A Two State Solution

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Is only a future one state solution.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/hist ... -auschwitz

"Oct. 7, 2023 was the most destructive day of mass violence against Jews since the end of the Holocaust. The carnage carried out on that day, far from being a by-product of war, was a religiously sanctioned, orgiastic display of unrestrained Jew-hatred. One cannot begin to understand it if one ignores the Hamas Charter and other Islamist teachings that make Hamas the organization it is and inspires it to do what it does.

Hamas originates as a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. It is and always has been a jihadist organization, which sees the existence of the State of Israel as an intolerable intrusion into the Domain of Islam (Dar al-Islam) and is committed to removing Israel by whatever means necessary. The preamble to the Hamas Charter declares that “Israel exists and will continue to exist until Islam obliterates it, just as it obliterated others before it.” The “Palestinian problem,” it affirms, “is a religious problem” and is not amenable to a negotiated political settlement. The only way to “raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine” is through “jihad,” a holy war that is a “duty for every Muslim wherever he may be.”

As a result of their success in invading Israel on Oct. 7 and killing and capturing so many Jews, Hamas has incited the passions of many in the broader Arab and Muslim worlds and, alarmingly, well beyond. In doing so, it has made emphatic the Islamist reading of the Arab-Israeli conflict as essentially a Muslim-Jewish conflict. Most people in the West view the problem as basically political and territorial in nature. That is true, but only in part. As represented by Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, the Houthis in Yemen, and the Islamic Republic of Iran (the sponsor of all the others), it is also religious, and at its heart of hearts there resides an annihilationist fantasy of killing Jews and bringing an end to the Jewish state. Hamas and its allies are not looking for a two-state solution but a repeat of the Final Solution. Their brutally successful killing spree on Oct. 7 was an extravagant rehearsal for that larger goal, a genocidal one.

Where does that leave Israel? Right now, at war with Hamas in Gaza and in a simmering battle with Hezbollah in the north that could rapidly explode into a full-scale and even more fearsome war. What is at stake, as most Israelis understand it, is nothing less than the survival of the state itself. Hamas spokesmen have said as much. On Oct. 24, Gazi Hamad, speaking as a representative of Hamas to a Lebanese television station, declared that the Oct. 7 attack “is just the first time, and there will be a second, a third, a fourth … until Israel is annihilated.”

Total victory over Hamas will not be enough to protect Israel from future progroms such as it experienced on October 7.

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The two state solution is dead, Hamas and Likud have both played their part in killing it. Sadly what is taking place now is nothing short of genocidal war, with neither government openly attacking the leadership of the other.

No, what is happening instead is the entrenchment of division, of brutalisation, of trauma, bereavement, bitterness, resentment and misery.

Both peoples need to be able to coexist without conflict. Without land theft, suicide bombings or any sort of terrorism.

And coexistence cannot happen until Hamas and Likud are out of the picture.