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Palestinian annihilationist ideology is the true obstacle to peace
Henry Kopel
June 29, 2023

In the “Hope springs eternal” department, few topics of public discourse display a wider chasm between hopes and reality than the so-called Israel-Palestinian peace process. For eighty-six years, diplomats have invested their hopes in a “two-state” solution to the conflict, with many now still clinging to the hope that with just a few tweaks here, a bit more pressure there, peace lies not too far around the corner. The historical record belies those naïve hopes. This near-century of failed efforts began in 1937, when Great Britain, exercising its League of Nations “Mandate” authority over Palestine, proposed a two-state partition of the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, which would have created both a Jewish state and a Palestinian-Arab state. Up until then, the entirety of the land “from the river to the sea” had been recognized and designated by the League of Nations as the future national homeland of the Jewish people. READ MORE