that ongoing terrorism would eventually drive the Jews out of J&S and eventually into the sea. By June 2007, Hamas violently took over Gaza and the rest is history that cannot be allowed to repeat. The gruesome terrorist events of October 7, make it eminently clear that creation of a Palestinian State or even relinquishing control over J&S and again withdrawing from Gaza will have tragic consequences. The failure of the PA to monitor or control terrorist activity in the West Bank is evidenced by terrorist enclaves and huge arms caches discovered daily by the IDF in PA controlled Jenin and Tul Karm and Hebron and Shechem.
Many alternatives to the two-state solution have been proposed. The proposals range from maintaining the status quo, federation, cantons, sovereignty over Area C and/or the Jordan valley, creation of a bi-national state, to declaration of Jewish sovereignty.
Here, we propose that Israel must declare sovereignty west of the Jordan River. It is the shortest path to ending the Israel/Arab conflict.
- Declarations of sovereignty
Israel must act decisively and declare sovereignty after its military objectives in Gaza are accomplished. In 1967, Israel military rule in J&S might have been the only alternative. Israel had to deal with the three Arab “No’s of Khartoum”. No peace with Israel, No recognition of Israel, and No negotiations with Israel. At that time, Israel’s population of barely 2.2 million Jews had not reached a critical mass and annexation was not feasible. But today the facts on the ground have dramatically changed. Israel’s Jewish population exceeds 7.5 million and its Arab Moslem population is less than 1.8 million. The ongoing 56-year-old military occupation over J&S cannot be justified in any political, diplomatic, military, economic, academic or street forum.
Israel has previously declared sovereignty over at least four areas. Israel accepted the limited borders of the UN partition plan of 1947 and declared sovereignty on May 14, 1948. After the successful 1948-49 War of Independence, Israel formally declared sovereignty over the expanded territory. After the 1967 six-day war Israel expanded the boundaries of its small capital, Jerusalem, and formally declared sovereignty. Citizenship was offered to the 85,000 Arabs residents. About 5,000 accepted in spite of the threats of the Hashemite monarch. The balance became holders of Blue Israel ID cards with full civil and religious rights other than voting for Knesset Members. After the Oslo Accords (1993-1995) increasing numbers of Jerusalem Arabs applied for full Israel citizenship. Today, about 285,000 of Jerusalem Arabs (many of whom immigrated from the PA) are holders of Blue Israel ID cards. By every poll and study, they unanimously prefer to live in Israel rather than under the despotic PA rule. In 1981, Israel applied Israel law to the Golan Heights and offered citizenship to the Druze population. Between 1981 and 2022, nearly 5,500 out of 20,000 residents applied for and received full Israel citizenship. The balance hold Blue Israel ID cards. In 2019, the U.S. recognized the Golan Heights as part of Israel and increasing numbers of Druze serve in the Israeli military, are delighted not to live under Syrian rule, and are now applying for Israeli citizenship.
Israel must declare sovereignty and begin a strictly monitored application process enabling West Bank and Gaza Palestinians to obtain the rights and responsibilities comparable to Jerusalem Arab Blue ID holders.
- Planning for Palestinian Integration into Israel
Assertion of Jewish sovereignty over J&S has been delayed in large measure by issues surrounding the status of the 1.7 million Arab residents. The Palestinian Authority falsely inflates that number to more than 3 million residents as do several Israel demographers (Sergio Dela Pergola and Arnon Sofer) who rely exclusively on PA claims. Our work found in The Million Person Gap (BEGIN-SADAT CENTER FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES) exposed the fallacious numbers in the PA claim. Similarly, prior to October 7, there were a maximum of 1.7 million Gaza Arabs rather than the inflated 2.3 claimed by Hamas and the PA.
Under this plan, J&S Arab residents and the remaining Gaza residents should have the opportunity to apply for and receive a Blue Israel ID card similar to the status of 95% of Jerusalem Arabs. They will be entitled to all the benefits and rights available to Israel citizens including full civil and religious rights. They will manage their municipal affairs, and democratically elect local leadership responsible for education, security, religious and other activities subject to the laws of the State of Israel, but not have the right to vote in national elections, akin to the status of the Jerusalem Arabs. Arabs who do not wish to apply or do not qualify for Blue Israel ID cards will nonetheless have civil and religious rights and be required to obey Israel law or to seek alternatives elsewhere. The world of Islam is in the midst of a violent storm. Hopefully, a 21st–century reformation is in the offing. Judaism and Christianity have previously undergone reformations. But without a total cessation of the widespread global conflicts of Islam, Israel cannot be expected to allow a new Muslim minority influenced by violent anti-democratic forces to participate in life and death national decisions.
