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Nancy Goodman
A maverick Jew in the Wild West

A post-October 7 two-country solution

I used to feel passively supportive of an official Palestinian country. After all, the Gaza Strip has been judenrein since 2005; didn’t that create Palestine, by population default? Who else was living there?

Since October 7, 2023 however, it’s painfully obvious that Palestinians, whether they are left entirely alone or mixed in with Jews as they are in the West Bank, are utterly, treacherously unable to govern themselves. All any Palestinian government throughout modern history–whether it’s been the PLO, the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, or their supporters in the Arab and Iran world.–wants to do is play a horrific bloodsport with Israel. There has been no other country-building goal.

I recently heard “Palestine” described as a “failed state.” You think? How many times has the Palestinian Authority refused peace and land offers from Israel, and sent suicide bombers instead? How quickly did the Gaza Strip devolve into a militant death cult when Israel left in 2005? Is the glorious idea of Palestine ultimately nothing more than an experiment in sick Orwellian mind-control?

I understand Palestinians are just puppets of the antique, domination-focused mentality of greater Arabia and Iran. All the money laundered through such global agencies as the UN and UNRWA that flows into the terror system of Palestinian territories, aims to eliminate the one sovereign outpost of cultural diversity in the Middle East. There is no independent Kurdistan, there is no Baha’i Persia. There is just tiny Israel, in a vast region where 99% control by Arabs and Iran just isn’t enough.

It’s time to catch up to the ideas that 1)Israel exists, and 2) the Arab world is responsible for indoctrinating a segment of their own people so relentlessly, they just don’t have the emotional bandwidth for peaceful independence. There can’t be an independent Palestine; there is too much blood clogging that machinery. Maybe it’s well past time for that grievous Arab sin against the Palestinian people to be called out.

Let’s start with Jordan and Egypt.

A King in “Jordan” stole the Arab section of the British Mandate of Palestine in the 1920’s. And Egypt controlled the Gaza Strip through the 1960’s. Israel’s mistake was in accepting illogical population grey areas in the Gaza Strip and Judea/Samaria during those times, and, from the far Left, accepting any Arab narrative that describes Israel’s rebirth as a nakba (catastrophe). That’s just schoolyard, histrionic name-calling and bullying, isn’t it.

But it’s not too late for global Jewry and all who love Israel to create new demands, and use new words. How about the West Bank is selectively split with Jordan, and Jordan makes room in their big country for Jews who want to stay in Judea and Palestinians around the world–the Palestine Mandate fulfilled. Talk about a homecoming! Planned communities with mixed-use housing, schools, shopping, hospitals, and walkable open spaces. Enormous reparations for Arab Muslims trapped in refugee camps all these years as pawns in a futile, absurd, archaic holy war. How about “Pay to Stay Away (from Israel)” stipends and other terror dismantling incentives.

As for the Gaza Strip…how long will it take saltwater to erode sand and hundreds of miles of demolished concrete tunnels, washing the whole thing out to sea? Maybe Mother Nature gets the final claim. But until then, may Egypt takes that angry inch, and all who want to live there, once and for all.

Of course Jordan and Egypt want nothing to do with the mess they made, the psychotic culture they birthed. We can see the problems that culture might bring to their neighbors and brothers. But with millions and millions of people worldwide overheatedly in desperate need of a Palestinian country above all other global issues, I think there would be lots of support for the Arab world taking this problem off Israel’s hands and finally doing the right thing by their people. From the river to Iraq, Palestinians get it back, even though it might be hard.
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About the Author
A Chicagoland native, Nancy is a licensed counselor and writer living in her own private Idaho. There is something about the arid summers and making latkes in the potato state that connects Nancy to her Jewish roots. She believes Jehovah forgives Jews who don't attend services or keep kosher, if they stand for Israel.
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