The End of Hamas

The most horrific attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust was provided in the past two weeks by people we have been trying to give a country to. Israel wants life for both Jews and Arabs and the terrorists do not want life for either Jews nor Arabs. The status quo of strategically running in circles must end or the conflict is at risk of repeating.

Let's take a step back and look at the philosophy behind this. When gratitude is replaced with desire for bloodshed, one must be willing to mitigate one's sense of generosity with the distribution of strategic footholds into the land, for the moment. The Knesset has had a long term problem coming to terms with this simple concept. Yes, they have received bad advice from friends, but they freely took said advice, and now this horror has come upon us.

With the impending regime change in Gaza, former PM Yair Lapid just suggested allowing the Palestinian Authority (Fatah) to replace Hamas as Israel's governor of choice in Gaza. 

But “Abbas’s ruling Fatah faction has praised Hamas’s murder of 1,400 Israelis and called on the Palestinian public to attack the Jewish state.” You can’t just recruit new terrorists to fill the void.

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Rather, here in my blog on Israel and International Law, Jerusalem Defender, I have long presented a safer method, a one state solution.

Key Concepts in the “Everyone Wins Peace Plan”

* Filtration of terrorists out from the pool of naturalization applicants.

* No relocating of masses of innocent people. No good person has to give up their homes; neither Jews nor Arabs.

* Qualifying Palestinian Arabs slowly but surely become complete Israelis without overwhelming the Israeli economy, infrastructure, nor electoral balance.

* The multiethnic IDF retains complete control.


Let's fix this in a way so that it will never happen again.

May a sane solution for lasting peace become popular. May it soon by so, by the grace of God.

It is Antisemitic to Question Israeli Authority Over the Holy Land

What is the consequence of if one assumes the land belongs to somebody other than Israel? 

Find out who actually owns the land under actual International Law, not just what a bunch of angry politicians at the United Nations may rant about.

The Israelis who actually own the land should not be fought over it. Peace should be the default choice, not rebellion. The people it hurts the most is the Palestinian Arabs. By wrongly thinking they were oppressed, when this was only a 20th Century antisemitic fiction and they never ruled the land ever in history. This works to guarantee endless conflict, hatred and bloodshed. And the terrorists place Arab children in harms way.

If you promote a false narrative, that risks leading to violence. Yes, that began in an antisemitic way, but it is worse than normal antisemitism, as it also causes suffering to Arabs as well. Learn the full history of the Holy Land. Don't promote violence and endless conflict. It hurts both Jews and Arabs. 

Discuss the advantages of peace. That way peace may flourish. May it soon be so, by the grace of God.

The Actual Status Quo On the Temple Mount

The US Deputy Ambassador to the UN for the Biden Administration expressed a strong desire to maintaining the status quo on the Temple Mount. The biggest  problem is, not everyone in the Biden Administration seems to know what is the actual status quo in International Law that is currently existing on the Temple Mount today.

The actual Legal Status Quo is as follows: The Temple Mount and all of the land West of the River Jordan belong to Israel. From the Bible to San Remo to defensive war land reacquisition, to no historic Palestinian Arab home in Judea and Samaria and Gaza. The territories belong to Israel, and that is why the UN keeps expecting Israel to police it.  

The Customary Status Quo is that the Palestinian Authority and the Muslim Waqf on the Temple Mount, are only as governors unless Israel fully gives the land away. It did not, the terrorists would not let them. That option is done with. Like a big sister who wanted to go to a party and hired a serial killer to babysit while the parents are out, the responsibility is still on the big sister, Israel, to keep the peace. If Israel continues to empower terrorists, once their violent hand is revealed, it from then on bears ethical and moral responsibility to an extent for the evil that the terrorists do; they empowered it. Even if your good friends mistakenly says, hire the serial killer. What is the end result? Therefore, do not listen to them; listen to your conscience instead.

The best way to advance Palestinian rights, is to remove their despotic terrorist leaders. Replace them with new Arabic regional councils. Replace the repressive Fatah and Hamas police with the multiethnic IDF. Let the good civilization building Arabs join the Israel of tomorrow. Let everyone share in the subsequent peace and prosperity. 

The only way to keep Palestinian Arabs down, is to keep the wrong status quo in your mind, and within your policy. Rather remove the terrorists, and as a natural consequence, embrace true peace.

May it soon be so, by the grace of God.