What do Palestinians want?
It's not what you think.
The ‘soft bigotry of low expectations’ describes a patronising and dangerous attitude, masked as kindness, that assumes certain people are capable of less because of their race or background. If you think it sounds like racism—that’s because it is.
I will be as clear as I can be. The soft bigotry of low expectations is a hallmark of leftist ideology that promotes victimhood on a group of people based on their outward appearance—mainly in this case, that they are brown. The idea that Palestinians can systematically rape and slaughter Israelis, because its resistance, but that Israel is expected to uphold the highest possible moral standards is evidence of this type of racism. It perpetuates the view that Palestinians are incapable of conducting themselves as civilised human beings. You know how it goes, rape is resistance, child marriage is cultural, beheading is ok as long as you are part of the oppressed and not the oppressor. Human rights have no colour or religion and should be afforded to all and be expected to be upheld by all, and the Palestinians must be held to account for their actions, otherwise how will they ever create a functioning civilised society? There is no virtue in remaining the victim in your own lunchbox.
But in the case of the Palestinians, they have turned their own victim narrative into a National pastime. Nobody has ever improved their lives by holding a pity party. People who come from a place of victimisation will show little interest in trying to make changes. Why would you when the international community continues to give you a free pass? But by continuing to blame others for their circumstances, the Palestinians remain in a spiral of helplessness, negativity and blame that keeps them in a loop of their own oppression. Without taking any personal responsibility, or ever looking at the root cause of their undesired situation, nothing will change . Not for a moment do I want to minimise human suffering—its real, and many people are victim to horrors by various degrees in every corner of the world. But instigating violence then crying in the sandpit when it doesn’t go your way, doesn’t make you a victim, it makes you a child, and they can do better.
At its heart, a victim mentality is actually a way to avoid taking any responsibility for yourself or your life. By believing you have no power then you don’t have to take action.
So this brings me to the question, what is it that the Palestinians, really want? Is it land? Self-determination? Dismantling of the settlements? Demilitarisation of the IDF? Money to rebuild Gaza? This is what the world has led themselves to believe the Palestinians want. Free, free Palestine right! But is it really what they want? Well, not really.
In 2000 at the Camp David Summit the Palestinians via the Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat were offered a deal by the Israeli President Ehud Barak, assisted by US President Bill Clinton, that offered great compromise on the side of Israel. According to first hand accounts, Barak offered Palestinians concessions on Jerusalem, borders, settlements, refugees and other issues. Barak’s offer reportedly included an Israeli military withdrawal from as much as 95 percent of the West Bank and 100 percent of the Gaza strip and the creation of a Palestinian state in these areas, the uprooting of isolated Jewish settlements in the areas to be transferred to Palestinian control, Palestinian control over parts of Jerusalem and ‘religious sovereignty’ over the Temple Mount. What do you think Barak wanted in return? Land, money, settlements? No— Barak wanted the final status agreement to include an ‘end to conflict’ clause under which the parties would agree that all issues between them were now resolved. In other words, Barak wanted peace.
The Palestinians were offered everything that we believed they wanted—Israel asked only for peace. All Arafat had to say was yes, and the last 24 years could have been spent in peace, no suicide bombings, no terrorist attacks, no IDF in the West Bank and no October 7, and Palestine could have spent that time building up their own state and self-determining their own future. But that didn’t happen.
You only have to look to the Hamas charter1 to understand why. What the campus protestors either fail to acknowledge, or are too bereft of historical facts to understand, is that for the Palestinians to have their own state, it would mean the legitimising in their minds of the State of Israel—which is something that their indoctrination of hate for the Jews would not allow them to do. They would rather forego all of the things that could make their own state flourish than accept that Israel will be living next door. The Palestinians have been telling us what they want all along, the West hasn’t been listening—or rather they make excuses for the their genocidal intentions. When they say ‘From the river to the sea’, they don’t just want Palestine to be free, they want the entire region to be free from Jews.
If you don’t believe me, believe Yahya Sinwar, the illustrious leader of Hamas, the ruling party (elected by the Palestinians), of Gaza, “We support the eradication of Israel through armed jihad and struggle; this is our doctrine'; 'the brothers in Iran and Hizbullah spared us nothing2”. No mention of happily living next door in peace.
Unfortunately the ship has sailed on the magnanimous offer from Barak in 2000, and to be perfectly frank, if any two-state solution is to be considered after October 7 and the subsequent destruction of Hamas and their infrastructure, then Israel has the right to be dictating the terms. Israel seems to be the only country on earth that is repeatedly attacked, indisputably wins the war that they didn’t start, and is then expected to heavily compromise in favour of the enemy. Nevertheless we are again at a critical juncture in the Israel/Palestine saga, one that offers the Palestinians a fresh opportunity to do what they have failed to do over the past 75 years—take responsibility for the decisions that they have made, the government that they chose to elect, and envisage a better future for their children.
Because in the end, it doesn’t matter what Harris, Trump, Biden the UN, the ICJ or Jasper with the purple hair screaming ‘Free, free Palestine’ thinks, no agreement is going to hold if the Palestinian people aren’t willing to make it work. This is their chance to choose peace over violence. For the sake of their children, I hope they choose peace.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.2307/2538093
https://www.memri.org/reports/hamas-leader-gaza-yahya-sinwar-israels-most-wanted-%E2%80%93-his-own-words-we-support-eradication
No politicians , Arabs , Palestinian supporters want to scream this out loud 😖😖
They aren’t interested in peace but anihlation of Jews and no Israeli state to exist .
Western countries are as guilty as Arab / Islamic countries 🤬🤬
What do they want?
Kill everyone who is not Muslim.
Then kill every Muslim who is not on their sect.