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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/30/britain-now-west-capital-sectarian-politics/
Gaza Provided a Glimpse of What a Palestinian State Would Be
(Telegraph-UK) Douglas Murray - It is no longer in the power of the British or French governments to create states in the Middle East. That era is over. The idea of a Palestinian state is utterly dead for the foreseeable future because nobody knows how to run Gaza or who will run it, and no one could trust the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank which has not had an election in two decades. Historians will note with some amazement that the present Hamas-started war led to Western countries scrambling to once again try a Palestinian-statehood option. The years 2005-2023 showed in Gaza a glimpse of what a Palestinian state's actual objectives and ambitions would be: not coexistence, but rather the continued effort to wipe out the Jewish state. Much of the Muslim world have imbibed anti-Israel and indeed antisemitic views from birth. And they have decided that the creation of another Muslim state, and the eradication of the world's one Jewish state, should be a priority.