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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/20/recognition-of-palestine-israel-islam-history-peace/
As Long as the Existence of Israel Is Seen as an Insult, There Can Be No Peace
(Telegraph-UK) Jake Wallis Simons - Israelis have been through all this before. They tried peace in the nineties with the Oslo Accords and got 140 suicide bombers. They tried it when Ariel Sharon withdrew from Gaza in 2005 and handed the Palestinians the keys. The reward for that was the massacre on Oct. 7. The Abbas government in the Palestinian Authority has long given generous handouts to any Palestinian convicted of terrorism. Its schools and state media are infested with antisemitic incitement. Yet while Benjamin Netanyahu would be arrested for setting foot in Britain, Abbas is treated to tea with our prime minister. For shame. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not about borders. It is about honor. For centuries, Muslim empires ruled up to 100 million people, with Jews living as second-class citizens. This created natural confidence in the supremacy of Islam. However, with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1922, the cultural and religious trauma ran deep. When Hitler arose, historians record that much of the Islamic world rushed into alliances with him, seeing the Third Reich as a vehicle for reclaiming dominion over the West. But Nazi Germany became the vanquished. When the weakling Jews returned to their ancient home, here was the ultimate dishonor. As long as the existence of Israel is seen as an insult, millions will never be satisfied until a Palestinian state replaces it. That is a truth in need of international recognition.