The Two-State Solution is 21st Century Colonialism

Shalom Chaverim -

Recently the idea of the two-state solution has arose from the ashes amongst the “normie” Democrats who are desperate to make everyone feel better. Most of them are coming back out of the woodwork after the recent content published by Ezra Klein regarding Hasan Piker and his “general sympathies” with Israelis. These “centrist” Democrats see what’s happening in places like Michigan and, because they don’t want to admit that the Left-wing version of the 2010 Tea Party Takeover of the GOP is happening, they are attempting to find a “reasonable” middle ground on Israel.

Let’s put aside the fact that these “moderate” Democrats are in complete denial about what these extremists actually believe about the two-state solution and focus on the determination to hold onto this zombie of an idea. To be clear, I have no better idea than the two-state solution and I genuinely believe no one else does either. Those stating that Israel has a right to annex Gaza and Judea and Samaria don’t realize that they are effectively advocating for Israel to become an actual apartheid state. On the flip side, those advocating for Israelis and Palestinians to come together as a singular democratic state that will respect civil rights are living in a land more fantastical than Disney’s Magic Kingdom. That being said, the two-state solution, while the most ideal solution, is also the least likely one because the Arabs of Palestine have never proven they want a Jewish state to exist.

It’s ironic that for all those on the left side of the aisle who claim that European colonialism is the root of all that is evil in the world, they have no problem inheriting the same outlook. If you ask anyone with a Bachelor’s Degree in political science or international relations about why places like Africa and the Middle East are so chaotic, their response will come down to some version of: “The Europeans drew lines without considering how different groups of people were about to be forced to live with one another after centuries of fighting.” Interestingly, those same people don’t seem to mind incurring the same burden on Jews and Arabs despite the common denominator between them and every other country in the region.

Westerners have been imposing the unnatural state of bottom-up coexistence since dividing up the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I, and especially Israel. During the British Mandate of Palestine, the ruling power consistently placated the Arabs at the expense of the existing Jewish minority in order to maintain stability. The French were no different when they gave the Lebanese Muslims and Christians power with pre-determined quotas. Today, Westerners have picked up the mantle by, once again, trying to impose a system that is simply unattainable for no other reason than “they’re sick and tired of the fighting.” Ask anyone who has some type of opinion about Israel and Palestine why they believe the two-state solution is the only path forward, and it will undoubtedly be based in the same reasoning defined by early 20th Century European colonialists. Neither those in the past nor in the present actually care about the people who live in the region—they are simply “tired,” and just want “peace and quiet.”

Despite the fact that the Arabs of Palestine have been outwardly stating their distaste for a Jewish state for the last one-hundred years through their own words and satanic actions, “normal” Democrats have as much cotton in their ears as the monocled British men of the 1920s. The two-state solution is an unviable solution for no other reason than the Palestinians have never proven with words or actions that they actually want a Jewish state to exist next to them. One can look to the Oslo Accords if they’d like, but even after a half-decade of economic growth, when the moment came to sign on the dotted line, Arafat didn’t have the political power to take up the pen. So he took up the sword. If the two-state solution was hanging on for dear life after the Second Intifada, you’d think that a constant barrage of rockets from a small strip of land given for nothing in return would kill it; but no, the two-state solution remained a viable option for Benjamin Netanyahu even at the end of the first decade of the 21st Century. Now, in a post-October 7th world, the two-state solution was buried, burned, and its ashes salted—murdered along with the peaceniks who lived next to the Gazans on that fateful day.

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Unfortunately, that doesn’t matter to those “moderate” Democrats; that doesn’t factor into the equation they’ve come to when determining what is best for the region. They don't actually care about the Jews who died that day or any other day. They don’t actually care about the words Palestinians speak or the actions they take (or don’t take like saving a single hostage). They don’t care about the fact that Mahmoud Abbas, to this day, still pays pensions to the families of those who died carrying out a terrorist attack. They don’t care about the Jews murdered, only the noise they make as they die—and instead of listening to them as they take their last breaths, they put their finger to their mouths, and politely ask them to be quieter.