As long as part of the Muslim world and some of Israel’s neighbors such as Hezbollah and Iran seek Israel’s destruction, Israel cannot be suicidal and risk giving Knesset voting rights to people who, in part, may share that agenda. Furthermore, one cannot allow those, who might seek the end of Israel as a Jewish state to have legislative authority. Israel will implement programs similar to those outlined in the Abraham Accords (2020) and the Puerto Rico Incentives Code to promote economic development. These accords will be implemented with incentives to attract investment and to promote conditions for prosperity and job creation in J&S. Capital investment by foreign investors will have privileged status and be incented to encourage manufacturing, agriculture, aerospace, biosciences, and renewable energy. New businesses will receive stimuli such as technology parks, education grants, health care and other substantial benefits. These programs will stimulate the economy of J&S and improve the living conditions of the residents.
- Gaza Arabs
In order to consider various options for the future status of the Gaza Arabs it is important to know how many and who they are. The maximum number is 1.7 derived from a starting point year end 2004 of 1.093 million. From that point we calculate based on various sources the average emigration from Gaza of 15,000 per year (mostly young adults), average annual births of 45,000 and deaths of 8,000. That results in approximately 1.5 million. And to be conservative let’s use 1.7 million. This compares to recent PA claim of 2.3 million and the UNRWA claim of 2.1 million of which 1.7 are descendants of the 1948-49 original refugees. UNRWA claims 1.466 million are registered Gaza recipients of UNRWA aid. Most Gaza Arabs celebrated the Hamas October 7 barbarism and support the resistance to Israel’s military efforts. Will the Gaza Arabs, many of whom are branded by UNRWA as refugees from the 1947-48 Israel War of Independence, seek refuge in more peaceful Moslem countries? Underwriting the relocation of Gazan Arabs who seek a better future elsewhere may be a superior humanitarian solution to forcing them to return to what they claim was an open-air prison in Gaza. Today 75 years after the “Nakba”, UNRWA claims to support over 5 million Arab refugees with a 1.46 million in Gaza and the balance in half a dozen other jurisdictions. These old-time Gaza refugees can be supported elsewhere by UNRWA.
Will countries in Asia, Africa or North and South America offer them refuge in return for substantial monetary compensation? Will Israel provide economic assistance to Gaza Arabs who seek peaceful lives removed from the Arab hoodlum overlords? Normalizing the remaining Gazan population will be a more challenging task than bringing the Arabs of J&S into Israel’s democracy.
The Gazan “occupation” must end with the declaration of civil rule over a significantly reduced Gaza population. The withdrawal from Gaza was a clear-cut test of withdrawal. Submission to violence and allowing terrorists to declare victory was a total failure.
Israel withdrew from Gaza in August 2005. Four months later Hamas won legislative elections in the Palestinian Arab territories promising that ongoing terrorism would eventually drive the Jews out of J&S and eventually into the sea. By June 2007, Hamas violently took over Gaza and the rest is history that cannot be repeated.
- Security Concerns Following Integration
After annexation will the new Arab Muslim residents of Israel become similar to the peaceful and successful Arab citizens of Israel?
In spite of hearing a barrage of two-state pledges, the vast majority of Arabs living in Israel, do not engage in terrorism. They are loyal citizens and participate in Israel’s success. They enjoy and appreciate the benefits of living in a democratic Jewish State. None move out of Israel to live under the autocratic Palestinian Authority. Conversely, Arabs living under the corrupt Palestine Authority seek employment in Israel and will enjoy tremendous economic benefits from their newfound rights in the democratic Jewish State. After Israel declares sovereignty, the vast majority will celebrate the opportunity to become Israel citizens with Blue Israel ID cards. They will contribute to the growth and prosperity of Israel.
Of course, criminal behavior will not immediately end. But all will be subject to Israeli civil law. Every city and country in the world acts to control and suppress criminal behavior. That is the function of police to curb and limit criminality. For example, NY City has 45,0000 armed police and others who strive to curb criminals and violence.
Importantly, the integration of J&S and Gaza Arabs into Israel will enable better surveillance and prevention of the types of large-scale military attacks perpetrated on October 7.
- World reaction
How would the international community from the UN to Europe to the USA, react when Israel declares sovereignty? How would the Arab and Moslem world react? How would many sectors of the Jewish population of Israel react?
