https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-799912?dicbo=v2-V9FFvFR
What has happened and is happening in the so-called West Bank and Gaza Strip can be seen as symptoms and results – not a root cause – of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The cause is a century-long refusal by the Palestinians to share the Israel-Palestine-Jordan territory that came under British Mandate after World War I with a Jewish political entity and/or a Jewish population. This refusal at its near worst envisages a Jew-free area (with the expulsion and /or extermination of the current Jewish-Israeli population), and at its best some Jewish population subordinated to Palestinian control in a Palestinian-dominated state extending from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea (and in some visions, incorporating Jordan as well). At its very worst (a vision propagated in some quarters), the Jew-free area is extended to all Muslim/Islamic lands, and in its most extreme version to the entire world.
While this vision and intent have sufficient traction and influence in Palestinian society and are also pursued actively and aggressively by Iran, it is wishful thinking that a two-state solution will bring long-term peace to the region It might bring some lulls in hostilities, but these will be interludes when Palestinian and Iranian forces are building up power and capacity to pursue the eradication of the Jewish State of Israel.
The early Palestinian opposition (which was violently expressed in the 1921, 1929, 1936-9, and 1947-9 periods ) to a Jewish state or political entity has morphed into a multi-generational war which is now over a century old. This war and war plan were allegedly supported, directly and indirectly, by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during the 1933-45 period; by the United Kingdom in 1939-48; by the United Nations (acting in its own right, and also through its aid agency, UNRWA) and some Western donor agencies since 1949-50; by various Arab states at various times and in various wars; and by Iran since the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-799912?dicbo=v2-V9FFvFR
What has happened and is happening in the so-called West Bank and Gaza Strip can be seen as symptoms and results – not a root cause – of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The cause is a century-long refusal by the Palestinians to share the Israel-Palestine-Jordan territory that came under British Mandate after World War I with a Jewish political entity and/or a Jewish population. This refusal at its near worst envisages a Jew-free area (with the expulsion and /or extermination of the current Jewish-Israeli population), and at its best some Jewish population subordinated to Palestinian control in a Palestinian-dominated state extending from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea (and in some visions, incorporating Jordan as well). At its very worst (a vision propagated in some quarters), the Jew-free area is extended to all Muslim/Islamic lands, and in its most extreme version to the entire world.
While this vision and intent have sufficient traction and influence in Palestinian society and are also pursued actively and aggressively by Iran, it is wishful thinking that a two-state solution will bring long-term peace to the region It might bring some lulls in hostilities, but these will be interludes when Palestinian and Iranian forces are building up power and capacity to pursue the eradication of the Jewish State of Israel.
The early Palestinian opposition (which was violently expressed in the 1921, 1929, 1936-9, and 1947-9 periods ) to a Jewish state or political entity has morphed into a multi-generational war which is now over a century old. This war and war plan were allegedly supported, directly and indirectly, by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy during the 1933-45 period; by the United Kingdom in 1939-48; by the United Nations (acting in its own right, and also through its aid agency, UNRWA) and some Western donor agencies since 1949-50; by various Arab states at various times and in various wars; and by Iran since the Iranian Islamic Revolution of 1979.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-799912?dicbo=v2-V9FFvFR
