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TONY PERKINS WITH YOSSI DAGAN / GUEST COLUMNISTS Two-State Idea Nonstarter
t a recent event in philadelphia, kamala Harris declared that after the war in Israel ends and the hostages return home, there must be “a real commitment among the
nations to a two-state solution.” But wasn’t Oct. 7, 2023, the clearest evidence that the
two-state idea is a nonstarter? If there remained any doubts, the Oct. 7 massacre shattered once and for all the notion that the Palestinian Authority and many Arabs under its rule are willing to live side by side in peace with Israel. When Harris talks about a two-state solution, she
means that Israel would cede control of the so-called “West Bank” (Judea and Samaria) — a region that makes up about 30% of Israel and is the biblical heartland where most of the stories in the Bible occurred and encompasses many areas which are of great importance to Christians. Such a move would lead to war. We know this because Arabs in
EU, which criticized the Palestinian Authority for its antisemitic education. The Palestinian Authority also pays salaries to terror-
ists who kill Jews. Having would-be allies stand by and watch while
Israel deals with this would be bad enough. But the Biden-Harris administration did the unthinkable: pres- suring Israel to act against its own safety and security in Judea and Samaria amid this crisis. Israel needs security checkpoints so the IDF can vet
Meanwhile, those supporting an Oct. 7-type attack against Jews in
Gaza have been under self-gover- nance since 2005, and under Hamas’ control, they have used all their resources to build a terrorist state bent on Israel’s destruction. The out- come was Oct. 7, 2023. The Palestinian Authority is no different from Hamas. Yes, they may speak differently, wear Western suits,
Arabs traveling from Palestinian Authority-controlled areas to ensure that they can’t carry out attacks against Israelis on the roads in Judea and Samaria or infiltrate Israeli communities in the area. With no checkpoint, terrorists in
Judea and Samaria can walk to the nearest Jewish community, murder with impunity, and after five min- utes, return to their village. The administration has pressured
Judea and Samaria, such as Jibril Rajoub, are not
being sanctioned.
and rub shoulders with diplomats at cocktail parties, but they have the same exact goal as Hamas — the destruc- tion of Israel. While all eyes are on the Gaza conflict and Israel’s
northern border, Arabs in Judea and Samaria have been preparing for their own Oct. 7. Israeli media has reported on numerous smuggling
operations of weapons from Jordan into Judea and Samaria. Indeed, since Oct. 7, the IDF has begun major operations throughout Judea and Samaria to root out the terrorist infrastructure.
O
ver the past year, the IDF has discovered and encountered weaponry that terrorist groups in
Judea and Samaria did not previously have. However, beyond the armed terrorist attacks against
Israeli citizens, the Palestinian Authority educates its youth to hate Israel from a very young age. This has been documented by the U.S. and even the
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Israel to stop building Jewish homes in areas under its control in Judea and Samaria, while the Arabs are building settlements in these very same areas (with help from outsiders like the European Union). The administration has placed sanctions on Jewish settlers in Judea
and Samaria — including those with American citizen- ship and Israeli soldiers simply trying to ensure the security of their own communities. Meanwhile, those supporting an Oct. 7-type attack
against Jews in Judea and Samaria, such as Jibril Rajoub, are not being sanctioned. Israel is fighting for its life on at least five fronts. Yet it is during this time that our government is pres-
suring Israel to act against its interests — calling for a two-state solution that would have Israel cede its strate- gic depth, make Israel indefensible, and cut the heart out of Israel. Is this the way allies act? A better approach would be to stand by Israel’s legiti-
mate security interests and support the self-defense and survival of the only true democracy in the Mideast, along with its right to its ancestral lands of Judea and Samaria — lands right in the heart of the biblical homeland.
Tony Perkins is president of the Family Research Council and chaired the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Yossi Dagan has been head of the Samaria Regional Council since 2015.
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