The Politics of Appeasement on Steroids: When History Says Offering the Palestinians Their Own State Makes No Sense – 8 Important Facts to Remember About the Middle East Peace Agreement

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Key Takeaways:

  • With the verbal acceptance of the first steps of President Trump’s Israel/Hamas Peace Agreement, some important truths about peace in the Middle East need to be understood:
  • God promised the land of Israel to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Jacobs descendants over 4,000 years ago.
  • Archaeological discoveries prove that Israel was a nation and that Jews were living in Israel at least 1,800 years before there were any Muslims there.
  • The Palestinians have attempted to rewrite history by asserting that modern-day Jews in Israel are European and not descendants of ancient Jews.
  • Since 1947, the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians have been offered their own homeland state 5 different times. They have rejected each offer.
  • The Jews desperately want to live in peace with the Palestinians; the Palestinians desperately do NOT want to live in peace with the Jews.
  • The news reports coming out of Gaza are always pro-Hamas and anti-Israel – and it has nothing to do with the truth.

 

 

Religious Jews believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the Bible.

They believe God spoke audibly to them – and to many other prophets.

Religious Muslims believe in Allah in the Quran.

They believe he spoke to only one man, Muhammad.

Two different religions, two different Gods, two different holy books.

They have been in conflict with each other for 1400 years.

Once again, there is renewed talk of peace between the two groups of followers.

But what are the chances of a lasting peace, considering history?

People don’t realize that knowing history can give us wisdom to know what to think, what to do and what not to do in the present.

But instead of using history as a guide, most people form their thoughts and opinions based only on the narrative being pushed by their favorite news source.

Here’s a perfect example: Radical-left Democrats and the Left-biased media keep advocating for Gaza to become an independent Palestinian country.

But the Palestinian political leaders reject the idea.

Why?

Because they don’t want peace with the Jews… They want to exterminate them.

They want total control over all of Israel – what they call Palestine – because of their radical Muslim beliefs.

“Free Palestine from the river to the sea!” they chant.

And the anti-Semites in America and around the world chant along with them – oblivious to the fact that the Palestinians have no historical right to the land.

Let’s set the record straight. Here are 8 very important historical facts you probably have never been taught:

  1. God specifically deeded the land between the Euphrates River and the Brook of Egypt to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and to Jacob’s descendants forever.

This historical fact is based on three world view presuppositions:

  1. A Creator God exists outside of space, time, and matter.
  2. This God created the universe – including the earth – and therefore all of the land mass of the earth belongs to God.
  3. God created mankind, male and female, in His own image and has communicated directly with mankind through nature, through the observable universe, through prophets, and through his Son Jesus. (Hebrews 1:1-2)

Those who don’t agree with these three prepositions won’t agree that God deeded certain land to Jacob’s descendants in the following Old Testament scriptures:

  • Genesis 15:18 – “On that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying, ‘To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt as far as the great river, the Euphrates…”
  • Deuteronomy 11:24 — “Every place where you set your foot will be yours: Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the western sea [Mediterranean Sea].”The land is generally understood to encompass the region of Canaan, extending from the southern desert (Negev) to the northern mountains of Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
  • Joshua 1:3-4 — After the death of Moses, God speaks to Joshua, reaffirming the promise: “I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses. Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates—to the Great Sea [Mediterranean Sea] on the west.”

Here are the boundaries described in these passages:

  • Southern boundary: The Negev desert, extending to the Brook of Egypt (Wadi el-Arish).
  • Northern boundary: The Lebanon mountains – associated with Mount Hermon or the Litani River.
  • Eastern boundary: The Euphrates River, which would include parts of modern-day Syria and Iraq.
  • Western boundary: The Mediterranean Sea.

The Israelites never did conquer all of the territory God promised to give them – which included not only modern-day Israel, but also parts of Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and a portion of Iraq.

The closest they came to taking total possession of their God-given inheritance was during the time of King David and King Solomon.

1 Kings 4:21 states that King Solomon “ruled over all the kingdoms from the [Euphrates] River to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt.”

  1. Archeology proves that Jews were living in Israel at least 1,800 years before any Muslims or Palestinians.

Even if you don’t believe in God and/or don’t believe the ancient Hebrew Scriptures, there is abundant archeological evidence proving that Israeli Jews lived in what is now modern Israel at least as early as 1200 B.C.[1]

Here are just two of 10 major archeological discoveries that confirm the historical accuracy of the Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures:

  • The oldest reference to Israel as a nation – outside of the Bible – is a 10-foot tall Egyptian monument discovered in 1896.It tells of the military victories of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Merneptah – who ruled from 1213 – 1203 B.C. – including a military campaign in Israel.[2]
  • In the 1980s and early 1990s, skeptics began postulating that King David was a mythical character and not a real King.In 1993, three large stones were discovered in the ancient northern city of Dan which record the victory of a King of Aram over the King of Israel and his ally, the King of “the House of David.”[3]The inscriptions date to the 9th century B.C. – about 200 years after the time David lived according to the Bible.But they clearly indicate that David was a king and that he had a dynasty – the House of David.

