Book Excerpt


Israel Needs Sovereignty Over Biblical Homeland


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square peg will not fit into a round hole. You can use force,


you can try sleight of hand, you can manipulate the square or the peg or both. But it still won’t fit. That’s what the “peacemakers”


have been trying to do for decades in their slavish devotion to a two- state solution. Some really care about Israel’s security and think — erroneously — that this is just another real estate dispute that can be compromised in a way that will cause both sides to forget the horrors of the past and live in peace. Others see the conflict as


He compared the model to the U.S.


and Puerto Rico where Puerto Ricans are American citizens who have many rights, but not all of the rights of Americans living in a state.


Considering no other


Arab nation in the region operates democratically, Friedman notes Israel should be proud of how it treats its minority commu- nity and use it as a tem- plate to help solve this long- standing conflict. In the case of Israel,


he contends the most important factor is for Isra- el to “maintain its Jewish identity.” “People who think Juda-


ism can be separated from Israel don’t really under- stand Judaism,” he said. Because there is “never


going to be more than one Jewish State,” Friedman argues, “we can’t end up with no Jewish State.”


ideological but have concluded that by surrendering territory to a Palestinian state, Israel will empower the Palestinian moderates and enable them to defeat the extremists — another pipe dream. Most of us want the same thing when addressing this conflict. We want peace, we want security, we


want an end to terrorism and radical ideologies. Some of us also want to fulfill God’s will. This book relies on data, not wishful thinking. We then overlay the theology on this complex issue. What does God want? How should we go about trying to fulfill his will? What is negotiable, and what is not? And what this analysis shows is


that, in this extraordinary period in which we live, the data and the theology take us to the same place — Israeli sovereignty over its biblical homeland. There is both negative and positive data. Of the former, the most important is that which proves the unacceptable risk of a Palestinian state. The dry run for such a state was


Gaza. With Israel’s acquiescence, it became a Judenrein territory, entirely devoid of Jews. And it received billions of dollars from the U.N., the United States, the Gulf States, and the European Union that it could have used to build a commercial paradise along its sunset-facing coastline on the Mediterranean. Instead, the people of Gaza


elected Hamas, choosing a radical Islamist government, and the funds were all used to encourage hatred of Jews and to invest in weapons and terror tunnels. If October 7 proves anything, it is


that a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria — a much larger area than Gaza in closer proximity to Israel’s population centers — will be an existential threat to Israel. We cannot repeat the mistake in Gaza. We must admit that the experiment failed.


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