While no solution is perfect, this plan by ending its occupation and providing for the residents of J&S and Gaza with equal civil and religious rights per Israel’s Declaration of Independence, will be a major step forward. Israel’s enemies may continue to brand Israel as an apartheid state claiming that its Muslim minority are second-class citizens, but it will be hard to ignore facts that Israel’s new Arab population will be on their way to achieving the success of Israel’s existing Arab population who are represented in all walks of Israeli life — as MKs, government ministers, judges, professors and senior business and community leaders.
- Expanded Abraham Accords
Once Israel declares Sovereignty, 100+ years of Arab terrorism will have been defeated. Many of Israel’s neighbors including Saudi Arabia and Egypt will celebrate Israel’s victory and the expanded Abraham Accords will provide a new face to the Middle East.
Conclusion
If Israel continues to pursue the policies of the last 25 years and expects to rely on the PA or its successor it will find itself sooner or later back in the October 6 situation.
Today there is a clear-cut opportunity to Declare Sovereignty or Annexation and finally end the 100+ year conflict. Secretary Blinken recently advised, “Creating a pathway to a Palestinian state is the best way to stabilize the wider region and isolate Iran and its proxies.” That pathway is a well-defined recipe for a regional disaster and spectacular success for Israel’s arch enemy, Iran. This is the time to pursue Sovereignty and rights for all the Palestinians West of the Jordan River under Israeli sovereignty and this is the only feasible long-term path to achieve lasting peace.
Dr. Michael Wise is a founder and investor in numerous technology companies. He is a graduate of YU and holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from Brandeis U., is the co-author of Israel demography study (BESA).and has published numerous articles about Israel sovereignty and demographics in Judea and Samaria. mlwise@gmail.com
@Mike Wise
I am glad to read of your support of emigration to Jordan. The physical translocation of the Pals beyond easy reach of their would be Jewish victims would seem to be the only real solution to the problem which your One State Plan is intended to solve.
And herein lies what I would suggest is the greatest problem with your plan, as I understand it in any event, namely that your plan provides the integration of the Pals into Israel proper. Like sending someone trying to lose weight to an all you can eat buffet, the easy access to the defenseless Jews walking the streets of Israel would be a temptation too great for the average Pal to resist. Indeed, their hatred of the Jews is pathological. The overwhelming support by the Pals of J&S in venerating their counterparts in Gaza for having successfully carried out the Simchat Torah Massacre demonstrates this fact quite clearly. So, as your plan provides for the Pals to be integrated into Israel, it simultaneously provides for the integration of the very real threat which accompanies the psychotic hatred of the Jews by these same Pals.
Notably, you mention in your response that only those with a ‘clean history’ would be granted the Blue Card status, but as I noted somewhere below, this requires a bifurcated level of trust, trust which should not be accepted as being evident from the facts: first, trusting that a given Arab whose history is ‘clean’ would not actually pose a threat to their Jewish neighbors; and second, trusting that Israel’s security services could properly assess the nature of a given Arab’s history as actually being ‘clean’. As I additionally noted below, in the wake of the Simchat Torah massacre, it seems ill advised to trust to either the willingness of the Pals to behave or the capabilities of the security services to accurately assess the nature of the Pals who might behave. On this latter point, do recall that the Pals from Gaza passed security checks to enter Israel, yet these were the same Pals who provided the very detailed intelligence about the neighborhoods in which they worked and the population centers where the Jews might be hunted down. I would argue that the Pals are not to be trusted, not the best of them, and I would further argue that it is not within our means to be able to accurately judge which of them might actually be the best.
One more point to raise. There is a distinction between your plan and that of Caroline Glick, beyond the Blue Cards, the Peurto Rico Model, and the using the name ‘solution’ rather than ‘plan’. The distinction to which I am referring is that Glick no longer endorses her solution as having any validity or viability. She saw the folly of her One State Solution play out in the wake of the 2021 May War of Riots and Rockets as Arab insurrections took place in coordination with the Hamas attack against the Jews of Israel. Personally, I could never grasp the basis of her solution as being anything more than another attempt at a shared folly in the wake of the utter failure of Oslo. Yet, due to facts which have demonstrated the threat which accompanies misplaced trust, Glick came to a reasonable conclusion to abandon her One State Solution, even while you maintain trust in your One State Plan.
