FOR MID-EAST PEACE, +LEO, CONSECRATE RUSSIA

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Rom Braslavski, hostage in Gaza, then and now

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 You won't find this video easy to watch: yesterday Palestinian Islamic Jihad released footage of Rom Braslavski, kidnapped from the Nova music festival in Israel and held hostage in Gaza for close to 700 days. Starmer (UK), Macron (France), Carney (Canada) and Albanese (Australia) - and 'Me Too' Luxon (NZ) would like to give Rom's captors their own country. Oh, and the Holy See likewise. Idealists? More like globalists.

Thesse master-minds propose a two-state solution for the disaster that is Gaza. Now why didn't we think of that before? Er, because we did. And Israel didn't want it. And Hamas didn't want it. It didn't work, and it won't work, says Islam, until Israel is totally annihilated by Islam and all Jews are killed. Hamas (and their lefty supporters) want one state. "From the river to the sea." While Israel shouts "Hamas Out".

Israel, Hamas and the world stand at an impasse. Instead of politicking, why do Pope Leo XIV and all the world's bishops not simply do what the Blessed Virgin Mary asked at Fatima in 1917, and consecrate Russia, specifically, to her Immaculate Heart? Why does +Leo not call the Church to prayer and reparation for sin and the outrages perpetrated against Jesus and Mary? The only solution to conflict in the Middle East and the world over is really very simple.

“If people do what I tell you, many souls will be saved and there will be peace.”

self-explanatory

 

From the Tablet:

Pretending there is a deal to be done with the Palestinian leadership only opens the door to another October 7. Israelis won’t be fooled.

by

Gadi Taub

I don’t fault any Zionist or ally of Israel for having embraced the two-state solution, as I did for many years. No other peace plan could reconcile self-interest and lofty principles so seamlessly. No other plan could offer a better way to transcend the contradictions that reality imposed on Israelis, by making a Zionist argument, no less, for Palestinian statehood.

 

Far more powerful than a mere solution to a problem, the idea of two states was, for many of us, an irresistible form of seduction—a promise that partition could make Israel whole.

 

The seduction came from our core Zionist beliefs. Our own Declaration of Independence says that “It is the natural right of the Jewish people to be, like all peoples, masters of their own fate, in their own sovereign state.” Partition would make that stance internally coherent, validating our own right by fighting for theirs.

 

It would also reconcile liberalism with nationalism. After all, the occupation threatens both, because it not only violates the human rights of Palestinians, it also endangers the Jewish majority. Partition would solve both problems in one fell swoop.

The two-state solution was also naturally appealing to Israel’s friends in the West, especially liberal Jews: Faced with attempts to paint Zionism as colonialism, Judaism as fundamentalist messianism, the IDF as an army of occupation, or Israel as an apartheid state, the two-state solution would dissolve such smears with a single flourish.

 

But compelling as it is as a debating strategy, or a form of self-therapy, the two-state solution is, sadly, no solution at all. Rather, it is a big step down the road to another Lebanon. It would doom the Zionist project, not save it, while producing much greater misery and more bloodshed for Israelis and Palestinians alike.

 

By now most of us in Israel understand this dreadful math. If there was still a substantial minority among us who clung to the two-state promise against the evidence of the Second Intifada and everything that followed, that minority has shrunk considerably since Oct. 7.

 

October 7, 2024, Israel

 

We now know exactly what our would-be neighbors have in mind for us. We see that a majority of Palestinians support Hamas and are well pleased by its massacres. Most of us therefore believe that turning Judea and Samaria into another Hamastan to satisfy those who see the massacre as an inspiration and its perpetrators as role models would be suicidal.

 

Who in their right mind would inflict the ensuing bloodshed on their partners, children, friends, and parents? If one is determined to feel overwhelming sympathy for one of the many stateless peoples of the world, why not start with the Kurds, or the Catalans, or the Basques, or the Rohingya, or the Baluchis, or any of one of dozens of subnational groups—none of whom seem likely to attain their longed-for goals of statehood anytime soon.

 

After all, it took nearly 2,000 years for the Jews to succeed in refounding their state. If the Palestinians are determined to kill us on the road to replacing us, then presumably they can wait, too.

 

Those Israelis who do still yearn for a Palestinian state are now a very small, yet well-positioned minority: far left politicians, academics, progressive journalists, and some members of the IDF brass. Not surprisingly, many of these were educated in American universities. But they no longer carry any real electoral weight.

 

They know it, too. Which is why even they, the men and women of Oct. 6, rarely dare to tell their Israeli audiences that they still support a two-state solution. They mostly allude to it with vague insinuations that often invoke, or even parrot, Washington talking points, such as exhortations about an as-of-yet unspecified “political horizon,” as National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan put it, for “the day after.”

 

Get any more specific and you’re bound to lose much of your audience. And, it goes without saying, any attempt to translate “revitalized Palestinian Authority” into Hebrew would make you a laughingstock. 

 

A real 2 state solution is already agreed between and

 

To be sure, the two-state solution was a noble dream. But it turns out it always was just that—a dream. What enabled those who clung to it long enough to continue sleepwalking through the wrecks of exploding buses, the bodies of slain civilians, the constant wild calls for violence against us, the massive efforts to build terror infrastructures under our noses and on our borders, was our own tendency to imagine Palestinians in our own image. 

 

For all the fashionable talk of diversity, we too find it hard to imagine a people that is not like ourselves. Knowing our own striving for self-determination, we assumed that the Palestinians, too, want above all to be masters of their own fate in their own sovereign state.

 

But that is not what they want. The huge amount of international aid Palestinians have received since 1948 was never used for nation-building. It wasn’t used for building houses and roads or for planting orange groves. It was harnessed to one overarching cause: the destruction of the Jewish state.

 

This is what the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) does: subsidize and shield Palestinian terror infrastructure. 

 

This is what the PA does with its pay-for-slay salaries—underwritten by the U.S.—to the families of terrorists. And this is what Hamas was able to do as a result of the billions invested in Gaza: it bought weapons, trained terrorists, and built a sprawling network of terror tunnels—and not one bomb shelter for civilians.

 

As Einat Wilf and Adi Schwarz demonstrate in their bestselling book The War of Return, the Palestinian national movement has built its ethos and identity around the so-called “right of return” of the Palestinian “refugees”—by which they mean the destruction of Israel through the resettlement of the Palestinian diaspora, the so-called refugees that UNRWA numbers at 5.9 million, within Israel’s borders.

 

But there’s no such thing as the right of return: First, it is not an internationally recognized right; second, if implemented it would not be a return, since almost all of those who demand it have never been to Israel themselves. And finally, of those who fled or were expelled from the land of Israel in 1948, only an estimated 30,000 are still alive today.https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/sorry-there-is-no-two-state-solution

Martyrdom of the Seven Maccabee Brothers and Their Mother, stained glass by Dirck Vellert

 O Holy Maccabees, Martyrs, please pray for us