This is fundamentally an Islamic holy war.

There’s a lot of vitriol on the web and it is getting more hate-filled all the time. Claims of the Rothschild family having been Satanists or that the Rockefellers were really Jews are now superseded by similar claims in more subtle language that AIPAC runs Congress and is pushing for the U.S. to take out Iran on behalf of Israel. And of course, the mantras of the week which claim that the poor, besieged Palestinians just want to live in peace and harmony if only the mean Israelis would tear down that infernal fence/wall/barrier.

Here’s Jeff Jacoby in today’s Boston Globe for those of you who need a whiff of reality:
“Peace will not be achieved by granting sovereignty to the Palestinians, because Palestinian sovereignty has never been the Arabs’ goal. Time and time again, a two-state solution has been proposed. Time and time again, the Arabs have turned it down.
“In 1936, when Palestine was still under British rule . . . Lord Peel was sent to investigate the steadily worsening Arab violence. After a detailed inquiry, the Peel Commission . . . recommended a two-state solution – a partition of the land into separate Arab and Jewish states. ‘Partition offers a chance of ultimate peace,’ the commission reported. ‘No other plan does.’
“But the Arab leaders, more intent on preventing Jewish sovereignty in Palestine than in achieving a state for themselves, rejected the Peel plan out of hand. The foremost Palestinian leader, Haj Amin al-Husseini, actively supported the Nazi regime in Germany. In return, Husseini wrote in his memoirs, Hitler promised him ‘a free hand to eradicate every last Jew from Palestine and the Arab world.’ ”

Of the 700,000 Arabs who were living in the land before 1948, about 100,000 immigrated from Syria and Jordan as the Jews drained swamps and lowered the mortality rate. The vast majority of Jews prior to WWII did not expect the territory to be Arab-free. Arabs started attacking Jews as early as 1920. My reference to the Holocaust was to the avid Muslim cooperation which no one here ever talks about. After WWII, the increased Jewish population was seen as a threat by the Muslims and they increased their attacks on the Jews. That is when there was pressure on the United Nations to make Israel a state, not the other way around. And if you check the map of the recommended partition, you’ll see that it was Jordan who grabbed land on Israel’s side – so much for who is stealing what from whom. None of the posts you read in online comments ever acknowledge the push by the Arabs but everybody chants the mantra of Jewish exclusivity.
Arabs talk about Israeli injustice while they pledge to destroy Israel – and have made that pledge since 1948. This is fundamentally an Islamic holy war. But the West now buys into this as a war between a colonialist interloper and a poor, democracy-seeking indigenous people and if only Israel would stop being so militant, we could all live happily ever after. Tell that to the 720,000 Jews who had to escape from the 22 Islamic countries.

So to those who keep chanting that Israel stole the land, you (deliberately?) ignore all the concessions that Israel made without any corresponding compromise by their 22 Arab neighbors. Hamas has transformed the Palestinian conflict from a nationalist struggle to create a Palestinian state into an Islamist struggle against the existence of a Jewish state. Hamas has been utterly open and clear in declaring that they will never accept Israel. What part of “never” is up for debate?

When Muslims accept Israel, there will be peace.