November 6, 2026

Israel's Expansion

The Israelis certainly do not need more land: they are not farmers from centuries past.

It is true that a minority of Israelis, the Haredim (whom we would call religious fundamentalists), believe that it would be blasphemous to leave even a tiny piece of the Promised Land in the hands of others (exactly what Hamas believes as well). But for the majority, the issue is different. They fear that a Palestinian state would follow the same path as Gaza, which, once freed from Israeli occupation, did nothing but prepare for the struggle to destroy Israel.

The key to resolving the entire Palestinian question, therefore, is just one thing: full recognition of Israel, as Sadat did fifty years ago.