Joe Biden has a problem. Worried that a prolonged Israeli war to eliminate Hamas will weaken his White House bid, he’s “quietly working” to get Israel out of Gaza. Instead of supporting Israel’s war to eliminate Hamas, he’s determined to impose a so-called two-state solution on Israel and the Palestinian populations in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza.

But time has passed Joe by.

First, this alleged solution has never solved anything. Its track record of failure stretches back to the 1930s. Gaza is the most spectacular flop of this purported solution. Israel left the coastal enclave in 2005, after which Hamas quickly took power and began firing rockets on Israeli civilians. In time, it built a tunnel terror base filled with rockets and munitions right on the Jewish state’s southern border.

Second, after Oct. 7, some 65% of Israelis reject gifting Palestinians with Israeli land to buy peace with a terror state next door. Palestinians don’t want two states, either. Sixty-four percent reject a land-for-peace deal. Instead, 72% think Hamas did the right thing in its sadistic surprise attack on innocent Israeli civilians. And in another respected poll, exactly 0% of Palestinians in Judea and Samaria see the barbarous Hamas invasion on 10/7 as illegitimate.

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar summarized Palestinian hopes in 2018 when he declared: “We will take down the border (with Israel) and we will tear out their hearts from their bodies.” Oct. 7 shows he meant it.

For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is resolved to eliminate the terror group Hamas and achieve total victory. Speaking Jan. 27 on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, he insisted: “We will never forget the atrocities of Oct. 7. We will never forget the massacre, the rapes, the murders and the mutilations. We will never forget the abductions.”

Third, Israel has a legitimate and ironclad claim to its land — including Judea and Samaria — based on land settlements made by the World War I victors at the San Remo conference in April 1920.

Fourth, despite secular assumptions that void Scripture and make God obsolete, Israel is the recipient of specific land promises God gave to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. These promises endure and give the Jewish people their ultimate title to the Holy Land. As Psalm 105:8-11 summarizes:

He remembers his covenant forever,

the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations,

the covenant that he made with Abraham,

his sworn promise to Isaac,

which he confirmed to Jacob as a statute,

to Israel as an everlasting covenant,

saying, “To you I will give the land of Canaan

as your portion for an inheritance.”

And having restored the Jewish people to their ancestral, God-given land, the Lord is planting them in it — a project to which He is pledged and fully committed:

Behold, I will gather them from all the countries to which I drove them in my anger and my wrath and in great indignation. I will bring them back to this place, and I will make them dwell in safety. And they shall be my people, and I will be their God ... I will rejoice in doing them good, and I will plant them in this land in faithfulness, with all my heart and all my soul. (Jeremiah 32:37-38, 41)

But Joe Biden wants to give Israel’s implacable Islamic enemies their own state on land that belongs to the Jews as a matter of history, international law, and, most especially, divine promise. It’s a fool’s errand, but one to which Biden is committing his administration.

Will you stand with me now in defending the Jewish people’s right to their ancient, God-given homeland?

“I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you” (Gen. 12:3).

Mat Staver
Chairman
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Sources:

Bybelezer, Charles. “Invoking ‘Never Again,’ Netanyahu Reiterates Vow to Destroy Hamas.” Jewish News Syndicate, January 28, 2024. Jns.org/invoking-never-again-netanyahu-reiterates-vow-to-destroy-hamas/.

“Hamas Leader Yahya Sinwar - We Will Tear out Their Hearts.” YouTube: Legal Insurrection, April 6, 2018. Youtube.com/watch?v=klFbf6VG7uA.

Joffre, Tzvi. “Palestinians Largely Support October 7 Massacre, Deny Atrocities - Poll.” The Jerusalem Post, December 13, 2023. Jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-777918.

Van Koningsveld, Akiva. “Qatari Poll: Only 5% of MENA Arabs Oppose Oct. 7 Massacre.” Jewish News Syndicate, January 24, 2024. Jns.org/qatari-poll-only-5-of-mena-arabs-oppose-oct-7-massacre/.

‌Vigers, Benedict. “Life in Israel after Oct. 7 in 5 Charts.” Gallup, December 22, 2023. News.gallup.com/poll/547760/life-israel-oct-charts.aspx.