If the choice is between killing the Jews and having their own state, the Palestinians invariably choose the killing.

Several of my acquaintances and even more strangers on social media believe that Hamas's attack on Israel is "somewhere justified". They repeat the accusation, still concocted by the KGB, that Israel is "colonizing" the ancient Palestinian land, and that the Palestinians, driven from their poor land, have no choice but desperate "resistance".

I cannot go too far back in time to explain the origins of the conflict. The Jewish presence in the geographical unit called Palestine is thousands of years old, it did not start yesterday or in 1947. Rather, let's examine whether there was a chance for Palestinian self-determination.

First of all, the concept of "Palestine" needs to be clarified. The Palestinian people are an invention of the KGB. In the 1960s, the "Palestinians", who until then were simply Arabs, were involved in wars of liberation against colonialism.

The "useful idiot" Western left took the bait and has been an enthusiastic supporter of the "Palestinians" ever since.

The meaning of the word "Palestinian" itself was different, for example, in the 1930s, when local Jews founded the Palestine Bank and the Palestine Airlines. It was a geographical and not an ethnic concept.

Yasser Arafat himself, the first president of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was born in Cairo, as were many Palestinians of immigrant descent. Arab immigration was made possible by the fact that the Jews who also settled drained the marshes, made the desert areas fertile with irrigation, created settlements, and economic life boomed.

As long as the Gaza Strip was occupied by Egypt and the West Bank by Jordan (that is, until the Six-Day War of 1967), there was no question of Palestinian self-determination in these areas.

But how did we get here?

The first time an independent Palestinian state could have been established was in 1947, with UN Resolution 181, which was created on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire and would have divided the British mandate in the Middle East, which had existed since 1920, between the Arabs and the Jews. In 1946, the Hashemite Kingdom of Transjordan was established, which narrowed the area that could be divided.

The Jews accepted the UN partition (which assigned them a smaller area than the current one), but the Arabs started a war against the Jews, which they lost.

The Arab section was occupied by Egypt and Jordan. If partition had been accepted, the other Palestinian state could have been created alongside Jordan. Because let's not forget: Jordan is also a Palestinian country!

In 1967, the Arab countries tried again to wipe Israel off the face of the earth, they lost again, then Gaza and the West Bank came under Israeli control. From an international legal point of view, these are disputed areas, since the UN resolution has not been implemented. There was never a Palestinian state there.

In 1967, after the Six-Day War, Israel offered the occupied territories in exchange for peace, with the agreement on Jerusalem later. The Palestinians rejected this.

Then in 1977 they refused to join the Egyptian-Israeli peace talks, which could have had the same outcome. In 2000, at Camp David, the agreement was already ready, when Yasser Arafat got up from the table and instead started the second intifada, which resulted in more than a thousand deaths and thousands of wounded on the Israeli side. However, Prime Minister Ehud Barak made much larger concessions than expected.

He would have handed over the entire territory of Gaza, he promised 95% of the West Bank, the liquidation of Jewish settlements in the areas under Palestinian control (!), and he would also have handed over the Temple Mount.

Arafat, on the other hand, also demanded the full return of those living in the refugee camps (several million Arabs who had never lived in Israel).

In the end, the Palestinians abandoned the negotiations between 2007-2008. In terms of territory, they would have received 100% of the territory occupied by Israel in 1967, which would have been resolved by exchanging a few percent of the territory so that Jewish settlements could be annexed to Israel.

Arafat again clung to the issue of the four million "refugees".

(Let's imagine that Hungary was in a state of war with Czechoslovakia and its successor states since 1948 because of the Hungarians and their descendants expelled from there, and from time to time we would fire rockets at Prague and Bratislava and blow up buses there...)

The "territory for peace" principle, which was the magic bullet of the Israeli left and the former US administration for the establishment of a Palestinian state, failed due to the resistance of the Palestinians. This had a greater impact on Israeli domestic politics, since since then the left has not been able to form a government, it has lost all credibility. America is still wishful thinking and wants to force Israel to make further concessions.

In the meantime: the immigrants on the streets of Berlin and London are frantically reliving the attack on the Jews. "Dirty Jews" they chant on Berlin's "Sunshine Boulevard" (Sonnenallee), and in the Neukölln district of West London they wave flags and jump in cars as if it were some kind of party.

If anyone thinks after this that the peace-loving Palestinian people have no other desire than to continue constructive work in their own state, it is incurably naive.

The facts show that when they have to choose between killing the Jews and their own state, they invariably choose the killing.

That is why the cross-border tunnels made of construction material transported to Gaza will be under Israeli settlements. That is why the EU's multibillion-dollar aid will pay for the wages of the people held in arms, the livelihood of their families, and the care of the relatives of the "martyrs". For decades, the Palestinian leadership - be it the Liberation Organization, the Palestinian Authority it controls, Hamas or Hezbollah - has simply lived on persistence instead of nation-building. Arab socialism has seamlessly transformed from an anti-imperialist vanguard supported by the Soviet Union into a coalition of Islamic jihadists.

The goal is the same: the destruction of Israel, making normal life there impossible. Now in Iranian and Qatari currency.

This is the only driving force behind the current attack. No political conditions, no demands. There are rockets, hostage taking, houses being set on fire for those inside. It doesn't make much sense militarily because Israel will obviously wipe out the attackers. It will take a long time because the hostages have been dragged to Gaza. It can be expected that if Israel wanted to free them, it would run into countless, very cunningly placed traps.

Whoever is capable of such an organized and unexpected attack can cause serious losses inside Gaza as well.

Personally, I can only pray that Hezbollah does not seize the opportunity and attack from Lebanon, because then we could witness a war on the scale of Ukraine.

In the meantime: Hezbollah also started bombing Israel from the north, a hospital was also hit. Read more HERE .

(Hezbollah is another beneficiary of the "territory for peace" principle: when Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon in exchange for peace, Hezbollah moved in. Over the years, it has installed a hundred thousand(!) advanced missile arsenal and established an army with serious capabilities, surpassing the Lebanese army. He completely captured the state itself.)

If the meaning of the action is not military, then what is?

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Featured image: Israeli civilians killed by Palestinian militants in the city of Sderot on October 7, 2023.
The Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas has fired a volley of rockets at southern and central Israel from the Gaza Strip, and dozens of its militants have invaded Israeli settlements. At least seventy Israeli civilians were killed and dozens of people were taken hostage, and around 900 wounded are being treated in hospital. Israel ordered full mobilization. MTI/AP/Ohad Zwigenberg