Pictured: Hamas terrorists with their child trainee at a rally in Gaza City on May 24, 2021. (Photo by Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images)

Not what anyone wants to read or hear, but there never will be peace in the Middle East. Nor peace in the world. Ever. Never has been and never will be. Until the Lord Jesus Christ returns a Second and Final time. Then and only then will there be peace in the Middle East and world peace.

Almost all people rebel against this truth. In a state of perpetual delusion denying human nature and history. Denying the Word of God.

The so-called two-state solution is no solution. Such a foolish agreement would never lead to peace anywhere let alone in the Middle East. There cannot be peace, which involves trust and truth when one of the party’s sole intent is to exterminate the other and steal their sovereign land, which is God’s land.

I’ve had Jews tell me how wonderful Jordan is, how great a friend certain Islamic leaders and nations are. How deceived and misled. When the time would arise, exampled from times in the past, Islam coalesced and focused on attacking Israel with the intent to destroy. To remove. Peace is an illusion. Always has been. Always will be.

Spans of time appear hopeful, peaceful woven between the occasions of determined destruction. Which have and always will end in failure and defeat for Islam or any nation that attempts to rise up and destroy or remove Israel — God’s land.

Any person, any nation that recognizes a Palestinian state is nothing more than a liar, a lawbreaker, one who is severely deluded and so ensnared and held captive by evil they appear to have abandoned any shred of being human and become nothing more than robotic mouthpieces for the master they serve. And there are only two in which any person serves. Need I spell it out one more time folks?

Illusion, delusion, banality, and the appearance of insanity which is just the by-product of being so spiritually, historically, and factually lost in these times are consuming the people of the world. Their minds are being given over to their innate wickedness, their reprobate minds displayed daily and increasingly by the day.

No one can live in peace with those who throw their opposition off tall buildings, do nothing but lie, behead and burn babies, and take hostages to rape, starve, burn, and torture beyond the imagination of those safely in their homes, their abodes miles and miles from such happening to them. Those they steal to inflict their demented pure evil upon which is just an outpouring of their evil intent on wiping all Jews and Israel from the face of the earth.

Peace? How lost and deluded, living in a fantasy world are you? When and where have you ever known peace on earth? Peace in the Middle East? Israel and Jews being loved and accepted by the people of this world?

A people, a place that was granted, given, and promised by God thousands and thousands of years ago not recognized by the world until 1948? And ever since so many burning with a white-hot hatred living with the sole purpose of killing, torturing, removing, and destroying.

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Ken Pullen, Monday, December 4th, 2023

Why Belgium, Norway, Spain, and Everyone Should Refrain from Recognizing a ‘Palestinian State’ Just Now

There are whispers in the corridors of power that Belgium, like Norway and Spain, is preparing to recognize a “Palestinian State”. This move seems questionable, on both legal and political grounds.

The first conditions for recognizing a state are territory and state authority. International law defines a sovereign state as an established territorial unit, within which its laws apply to a permanent population, and which is constituted by institutions through which it exercises authority and effective power.

In the case of a “Palestinian State”, there is no territory on which even the Palestinians agree. Indeed, the charter of Hamas — designated as a terrorist organization by many countries in the West, and which has reigned unchallenged in the Gaza Strip since 2007 when it forcibly expelled the Palestinian Authority, in part by throwing its members off 15-story buildings — calls for the “liberation” of “every inch of Palestine” through jihad.

The Palestinian Authority also lays claim over all of the territory, including all of Israel (see also here, here, here and here). The territory of the “Palestinian State” is therefore not contested at the margins; it is contested in substance. At present, no one, and certainly not the Palestinians themselves, can say what the boundaries of the territory they are claiming are, even approximately, apart from the openly desired entire territory of Israel.

In addition, the Palestinian Authority is counting on the Palestine Liberation Organization’s 1974 “Ten Point Plan” (also known as the “phased plan”) for the “comprehensive liberation” of all the land stretching “from the [Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea” — a euphemism for the elimination of Israel. The plan calls for the PLO to use whatever territory it is offered as a base of operations to get the rest.

Nor is there any constituted state authority. Or rather, there are two. In Gaza, Hamas has governed since 2007. In the Palestinian-populated areas of Judea and Samaria, the Palestinian Authority dominates. These two authorities do not recognize each other, so much so that they went to war. Between 2007 and 2008, hundreds of cadres and activists were killed in clashes between Hamas and the Palestinian Authority in the Gaza Strip. An estimated 600 Hamas political prisoners are being held in Palestinian Authority jails.

So, what is this enigmatic “authority” that should be recognized? The Palestinian Authority, which has no legitimacy, no representatives in Gaza, and is hated by a large number of its own people? Or Hamas, which has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007, is a terrorist organization and has just perpetrated the worst act of mass murder against Jews since the Shoah?

Does Belgium realize that recognizing any kind of “authority” in these conditions is tantamount to recognizing either a terrorist organization or the Palestinian Authority, whose authority in Gaza is a pure myth, or a mixture of the two that has no relevance on the ground?

In strict international law, it makes no sense to recognize a “Palestinian State” that does not exist in any of its fundamental components. How can one justify recognizing a myth such as the Palestinian State, while at the same time as refusing to recognize a democratic “State of Taiwan,” which is perfectly constituted and has been for decades? It’s all very well claiming to be governed by international law, but it is even better to be consistent in respecting its categories.

Another problem is that of “Palestinian refugees”. It is estimated that there are two million “Palestinian refugees” recognized as such by the United Nations currently living in the West Bank and Gaza. The refugee issue is one of the most sensitive in the Israeli-Arab conflict. Five million Palestinian Arabs who are currently registered as “Palestine refugees” – the two million in the West Bank and Gaza, plus two million in Jordan and another million in Syria and Lebanon – are demanding to “return” to what they claim is their historic homeland.

If these five million Palestinians were to join the two million or so Palestinian Arabs who are already citizens of Israel, there would be a massive demographic change, as Einat Wilf points out. The Jews of Israel would likely be relegated to minority status. This is why Israelis have always rejected the Palestinians’ claimed “right of return”. Yet Palestinians insist that this is a fundamental requirement of any peace agreement.

Recognizing a “Palestinian State” means putting an end to the myth of refugees already living in these territories. You cannot be a refugee from Palestine and live in a Palestinian State at the same time. If Gaza and the West Bank become “Palestine,” then the millions of Palestinians living there cease to be refugees. Pretending to recognize a “Palestinian State” while maintaining the myth of refugees betrays the inherently political and hostile nature of this recognition of a phantom “Palestinian State”.

Moreover, according to many commentators, there already is a Palestinian State: it is called Jordan.

Which brings us to the heart of the matter: Belgium’s possible recognition of a “Palestinian State” makes no sense in terms of international law. It comes, in reality, less as the result of a desire to help the Palestinians — whose lives will not be improved by it — than of a fierce and increasingly undisguised hostility towards the State of Israel, and most likely also Jews.

Belgium, Norway, and Spain would do well to come to their senses. Recognizing a Palestinian state with no authority, no realistic territorial demands, and no acceptable leadership — and with a long-term, outspoken desire to militarize and destroy its neighbor Israel — right after a jihadist pogrom against Jews, will not add to the happiness of any of the parties involved, or, for that matter, anyone else.

Drieu Godefridi is a jurist (University Saint-Louis, University of Louvain), philosopher (University Saint-Louis, University of Louvain) and Ph.D. in legal theory (Paris IV-Sorbonne). He is an entrepreneur, CEO of a European private education group and director of PAN Medias Group. He is the author of The Green Reich (2020).