#9 – Palestinians reject the two-state solution because they want to destroy Israel.
Claim: The PLO and Hamas are ready to accept a two-state solution.
A long history of rejection
Actions speak louder than words. Since the Peel Commission's partition plan of 1937, there have been at least a dozen offers to create a state for the Palestinians on part of Israel and alongside Israel. Every offer has been accepted by Israel but rejected by the Arab world, including the leaders of the Palestinians. (David Meir - History Upside Down)
In 2000, at Camp David, Israel offered to withdrawal from 97% of the West Bank, all of the Gaza Strip, dismantle most of the settlements, and create a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as it's capital. The only concessions Arafat had to make was to acknowledge Israeli sovereignty over parts of the Western Wall, and agree to three early warning stations in the Jordan Valley, which Israel would withdraw from in six years. Arafat rejected this offer and instead started an Intifada with Israel.
In 2008, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert extended a peace proposal to Abbas that would create two nation-states. Under the plan Israel would have withdrawn from almost the entire West Bank and partitioned Jerusalem on a demographic basis. Abbas rejected the offer the two state solution. The crux of the matter is they will recognize Israel as a state, just not as a Jewish state.
The truth about Hamas
Hamas and Palestinian leaders are also notorious for talking out both sides of their mouths. They will say one thing for the Western media in English, but another to their own people in Arabic. The Hamas Charter exposes their true objectives:
"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it”
“The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hidebehind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews” (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).
"Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution: Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes."
"There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors." –Excerpts from the Hamas Charter.
What Hamas and Palestinian leaders really believe
The founder of Hamas, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, was also responsible for many terrorists’ attacks. Contrary to the opposite, Yassin was an opponent of the peace process and believed all the land should be under Muslim control. Just two years before his death Yassin said, “The jihad and suicide bombings will continue — the Zionist entity will reach its end in the first quarter of the current century. It is therefore up to you [Muslim holy fighters] to be patient — the Hamas takes upon itself the liberation of all Palestinian land from the sea to the river in the Rafah [in the south] and until Rosh Hanikra [in the north].”-Sheikh Ahmed Yassin (Al-Ayyam, December 28, 2002)
Yassin clearly believed Palestinian land included Israel as well. Above, a map of “Palestine” integrated into the Palestinian flag appearing on a plaque awarded to the student Raba Al-Masri from A-Najah University in Nablus by the “Islamic Bloc” (the Hamas student movement). She was awarded the plaque on the occasion of her graduation from the department of journalism in the faculty of Humanities. The plaque was captured during Operation Defensive Shield (a documentary photographed by CNN, 6 September 2003,- depicts Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the Hamas leader, sitting in his office against the background of a map of Palestine in the colors of the Palestinian flag.)
Palestinian leader Khalid Mish’al has iterated the same thing:
“In a Damascus speech, Mish’al played down talk of a potential compromise and said that Arab states should renew their demands for the "liberation [of Palestinian land] from the sea to the river," standard phraseology for the elimination of Israel. (Washington Post, October 12, 2009)
"There is only one enemy in the region, and that is Israel." - Khalid Mish’al (New York Times, May 4, 2009)
"We will never recognize Israel or cease to fight for our land. Our battle against Israel is one of resistance to occupation." -- Khalid Mish’al (Tehran Times, May 27, 2008)
“We will never recognize Israel or cease to fight for our land.” - Khalid Mish’al
Again, actions speak louder than words. Hamas Co-Founder Mahmoud Zahar has said, “Palestine means Palestine in its entirety - from the [Mediterranean] Sea to the [Jordan] River, from Ras Al-Naqura to Rafah. We cannot give up a single inch of it. Therefore, we will not recognize the Israeli enemy's [right] to a single inch.
From the words of Ismail Haniyeh:
"We (Palestinians) will never overlook even one span of Palestine's soil because Palestine is an endowed land and no person, leader, organization or group is entitled to the right to ignore this land ... Israel has no future in the Palestinian lands and our motto is that we will never recognize the Zionist regime." (Fars News Agency (official Iranian news outlet), October 27, 2012)
"Palestine - all of Palestine - is from the sea to the river. We won't relinquish one inch of the land of Palestine. The involvement of Hamas at any stage with the interim objective of liberation of [only] Gaza, the West Bank, or Jerusalem, does not replace its strategic view concerning Palestine and the land of Palestine." (Al-Aqsa TV [Hamas] December 14, 2011)
"As far as we're concerned, the issue of recognition of Israel has been settled once and for all. It has been settled in our political literature, in our Islamic thought and in our Jihadist culture, on which we base our moves. Recognition of Israel is out of the question.” (Al Jazeera interview, April 2, 2007)
The two-state solution
How can statements about a Palestinian state coexisting with an Israeli state be taken seriously when the Palestinian Authorities are always contradict themselves? Also the acceptance of a two-state solution does not mean there is an acceptance of Israel. The PLO and Fatah charter make it clear that the Palestinians do not want a peaceful coexistence with Israel. What has changed is a shift in tactics, from trying to defeat Israel militarily to the clever use of propaganda to delegitimize Israel.
The Arabs were unwilling to accept Israel's existence to gain statehood in 1947. Now however, they are willing to accept a state because they know they can have one without having to accept Israel. The recent UN upgrade to non-member status further confirms this. The Palestinian movement for self-determination is the only one in history whose whole paradigm is built upon terrorism and the destruction of a sovereign state and genocide of it's citizens. Moreover no Jews would be allowed in a Palestinian state according to PLO Ambassador Maen Areikat and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas. And a contiguous Palestinian state would come at the expense of a non-contagious Israel, with non-defensible borders.
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict part10
Claim: The PLO and Hamas are ready to accept a two-state solution.
