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End of the Palestinian Lie

While Palestinian leaders tell Western diplomats in English they want a state next to Israel, their actions betray this lie. In fact, they promise Palestinians in Arabic they will one day conquer Israel: It’s why they have waged constant war and refused every offer of two states.

For 77 years, Israel and the West bought the myth that Palestinians want peace and a state. The savagery of October 7 was a cruel wake-up that changed everything.

Palestinian dream of conquering Israel dies

What are the facts?

Hamas’s October 7 massacre, plus murder and torture of hostages, turned the tide. Since 1947, Palestinians and their fellow Arabs have mounted ten major wars against Israel, plus tens of thousands of terror and missile attacks. Still Israel and the U.S. made many major offers of land for peace to the Palestinians—all rejected. Before Gaza-based Hamas’s barbaric invasion in 2023, nearly 150,000 Palestinians worked in Israel and commuted there for medical care daily. Israel’s government naively believed Hamas terrorists preferred coexistence to war. While October 7 shocked Israelis, the majority of Palestinians shamelessly support Hamas’s attack and Israel’s destruction. When Hamas returned hostage corpses of the red-haired Bibas boys and their mother—brutally murdered and mutilated by terrorist hands—most Israelis finally realized: Palestinian hate for Jews is boundless . . . killing their fantasy that Palestinians seek peace.

For 78 years, Israelis worked for peace with the Palestinians. Residents of kibbutzim in Israel surrounding Gaza were for years advocates of peace with the Palestinians—some of whom drove Palestinian children to Israeli hospitals for specialized treatment, others who supported employment for Gazans in their own kibbutzim. On October 4, 2023, a group of women from Kibbutz Be’eri attended a major peace conference with a Palestinian women’s group. Three mornings later, on October 7, more than 100 members of Kibbutz Be’eri were slaughtered by Hamas terrorists—along with 1,100 other innocent Israelis. On that day, the hopes of millions of Israeli peace activists were shattered, as were those of millions more who simply thought a peaceful solution possible. Recently, when Hamas released Israeli hostages so starved and tortured they resembled Holocaust survivors—as well as the mutilated bodies of other kidnap victims, including Bibas family members—Israel supporters both at home and abroad lost all remaining trust in the Palestinian cause.

When Palestinians say “no” to the state of Israel, we now believe them. Arabs rejected the UN’s 1947 Partition Plan for Israeli and Arab states, instead starting a war to destroy Israel. The Palestinians also rejected generous Israel peace offers in 1967, 2000, 2001 and 2008. For years, Palestinian leaders have rallied their people with the cry, “From the river to the sea”—designating all of Israel, Gaza and Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) as theirs. Hamas’s charter denies legitimacy of the Jewish state and declares Islam will “obliterate” Israel. Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas has stated, “I will never recognize Israel as a Jewish state” and insists that five million descendants of 1947 Arab refugees have a “right of return” to Israel, which would swamp the Jewish state demographically. Hamas’s October 7^th mass murder and kidnapping convinced the vast majority of Israelis that Palestinians’ goal is the extermination of Israel and the Jewish people. This was reinforced by 2024 polls showing 71% of Palestinians supporting Hamas’s slaughter and 65% opposing a two-state solution.

Time to stop the Palestinian war on Israel: Disarm, disable, defeat. The never-ending war against Israel—which has killed thousands of innocent Israelis and continues with terrorist missile attacks on its population centers—must be stopped. Hamas’s threats of additional October-7 attacks—and its refusal to release remaining Israeli and American hostages—make this clear. No wonder Israel is taking steps to eliminate Hamas militarily and politically—in Gaza and elsewhere. Neither Hamas terrorists nor those of any other terror group can be allowed to attack Israeli citizens, let alone govern territories on Israel’s borders. While defeating Hamas forces will not be easy—especially since they hide illegally and immorally among Palestinian civilians—Israel believes ending the group’s brutal rule over Gaza will bring a measure of peace to Israelis, Palestinians and the entire world.

End of the line for Palestinianism. Most importantly, credibility for a Palestinian state is falling, now at a record low. A February 2025 polled showed fully 71% of Israeli Jews oppose a Palestinian state, while another poll reported only 19% of Jewish Israelis believe peaceful coexistence with an independent state is possible—the weakest support in 30 years. With Hamas’s demise imminent and the Palestinian Authority in powerless disarray, Palestinianism—the futile dream of Palestinians conquering Israel—looks close to its final gasp.