Personally, I would argue that for any solution to be considered a viable solution, it would require reduced contact (none at all would be best) between the Pals and the Jews, which remains the greater part of my concerns about your plan. The second concern which I raised below is that under your plan, as was true of the efforts under previous policies, the use of economic benefits, such as social benefits and the benefits afforded with the economic windfalls from the Peurto Rico Model, only act as a permanent economic tether, holding the Pal Cleft in place, when the truth is that ultimately, today, next week or a century from now, the Pal Cleft must go. The Simchat Torah Massacre made this fact irreconcilably incumbent upon any plan or solution which has any hope of avoiding similar slaughters in the future. Rather than trusting the Pals with an intimate contact with the lives of those whose slaughter they rejoiced, we must simply trust that they will do so again if given the contact which your plan would secure for them. Indeed, as unpleasant as it may be to accept these facts as true, we can hardly ignore the import of recent events, or rather, we can only ignore them to our dread.
Accordingly, the Pals must go, and I would suggest that it should remain our vigilant objective to find the means of seeing this reality come to fruition, rather than acting to permanently end this objective altogether, as would be the ultimate consequence of your plan, IMHO in any event.
Mike Wise response to some of the ill-informed comments.
The day after will be like the day before IF the Israeli leadership does not stop doing the same ole stupid and insane things. They should have listened to Albert.
If Israels enemies are unapologetic, Israel should do the same if they want to win. At this point in history, it looks to me like Israels enemies are winning. If you only look at the body count, you have missed the forest for the tree. Because Israel, will not do what they must do, because they are so afraid of what the gentile nations think, then Israel is building the next Shoah for their gentile Pharoah overlords. I completely agree with Linda G.
For me, decisions regarding “the day after” are best determined by examining “the day before.” Israel’s enemies are unapologetic about their determination to violently eliminate the sovereign Jewish State of Israel. Articles like the one written by Dr. Michael Wise ignore the day before. Israel has always been surrounded by hostile Arab neighbors, what is different today is that Israel’s existence is also being threatened from within by Israeli leftists and the globalists who fund them. The globalist elite fund and foment any and all enemies of Israeli sovereignty including Israeli leftists, Israel’s Arab enemies, and the American enemies of Israel’s sovereignty. Israel is fighting for her survival as a sovereign Jewish state. It is a war she must win internally ideologically, and externally militarily against Arab savagery. The world is at war – Globalism vs. Nationalism – and the globalists want to end Israel.
I pray this is fake news.
I was just watching ILTV News and the summary for today had alarming (fake?) news that a hostage deal involving releasing 100 hostages in exchange for a 2 month cease fire and plans for ending the war without victory was in the offing and they were interviewing some major. Very alarming. Is this nonsense?
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take the various “Palestinian” plans with regard to Israel, and substitute “Palestinian” for “Zionist Entity”. Then implement them.
He should stick to theoretical physics.
@Ted. I’m relieved you reversed yourself on this terrible plan and are open to it being broadly criticized. I wrote my first disagreeing comment on this politely, out of respect for you.
So many words floating in thin air, and so little gut feeling. We are hated and wanted dead. Can we let ourselves know that and not get delusional?
Also, we have a God who told us long ago what to do with that very same land, as Sebastian Zorn noted: Deuteronomy chapter 7. And the command to Joshua too.
How is this any different from Caroline Glick’s One State Solution, which is the title of her book? (Apart from being called a plan rather than a solution.) And which had the same problems which Peloni pointed out.
I agree with Peloni. All this does is take away the checkpoints so the terrorists will have free reign inside Israel again. Remember the Sbarro bombing among many others? And remember the museum exhibit the PA put up glorifying the Sbarro bombing?
I agree with applying sovereignty to Gaza by degrees and rebuilding the destroyed Jewish communities and I agree with voluntary emigration but any remaining Arabs must be confined to the southern tip next to Egypt and must be under Israeli rule with no path into Israel. None. Nada. Only 5 percent polled are appalled by Oct. 7? And no way of determining who that would be?
THEY MUST GO. Jewish lives matter. International community be damned.
As you know, I’m not religious, but there’s so much stuff in the Torah that fits. I cited Deuteronomy 7 because what I was recalling was:
“22 The Lord your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you”
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%207&version=NIV
Even if we can not find the means to expel them, this plan incentivizes the Pals such that they will never leave. Beyond this, it gives the Pals free authority to go where they want and make what mischief they care to make wherever it is in Israel they choose to go. The consequence of this will be a great increase in violence perpetrated all across Israel.
