The War Must End
But it must end for real, and there is only one way
Yesterday, I was driving on the highway, and I saw a banner on an overpass that said, in English, “STOP THIS F***ING WAR”.
Someone very dear to my heart posted a comment on a post a few days ago that read, “This war has to end. It has no justification (anymore). Plenty of Israelis would like it to end.”
And indeed, the war must end. But let’s be clear about a few things:
This is not a war against Hamas
This war did not start on October 7, 2023
This is a war against Arab terrorists who call themselves “Palestinians”. At this point, so much time has passed that they probably think of themselves as “Palestinians”. Less than 50 years ago, they were much more honest about it:
“The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct ‘Palestinian people’ to oppose Zionism.”
—Zuheir Mohsen, military commander of the PLO and member of the PLO Executive Council
Source: James Dorsey, "Wij zijn alleen Palestijn om politieke reden", Trouw, 31 March 1977
The idea that the Arabs caught behind enemy lines in 1967 after Israel liberated Judea and Samaria from Jordan and the Arabs of the Gaza Strip are a distinct nationality is nothing but a weapon aimed at destroying Israel. But when I say it is “nothing but”, I don’t mean to minimize it. On October 7, it was not only Hamas that invaded Israel and raped young girls to death and burned a baby to death in an oven. Hordes of Arabs who were not members of Hamas streamed into Israel once Hamas had broken through the gate and participated in the rape and murder and other atrocities. Arabs who were not members of Hamas took hostages. Arabs who are not Hamas are still holding hostages.
The enemy is not Hamas. This is not a war against Hamas. When asked on Quora how many “Palestinians” would be willing to give up their support for Hamas in order to have peace with Israel (a question that wrongly presupposed that it was their support for Hamas that was preventing peace), a former social worker for UNRWA said this:
I spent twenty months living and doing contracted social work in Palestine, for Palestinians. it took less than half a year to realize that they have the most vile, deeply entrenched, religiously-mandated culture of hate, intolerance, and bigotry that you can possibly imagine. It really is quite incredible and I’ve never seen anything like it, before or since. Palestinians will never give up their dream of exterminating all jews. The vast majority of them wholeheartedly support Hamas’ efforts. They celebrated those men when they came back bragging of rape, mutilation, torture, and murder. Civilians (family men, mothers, and children, all) volunteered to keep Israeli captive in their homes. These people genuinely do not want jews to exist, and have prioritized the goal of annihilating them over their own well being and societal progress for the past seventy years. As soon as they have a dollar, they spend it trying to kill a jew rather than doing anything to improve their society.
I went in to help them and learn their culture, and left after two years with the keen understanding that their culture is a stain on the earth, is utterly incompatible with a modern, free, and just society; and is not at all worth saving.
It is important to understand that “Palestinians” do not want peace with Israel. That they will never, under any circumstances, make peace with Israel.
Ah, you’ll say, but that can’t be true. There must be some exceptions.
No, there are not.
To be sure, there are expatriates of “Palestinian” descent who live in western countries and have been acculturated there to civilized standards. Those don’t count. They are outsiders looking in.
There are also local “Palestinians”, wiser than most, who pay lip service to “peace”. Some even speak of a “two state solution”. But when you pin them down, you find that the two state solution they support is one Jew-free Arab Palestine, and one bi-national Israel, which is not a Jewish state, and to which 5.7 million “Palestinian refugees”, as claimed by UNRWA, have the right to “return” at will, ending the State of Israel.
The war must end.
Obviously, the war must end. Israel has been at war since before it existed as a state. Since before the UN General Assembly offered a compromise of splitting the land between Jews and Arabs, a compromise roundly rejected by the entire Arab world.
It is intolerable.
Since Israel isn’t going anywhere, and since the Arabs who style themselves “Palestinian” will never agree to live in peace next door to us, and since despite all the propaganda about genocide, Israel will never just kill them all—it’s simply not in us—there remains only one way to end the war.
Those Arabs identifying as Palestinian must leave. All of them. Every single one of them. They must go somewhere else, whether they want to or not.
There have been people in Israel in the past who have advocated “transfer”. A term implying that expelling the enemy would simply be completing a population transfer which began when the Arab countries expelled their Jews in 1948. I find the term mealy-mouthed, weaselly, and weak. And dishonest. The correct term is “expulsion”.
Expulsion. Like the expulsion of some 15 million ethnic Germans from European countries after WWII. And for the same reason. Some of the expelled Germans had only been in these other countries for a short time. Some had lived there for centuries. It made no difference. Germany had twice brought the world into conflagration. Germany had committed unfathomable atrocities. It was wholly unreasonable for Europeans to have to live alongside Germans after what they had done.
And note: those Germans did not pose a fraction of the existential threat to the European countries that expelled them that the “Palestinians” do to the State of Israel. They were not universally dedicated to the destruction of the countries in which they lived. The “Palestinians” are.
Allow me to sharpen the point a bit. During WWII, as the Holocaust raged, some 28 thousand non-Jews, including over 600 in Germany itself, aided Jews who were being hunted. Helped them escape. Sheltered them.
Compare this to the smaller number of “Palestinians” in Gaza who have aided the hostages being held, or helped them to escape. Or even extended the slightest kindness to any of the hostages.
Zero.
Not one. Among over a million Arabs in Gaza, not a single one has raised a finger to help the hostages. Not even to make an anonymous call to Israel to say that a hostage had been spotted. Nothing.
These people are monsters. Even those who are beginning to rebel against Hamas’ heavy handed treatment of their fellow “Palestinians” are only doing so because Hamas brought the wrath of God (and of His people) down on their heads. They are just as monstrous as any of the terrorist groups in Gaza, of which Hamas is only one.
And the Arabs of Judea and Samaria are no different from those in the Gaza Strip. They’re merely relieved that they haven’t, by and large, been as stupid as their brethren in Gaza.
And yet… despite the sentiment in Israel and elsewhere for ending the war, very few people seem to be willing to do what must be done to end it. They would rather have Israel simply… stop fighting. Stand down. Allow the Arabs to rebuild their strength so that we can have another round of this already endless war in another 5-10 years.
Don’t get me wrong. This is not a matter of ethnicity. Arab Israelis are not ethnically distinct from these people, and yet they are part of Israeli society. They live and fight and die along with us. Some of them were murdered on October 7 along with Jewish victims, and their deaths were no less abominable than those of the Jews.
This is a matter of national survival. The “Palestinians” are worse than Nazis. This we see from their behavior. And unlike the Germans, their monstrosity is unanimous.
Israel must expel them. How? To where? Those are secondary questions. And there are answers to those questions. But they are less important than the fact that Israel must expel them, come hell or high water.
Or we will have war everlasting.
This is a radical take. But it does beg the question of whether or not there is any other realistic alternative given the mentality of most Palestinians. The two-state solution clearly will never happen. So if the world will end up with a state “from the river to the sea,” then it should be Israel instead of a Palestinian state. The former would be democratic and prosperous. The later would look more like Taliban rule in Afghanistan. Also, a total Israeli victory not only would end this long conflict, but would deal a severe blow to anti-Semitism and radical Islam.
When Arabs take land by virtue of war, as a spoil, they tend to keep it. Israel tried trading land for peace, to uproot Jewish settlers, to leave it all to them in Gaza. Guess what? It wasn’t the real goal, was it? It’s never enough, because the real goal is to EXTINGUISH JEWS AND JUDAISM ITSELF FROM THE FAC EOF THE EARTH.