Living Next Door to Hamas is not a Winning Strategy for Israel

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David Virtue on Substack

Global antisemitism. Hunger in Gaza but who’s to blame?

I sometimes think that if Israel proposed and accepted a two-state solution, it would be like your wife saying to you; “Honey, I married you because I wanted kids, the house, the car and your bank account. One day when you are asleep, I will stab you in the heart and kill you.”

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“But you know you will go to jail.”

“Sure, and I will tell the judge that you had a history of abusing me and the kids and for years I put up with it and then I couldn’t stand it any longer. I could not get police protection, so out of desperation I killed you.”

“What do you think will happen?

“I might get a few years in jail or none, based on how sympathetic the jury is. In the end I win.”

Neither Hamas nor the PA sees a future for Israel. Their goal is the elimination of Israel. It should no longer exist. Iran would offer an Islamic “amen” to that. They have never believed in a two-state solution, that is the fiction of Western governments bent on letting Hamas and the PA stay in power, and Israel left out to dry.

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