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After Oct. 7, the Creation of a Palestinian State Would Be Suicide
(Israel Hayom) Amb. Freddy Eytan - The conflict with the Palestinians remains unresolved as long as fundamental problems are not resolved first: the end of belligerence and terrorist attacks, the humanitarian case of refugees, and the status of the Muslim holy sites on the Temple Mount. Israel's fight is identical to that of the free and democratic world. In the fierce fight against terrorism, each state has the right to defend itself by all means. The Islamists in Paris, London, Brussels, Munich, and Jerusalem are inspired by the same religious motivations, by the same extremist ideology, and by the cult of death. The real intentions of the Palestinians were put to the test with Arafat during the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, during the Second Intifada that broke out in September 2000, and after Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Gaza in 2005 when the Hamas Islamists seized power. Therefore, after the massacre of Oct. 7, 2023, the creation of an independent Palestinian state in the coming years would be suicide for the Jewish state. The writer, a researcher at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, is a former Foreign Ministry senior adviser who was Israel's first ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.