So the Jews – the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob – were given the land of Canaan by God.

They conquered the land – though not completely – and lived there as a nation beginning at the very latest in 1200 B.C.

The ancestors of modern day Palestinians didn’t arrive until 638 A.D. when the Muslim conquest of Palestine began.

  1. The Palestinians assert that modern Jews are European, and therefore not descendants of ancient Jews.

This assertion ignores three historical deportations of ancient Jews from Israel:

  • The Jewish deportations by the Assyrians and the Babylonians in the 8th through the 6th centuries B.C.
  • The conquest of Israel by the Romans in 70 A.D. – which scattered Jews worldwide – including to Europe.

Not all of the Jews were deported from Israel during these conquests – many remained in the land.

And the Jews exiled to Babylon by Nebuchadnezzar were allowed to return to Jerusalem after 70 years – when King Cyrus and the Persians conquered Babylon.

Most current Israeli Jews are not of European origin – they are descendants of ancient Jews from Israel who were exiled from their homeland long before the Arab Muslim conquest.[4]

But the Palestinians will rewrite history and drive their false narrative into the minds of all who refuse to study and learn history for themselves.

  1. Another historical fact: After the Ottoman Empire was defeated in World War I, its territories were divided among the Allied powers.

The League of Nations gave Great Britain the responsibility of governing the territories of Palestine and Transjordan – known as Jordan today.

The governing framework was called the British Mandate for Palestine.

It lasted from 1920 to 1948.

The British government supported “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people,” while not wanting to prejudice the civil and religious rights of non-Jewish communities.[5]

In 1922, Britain issued a memorandum excluding the area east of the Jordan River – about 77% of the Mandate territory – from Jewish settlements.

Arab Palestine was established as a semi-autonomous emirate under Abdullah I.

It became the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in 1946.

In 1947 the U.N. voted overwhelmingly to further partition Jewish Palestine into two states – one Jewish, one Arab.

When the British Mandate ended on May 14, 1948 with the withdrawal of Britain from the region, Israel declared its independence.

The new Israeli government offered the Arabs living in the region full Israeli citizenship.

Some Arabs stayed, but most fled to Jordan or Syria and joined the Arab nations in a war against Israel.

  1. The Palestinians are the real colonizers in Israel, not the Jews.

The Arabs now calling themselves Palestinians are not indigenous to Israel.

Their presence began with the Muslim conquest, some 3,000 years after the arrival of the Jews.

All you need to do to realize this truth is to familiarize yourself with some basic Jewish history – either by reading the Old Testament of the Bible, or by learning about Bible archaeology from https://biblearchaeologyreport.com/

Or both.

Rod Martin writes, “The irony is glaring: those who arrived by imperial sword now claim the mantle of the native, while the true indigenous people are smeared as colonizers.”[6]

Therefore Israel is not a colony – it’s a restoration.

Nor is the statehood of Israel a Zionist invention or a declaration of British imperial fiat.

  1. Israel wants peace with the Palestinians, but the Palestinians don’t want peace with Israel.

The Jews have done everything humanly possible to live in peace with the Arab Palestinians – but the radical Palestinians still hate them.

They want the Jews either to leave Israel or to be annihilated.

This is why the Palestinian leadership has rejected all 5 offers of a Palestinian state[7]:

  1. Arabs rebelled against Britain – which controlled most of the Middle East following World War I – and against their Jewish neighbors.The British Peel Commission proposed a two-state solution to end the rebellion – one state for the Jews, one state for the Arabs.The Arabs were offered 80% of the disputed territory, the Jews 20%.The Jews accepted the offer; the Arabs rejected it and resumed their violent rebellion.
  2. The United Nations proposed a two-state solution via UN General Assembly Resolution 181.Again, Israel accepted the offer and declared her independence on May 14, 1948 – the day when the British Mandate following World War I officially ended.The reestablishment of Israel as a nation fulfilled several Bible prophecies: Isaiah 66:8; Jeremiah 30:3, 32:37 among others.For example, in Jeremiah 32:37, God says through the prophet Jeremiah, “Behold, I will gather them out of all the lands to which I have driven them… and I will bring them back to this place and make them dwell in safety.”The Arabs rejected the offer of a Palestinian state and launched an all-out war of annihilation against Israel on May 15th – the day after Israel declared her independence.Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Egypt joined in the war against Israel – but lost.

    Israel won the war – and the territory that had been set aside by the U.N. for an Arab state ended up under Jordanian control.

