Byebye Two State Solution

Filed under: Neoconservatives, Palestine — Michael van der Galien, Editor-in-Chief on June 15, 2007 @ 4:08 pm CEST

John Podhoretz wrote a column for the New York Post, called “Self-Rule? Try Mob Rule.” John writes:

ISRAEL’S disengagement from Gaza, completed 22 months ago, has succeeded.

It was a demonstration project of a sort - an experiment in Palestinian self-rule. If the management of Gaza had gone well, there would have been a Palestinian state within three years, tops.

OK, now speak these three words to yourself: a Palestinian state.

Finished? Good. So are the words. They won’t be coming out of anybody’s mouth again for a very, very long time - at least not in any meaningful way.

I disagree quite strongly with that. I already read some people blame Israel for what is currently happening in Palestine (and I am not just referring to Hamas): if only Israel would withdraw from every inch of Palestine and if only the West would help the Palestinians develop a strong(er) economy, then everything would be perfect in Gaza, these people argue.

Of course Podhoretz is right in so far that the Palestinians have proven that they cannot rule over themselves. The two terrorist gangs in charge of Palestine are happy fighting each other, and when they do not fight each other, they are firing rockets at Israel, Hamas is smuggling weapons into Palestine, al-Aqsa TV is teaching children to become martyrs, etc.

As Podhoretz puts it:

The Palestinians spent decades professing their detestation of Israeli occupation and demanding self-rule . . . so Israel gave them their heart’s desire.

Gaza is Judenrein - emptied of all Jews, just as Hitler dreamed Germany would be. No Jews live in Gaza. No Jews patrol Gaza. It’s Jew-Free-by-the-Sea, with a charming Mediterranean coast worth billions of dollars in tourism and trade.

So what’s the problem?

The problem is that the Jews weren’t the problem.

The problem is that the Palestinians are the problem: They are drenched in an ideology of blood and murder and suicide.

This is Palestine’s main problem: it has a culture of death. It has a culture that worships death (through terrorism). It is not a culture that celebrates life, it is not a culture that is focused on improving itself.

I am in favor of a two state solution, but I am now afraid that this will not be possible to achieve for decades to come. Change in Palestine can only come slowly. Perhaps the international community should accept that the Palestinians will not have their own state for a long time to come. Instead, the focus should be on improving every day life for Palestinians, and changing their culture. Obviously, this means that people like Abbas have to come to terms with reality as well: it means that they too have to acknowledge that their people cannot handle democracy and freedom yet, that the culture has to change first.

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1 daveinboca

June 15, 2007 @ 6:25 pm CEST

Of course, the BDS-afflicted psychopathic left must blame anyone and everyone except Hamas and the phony Arab policies that produced just one more catastrophe in the Levant.

Anyone who watched the BBC last night saw Hamas gunmen emptying their AK-47s and other automatic weapons into the air without a thought in their monkey brains about where the bullets would come down. The primitive savagery of the Arabs can’t think beyond their testoserone to the fact that 2 million lost souls live in the garbage dump that is Gaza, and some will get hit by said bullets. Happens all the time, but the BBC and Guardian never report where the bullets come down.

And a brain-dead bimbo Arab reporter in Beirut called the assassination of a Sunni judge “daring” as though killing someone and ten bystanders in an amusement park was an act of bravery. This bi-yotch with a mike then said that the Shi’ites and their allies were “chipping away” at the anti-Syrian majority in Lebanese parliament, as if seven murders in the last two years was some sort of parliamentary tactic.

I lived in the Middle East for almost a decade, speak and read Arabic, and there is little if anything more to hope from this savage medieval relic of a “civilization” that purports to be founded on a “religion of peace.” My lyin’ eyes just can’t see the peace that blowing up Sunni and Shi’ite places of worship in progressive acts of retaliation fits into the term “civilization.”

And any female Arab bimbo who describes a car-bomb murder in an amusement park as “daring” should be fired immediately. And “chipping away” is not a term literate people use for political murders.

These murderers are to blame, and the International Left sees them as allies, and so must finger-point at Bush, Blair, Israel, or even Global Warming before it attacks its terrorist friends on the left. Or violent reactionaries like Hamas, who are the friends of the NYT, WaPo, and other political elites who hate and oppose Bush with the irrational frenzy of true psychotic maniacs.