The inevitable Palestinian terror state
The world wants to impose a Palestinian state on Israel. It is inevitable that such a state would be a terror state. A new poll shows how true this will be, and why Israel must resist it.
The recent Group of Seven (G7) meeting of major democratic powers shows the international community remains misguided with its fetish for a so-called two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
While the G7 issued quite a balanced communique, the group’s reiteration of its commitment to a two-state solution shows Western powers still have not disabused themselves of this awful idea.
Most Israelis oppose it because they know a Palestinian state would be an Iranian client terror state. Most Palestinians oppose it because they want the Jewish state gone.
The West has convinced itself, against all evidence, that the Palestinians are fighting for their own state and that creating one will bring peace. Two myths drive this belief. One is that there is a great divide between “ordinary” Palestinians and Hamas. The other is that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is a viable governing body.
New polling shows how wrong this is. A poll from the respected Ramallah-based Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research shows 61 percent of Palestinians in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) and Gaza would prefer Hamas over the PA to govern the Gaza strip.
Only 32 percent of Palestinians support a two-state solution, with a whopping 63 percent supporting “armed intifada.” When asked about how to break the diplomatic stalemate, 22 percent supported abandoning the two-state solution for a one-state solution, while 49 percent supported “popular non-resistance”.
Fully 76 percent of Palestinians in Gaza said they were satisfied with Hamas’ performance during the Israel-Hamas War, while 50 percent of Palestinians in Judea and Samaria agreed.
Some 67 percent of Palestinians, including 57 percent of those in Gaza, believe Hamas was right to attack on Israel on October 7. Asked which political party they favored, 40 percent said Hamas, 20 percent said Fatah (which runs the PA), with the balance either not knowing or choosing a different party. Half of Palestinians believe that Hamas is winning the war, while 85 percent expressed dissatisfaction with the PA, with 62 percent wanting it dissolved.
Revealingly, 75 percent of Palestinians said they were not open to having an Arab peacekeeping force in Gaza. This is because they know that Arab peacekeepers would be a step towards further Arab-Israeli normalization and not in line with their goal of destroying Israel.
These poll result show what Israel has been saying for years, which is that the Jihadist Hamas enjoys widespread support from a radicalized Palestinian body politic.
This is unsurprising. While it is Iran-backed, and an offshoot of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas is a Palestinian organization. It has had 18 years - exactly how long it takes a child to grow up - to indoctrinate a generation of children in Gaza in its twisted Islamist ideology.
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