  3. Syria, Jordan and Egypt attacked Israel, intending to destroy it.By the end of the Six-Day War, Israel had taken control of the so-called “West Bank” – the ancient territory of Judea and Samaria – 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.In response, the Arabs issued their famous “Three No’s:”
    * NO peace with Israel
    * NO recognition of Israel
    * NO negotiations with Israel
  4. During the Clinton Administration, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat met at Camp David to conclude a new two-state plan.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.Yasser Arafat rejected the offer.Instead, the Palestinians launched a wave of suicide bombings that killed over a thousand Israeli civilians and maimed thousands more – on buses, in wedding gatherings, and in pizza parlors.
  5. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered the Palestinians everything they had been offered in 2000, plus additional land.The new Palestinian leader – Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas – turned down the offer.

In 2005 – in between the 4th and 5th offers of a Palestinian state, Israel unilaterally left Gaza, turning it over to the Palestinians.

At the time of the Israeli withdrawal, approximately 4,000 greenhouses in Southern Gaza were annually exporting $75 million worth of flowers, strawberries, cherry tomatoes, herbs and peppers.[8]

Instead of developing the territory of Gaza for the benefit of its citizens[9], the Palestinians turned it into a terrorist base – from which they have launched thousands of rockets into Israel over the past 20 years.

  1. Israel values human life and seeks to protect civilians; Islamist Palestinians use civilians as human shields.

News reports coming out of Gaza are always pro-Hamas and anti-Israel.

I hope you all realize this.

Apparently, many do not.

Why?

Because despite all Israel does to try to protect civilians by mass-dropping leaflets warning of impending bombings and pleading with them to evacuate to safe areas, Israel has many haters – including some conservatives, libertarians, and Christians.

The truth about Israel’s actions to spare civilian casualties, and Hamas’ disregard for human life is not being told.

To get a more accurate picture of the truth, please watch this 5-minute video. https://www.prageru.com/videos/what-free-palestine-really-means

Hamas has built some 400 miles of underground tunnels to hide military equipment, munitions, troops and prisoners.

And where are these tunnels?

Underneath schools and hospitals.

And when Israel drops bombs to destroy these shelters and eradicate the terrorist organization committed to their annihilation, they are accused of genocide.

It’s the most evil and cowardly military tactic ever devised.

What would you recommend Israel do?

  • Stop defending themselves?
  • Stop trying to dismantle the terrorist organizations that want to annihilate them?
  • Lay down their arms and wait to see what Hamas does?

By the way, keep in mind that the Palestinians have many options for creating a new homeland.

But the Jews have nowhere else to go.

There are 22 Arab nations in the world – but only one Jewish nation.

  1. A comprehensive and detailed peace agreement has been proposed.

President Trump has proposed a “20-Point Gaza Peace Plan” to end the hostilities between Israel and Hamas – and to create a new government in Gaza.

The initial steps of the peace agreement call for:

  • A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas
  • Israel moving her troops north of Gaza to a specific point called the “yellow line.”
  • Exchange of all hostages and prisoners on both sides, whether alive or dead.

Israel – along with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain – has agreed to the entire peace plan.

Hamas agreed to the ceasefire and the exchange of hostages.

Other Muslim countries have endorsed the ceasefire and Gaza reconstruction elements of the plan:

  • Qatar
  • Egypt
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Lebanon
  • Indonesia
  • Pakistan

So far, Israel has released 1,968 Palestinian prisoners and detainees to Hamas.

Hamas has released 20 living Israeli hostages and the remains of 28 deceased hostages.

As of this writing, one brief skirmish has marred the fragile agreed-to ceasefire – with both sides accusing the other of starting it.

What do you think? Email me at [email protected].

Action Items:

  1. Pray for peace in the Middle East – and pray for the peace of Jerusalem (Psalms 122:6-7).
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FAQs:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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:

Craig Huey is a nationally recognized author, speaker, and publisher of The Huey Alert and Direct Marketing Update. He is also the author of The Great Deception: 10 Shocking Dangers and the Blueprint for Rescuing the American Dream, exposing the lies of socialism and defending America’s founding principles. Craig appears on national media such as FOX, FOX Business, Newsmax and more. He also co-hosts The Huey Alert Podcast with his wife Shelly and helps business leaders, Christians, conservatives, libertarians, young people and more understand the intersection of faith, politics, and freedom.

 

[1] Bryan Windle, https://biblearchaeologyreport.com/2019/01/12/top-ten-discoveries-in-biblical-archaeology-relating-to-the-old-testament/

[2] Ibid.

[3] Ibid.

Rod D. Martin, https://www.rodmartin.org/p/the-palestinians-are-the-colonizers

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration

[6] Rod D. Martin, op. cit.

[7] https://www.prageru.com/videos/why-isnt-there-a-palestinian-state

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gush_Katif

[9] Matthew Gindin, https://matthewzgindin.medium.com/greenhouses-in-gaza-what-happened-ba22b1ac9fdd