Did you know Palestinians don’t want a two-state solution?

Someone is behind the two-state solution, but it isn’t Israelis, and, surprisingly, it isn’t Palestinians.

Bassam Tawil, a Muslim Arab journalist, whose entire article in the Gatestone Institute publication is worth reading, claims that a poll disclosed that “64% of Palestinians oppose the idea of a two-state solution, while 53% support a return to the ‘armed struggle’ against Israel.”

What might be even more shocking than the above statistic is that you might think that the recent poll, mentioned in this Jan. 18, 2024 article, would reflect the anger, frustration and disgust of Palestinians with their Hamas leaders, for having put them in their present situation of being homeless and mourning loved ones.  But no, according to Tawil, he claims that the majority of Palestinians still want Hamas as their representatives, even knowing that the tyrant Iran is behind them.  

So, if that is a reflection of the real situation, then who is frantically pushing the two-state solution and why? 

It was just one month ago that U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, while visiting Israel, advocated for a two-state solution as something which he claimed was “in the best interest of both Israel and the Palestinians.”

Clearly, the Biden administration is behind the idea, but who else thinks that it’s a viable option after October 7, the day which taught us that sharing this part of the Middle East is not exactly what Hamas had in mind? 

Vox.com, known as a left-leaning and progressive site, goes into great detail to explain that until Israel ends its occupation (meaning all of Judea and Samaria), a two-state solution will not be feasible, because, to the extent that new settlements are built, the idea for two states is weakened. But the article, “In Defense of the Two-State Solution,” was written in May 2021, and that was a lifetime ago in light of what just happened, so who stands to gain from a two-state solution if the two most affected parties don’t seem to want it?

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s Davos speech, this past Wednesday, may shed some light on the answer. In his estimation, he claims that the only solution for “genuine security is a two-state solution.” It was at the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) that he tried to convince the crowd that the best way for “Israel to integrate into the region would be through the creation of a Palestinian state,” which he seems to believe Arab and Muslim leaders now support.  He’s got it all figured out, except the part about how to get there. 

But while Blinken may honestly think that Arab leaders are behind such an idea, he’ll have to go a long way to convince Israel that having neighbors who either perpetrated a massacre or celebrated it, is a good idea and one which is in the best interest of the nearly 10 million Israeli citizens who live in the Jewish homeland.

While he speaks of “the need for a pathway to a Palestinian state,” Israel, at the moment, is more focused on the need to assure its citizens that they will not be subjected to the savage attack that already took place. Without a full decimation of Hamas, that can’t be guaranteed, not even by Anthony Blinken and those behind him.

Of course, it would be a real feather in the cap of the Biden administration to be the one political leader who brought about an independent nation of Palestine (although the name is used, does not yet officially exist). But who would run this state? Blinken’s man is Palestinian Authority head, Mahmoud Abbas, the same man who has denied the Holocaust and also accused Israel of having committed a “hideous war massacre” when he erroneously blamed the IDF for attacking a Gaza hospital. 

Of course, once it became clear that Israel, in no way, had anything to do with that incident, apparently caused by a misfired Palestinian rocket, the Palestinian Authority deleted the statement that they had originally put out. That’s the man who Blinken thinks would be a good neighbor to Israel?

Perhaps Bassam Tawil said it best when he stated, “As Iran and its proxies in the Middle East are continuing the jihad (holy war) to murder Jews and eliminate Israel, the Biden administration has not abandoned their dream of creating a Palestinian terror state on Israel’s doorstep. The last thing the Middle East needs is another Iran-dominated terror state that would destabilize security and stability and pose an existential threat to Israel.” 

So, you have to ask yourself, if a Muslim Arab journalist sees the folly of the Biden administration’s ambition of a two-state solution, then how is it that Anthony Blinken, himself a Jew doesn’t? During his many visits to Israel, since October 7, one would think that he has heard enough as to why this is a colossally bad idea and that he would be able to communicate those many reasons to his bosses. Apparently, he’s either convinced he knows better or he also aspires to take credit for something no one else could ever accomplish. 

But given America’s track record, while Democrats were in charge, actions pertaining to the Middle East did not exactly go as they hoped.  Financially enabling Iran backfired on both the U.S. and Israel, and we’re still paying for that idiotic move by way of Iran’s proxy attacks through the Houthis against American and Israeli assets. Somehow, this is all missed by Biden and Blinken who believe that Israel is at war, “as the result of the Palestinians not having a state of their own.”

As the old saying goes, there are none so blind as those who will not see, because the same old tune is being sung by the U.S. administration, which knows no other lyrics except, “Creating a pathway to a Palestinian state is the best way to stabilize the wider region and isolate Iran and its proxies.”

What needs to be internalized by this administration is that:

• The Palestinians, themselves don’t want a two-state solution.  They only want a “from the river to the sea” solution.

• Mahmoud Abbas is not an acceptable alternative either to Israel or to the Palestinians who have voted to stay the course with Hamas.

• Iran will never rest until it puts an end to Israel and then the USA.  

Until these reality checks are understood and acknowledged, as what represents the real truth, Blinken and Biden will continue to promote a lost cause that no one wants.  But who cares, because all they really hope to gain is the recognition of having done the impossible. 

But it’s called the impossible for a reason! No one has ever achieved it, and that’s not likely to change anytime soon.