I’ve mentioned some books in some of my posts, and it occurs to me that I should probably link to those books for those of you who want to read them yourselves.
Full disclosure, these links are affiliate links. That means that if you click through and eventually decide to buy the book, the price will be the same for you, but Amazon will throw a few pennies my way, too.
Anyway, probably the most important one right now is Einat Wilf’s “War of Return”.
As of this writing, the book is only $17.79, and it’s a must read. Wilf is a self-professed leftist peacenik. She helped create the obscene Oslo Accords (and let me know in the comments if you need more explanation about why they were so obscene). She’s still a radical leftist, and has said that it’s okay for right-wingers to run the government so long as there are grown-ups (leftists) in the coalition with them to keep them from getting out of control. All in all, a fairly unsavory person.
But this book. It must really have hurt her to write this. Because while it’s a quick read (only about 300 pages), it is absolute proof that her positions about two state solutions (which as of the book’s publication, she still supports — somehow) and making peace with the Arabs who call themselves “Palestinians” are misguided and dangerous.
She takes us back to the creation of UNRWA, which is not a UN agency, despite the first two letters of its acronym. The UN funds it, but it does so ad hoc, by yearly resolution. It has no UN charter, and is nothing but an arm of the 1948 Arab League. The one that rejects the existence of the State of Israel, and has spent the past three quarters of a century maintaining a list of “Palestinian refugees” that includes anyone who lived in Israel from 1946 onwards, whether or not they have settled elsewhere and become citizens of other countries.
There are not a lot of books that have changed my position on things. I call them “lightning strike” books. This is one of them. Because even though I was never pro-”Palestinian”, I had never understood just how and why they are incapable of making peace with us.
After reading this book, you will understand that UNRWA is not, as some have suggested, “an arm of Hamas”. Rather, Hamas is, if anything, an arm of UNRWA, because it is that organization which has built and molded the Arabs west of the Jordan River into a “nation”, but a nation that exists for one purpose, and one purpose only. To destroy and replace the Jewish State.
If you don’t understand just how and why they are incapable of making peace with us, you need to read this book. Trust me.