Jews should take a more if not viciously proactive interest in pointing out how horrible Arab/Muslim countries are for human rights and minorities

An oldie but goodie - my 2008 debate with an Iranian-born Columbia professor. How do our arguments hold up now, with 18 years of hindsight? youtu.be/8fiNZEqzOf8

Why does nobody care how Middle East became Arab or that Jews predate Arabs in Levant

It is a curious aspect that so many countries keep wanting for the Palestinians the one thing they have never wanted for themselves – a state – at least not one that shares a border with the sovereign state of the Jewish people. One might wonder why so many refuse to give Palestinians the respect of taking them as their word. To the Palestinians’ credit, they have been consistent in both word and deed for more than a century, rejecting every proposal to have one more Arab state on the lands of the defunct Ottoman Empire, if that additional Arab state must share a border with the one sovereign state of the Jewish people. The British foreign secretary Ernest Bevin offered the clearest diagnosis of the Palestinian Arab priorities in February 1947, when none of the current excuses – settlement, occupaion, Netanyahu - existed. "For the Jews," he observed, "the essential point of principle is the creation of a sovereign Jewish state. For the Arabs, the essential point of principle is to resist to the last the establishment of Jewish sovereignty in any part of Palestine." And so, at every junction, whether 1937, 1947, 1967, 2000, 2008 (and many more), when the Palestine Arabs were given the choice to enjoy sovereignty in an Arab state of their own, but at the price of finally coming to terms with the existence of a Jewish state next door, they have consistently chosen to forgo one more Arab state, in order to violently keep trying to prevent, and then undo a Jewish one, of any size, and in any borders. Worse, when such proposals were not pursued, most recently in 2000 and 2008, there were no Palestinian voices bemoaning the lost opportunity. Moreover, when Palestinians did enjoy control of territory, those areas served to launch brutal attacks on Israelis in Israeli territory – the murderous Second Intifada from Area A in the West Bank and the October 7th Massacre from the Gaza Strip. Bevin’s words remain accurate and prophetic nearly eight decades later. Nowhere is this clearer than in the so-called refugee issue. Unlike any other refugee population, who were essentially told to move one and accept the new borders and sovereignties established in the wake of crumbling empires, the Arab refugees of the 1948 war, waged for the declared purpose of preventing a Jewish state, were indulged in hijacking an organization, UNRWA, to create an ever increasing group of people who claim to be “refugees” and who refuse to be settled until they achieve their goal of no Jewish state. Today, UNRWA falsely counts over six million such “refugees,” while Palestinian leaders themselves speak of eight to nine million. Their demand is that all of them - children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of the original refugees - possess an individual "right of return" to settle inside Israel. With eight million Jews and two million Arab citizens, the exercise of this settlement project would turn Jews into a minority in an Arab state, when Arab states have an abismal track record of treating their Jewish minorities, ethnically cleansing nearly a million Jews, as soon as they dared imagined themselves equals. It therefore turns out that when Palestinian leaders claim to want two states, they mean two Arab states from the River to the Sea – an Arab state with no Jews in the West Bank and Gaza, and another Arab state to replace Israel through this mechanism of “refugee return”. Unfortunately, the only State of Palestine that Palestinians have enthusiastically embraced is one that could be best described as Schroedinger’s Palestine. Is Palestine a State for the purpose of assuming responsibility for having invaded Israel to commit a horrific massacre? Is Palestine a State for acknowledging that the millions who already live in that Palestine are not and cannot be “Palestine Refugees” into the fifth generation? Is Palestine a State for the purpose of ending the fiction that millions of Palestinians have a right to settle not in that State, but in another state – Israel - of which they were never citizens, the so called “Right of Return”? Is Palestine a state for the purpose of surrendering and ending the war? No, for all these adult purposes, Palestine is not a state. The cat is dead. But is Palestine a state for the purpose of harassing Israel in international bodies (the entire ICC case was based on this notion)? Why yes, then Palestine is very much a state. The cat is alive. Over the many years that @adischwartz and I worked to highlight the determinative aspect of perpetual refugeehood and “return” to the construction of Palestinian Identity around the cause of undoing the Jewish state, we discovered that most foreign policy official who claim to want to do good, really just want to feel good, because – as is true in so many fields - doing good requires often to do things that do not at all feel good. For example, contrary to the ahistorical notion that decades of peace in Europe were the outcome of negotiations and diplomacy, this was made possible by the ruthlessness of allied leaders who made sure that WWII, unlike WWI will not end with a wishy-washy armistice, but with the defeated powers and their collaborators very much knowing that they were defeated and paying a heavy price for their ideologies of destruction in land in displacement, occupied and re-educated so that they could become pillars of world peace they are today. The peace that Europe has enjoyed for decades is what we want for our region, and that requires that the ideology of Palestinianism - that singular obssesion and organization of an entire people, not around achieving self-determination in part of the land, but about preventing Jewish sovereignty in any of it, not around building for the Palestine Arabs, but destroying what the Palestine Jews have built, will finally be defeated. No-one wants to do the dirty work of finally telling the Palestinians that they have lost their century long war to prevent and undo the one Jewish state, that they have to accept that they can live next to a Jewish state, rather than on its ruins. No-one wants to cut through the obfuscation of recognizing a Palestinian state by making it clear that no-one in that state is a “Palestine refugee” and there is no such thing as a right to settle inside Israel, against its sovereign will, in the name of “return”, but that, and only that, even if it doesn’t feel good, would finally do good and might even bring peace, a century too late.

75% humans don't believe Islam is true but telling this to the 25% is a life threatening exercise The 75% of humanity can't voice their view because of the intolerance of the 25% The absolute majority of humanity is held hostage by the fear of violence from merely stating a view

How many Coptic women did they kidnap this year I didn't ask if Copts were rich Or whether they publicly say they hate Muslims

Why don’t history books refer to Muslims as colonizers, oppressors, genociders, slave traders, or imperialists?

Did you know that in Islamic states non Muslims were forbidden from carrying weapons so they couldn't fight back when attacked by Muslims This law allowed Muslims to rule Christians & Zoroastrians for centuries despite being a minority @grok

Genuine decolonisation for Palestinians would mean rejecting Arabic language and Islam for Aramaic and Christianity or Judaism @grok

We shouldn't allow Arab or Muslim academics to lecture anyone on slavery, racism, imperialism, colonialism, genocide before explaining why Muslim countries were the last ones to ban slavery & when they plan to apologise for the way Islamic conquests destroyed other cultures @grok

Jews Don't have a majority in 50 countries Don't number 2 billion Didn't commit 60,000 terrorist arracks in 70 countries killing 250,000 people Don't maintain death penalty for apostasy or blasphemy in dozen countries Don't have approve majority approval of such practices

If most Muslims are peaceful, why aren't they protesting the existence of laws making apostasy a capital crime in dozen countries? About two dozen countries have punitive consequences for apostasy When was the last time Muslim public there protested for repeal of those laws?

The whole idea of Arab nation or Arab unity outside Arabia is an imperial concept

You can't have social harmony at the expense of security

Palestinian Christians should be grateful to Israel that Israel's presence prevents Palestinian Muslims from kidnapping and forcibly converting Christian girls like in Egypt or Pakistan

Communities that are minorities by choice don't deserve to be treated same as minorities by accident, especially if the majority wasn't responsible for your minority status

Israel and Spain are both countries created through the liberation of territories conquered by Muslims more than a thousand years ago. Why is Spain legitimate and Israel not?

Guess we have to be captain obvious