European countries don't need to recognize a Palestinian state. Europe has been building one in practice for years. And not just a single state, but many.
Europe surrendered to Islam long ago. So why does it blame Israel? This is a form of global cognitive dissonance: European hatred toward us, coupled with their failure to read the map correctly over the decades, has driven them deeper into old, misguided assumptions. They cannot admit their mistakes and would rather collapse, perhaps assuming we will go down with them. But we will not.
It's like people who make a bad investment and keep doubling down. They would rather lose everything than admit error, pull out the little they still have, and start over. That is Europe today, along with other countries. Their position on the so-called Israeli-Palestinian conflict only signals how they will continue to behave. It is almost pitiable.
A toothless trend
After all the hype around recognizing a Palestinian state, with headlines like "France hesitates, Spain wavers, Britain joins in," we can admit it is retro, almost laughable. They think they are moving forward, but they are stuck in the same place.
If I were the mother of the Palestinian Authority, I would have a sit down with it and say: your salvation will not come from a Palestinian state, nor from Palestinian terrorism. Something in your identity is unresolved, and that is why every path you take ends in failure. At best, you end up with deception, not success.
So much focus on the Nakba blinds them to reality. But what was the UN Partition Plan of 1947? The General Assembly called for two states, Jewish and Arab. The British Mandate ended, we were born, and we took our state seriously. On the other side, instead of building something in their portion—say, a hi-tech hub, cherry tomatoes, housing, or social reform—they set up in September 1948 a puppet government led by a Lebanese appointee, tasked mainly with fighting the young State of Israel chutzpah.
But after Israel's fledgling army carried out Operation Yoav and the Palestinian government was moved from Gaza to Cairo in 1959, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser himself dissolved it. He, apparently, was not so keen on a Palestinian state either.
In 1974, the UN General Assembly recognized the Palestinians' right to self-determination, independence, and sovereignty in the Land of Israel. This "Pro Max package" included exclusive representation through the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), permanent observer status at the UN, and a demand that Israel return "stolen" land and property. Guess what: fifty years later, Jews still live in Kerem Maharal. Could it be that the UN is simply a propaganda machine chasing trends, with nothing sharper than its rhetoric?
And in first place
1988. Israeli singer Yardena Arazi dominates the stage while the Israel Broadcasting Authority puts on a private pre-Eurovision contest just for her. Meanwhile, the UN decides to let the PLO rebrand itself as "Palestine." Arazi heads to Eurovision with the song "Ben Adam." The Palestinian state, though "declared," still lacked any official status.
In 1989, the PLO's UN representative boasted that 94 countries already recognized Palestine.
In 1993, Israel gave the experiment a push with the Oslo Accords, essentially a pilot project for such a state, complete with police, ministries, and autonomous powers. We all know how that ended.
In 2011, Mahmoud Abbas submitted formal requests for recognition at the UN, and since then the process has limped forward, one step at a time, toward recognition, and toward irrelevance. Today, of the 193 UN member states, about 56 recognize a Palestinian state.
The First Lady
Trump's performance at the UN is the only real answer to the farce of the bloated General Assembly, which refuses on principle to distinguish between substance and nonsense, truth and lies, good and evil.
October 7 should have been a one-time opportunity for the world to wake up from the Islamist plot and revoke the rights granted out of fear, distortion, and blindness. But the UN, trapped in its conception, fears opening its eyes.
The US president, with sharpness and ease, handed them a distilled capsule of human sovereignty. Without stumbling over the teleprompter or escalators meant to trip him up; without listing a parade of dignitaries but instead singling out the one who matters most to him, the first lady; without caring about their shallow misreadings of his capabilities, even down to walking down stairs or reading a speech. He showed that he is fit on all counts, unshaken under pressure, and in fact only grows stronger in crisis. He can even tell them off the cuff how the supposed guardians of global peace have failed time after time, while he himself has wrapped up wars.
Those who bow to foreigners and let villains destroy the world in the name of false values will not enjoy the tolerance of the leader of the free world, who comes to scatter shards of truth. Those who want to succeed must drop outdated, irrelevant retro trends and update themselves. Simple truth is the only fashion worth following.
