There can only be one state, and for the safety of the Western world, it had better be Israel.

What land belongs to whom? During the Ottoman Empire, pretty much all of the region here was under its rule. The main building of Waldorf-Astoria, just outside of the Old City, once served as the Turkish Jerusalem’s City Hall. Across the street from it is an old Muslim cemetery. After World War I, the British and French divvied up the lands via the Sykes-Picot agreement, often not taking into account any consideration of which peoples were being put together in countries like Syria, Lebanon and Mandate Palestine. The British promised a lot of things to a lot of people, and when they left in 1948, they made no effort to uphold their previous promises to the Jewish people for part of the land that was under their control. Rather, they left, and in leaving, their every action was to side with the local Arabs in the growing conflict that became the birth of the modern state of Israel. Had Israel been the country “from the river to the sea” and modern-day Jordan become the planned “Arab state”, one not hijacked by the Hashemite tribe originally from the Arabian Peninsula, then maybe a lot of spilled blood and ink would have been avoided.

If one looks at the clinically dead “Two State Solution”, the basic idea is that there are two peoples with claims and yearnings for self-determination. The Jews should have their own state and so should the local Arabs. The long Jewish history of the Land of Israel was irrelevant, as was the actual home countries of most local Arabs, who came from other countries to work in the fields and industries that the Jews were creating. All of those al-Masri folks in Gaza literally mean “The Egyptian”. The idea pushed since at least the days of Richard Nixon was that if Israel would give up land taken in the 1967 Six-Day War, the Arabs would in turn make peace, and then the........

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