The Palestinians don’t want a state alongside Israel. They want a state instead of it. This is what Britain would be supporting
The West Bank was never taken from the Palestinians. When Israel conquered the territory in 1967 it was from the Jordanians, who had occupied it since 1948 before trying their luck at a genocide of the Jews.
Regardless, if Jerusalem gave up the land in return for peace, it would make Israel just nine miles wide at its centre. Known as the “Hadera-Gadera rectangle”, that narrow waist holds half the population and much of the country’s vital infrastructure, including Tel Aviv. A new Palestinian state would lie just over the border.
After October 7, would you do it? The Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, is famously incompetent, and is currently enjoying the 20th year of the four-year term to which he was elected in 2005. He presides over a system of corruption and brutality; he holds a PhD in Holocaust revisionism from a Moscow university; and he offers cash incentives to those convicted of terror offences, with higher payments awarded for more serious crimes. Fancy the odds?
When Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005, it was in the naive belief that, from then on, even a single rocket from the Strip would meet with international condemnation, since the settlements and “occupation” were no more. So that worked out well. A two-state solution would see the same policy applied on the West Bank. What could possibly go wrong?
Sir Keir Starmer presumably thinks it’s a great idea, because in nine days’ time, Britain will join France and the Saudis in New York in talks about recognising a state of Palestine. Far easier to gamble with the lives of someone else’s children than your own, I suppose.
Worse still, perhaps, is the narrative it would create. Britain’s official policy would be to blame Israel for the lack of a Palestinian state, when the historical truth is the opposite.
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Author: Ruth King
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