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Palestinians Have Shown No Ability or Willingness to Run a Peaceful Entity alongside Israel

(Jerusalem Post) Editorial - Recognizing a nonexistent Palestinian state will do nothing to promote peace in the region and will instead give a tailwind to the terrorists and Islamic extremists who carried out the Oct. 7 massacre. The takeaway on the Palestinian street will be that a Palestinian state, even a fictitious one, has been delivered not through compromise, change, or negotiation, but through brutal, mind-numbing terrorism. In other words: Terrorism pays. But this is an illusion. Declarations of statehood will not conjure a state into existence if Israel is opposed. Israel controls the territory, and unless it withdraws its troops, no "Palestine" is going to emerge. And Israel is not going to remove its troops - not now nor in the foreseeable future - until there is a fundamental change in Palestinian society. Until the Palestinians accept that the Jewish state is here to stay, that it cannot be wished or fought away, and that their only option is to live beside it rather than in place of it, no progress will be possible. The world should be demanding Palestinian deradicalization - not only in Gaza, where Hamas rules, but also in Judea and Samaria, where support for the Oct. 7 massacre is even higher. Pushing for a two-state solution now is unmoored from reality. The Palestinians have shown no ability or willingness to run a peaceful entity alongside Israel, and Israelis have lost all belief that the Palestinians even want to. Israelis have long soured on the two-state solution because of bitter experience. Time and again, when Israel gave up land, that land was used as a launching pad to attack Israel.
2025-10-05 00:00:00
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