OPINION:
President Biden is reportedly growing impatient with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s refusal to consider a two-state solution as a bargaining chip with Palestinians to end the war against Hamas — and that shows this White House’s utter refusal to see the realities of the evils confronting the Jewish state.
A two-state solution is not a solution.
In the end, an IDF stand-down against those who want to obliterate the Jewish people from the face of the earth, along with a concession to give them land to establish a nearby globally recognized and accepted nation, is to sign Israel’s death certificate.
You can’t strike peace deals with people whose ultimate goal is to eradicate you.
You can’t coexist with those who don’t want you to even exist.
“In their most recent calls, Biden’s frustration with Netanyahu has grown more evident,” PBS wrote.
“Biden, at least publicly, has not given up on the idea of winning over Netanyahu. Asked by a reporter … if a two-state solution is impossible while Netanyahu is in office, Biden replied, ‘No, it’s not,’” PBS wrote.
Really?
“Netanyahu, who has opposed calls for a two-state solution throughout his political career, told reporters this week that he flatly told U.S. officials he remains opposed to any post-war plan that includes establishment of a Palestinian state,” PBS wrote.
Netanyahu has been consistent on this point.
In fact, most recently, he said this: “Hamas is demanding, in exchange for the release of our hostages, the end of the war, the withdrawal of our forces from Gaza, the release of the murderers and rapists of the Nukhba and leaving Hamas in place. Were we to agree to this — our soldiers would have fallen in vain. … I will not compromise on full Israeli security control of all territory west of the Jordan River. … My insistence is what has prevented — over the years — the establishment of a Palestinian state that would have constituted an existential danger to Israel. As long as I am prime minister, I will continue to strongly insist on this,” Breitbart reported.
The West, the globalist leaders at the United Nations, and increasingly, Biden’s administration, along with an uncomfortably large pro-Palestinian protest presence on America’s streets and college campuses, have been pressuring Israel to cease fire, stop the war, come to the bargaining table with — and this is the sticking point, and surely, it has to be acknowledged this is one heck of a sticking point — the terrorists who want all the Jewish people dead. It doesn’t seem like a solid position from which to form a compromise. And that’s the understatement of the century.
A two-state solution is an unworkable idea that simply gives the bureaucrats something to banter around — because it allows them to seem as if they’re simply trying to find a feasible, common-sense, peaceful answer to historical conflicts — and that feeds right into the hands of the antisemites, who can then point fingers at Israel and blame the Jewish people for failing to talk peace.
But there is no peace with those of evil hearts.
Oct. 7 showed that.
And it’s not for those who live in safety and security and outside the shadows of terrorists who just murdered, raped, abducted and cheered the murder, rape and abduction of hundreds to say otherwise.
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