To Delight In Failure, Or This Is God's Will

From the 'Makes Sense To Us, Department.'

Mark Steyn says it clearly and and without equivocation:

various forces have little interest in a Palestinian state itself, only in using the lack of one as a means to undermine Israel and its legitimacy – which in Europe they’ve done very effectively. A continuation of the status quo – whereby the Palestinians are preserved in perpetuity as “deserving” a state without ever having to earn one – would only see further remorseless deterioration for Israel in the world. In that sense, any change in the situation would be for the better – especially a change that makes Gaza not Israel’s problem but everybody’s problem.

Let's be honest. The Palestinians are no more capable of running a state than they are developing a space program. Their entire raison d'etre is to eradicate Israel and as many Jews as they can in the process.

Think about it. Palestinian statehood would require a functioning infrastructure, including mail service, road repair, power generation, educational systems (even the 'There are five Jews. Two are killed. How many are left?' variety of schools need a long term planning), sanitation services and hospitals, just to name a few, that Israel gave or maintained for the Palestinians. Steyn goes on:

By creating the very Palestinian state that those governments and those states pretend to want but actually dread, Sharon is forcing them to end their pretense and acknowledge the truth.”

That truth being that as far as the Palestinians and the Arab world are are concerned, it was never about statehood. It was about the Jews.

In Britain since July 7th, political figures have twisted themselves into pretzels trying to explain how suicide bombers in London are somehow different from suicide bombers in Tel Aviv – unwilling, even as the double-deckers are exploding across Bloomsbury, to abandon their fetishization of the Palestinian cause, and unable to see that in an ever more Islamified continent the Europeans are the new Jews. Maybe an Islamist statelet on the Mediterranean will concentrate even European minds.

More food for thought. As we have already said,

...Arab humiliation is predicated on the fact that Israel exists. It is not due to Israeli actions or inactions, but rather, to her very existence. Besides being that mirror in their world, the Arab world has to look at daily, the fact there is an Israel is almost intolerable to most Arabs. To be sure there are many progressive, intellectual Arabs that understand that Israel is a reality- but for most, Israel remains a cruel violation of God's promise to them. The fact that God seems to have abandoned them to live in such squalor is of no concern- it is the Jews that remain the obsession. It is the Jews that have upset the 'natural' Islamic order.

And it is that 'natural order' that the Arab world and the Palestinians obsess over- to the point where Palestinian statehood is irrelevant to the Palestinians. It is about the Jews and only the Jews. They can no longer hide that reality. To be clear,

A Palestinian state created tomorrow, will change nothing. The Arab world will not change- and nor will it be satisfied with the resolution. The problem isn't a Palestinian state- the problem is and will remain, the State of Israel. It is not about politics, as we said- and a political solution won't change anything. The establishment of a Palestinian state will do nothing to change the religious attitudes. Indeed, Palestinians groups- Hamas, Jihad, PFLP, all declare their goal is the destruction of the State of Israel, period. That we- and Israel want peace, is irrelevant.

We... must come[s] to term with what we are dealing with and the magnitude of what we face...we must understand the implications of a religious ideology that would blow us up or use chemical or biological weapons against us, as a manifestion of their faith.

It has never been about a Palestinian state- and no amount of pretending it is will change that truth.