The time for half-measures is over. Israel, with steely resolve, is charting an audacious course to secure its future by addressing the Palestinian presence.
The two-state solution, a failed foray into a contrived feel-good fantasy, proved to be a relic of naive diversity, inclusivity, misguided morality, and miscalculated diplomacy. It collapsed under the weight of irreconcilable realities after decades of negotiations yielded only violence, mistrust and stalemate.
Whispers in Jerusalem’s inner circles reveal a master plan: relocate Palestinians to neighboring Arab nations with tacit agreements already forming among pragmatic Muslim states. The United States, Israel’s ally, stands ready to back this seismic shift, potentially tying it to strategic moves like lifting sanctions on Syria to facilitate a broader Levantine resettlement. This is a reckoning with history, a correction of the British Empire’s arrogant and shortsighted meddling that birthed this mess.
Let’s lay the blame where it belongs: Lord Balfour and the British Empire’s hubris.
In 1917, the Balfour Declaration promised a Jewish homeland in Palestine while cavalierly dismissing the rights of its Arab majority. Britain, fresh from carving up the Ottoman corpse with France via the Sykes-Picot Agreement, drew borders with the precision of a butcher’s cleaver, ignoring the nomadic tapestry of the region’s peoples. These were not tidy European nation-states, but fluid tribal lands where Bedouins and clans roamed freely.
Britain’s myopic vision – cementing states like Jordan and Iraq – sowed chaos, pitting Jew against Arab in a land both claimed as sacred. The Mandate years saw Jewish immigration surge, fueling tensions as Palestinians, denied a voice, watched their homeland transform. The 1947 UN partition plan, another Western imposition, sparked the Nakba, displacing hundreds of thousands. Britain’s legacy is a century of blood, measured in countless graves and grieving families.
Israel is done with apologies. Media talking heads are still harping about security for Palestinians and a new governance for the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. I want to slap them upside the head and tell them the truth: the Palestinians are not returning. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu evidently has made a bold decision to repopulate those areas – including the Golan Heights – with settlers. So don’t waste your time with the analysts prognosticating about what will happen with the Palestinians and what the future holds for their sovereignty … the die is already cast.
The two-state solution – noble in theory, disastrous in practice – has failed for the last time. Palestinian rejections, from the Arab Higher Committee’s refusal of the 1947 plan to Hamas’s unrelenting hostility, have proved coexistence untenable.
Israel’s new strategy is as bold as it is controversial … but know this: fortune favors the bold.
The lifting of U.S. sanctions on Syria, long a pariah, may be the linchpin. A stabilized Syria, integrated into the regional order, could open vast spaces in the Levant for Palestinian resettlement, defusing demographic pressures in Judea and Samaria. America’s support, rooted in strategic alignment with Israel, signals a willingness to prioritize stability over sentimentality. This isn’t expulsion – it’s evolution, a chance for Palestinians to thrive in lands culturally and linguistically aligned with their identity.
The moral outrage will be deafening, but this is about survival. Israel, a nation forged in the crucible of genocide, cannot afford to gamble its security on more utopian fantasies. The Palestinian population, now millions strong, poses a demographic and political challenge that threatens the Jewish state’s very essence. Relocation, paired with economic incentives and international backing, offers a path forward where endless cycles of violence do not. Arab nations, flush with oil wealth and vast territories, can absorb their brethren far better than a tiny strip of contested land. Syria, post-sanctions, could emerge as a key player, its reconstruction funded partly by Gulf states eager to curry favor with Washington.
The British Empire’s arrogant imperial ambitions carelessly allowed a map-drawing igniting fire, the embers of which have burned for over a century. Israel’s plan is not without risk, but it’s a decisive step to extinguish the flames. The secular world in all its deceptions and detractors has not only questioned this logic, but a disturbing wave of antisemitism has grotesquely reared its head of late. This is not about erasing Palestinians – it’s about giving them a future elsewhere, all while securing Israel’s. The alternative is more death, more despair, and a conflict without end.
It’s time to clean up Britain’s mess, once and for all.
Troy Carico is a former infantry enlisted soldier (11B) and infantry officer with branch qualifications including counterintelligence (35E) and military intelligence (35D). He served with distinction in the U.S. Army for more than 22 years and is highly decorated and service-connected disabled. He also has prior service as a civilian intelligence officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency Great Skills Program and has served in numerous clandestine assignments throughout the world.
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