Key Takeaways:
- The radical Palestinian political leaders don’t want their own state with Israel as their next door neighbor – they want a state that includes ALL Israeli territory.
- They want Israel destroyed and all Jews annihilated.
- It’s naïve of Europe and America to think the radical Palestinians will negotiate a peace agreement in good faith.
- The religious beliefs of the radical Palestinians dictate their political policies, interests and behaviors.
- The Palestinians have been offered their own state on 5 different occasions – and have rejected all 5 offers.
- The Palestinians teach their kids to hate all Jews – and the same hatred is taught on college campuses in the U.S.
- 21% of Israel’s population is composed of Palestinian Arabs – who live peacefully among the Jews and have full citizenship rights.
The Left hates history.
The Left hates truth.
They seek to create division and conflict by defining one group as “oppressed” and another group as “oppressors.”
They are trying to convince the world that Palestinians are the “oppressed” and that Israel is the “oppressor.”
Repeat a lie often enough and people will start to believe it – even conservatives, libertarians, and Christians.
Here are 6 reasons why the Palestinian political leaders – who are radical Muslims – don’t want a two-state arrangement with Israel:
- Most people with a Western mindset – especially political negotiators – fail to understand the mindset of radical Muslims.
Religion is supreme to radical followers of Islam.
No political realities will ever altar or change what they believe Allah demands – which is world domination by Islam.
This is why when radical militant Muslims conquer territory, they believe that it now belongs to them forever – in perpetuity.
Between 634 and 638 A.D, the Muslims conquered the area that the Romans had named “Palestine” a little more than 500 years previously – in the early 2nd century.
Never mind that the Israelites had lived in the land ever since the time of Abraham – roughly 2,600 years before the birth of Islam.
And never mind that even after the Jewish temple in Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D. and the Jews were scattered throughout the world, there were still some Jews living in Israel when the Muslims conquered it 600 years later.
The radical Palestinian Muslims ignore the history of the Israelite Jews – and they believe that God’s promises to Abraham and to his descendants regarding Israel are illegitimate.
They believe that the land belongs to them, and that the Jews who have been returning to Palestine since 1948 are invaders and occupiers.
Radical followers of Islam do not want peaceful coexistence with Jews – they want to exterminate them.
The charter of Hamas calls for the destruction of the nation of Israel and for the annihilation of all Jews.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) – the successor of the PLO – rewards Palestinians who murder Jews.
According to Palestine Media Watch, 9,750 terrorists are now eligible for monthly terror rewards paid by the PA – more than twice the 4,300 who were eligible prior to the October 7 attack on Israeli civilians.[1]
In addition, the PA also pays terror rewards to 38,983 families of terrorist “martyrs” recognized by the Hamas Martyr Count.[2]
It is dangerously naïve for European or American peace negotiators to project their own values and mindset on the Palestinian leaders.
Hamas and other radical Palestinian groups do not believe in representative democracy, freedom of speech, or freedom of religion – three core values shared by Israel and the U.S.
They think differently than we do about life and about how people who disagree with each other should be treated.
- The only Palestinian state that has ever been acceptable to the Palestinian political leaders is one that includes ALL of modern Israel.
If this were not the case, the Palestinians would have accepted one of the two-state proposals they’ve been offered – or they would have proposed a two-state solution of their own.
Instead, the Palestinians believe that Israel has invaded their homeland and is “occupying” the territory that rightfully belongs to Arabs.
They believe that the Jews don’t belong in “Palestine” at all.
They chant that they want to be liberated from the Jewish occupation “from the river to the sea” – which means the entire country of Israel.
And the Leftist politicians, the pro-Palestinian college students, and the radical Left media chant along with them.
The aim of the Palestinians – especially those who are radical Muslims – is not to have their own state next to the state of Israel.
Their aim has always been the annihilation of Israel.
Hamas, Hezbollah, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and the Houthis all want to see the nation of Israel destroyed.
- It is naïve to think that Palestinian political leaders share the same values regarding peace as does the U.S. and our allies, and that they will negotiate in good faith.
The Oslo Accords were two peace agreements negotiated in 1993 and 1995 between Israel and the PLO – the Palestine Liberation Organization.
In the Oslo I Accord – signed September 13, 1993 in Washington, DC – the PLO agreed to renounce terrorism and to recognize Israel’s right to exist in peace and security.
Yet between 1994 and 1999, there were 215 terror attacks against Israel – about the same number as in the five years before the peace agreement.[3]
The Palestinian political leaders may agree on paper to renounce terrorism and to accept the right of the Jewish state of Israel to exist – but they won’t hesitate to violate the terms of any agreement that subverts their religious beliefs.
In recent days, several news headlines have stated that Hamas has accepted President Trump’s Middle East Peace Plan.
Don’t believe that they’ve accepted all 20 points of the peace plan.
They have agreed to release the hostages they are holding – which is step 1 of President Trump’s plan.
But don’t expect them to accept the step that calls for Hamas to not have any part of the new Palestinian government.[4]
- The Palestinians have been offered their own state FIVE times – and have rejected every one of them.
You’ve been told that if Israel would just allow the Palestinians to have their own state, there would be peace in the Middle East.
It’s a lie – meant to make Israel look like the Bad Guy.
Here is a list of the 5 historical offers to the Palestinians of their own state[5]:
- The Arabs were offered 80% of the territory claimed by both Jews and Arabs. The Jews were offered 20%.The Jews accepted the offer; the Arabs rejected it and resumed their violent rebellion.
