Formula for confusion and chaos

A Palestinian state on Israel’s real estate - why this is an intrinsically backwards concept.

By EARL COX
Earl Cox 311 (photo credit: Courtesy)
Earl Cox 311
(photo credit: Courtesy)
For years, many international leaders, including America’s, have been pressuring Israel to give up part of its real estate to make room for a Palestinian state. These supposedly wise world leaders are obviously not so wise. Even if Israel did sign a peace treaty and approve the start of an independent Palestinian state, with whom would they be making peace?
The Fatah political party of Mahmoud Abbas supposedly controls the West Bank area (Judea and Samaria), but the militant Hamas party controls the Gaza territory. Fatah and Hamas leaders have not agreed to work together, and both would be fighting each other for leadership and control of such a Palestinian state. Even if Abbas wanted to make peace with Israel, he certainly lacks the authority and the credibility.
Why do these supposedly wise world leaders keep pressuring the Israelis to simply give the Palestinian Arabs half of their land and their own separate independent state when, if they had any wisdom at all, they would know that it would only lead to further confusion, conflict and chaos? It’s quite obvious that there would be internal political conflict, internal economic conflict, and internal military conflict. It hardly seems like a successful formula for building a stable, peaceful and viable state.
The sad truth is that a construction freeze is only another convenient excuse for the Palestinians to avoid peace negotiations with Israel. It falls far short of a primary or major issue. The world’s supposedly wise leaders have fallen into the trap of pressuring Israel to stop construction and are persistent (and consistent) in trying to make it a major issue — claiming that it is throttling the peace talks, while ignoring so many more important matters.
Perhaps we might add a couple of thoughts that these wise world leaders should also be considering. If they would trace the past history of that small piece of land that is now Israel, they would understand that the Arabs are the “occupiers” of Jewish land — not the other way around. There never was an Arab country or state on that land. Most of the Arabs migrated to the area only after Jewish people returned and began to develop the land, drain the swamps and make it prosperous.
Secondly, compare the size of the very small State of Israel to the size of the combined land of all the Arab states that surround her. The Arabs have more than a thousand times the area of the present little land mass on which Israel exists. In addition, there are more than 20 Arab states — and every one is much larger than the tiny State of Israel (which is comparable to the extremely small state of  New Jersey in the US).
How can any world leader expect Israel to give half of its already small land mass to the Arabs for the purpose of establishing yet another Arab state when they already have a thousand times the land area that the Jewish people claim for their lone Jewish state?
Bible believing Christians strongly support Prime Minister Netanyahu in his decision to abolish the  construction freeze in the so-called Jewish “settlements.” We also strongly support his demands that before any so called peace talks move forward that the Palestinians first recognize  Israel’s right to exist not only on paper but also in word and deed. From my perspective, it is hard to believe that such a situation will ever become a reality.