The One Main Reason Why Peace in the Middle East is Impossible.

It's like a mathematical impossibility: societies that run on the fuel of victimization and self-pity have no potential for independence, their fuel would run out and leave them stranded.

I was taught math before it became infected with racism and intersectionality and before number three discovered it was transgender.  I believe that  2+ 2 = 4, not 5, not 9, not 12, even if you identify as the number 12.  My father was a mathematician, and I never understood anything he taught; I was, though, on the math team at school (otherwise known as the group that girls never talked to) and once placed 50th in the province, but unfortunately, I went into my University calculus final with an A and walked out with a C- overall.  This, combined with drinking in university and brain cell death, has led me to have

very basic math skills.

My math career may be over, but I am up to this.  

I hope this statement of 2+2 = 4 does not engender another human rights complaint against me; one is enough.  But I know now that you don’t need to refer to race, religion, or ethnicity to be called a racist, phobe of the week, etc. I am all things, and because I hate Hamas, I should not be allowed to be around university-aged children.  Just ask my boss. 

Are you looking for logic and a thread of reason?

Your career may be threatened for your racism, Islamophobia and ethnic discrimination (there might be a special mad word for that I am unaware of; apologies, please, no Human Rights Complaints about the lack of the proper word use.)

But why did I start with such an odd opening? Was it math?  I am saying that it is mathematically impossible for 2 + 2 = 5. It is impossible right now for there to be peace between Israel and the  Palestinian Arabs with the Palestinian mindset - (There are Israel right-wing parties that also want from the River to the Sea and have no real appetite for peace, but they, unlike with the Palestinian Arabs are in the minority).

There will never be peace with the Palestinians unless they change; it is a matter of their cultural character, a culture that is based on bitterness, envy and hatred.  

They are Muslims, and they know their holy books. They know that Mohammed first hoped for peace with the Jews and reached out to them, but his peace meant that non-Muslims convert or cower before him and his newfound religion, you know, the one that is God’s final testament and written by someone illiterate.  

At the end of the story, Mohammed wasn’t happy with the Jews, and a Jewish lady wasn’t happy with him, nor was she pleased that his pals murdered her family, so she poisoned him, and he died.  Or perhaps Mohammed never existed; the gap between his apparent existence and their written word is so long that it brings up a lot of doubt.  That might make people mad, but it’s a free country. There is much scholarship on this issue.

But back to bitterness - this bitterness lives on in the Palestinian Arabs. They can’t stand the idea of the Jews next door, those Jews that, despite persecutions, slavery, pogroms and genocides, are so successful as a culture. 

As a Gentile, if I were doing a ‘Culture’s Got Talent’ show, I’d hit the button that makes all that confetti fall when the Jews did their act.

One popular example of the success of those Jews is the fact that Jews have won about a quarter of all Nobel Prizes, and this in a world population that today, due to Hitler’s murderous rage (and all the eager civilians in Western Europe and Eastern Europe that jumped at the chance to kill Jews, most of the actual killing was not done by Germans), is still less than the world Jewish population in 1933.  

This virtually mathematical impossibility of peace and Palestinian prosperity and success is related to character and culture, not land. 

Being consumed with hatred, grievances, and envy takes up all the room in the typical Palestinian soul.  Of course, there are always exceptional people on both sides, but as a rule, a norm is a norm - most of the group.  You do not refute this argument by saying that the Palestinian fellow down the street is lovely.  I’m sure he is. 

Cultural norms matter and cannot be ignored out of fear of offending sensibilities. 

The Palestinian cause is often portrayed without any acknowledgement of the Palestinians’ role in their situation. The narrative typically blames external forces, particularly Israel, for their plight. This external locus of control, a psychological term describing when individuals feel outside forces determine their fate, is prevalent in pro-Palestinian rhetoric. This mindset, however, negates Palestinians’ agency and their powerful influence over their circumstances and fate.

The fact is that most Palestinian people are fundamentalist Muslims; they are considered extreme, even in much of the Arab world.  In 1991, the Kuwaiti government expelled nearly 300,000 Palestinians (but no protests on the street, no Jew involvement, so it was cool), 18% of their population, because the Palestinians were supporting Sadaam Hussein and were considered complicit in the occupation of their country.  

This wasn’t the first time the Palestinian Arabs caused problems -  in Jordan, Palestinian groups were openly calling for the overthrow of the Jordanian monarchy in the aftermath of the Six-Day War.  The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) maintained their separate army on Jordanian soil and attacked citizens in the streets, claiming to be raising money for the attack on Israel.  

Finally, in 1970, the Jordanian government had had enough, and after ten months of fighting, the PLO was driven out, but not before a PLO terrorist group, Black September, assassinated the Jordanian PM.

Talk about an ungrateful guest.

