Tuesday, October 9, 2018

The two state proposal you'll never see



I've written a proposal for a two state solution to end the Arab-Israel war. It's a good plan, I'm sure. 

I've written this proposal because so many in Israel (and elsewhere) have created so many 'two state solutions' I just had to add my own version. But you'll never see it. 

The reason is simple. There is no two state solution for the Arab-Israel war. That's the 800-pound gorilla sitting in the corner. It's the gorilla no well-meaning, peace-lover wants to look at.

This 100-year war isn't about two peoples wanting to live in peace in the same geographic location. It isn't about politics. It isn't about about self-determination. It's about G-d (here). It's about two opposing religious absolutes (here) wrestling over one earthly plot where only one G -d, one absolute, can reign.

Ask the Palestinian Authority (PA). Ask Hamas. They know exactly what this war is about.

This war focuses on what Islam calls a waqf. A waqf is an Islamic property. Once associated with Islam, it can never be sold or gifted (here). In essence, it belongs to allah.

That's what this war is about--land that the G-d of Israel gave to the Jewish people which Islam declares it will  usurp for itself. Specifically, this war is about the Islamic effort to replace the infidel Jew-Israel with a new Islamic Caliphate. Jerusalem is to be the capital (here) of that Caliphate. This effort against Israel is viewed by Muslims as a religious imperative, not a political necessity. 

Read the Hamas Charter. Listen to religious officials from both the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Gaza.

This war isn't geopolitical in nature. It's religious. It's a war over whose religion gets to rule the holy land.

Take another look at Abbas's speeches in Arabic. Look at translations of other official and religious speeches in Arabic from Gaza and the PA (via palwatch and memri). 

Those speeches tell the truth. For Muslims, this war is about their allah. It's about the Islamic claim that the Temple Mount, the Cave of the Patriarchs, Joseph's Tomb, Rachel's Tomb and Hevron--and all the land between the River and the Sea--belong to Muslims, not Jews. It's about demonstrating the Supremacy of Islam over Judaism and Christianity (here).

There are no Man-made 'solutions' for this kind of war because this war isn't about Man. Man's solutions simply do not address the spiritual issues embedded in this war. 

Two state solutions are a fool's work. That's why I won't show you my version. I'm not a fool.

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