(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch - On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly voted to partition the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. While the representatives of the Jews expressed their support for the plan, the representatives of the Arabs rejected the decision, refusing to accept the creation of a Jewish state within any boundaries. The events of October 7, in which all the Palestinian terror organizations participated, demonstrated that nothing has changed in 76 years. From November 1947 to May 1948, the Arab countries could have reconsidered their decision and given birth to an Arab state in "Palestine." They did not. Instead, they chose the path of war to annihilate Israel. The Palestinian Authority messaging to the Palestinians for the last 30 years has been very clear: Israel, in all and any borders, is an illegitimate state; Israelis/Jews are responsible for all the ills of the world and Islamic imperative mandates their destruction; Palestinians are destined to annihilate Israel through the use of terror and violence in the end of days when "trees and stones will call to Muslim believers saying a Jew is hiding behind me" - to kill. Hamas' messaging to the Gazans is precisely the same as the PA's messaging. Palestinian leaders are not talking peace, nor are they talking about coexistence. What they are saying, in Arabic, to their own population has never changed: Israel has no right to exist, and we must do everything, including the genocide of Jews, to destroy it. Being willfully blind and deaf to Palestinian incitement and denial of Israel's right to exist will not bring about peace. It will, however, guarantee that the October 7 massacre will happen over and over again. The writer, Director of the Palestinian Authority Accountability Initiative at the Jerusalem Center, served for 19 years in the IDF Military Advocate General Corps and was director of the Military Prosecution in Judea and Samaria.
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