A long history of rejection
Actions speak louder than words. Since the Peel Commission's partition plan of 1937, there have been at least a dozen offers to create a state for the Palestinians on part of Israel and alongside Israel. Every offer has been accepted by Israel but rejected by the Arab world, including the leaders of the Palestinians. (David Meir - History Upside Down)
In 2000, at Camp David, Israel offered to withdrawal from 97% of the West Bank, all of the Gaza Strip, dismantle most of the settlements, and create a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as it's capital. The only concessions Arafat had to make was to acknowledge Israeli sovereignty over parts of the Western Wall, and agree to three early warning stations in the Jordan Valley, which Israel would withdraw from in six years. Arafat rejected this offer and instead started an Intifada with Israel.
In 2008, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert extended a peace proposal to Abbas that would create two nation-states. Under the plan Israel would have withdrawn from almost the entire West Bank and partitioned Jerusalem on a demographic basis. Abbas rejected the offer the two state solution. The crux of the matter is they will recognize Israel as a state, just not as a Jewish state.
The truth about Hamas
Hamas and Palestinian leaders are also notorious for talking out both sides of their mouths. They will say one thing for the Western media in English, but another to their own people in Arabic. The Hamas Charter exposes their true objectives:
"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it”
“The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hidebehind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him. Only the Gharkad tree, (evidently a certain kind of tree) would not do that because it is one of the trees of the Jews” (related by al-Bukhari and Moslem).
"Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution: Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes."
"There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time and vain endeavors." –Excerpts from the Hamas Charter.
What Hamas and Palestinian leaders really believe
The founder of Hamas, Sheik Ahmed Yassin, was also responsible for many terrorists’ attacks. Contrary to the opposite, Yassin was an opponent of the peace process and believed all the land should be under Muslim control. Just two years before his death Yassin said, “The jihad and suicide bombings will continue — the Zionist entity will reach its end in the first quarter of the current century. It is therefore up to you [Muslim holy fighters] to be patient — the Hamas takes upon itself the liberation of all Palestinian land from the sea to the river in the Rafah [in the south] and until Rosh Hanikra [in the north].”-Sheikh Ahmed Yassin (Al-Ayyam, December 28, 2002)
Yassin clearly believed Palestinian land included Israel as well. Above, a map of “Palestine” integrated into the Palestinian flag appearing on a plaque awarded to the student Raba Al-Masri from A-Najah University in Nablus by the “Islamic Bloc” (the Hamas student movement). She was awarded the plaque on the occasion of her graduation from the department of journalism in the faculty of Humanities. The plaque was captured during Operation Defensive Shield (a documentary photographed by CNN, 6 September 2003,- depicts Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the Hamas leader, sitting in his office against the background of a map of Palestine in the colors of the Palestinian flag.)
Palestinian leader Khalid Mish’al has iterated the same thing:
“In a Damascus speech, Mish’al played down talk of a potential compromise and said that Arab states should renew their demands for the "liberation [of Palestinian land] from the sea to the river," standard phraseology for the elimination of Israel. (Washington Post, October 12, 2009)
"There is only one enemy in the region, and that is Israel." - Khalid Mish’al (New York Times, May 4, 2009)
"We will never recognize Israel or cease to fight for our land. Our battle against Israel is one of resistance to occupation." -- Khalid Mish’al (Tehran Times, May 27, 2008)
“We will never recognize Israel or cease to fight for our land.” - Khalid Mish’al
Again, actions speak louder than words. Hamas Co-Founder Mahmoud Zahar has said, “Palestine means Palestine in its entirety - from the [Mediterranean] Sea to the [Jordan] River, from Ras Al-Naqura to Rafah. We cannot give up a single inch of it. Therefore, we will not recognize the Israeli enemy's [right] to a single inch.
From the words of Ismail Haniyeh:
"We (Palestinians) will never overlook even one span of Palestine's soil because Palestine is an endowed land and no person, leader, organization or group is entitled to the right to ignore this land ... Israel has no future in the Palestinian lands and our motto is that we will never recognize the Zionist regime." (Fars News Agency (official Iranian news outlet), October 27, 2012)
"Palestine - all of Palestine - is from the sea to the river. We won't relinquish one inch of the land of Palestine. The involvement of Hamas at any stage with the interim objective of liberation of [only] Gaza, the West Bank, or Jerusalem, does not replace its strategic view concerning Palestine and the land of Palestine." (Al-Aqsa TV [Hamas] December 14, 2011)
"As far as we're concerned, the issue of recognition of Israel has been settled once and for all. It has been settled in our political literature, in our Islamic thought and in our Jihadist culture, on which we base our moves. Recognition of Israel is out of the question.” (Al Jazeera interview, April 2, 2007)
The two-state solution
How can statements about a Palestinian state coexisting with an Israeli state be taken seriously when the Palestinian Authorities are always contradict themselves? Also the acceptance of a two-state solution does not mean there is an acceptance of Israel. The PLO and Fatah charter make it clear that the Palestinians do not want a peaceful coexistence with Israel. What has changed is a shift in tactics, from trying to defeat Israel militarily to the clever use of propaganda to delegitimize Israel.
The Arabs were unwilling to accept Israel's existence to gain statehood in 1947. Now however, they are willing to accept a state because they know they can have one without having to accept Israel. The recent UN upgrade to non-member status further confirms this. The Palestinian movement for self-determination is the only one in history whose whole paradigm is built upon terrorism and the destruction of a sovereign state and genocide of it's citizens. Moreover no Jews would be allowed in a Palestinian state according to PLO Ambassador Maen Areikat and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas. And a contiguous Palestinian state would come at the expense of a non-contagious Israel, with non-defensible borders.
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict part10