The PLO then went to Lebanon and destabilized Lebanon, creating a civil war from which it has never recovered.  

As long as Hamas is elected, the Palestinian people will not be popular.  In 1992, Denmark accepted 321 Palestinians, and by 2019, 64% had acquired a criminal record.  

Historically, Palestinians and their Arab allies rejected the U.N. Partition Plan, which proposed a Jewish and an Arab state. Instead, they initiated a war to prevent the establishment of Israel, leading to their current ongoing refugee status, the only refugees in the world that have extended beyond one generation.

This choice to perpetuate a state of displacement rather than integrate refugees has been a deliberate tactic by other Arab leaders to maintain international sympathy and pressure on Israel. The Palestinian people are abused and used by everyone. They have a lot of frenemies.

In Jordan, Lebanon, and other Arab countries, Palestinians live in segregated areas without political rights. This situation benefits Palestinian leaders by keeping the refugee issue alive, attracting international aid, and maintaining a stance against Israel. But the Palestinian leadership, many of who live in luxury and enjoy enormous wealth, has consistently chosen conflict over state-building, rejecting numerous peace offers and fostering a culture of violence against Israel.

The ongoing Gaza conflict is a prime example of this external blame narrative. The blockade by Israel and Egypt is presented as unjust oppression, ignoring that it is a response to terrorism and weapons smuggling by Hamas. Hamas’s actions, supported by most (check the Pew Research) Palestinians, continue to exacerbate the conflict, with civilian casualties often resulting from Hamas’s tactics of using civilian areas for military operations.

Is Israel’s response appropriate?  The Japanese civilian casualty rate ratio to the innocent deaths at Pearl Harbour was 264:1.  That’s 264 civilians killed for every soldier killed in the surprise attack at Pearl Harbour. There are many examples, and the tragedy is that ratios like this are not uncommon. 

In Gaza, with their fighters cowering under old women’s skirts and hiding in tunnels?  1.5:1

Does that mean every civilian death is warranted? No.  However, some reality and the occasional dropping of the curtain between the everyone standard and the Jew standard is sometimes warranted. How many times has the media boldly trumpeted Israel’s killings only to admit a week later that the numbers are wrong and it was related to something that Hamas did, their missile or a food riot, etc.?

It’s strange how people keep talking about the one or two-state solution.  The one state would be demographic suicide for the Jewish nation; Hamas is very popular in Gaza and the West Bank.  

Justin Trudeau would love to have their polling numbers. 

But why would people elect and endorse a government that has been planning the Oct. 7 massacre for 13 years, depriving their ‘beloved’ people of housing, nourishment and medical resources -  all so they could murder in cold blood what would have been over 50,000 people in the US?  70% of Palestinian Arabs support Hamas, and only 5%, according to Pew Research, consider the Oct. 7 massacre a war crime. 

Imagine Canadian forces crossing over from Windsor to Detroit and murdering the same percent of Americans that Hamas and Palestinian fanboys murdered of the Israeli population on October 7.  It would be over 50,000 dead and 5,000 hostages. 

The retribution would be severe, and there wouldn’t be calls or expectations the Americans should just do nothing, which seems the unstated expected response of Israeli critics. Just give the Palestinians a massacre mulligan. Nope.

I doubt the following would fly—can’t you just say you’re disappointed with Canada and cancel a few hockey games?

The US is lucky the Canadian military doesn’t have much functioning equipment and is now more focused on replacing pistols used since World War II and having submarines that go underwater. I don’t mean those that sink to the bottom of the ocean and never come up again. We have too many of those.

The two-state solution is a Western conceit and has almost no support from Palestinian Arabs. Poll after poll shows Palestinians want the whole River to the Sea. It’s all or nothing, and with all the land for peace offers, starting even before the formation of Israel, it’s easy to say that history has repeated itself.

If the tune is different, it has the same melody line, and the chorus hasn’t changed.  

You can say the problem is the education system, a system that, from their first day in class, preaches Jew-hatred (and funded with Canadian tax dollars, thanks Mélanie Joly), but regardless of how a people got there, they are there. 

But the only problem is not that Palestinians simply can’t bring themselves to live next to Jews unless those Jews are paying a Jizya tax, a tax meant to demean and humiliate non-Muslims, who must not sit higher than Muslims when they go on camel rides.  

Psychologically, you can’t build on a culture of hatred.  This is not a Palestinian issue; if a man or woman, whiter than Wonder Bread, was brought up on hate, brought up to believe that the killing of one group of people was the only way to bring relief, they would not succeed in life.  

(I can’t get AI to spell, and I don’t know or own Photoshop, so I can’t change manually, apologies; it should say FUTURE on the bus, not sure where Duture is; maybe it is near Vulcan, AB.)