Such barbarity as has been well documented in the footage from October 7 will become the goal to which the unleashed hoards of Hamas devotees in J&S will do their best to emulate as they continue their war upon the Jews. Indeed, while this One State plan ends the leveraged claim of ‘occupation’, it also invests the Cleft into Israel proper, without any basis upon which to recognize which of the Pals would be a greater threat to Israeli society. And we know they will overwhelmingly be a threat. We know that they are well impressed and in certain awe of the slaughter which took place on Simchat Torah. It is not a leap of logic to expect the devastation which our enemies will vent upon the Israeli public even as this plan provides that we provide them the ready access to play out our worst expectations. They don’t fear death, but rather they invite it, even as they will not face the death penalty in Israel for anything which they might do to their ready access to any number of Jews.
Of course, I am not suggesting that I have a solution for this dilemma, but rather I would suggest that quite the opposite is true, as there is no cipher thru which we might judge one Pal from another as to which might be intent upon being the next candidate for Israel’s most wanted list. If this plan is accepted, these understudies in butchery will do their utmost to destroy Israel, and they may well attempt to act in concert with foreign interests as they do so.
Optically, yes, there are benefits to be had from this plan, but I would argue that they will come at a high price in blood. So it comes to a question of Optics vs Blood.
The cost of adopting this plan will be to open Israel’s society to the greatest threat and slaughter which they have ever faced. To do so in the wake of the Simchat Torah Massacre would seem to be the worst moment on which to bet on the better nature of the Pals and the security services of Israel to keep the people safe.
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Israel’s two great errors are now impacting as they were always inevitably bound to:
1. Accepting Muslims as ‘Palestinians’ after 2,000 years of them hating this name – essentially condoning Israel’s 3,500-year history as being questionable.
2. Accepting a 3-state in Palestine as a 2-state, when the first 2-state of Jordan was perpetrated illegally and by deception:
• “The original text of the Balfour Declaration had read “Palestine should be reconstituted as the National Home of the Jewish people.” The text was changed to read “the establishment in Palestine of a Home for the Jewish people.” The single word “in” was used subsequently to justify removing all of Transjordan from the British Mandate that resulted from the Balfour Declaration. – [President of Israel, Chaim Weizmann, Trial and Error, 1949, p 257]
Israel has no other options than to begin correcting both these
errors whatever its cost. They are the greatest lies that have been made as the greatest truths. 5-Stars: https://amzn.to/2XCR3DH
Israel’s two great errors are now impacting as they were always inevitably bound to:
1. Accepting Muslims as ‘Palestinians’ after 2,000 years of them hating this name – essentially condoning Israel’s 3,500-year history as being questionable.
2. Accepting a 3-state in Palestine as a 2-state, when the first 2-state of Jordan was perpetrated illegally and by deception:
• “The original text of the Balfour Declaration had read “Palestine should be reconstituted as the National Home of the Jewish people.” The text was changed to read “the establishment in Palestine of a Home for the Jewish people.” The single word “in” was used subsequently to justify removing all of Transjordan from the British Mandate that resulted from the Balfour Declaration. – [President of Israel, Chaim Weizmann, Trial and Error, 1949, p 257]
Israel has no other options than to begin correcting both these
errors whatever its cost. They are the greatest lies have been made as the greatest truths. 5-Stars: https://amzn.to/2XCR3DH
Deuteronomy 7
@Edgar. I agree;
I want to recant my first endorsement. Israelis don’t want to live next to a Palestinian state. Evenmoreso, they don’t want 1.8 million Jew haters living among them.
Madeline, what you’re really saying is that the forging of Blue Cards will become a big business, if it is not already.
This concept of a One State is utter nonsense. Just imagine it. Arabs-mostly terrorists- and Jews mingling and living together. Think of the massive bureaucracy, probably 1 of 2 people in the whole country. The rest would be a pseudo-government, and a massive police force .
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The TV news would show the daily score of assassinations nearly all Jews, until they once again would be forced to flee to a safer place. than this “UTOPIA”.
Utter balderdash. To be more candid , A load of horse manure.
There is much “news” that I never bother reading, so I don’t know who is backing this dung, whoever it is should be locked away safely .
Will this put an end to the war of the West against the Jews!!!
I doubt!
Then, what about genocidal Islamists!
a strictly monitored application process enabling West Bank and Gaza Palestinians to obtain the rights and responsibilities comparable to Jerusalem Arab Blue ID holders.
Parts of this plan make me nervous.>
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This sounds like a step towards voting for MKs and becoming MKs themselves who “legally” get rid of Jews, if I am not misuderstanding something. Also, the article cites the Arab “reformation”, as if one can count on a mere possibility to temper the intense Jew hatred of both Gazans and J&S Arabs, which the article seems to ignore. The softening of attitude among some Arab neighbors is not the same as the hatred among those Arabs who are closer to Israel.