From Marine Le Pen to François Ruffin, including centrists and regulars on TV, everyone seems to have been drinking for years and without restraint from the sweet poison of the “two-state solution”. This narcotic, disguised as a supreme virtue, deceived their reason and erased all historical memory. Even more tragic, even certain Jews – visibly forgotten by dignity – become its zealous bearers, as if to complete the absurdity of the spectacle.
In recent days, great news has delighted followers of Palestinianism: the Macron-Ben Salman tandem will “support the creation of an Arab state in Palestine”. A touching mirage which is based on a well-oiled routine: ignoring the facts, falsifying History and reshaping reality for the benefit of a supposedly just cause.
On television sets, in university lecture halls and even in the aisles of the National Assembly, the great rewriting is in full swing. They would have us believe that the Jews appeared ex nihilo in 1948, armed to the teeth, to uproot an innocent people and conquer in a few days a “country” that would never have been theirs.
Okay, stop! It is time to interrupt this delirium and put an end to this voluntarily maintained collective amnesia.
The creation of an Arab state in Palestine is nothing other than a Trojan Horse, cleverly designed in the 20th century, to politely – but surely – legitimize hatred of the Jew. It is therefore urgent to understand why this state, presented as a miracle solution, actually constitutes an existential threat for Israel and the Jews of the Diaspora.
To measure the scale of this Palestinian scam, we only need to go back to 1917. That year, the Balfour Declaration committed Great Britain to establishing a Jewish national home in Palestine. The British mandate over Palestine was born in 1920: this vast territory included what would later become Israel and Jordan. This promise comes after centuries of Ottoman and Arab colonization.
The Arabs who arrived in Palestine in the 7th century during the Muslim conquests were, for the vast majority of them, nomadic and indistinguishable in their language and culture from the other Arab tribes in the region. However, despite centuries of occupation of this land, the idea of a “Palestinian state” never crossed their minds, either west or east of the Jordan. No “Palestinian state” has ever existed…
The return of the Jews to Palestine radically changed the situation. This territory, largely abandoned, is regaining unprecedented fertility and economic prosperity, the fruit of Zionist efforts. Although the local Arabs benefited from these exploits, they viewed the return of these exiled Jews with a very dim eye. Their main complaint? The latter undermine pan-Arabism and now refuse traditional dhimmitude, this status of subordination imposed by Sharia law which avoids death.
To calm “tensions” – such a practical word to euphemize Arab violence – the British gradually betrayed the spirit of the Balfour Declaration. In 1922, they even decided to divide the mandate on Palestine. As a “thank you” to King Abdullah of Arabia, freshly defeated in a tribal war and ally of the Triple Entente during the Great War, the British offered him 77% of the Palestinian mandate on a platter. This portion became Transjordan, which became the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in 1946.
Imagine for a moment that Transjordan had retained the name Palestine. What a relief that would have been! Today, any discussion of a “Palestinian Arab state” would be definitively shelved. But no. This semantic vagueness, born from a simple renaming decision, allowed the emergence of the great contemporary bluff: the demand for an additional Arab state west of the Jordan.
The truth, however, is crystal clear. Palestine was divided in 1922. East of the Jordan, an Arab state was created: Transjordan, future Jordan. In the west, the Jews of Yishuv, convinced that this partition would put an end to Arab claims, committed the sin – almost biblical – of believing in the virtues of territorial concessions in order to live in peace.
But the future will show them that they were seriously mistaken. Not only did this peace remain a chimera, but this semantic error – not having retained the name “Palestine” for Transjordan – opened the way to an invention: that of a Palestinian nationalism, designed not to justify the existence of a new Arab state, but for the pure and simple destruction of Israel.
Since then, Israel has faced a relentless campaign of hostility: wars, attacks, boycotts and international pressure. Under the clever pretext of “Palestinian self-determination”, the world demands a second partition of the former British Palestine, as if that of 1922 had not been enough to eat away at Jewish territory.
To achieve real peace, two options are available to Arabs: agree to live in the nation-state of the Jewish people or emigrate to Jordan, the true Palestinian Arab state.
The other reason that accompanies the political illegitimacy of the Arab state in Palestine lies in the constant anti-Semitism that runs through Palestinianism. “Tell me who your leaders are, and I will tell you who you are”: knowing those who embody this “cause” allows us to shed light on the dishonesty of this fight.
In the 1930s, there was no Palestinian nationalism to speak of. This merged with the pan-Arabism carried in part by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini. The latter dreamed of a pan-Arab bloc including Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Egypt. Like the expansionist ambitions of Germany in Europe or Japan in the Far East, he envisaged an Arab empire in the Middle East. The Jewish presence in Palestine represented a major obstacle to this project. To deal with this, al-Husseini regularly incited anti-Semitic violence, as evidenced by the terrible pogrom of 1929 in Hebron, committed by his henchmen.
The entire Arab policy of al-Husseini in Palestine can be summed up by his remarks made on January 21, 1944 in front of Muslim Bosnian SS: “The Jews are the worst enemies of the Muslims. There are similarities between the principles of Islam and those of National Socialism. ".
After 1948, Palestinian Arab identity remained ambiguous and linked to the great Arab nation. Contrary to what supporters of the “Palestinian cause” claim, the conflict in the Middle East does not find its origins in an aspiration of Palestinian Arabs to create a state. This idea, according to which the conflict stems from an Israeli refusal to accept the creation of a Palestinian Arab state for 76 years, is a fantasy.
Indeed in 1964, sixteen years after the creation of Israel, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was born. But curiously, at that time, Judea and Samaria aka West Bank was under Jordanian control, and Gaza was under Egyptian rule. So why create a “liberation” organization when there is nothing to “liberate” under Israeli control? The answer is simple: the PLO never had the objective of a state alongside Israel, but rather in Israel's place: an exclusively Arab Palestine, where the few Jews authorized to remain would be good Dhimmis...
This desire for extermination was not hidden. On this subject, Ahmed Choukairy, first president of the PLO, joyfully declared on May 23, 1967 on Radio Damascus “There will be practically no Jewish survivors. » An ambitious promise, but the Six Day War would cool his ardor.
His successor, the criminal Yasser Arafat, took up the same line, with a keen sense of duplicity. Despite having received the Nobel Peace Prize, Arafat never uttered the word “peace” in Arabic. On the other hand, he used the term houdna, designating a temporary truce in Islam, intended to prepare for the next offensives. After the agreements of Jewish submission in Oslo, presented in the West as a remarkable breakthrough towards peace, Arafat declared in Stockholm: “We are planning the elimination of the State of Israel and the establishment of a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews through psychological warfare and population explosion. »
The Oslo Accords, like the gift of Gush Kativ (Gaza Strip) in 2005, were just another trap for Israel. These gestures of goodwill, naively greeted in the West, have cost thousands of Jewish lives and weakened Israeli deterrence. The genocidal massacre of October 7, 2023 tragically illustrates where these concessions lead. But some will undoubtedly continue to say that we still need to “extend our hand” – perhaps to better have it cut off.
To conclude, what could be better than the beautiful words of the late Hussein of Jordan, to an Arab daily published in Paris, An-Nhar al-Arabi w'al-Daouli, on December 26, 1981: “The truth is that Jordan is Palestine, and Palestine is Jordan. »
Aurélien Bernheim