If the Palestinian Arabs get all of Israel tomorrow, the problem will be solved, right? Is it just a land issue?  

Of course, we will never know, but I suspect that the same rage that when Israel left Gaza in 2005 inspired Arabs to destroy industrial infrastructure that could have brought jobs and exports would remain.  

Why?  Their souls were so consumed with Jew hatred they couldn’t contain themselves; if they were given Israel under the new plan, even though Jews may have been in the area for 3000 years and the reason that they were scattered was that people kept trying to kill them and they had to run; even though 75 years ago, those lovely cultured Germans and their millions of sympathizers in western and Eastern Europe, not to mention the middle east and even goody two shoes Canada didn’t support them - I doubt it would end well. 

Remember, in post-World War II in Canada, Justice Minister Irving Cotler said it was easier for Nazis to immigrate than Jews and noted that the world Jewish population is still smaller than 90 years ago.  Get off your soap box Canada and stop the “We’re better than Americans garbage.”

So imagine Israel packing up and giving away all of Israel. Imagine the plan is for  Israelis to move to Northern Saskatchewan.  (The acronym would be cumbersome) And they’d have to throw away a lot of sandals. 

Even if this happened, in a few years or less, the desert that bloomed in Israel would have returned to the desert, and the taint of Jewishness would still - if history is precedent - cause Palestinian Arabs to burn Israel down before they could get started on their glorious renaissance.  

In no time, there would be new Palestinian claims of victimization, and the UN would be passing motions condemning the Jewish population of Northern Saskatchewan because their cattle were farting too much. They might say such cow methane farts were causing climate change that was so horrific it caused the former state of Israel, the one next to Jordan, to turn back to the desert. Dumber things have been said at the UN. 

Victimization is related to the racism of low expectations; it is related to people who don’t believe they have agency; it is hopelessness wearing fancy clothing. Everything is always someone else’s fault, and in this case, it’s always blame the Jews.  

When it goes deep and goes from generation to generation, victimization is difficult to remove. I remember talking to a fellow in Calgary. He said his parents had never worked, and the thought of looking for a job was foreign to him. He looked at me strangely when I mentioned it.  

This isn’t saying that Palestinian Arabs are in any way lazy; that’s not the point; the point is that when you have leadership that sings the siren song of always blaming the Jews, it is relatively easy to capture the hearts of the Arabs. 

And it won't be easy to get them to stop singing.  

It’s easy when you are living in Qatar or Iran; you don’t have a lot of skin in the game, you keep making billions on smuggling weapons into Gaza, and if you keep preaching victimization, you have an easy tool to keep the people under control. Victimization is political fentanyl; it addicts its users and ultimately kills them. But the drug dealer makes their money and walks away.

Imagine the power of Hamas, still largely loved in Gaza - even though they have been stealing the common people’s money for years, leaving their beloved people in squalor.  But the people are largely faithful to Hamas’ leadership.  

Even though billions of dollars have gone into a tunnel system that has two main purposes - to give the brave warriors a place to hide, leaving old women and children on the surface to be killed and injured, and to develop a network for smuggling materials and tools to fulfil their obsession with killing Jews.  

Yes, the citizens of Gaza are incredibly loyal. 

Do you think that some Trump or Trudeau supporters are over the top, irrational and would love either politician if they started shooting babies? 

Such loyalists would have nothing on the Gazans and West Bankers; they just had their government send a force, not to mention all the random Palestinians who joined in; these “Let’s jump on the Jew killing bus randoms” must have been working from home and left one of those mouse shakers on their keyboard - but anyway, this mix of Hamas and hanger-oners burst into Israel to murder innocents, the more, the better, and hoped to draw a reaction, they did not expect what the American reaction after Pearl Harbour where the Americans just said, no problem, we won’t do anything to defend our people was. We won’t be dropping bombs on your cities or fighting you all over East Asia.  No worries, move along.

But let’s get back to the math: 2 + 2 isn’t heading to 5 or 6. There are Muslim nations that have signed peace agreements with Israel; look at Egypt and the Abraham Accords; it’s not only a religious thing. Look at most of the Middle East in the 1950s and 60s; it looked European, and they were still Muslim countries. 

It’s back to the same problem: a soul that is plum full of bitterness and consumed with “Blame the Jewism” has no room for peace; they are and have been conditioned, taught or transformed into having a pure victim mentality that says that all their unhappiness and frustrations can be solved by killing Jews. 

There is no room for hope when everyone else is to blame because you have no control. 

 But sorry, those Jews just don’t want to die, so there is a bit of an impasse. 2 + 2 can’t be made to equal five, no matter how many resolutions against Israel are passed in academia, the UN, and small, insignificant town councils.  I heard the Vulcan, AB dog walkers club now demands a ceasefire. Okay, I made that up—peace out.