In the long history of the recorded world, it has always been shown that appeasement might work for a little while but as a long-term strategy, it will ultimately fail in magnificent style. I could go and list a number of examples but for this article, the one shining example that I will use will be the appeasement of the Nazis after they rose to power in the early 30s in Germany.
The Western world, led by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, decided to look the other way as Hitler gobbled up land around his country, and the West hoped that he would ultimately be satisfied with just one more excursion into land that he claimed was once Germany's. Every time the Nazi party broke a treaty and rolled across another country's border, the Western world looked on and hoped this was the last time.
Ultimately the West had to abandon their appeasement strategy and when Germany marched into Poland in 1939, England had finally had enough, and France, for a moment, stiffened its spine and decided to join the English to declare war on Germany.
Of course the French, in absolutely French style shortly thereafter, raised the white flag and waved the German tanks right into France to go and get some semi-decent food in Paris.
Ever since George W. Bush in 2002 came out and declared the United States had changed its stated policy of mumbo jumbo, in regards to Israel and the Palestinians, he adopted a declared preference for a TWO-STATE solution. The world has since worked towards that goal.
As Bush stated at the time
In the situation the Palestinian people will grow more and more miserable. My vision is two states, living side by side in peace and security. There is simply no way to achieve that peace until all parties fight terror. Yet, at this critical moment, if all parties will break with the past and set out on a new path, we can overcome the darkness with the light of hope. Peace requires a new and different Palestinian leadership, so that a Palestinian state can be born.
The billions of dollars that have been spent since 2002, to prop up the Palestinian Authority to give humanitarian aid, have primarily gone to build up terrorist infrastructure weapons and resulted in the attack on Israel on October 7th.
Now is the time to officially give up the Palestinian pipe dream of having territory in Israel with any governing authority -- and pull the plug once and for all.
The latest attack by Hamas that I read about, from my colleague Jeff Charles, is one of the many reasons I believe it is time to call it quits on the two-state solution and move on from it.
Sick: Footage Appears to Show Hamas Terrorists Shooting Fleeing Palestinian Civilians
Footage appearing to show Hamas terrorists shooting Palestinian civilians in Gaza has been circulating on social media amid the ongoing war between Israel and the terrorist group. The incident raises even more concerns about the safety of civilians in the war zone.
According to the footage and various reports, Hamas operatives fired on Palestinian civilians attempting to flee a pediatric cancer hospital. As the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continue their effort to eliminate Hamas, the terrorist group has been using civilians as human shields and refusing to let them flee the region to avoid getting caught in the crossfire.
Reports suggest that at least a dozen Gaza residents were gunned down by Hamas as they attempted to escape to the southern portion of the region.
Footage posted on X Friday shows families walking onto a side street waving white flags before gunfire is heard, sending the crowd scrambling for shelter while a child can be heard crying.
Media intelligence agency Storyful confirmed that the video was recorded at the al-Nasr Pediatric Hospital based on Google Maps images, but was unable to say whether the terror group or Israeli forces was responsible.
Independent journalist Alexander Higgins reported on X that jihadists began shooting after Israeli forces agreed to allow civilians to evacuate the hospital.
The Israel Defense Forces have surrounded the facility — which it says doubles as a terrorist citadel — as it attempts to root out Hamas in response to its Oct. 7 attack on southern Israel that killed more than 1,400 people, including 33 Americans.
The Palestinian people were being treated like human hacky sacks, long before the UN re-created Israel in the late 40s.
The countries of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and particularly Jordan have absolutely abused and murdered Palestinians by the bushel, and in such ways that those protesting on college campuses, here and across the world, would not be able to comprehend. Even while neighboring Arab countries treat them like this, they have had no problem leaving it to the Jewish state to deal with this problem; thus taking it off their hands.
They also learned that if they didn't mess directly with Israel, they would be treated as a peaceful, benevolent neighbor -- all the while, occasionally claiming publicly how horrible it was that the Jewish State even existed and not truly mean it.
However, that time has now officially passed and we have to treat the Nazi wannabes in Hamas -- and their supporters around the world -- in the same way that the German Nazis were treated after World War II. They have to be confronted and defeated, physically in Gaza and verbally in the Battle of Ideas around the world.
The youngsters who are just repeating idiotic talking points on college campuses have to be informed that Palestine and a Palestinian government are not anything that ever existed, and that Palestinians are not living in an occupied territory. They also need to know that the cause they are supporting is the new Nazi movement; it will be stomped out, just as it was in 1945 and going forward.
A defeated Germany in 1945 was divided up among the Americans, the British, the French, and the Soviets. This time, the Gaza Strip will just need to be governed by the Israelis, to ensure that the area is rebuilt and that it is governed correctly -- just like the rest of Israel is.
Hopefully, a Republican will be elected to the White House in 2024, and this policy will not only be debated but implemented. Possibly, after a number of decades of peace after this is accepted, the two-state solution could once again be revisited. Remember: Germany was eventually reunited after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In the meantime, this idea should start circulating. Let Rashida Tlaib and her cohorts in Congress, and those who support her ideas in this country, know that the pipe dream they keep chanting about is dead.
Israel is not going anywhere, and the two-state solution is dead.
