Regardless of any historical perspective or contrivance The PA/Hamas and the nation of Israel cannot occupy the same space or share a common border. The Palestinian Arabs cannot allow it.
Any two-state “solution” can at most be only an intermediary stage on the way to the ultimate elimination of Israel. Hamas has openly declared its intention to wipe out the Jewish state. The current leadership of the PA and its leader differ from Hamas only in verbiage, sounding softer when interacting in English with Westerners.
Both Hamas and the PA are wedded to the principle that Israel is illegitimate, and terror and that violence against Israelis constitute legitimate resistance. The PA’s educational system, propaganda, media, and mosques encourage religious hate for Israel, and the PA rewards violence against Jews by paying lifetime salaries to the families of Muslims who die murdering Jews.
Israel is a diverse, multicultural society with a liberal multiparty democracy, a flourishing economy, and a sincere desire for peace. The U.N. voted for the Two-State Solution with the Partition Plan of 1947, crafting a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Israelis immediately agreed and accepted a Palestinian state next to Israel. Even now, Israeli culture, literature, and music constantly extol a desire for peace and mutual acceptance, which the Palestinian Arabs forfeit with each murder and rocket.
Ever since the Palestinian people recognized themselves politically as Palestinians, they have rejected every offer of compromise with the Jewish community. It started with the 1937 Peel Commission, continued with a strong and violent rejection of the 1947 U.N. Two-State Solution Partition Plan, and more recently involved P.A. leaders Yasser Arafat in 2000 and Mahmoud Abbas in 2008 saying “no” to a peace settlement with Israel.
Following the 1993 Oslo Accords, Arafat and Fatah admitted that the Oslo Accords were simply a “Trojan Horse,” meant to be a stage in the dissolution of the Jewish state. A cursory look at "Taqiyya" will explain the Koranic doctrine of Deception to advance the will of Allah. At the Camp David Summit in July 2000, Arafat refused to end the conflict with Israel. President Clinton bemoaned Arafat’s unwillingness to make peace. Clinton later described Arafat as an aging leader who relishes his own sense of victimhood and seemed incapable of making a final peace deal.
In 2008, Arafat’s successor, Abbas, repeated Arafat’s refusal to accept a Two-State Solution and end the conflict with Israel. Abbas understood that his radicalized people did not want a compromise with the Jews, but wanted the “whole pie”; namely, Jerusalem, Haifa, Jaffa, Safed... Nothing has changed about the Palestinian leadership and the people they govern with regard to compromise and peace with Israel. A majority of West Bank Palestinian Arabs support Hamas’s agenda.
In December of this year, a poll Palestinian Center for Policy Survey and Research found that “Three out four Palestinian Arabs believed the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel was correct; saying they believed the Hamas decision to launch the cross-border rampage in southern Israel was correct. The same port found that support for Hamas in the West Bank has more than tripled.
Palestinian Arabs overwhelmingly deny that Israel has a right to exist and, at best, view the two-state “solution” as temporary, providing the cover of sovereignty to facilitate rearming and finally removing the Jews from Israel completely. A Palestinian state, now or in the near future, is a wishful fantasy and, more than likely, a Palestinian State will be another terrorist state, supported by Iran, where Hamas or a lookalike leads and uses a new base in the West Bank to attack Israel.
In my view, the only viable solution is for Palestinian Arabs to find another place to live that will have them; more than likely Saudi, Syria, Iraq or Qatar.
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