(JNS) If the Palestinians had a state, would Iran have abandoned its nuclear ambitions? Would it have stopped financing Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis? Would Tehran cease threatening the Sunni Arab states? Would the Muslim Brotherhood disappear? Most important, would a Palestinian state have prevented Oct. 7?
The answer to every question is almost certainly no. Yet listening to the chorus demanding a Palestinian state, one might think the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the source of every problem in the Middle East and that creating another Arab state would magically bring peace to the region.
History apparently means nothing to these people. When the PLO, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and Iran declare their intention to destroy Israel—and act on those declarations—why are they not taken seriously? Why are the threats of Israel’s enemies dismissed while the assurances of its critics are treated as gospel?
After Oct. 7, it should be inconceivable that anyone would demand Israel accept a potentially hostile Palestinian state on its borders. Instead, the massacre seems to have strengthened the determination of Israel’s critics to...
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