'Shameful': Douglas Murray Blasts Biden For Alleged Plans To `Reward' Palestinians With A State - "It's amazing how long bad ideas take to die... I wonder how many more terror attacks will come about by incentivizing terror in this way?"

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Douglas Murray, the British author of “The War on the West,” blasted
President Biden for his alleged efforts to prepare for declaring a
Palestinian state.

“It’s amazing how long bad ideas take to die. That’s certainly the case with
one of the least successful ideas in the world. The idea of the two-state
solution in the Middle East,” Murray began in an opinion piece titled,
“Shameful Biden tries to reward Hamas terror with a Palestinian state.”

“How do we know it is unsuccessful? Because it has been tried for decades and
never works. Generations of US Presidents have wasted energy on the idea. All
based on a falsehood.”

Murray targeted the “song” he said had been sung by “Republicans and
Democrats alike” that “if the Palestinian people had another state then all
the other problems of the Middle East would be solved.”

“The economy of Yemen would suddenly boom,” he quipped. “The Ayatollahs in
Iran would suddenly grant equal rights to women. There’d be gay pride in
Saudi Arabia.”

“It is a fairytale, of course,” he pointed out. “None of the rest of the Arab
world gives a damn about the Palestinians. Most actively hate them — seeing
them as bringing terror wherever they go (as the Palestinians did when they
went to Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon — to name just a few).”

Noting that the Palestinians have “doggedly refused a state every time they
were offered one,” he continued, “In 2005, the Israelis effectively gifted
the Palestinians a state in Gaza, when the Israeli government forced every
Jew out of the area and handed the strip over to the Palestinians. And what
did the Palestinians do with their new state? Well, they voted in Hamas, who
then had a coup and spent 18 years taking US taxpayer dollars to build a
terror state from which they invaded Israel again last year.”

“After the 7th October who on earth could believe it is a good idea for the
Palestinians to be given another state?” he asked rhetorically.

“Ever since the atrocities of October 7th, Joe Biden and Secretary of State
Anthony Blinken have been insisting that now is just the time to ‘double
down’ on the two-state solution,” he wrote. “It is like watching an alcoholic
trying to recover from a hangover by having the first drink of the morning.”

Pointing out that within a month of the October 7 Hamas massacre of Israelis
Biden had insisted on a two-state solution, Murray questioned, “But why? Why
after Palestinians had carried out the most brutal day of terror since the
creation of the State of Israel should they be rewarded with a state? And why
should it be governed by the Palestinian Authority? … It is a totally corrupt
entity.”

“On October 8th — as terrorists were still running wild across the south of
Israel — Blinken told CBS, ‘We think the best way to resolve [the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict] remains a two-state solution,’” Murray recalled. “A
month later he could be found claiming that a two-state solution was ‘the
only way to end a cycle of violence.’ By the time he was in Davos in January
Blinken was telling the New York Times that creating a Palestinian state
would solve all the problems of the region, including (bizarrely) regional
instability caused by Iran. … By the end of January Blinken was reported to
have ordered the State Department to review options for American recognition
of a Palestinian State.”

“I wonder how many more terror attacks will come about by incentivizing
terror in this way?” Murray speculated.

“But the other reason why it is so wicked is that since 2005 we know what a
Palestinian state in the West Bank would look like. It would not just be one
more failed Arab state. It would be another Palestinian terror state. One
which had views over the entirety of Israel and where the rockets could this
time easily hit Tel Aviv, Haifa and Ben Gurion airport,” he wrote.

Murray concluded, “So long as the Palestinians celebrate terror, encourage
terror and pay for terror they should not have another state. Two-states?
It’s not a solution. It’s part of the problem.”

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Let's go Brandon!