- The United Nations proposed a two-state solution on November 29th via UN General Assembly Resolution 181.Israel became a nation in one day on May 14, 1948 – in fulfillment of Isaiah 66:8 and other biblical prophecies regarding the return of Jews from all over the world to their homeland.The Arabs rejected the two-state plan and launched a war of annihilation against Israel the next day.
- Syria, Jordan and Egypt attacked Israel, intending to destroy it. Miraculously, Israel won the Six-Day War, capturing the West Bank from Jordan and the Gaza Strip from Egypt.Israel offered to give the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to the Arabs – who for the first time called themselves Palestinians – in hopes they would create their own state. The Palestinians rejected the offer.
- The Palestinians were offered all of Gaza, 94% of Judea and Samaria – the “West Bank” – and East Jerusalem as the capital of the Palestinian state.The Palestinians rejected the offer and began a wave of suicide bombings that killed over a thousand Israelis and maimed thousands more.
- The Palestinians were offered the same territory as in 2000, plus additional land. The offer was again rejected
In 2005 – in between the 4th and 5th offers of a Palestinian state, Israel unilaterally left Gaza, turning it over to the Palestinians.
Instead of developing the territory of Gaza for the benefit of its citizens, the Palestinians turned it into a terrorist base – from which they have launched thousands of rockets into Israel over the past 20 years.
- Anti-Semitism is widespread today: Palestinian children – and American college students – are taught to hate Jews.
Antisemitism – hatred for Jews and for the Jewish race – is rampant today.
But it’s nothing new.
It’s been around for millennia – spearheaded by Satan’s attempts throughout history to destroy God’s chosen people and to destroy the Messiah.
Since Satan cannot destroy God Himself, he has sought from the beginning and is still seeking today to destroy everything belonging to God – His chosen race, His Son Jesus, Christians who belong to God, His word, His reputation, and more.
Satan fans the flames of anti-Semitism through lies and misinformation.
Arab children have been taught in school for years that Jews are subhuman creatures that should be hated.[6]
Many of these Arabs now live in Europe and America.
Radical-left politicians, media talking heads and college professors blame the Jews for every major historical calamity and social upheaval – and like a poison, Jew hatred spreads throughout societies around the world.
Even conservatives, libertarians and Christians are swayed by the constant barrage of anti-Semitic slogans and slurs.
A perfect example of rampant anti-Semitism is what happened after the October 7, 2023 massacre of Israeli civilians by Hamas.
Instead of condemning Hamas for its brutal slaughter of innocent civilians – many of them women and children – much of the world condemned the Israelis and celebrated the terrorists as heroes.
It should have been the opposite.
And in the past two years – as Israel has been working to eradicate the terrorist group that is determined to destroy the Jewish nation – Israel is being portrayed as the villain and Hamas as the victim.
Propaganda, distortion and lies are powerful tools of persuasion.
- There are Palestinian Arabs living peacefully among the Jews in Israel today.
Few people realize that 21% of the population of Israel is Arab.
Interestingly, they are called Arab Israelis, not Palestinians – even though the 2.7 million Arabs in the West Bank territory and the 2.1 million Arabs in Gaza consider all of Israel to be part of Palestine.
So why don’t the Arabs in Gaza and in the West Bank call the Arabs in Israel Palestinians?
It’s because the Palestinians within Israel do not share the radical political and religious views of the Palestinians outside Israel regarding the destruction of Israel and the annihilation of the Jews.
The Palestinians living within Israel are full citizens, not foreigners – and not subjects to be ruled over.[7]
They are better off and have more freedoms and civil rights than anywhere else within the Arab world.[8]
They have full voting rights.
They serve in the Knesset – the Israeli Parliament.
They serve as high-ranking officers in the Israeli Defense Forces – the IDF.[9]
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Action Items:
- Pray for peace in the Middle East – and pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Psalms 122:6-7).
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FAQs:
- What is this article about?
A. The article is about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the five different two-state proposals that have been accepted by Israel but rejected by the Palestinians? - Why haven’t the Palestinians accepted any of the offers for them to have their own state?
A. The Palestinian leadership doesn’t accept the legitimacy of a Jewish state. They want a Palestinian state that includes ALL of the land of Israel, and they want Israel to cease to exist. - Why do the Palestinians want to destroy the nation of Israel?
A. They believe that Allah demands world domination by Islam, and that all non-Muslims are infidels who deserve to die. - Is there any hope for a peaceful two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict – such as the peace plan proposed by President Trump?
A. It’s very unlikely that there will be a lasting peace in the Middle East until the return of Jesus of Nazareth – the Jewish Messiah.
About Craig Huey:
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[1] Bruce Thornton, https://www.rodmartin.org/p/a-palestinian-state-is-a-threat-to?utm_medium=email
[2] Ibid.
[3] Ibid.
[4] Mariane Angela, https://www.westernjournal.com/fmr-us-army-special-forces-identifies-poison-pills-hidden-hamas-statement/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=top-news-alert&utm_campaign=news-alert&utm_content=2025-10-06
[5] https://www.prageru.com/videos/why-isnt-there-a-palestinian-state
[6] https://www.prageru.com/videos/what-free-palestine-really-means
[7] Rod D. Martin, https://www.rodmartin.org/p/the-palestinians-are-the-colonizers
[8] https://freedomhouse.org/country/israel/freedom-world/2024
[9] Rod D. Martin, op. cit.