Queen Rania describes Israel’s attempts to survive repeated onslaughts, and to hold onto the territory it was promised in the Mandate for Palestine, as “one of the greatest historical injustices.” She’s wrong. It is the Arab attempts to destroy the Jews of Israel, who have reconstituted their ancient homeland, where Jews have lived — albeit often in small numbers until the 20th century — for the past 3500 years. The Arabs want Israel to disappear, and the Jews to either be expelled or killed. The single tiny Jewish state would no longer exist, in order that a twenty-third Arab state could be created. As of now, the Arab states collectively possess five million square miles, or 632 times the territory of Israel. Does it seem to you that that tiny state’s continued existence constitutes “one of the greatest historical injustices”?
More on Queen Rania’s of Jordan false claims can be found here: “Jordan’s Queen Rania: Israel had one October 7, the Palestinians have had 156,” Jerusalem Post, March 13, 2024:
Within this discussion of history, there was no mention of the history of terror attacks Israel has experienced, nor the history of the conflict before 1967 when Israel claimed the West Bank and Gaza in the Six-Day War, and Jews began reestablishing a presence in those areas.
Queen Rania believes that ending the occupation is the solution to the conflict. She argues that “Palestinians do not hate Israelis because of who they are, they hate them because of what they’re doing to them.”
Before the Six-Day War, when there wasn’t any “occupation” in the West Bank and Gaza, the Muslim Arabs were just as dead set on Israel’s destruction. The war against Israel was never about “the Occupation,” but about Israel’s very existence. Some Palestinians, like those in Hamas, are intent on destroying Israel through war. Others, like those in the Palestinian Authority, are wrongly considered “moderate” because they believe in a salami strategy, where Israel is first pressured into being squeezed back within the 1949 armistice lines, with a nine-mile-wide waist from Qalqilya to the sea, and at that point, with Israel stripped of its strategic depth, the Palestinians, together with the massed Arab armies, can go in for the kill. Queen Rania has it wrong: the Arabs hate Israel not for anything it is doing, but because the Israelis are Jews, Infidels, who must not be allowed to possess any land, no matter how small, that by rights belongs to Muslims.
Confronting the concept that Israel is unfairly singled out on the world stage, she argues that this is difficult to believe because critics of Israel only want Israel to do the “bare minimum, which is just abide by international law.”
The non-Arab critics of Israel want “only” this: that Israel not win its war to finish off Hamas, and that it agree to a “two-state solution” that would happen only after Israel is again squeezed back within the 1949 armistice lines that will not sate, but rather, whet Arab appetites, and lead to new jihad attacks to destroy what remained of Israel.
After October 7, there is no chance that Israelis will accept another, larger Gaza located in Judea and Samaria (a/k/a the West Bank). The Israelis have been shocked beyond measure, and are determined to make sure that there are no more withdrawals of Israelis from Judea and Samaria, which, militarily, they must control if Israel is to be able to defend itself. They also know — even if much of the world never knew or chooses to forget — that they have a claim, based on the Mandate for Palestine, and supported by 3,700 years of Jewish history in the Land of Israel, superior to all other claims, to the land in Judea and Samaria. Even if that new Palestinian state were to promise to be completely demilitarized, how would the Israelis be able to enforce such a promise? Would the IDF station troops both inside, and then all around the perimeter, of this new state of “Palestine”?
Among Israeli’s Arab enemies, there is agreement on the end result: Israel must disappear as a Jewish state. That is what the chant “From the river to the sea/Palestine will be free” means. The end to Israel, and the expulsion or death of its Jewish inhabitants. And Queen Rania knows that.
Kosh's Shadow says
How about the great historical injustice that her country is on 77% of the land that was supposed to go to Jews?
Tony Rice says
EXACTLY. HER HIGHNESS is well advised to keep her mouth SHUT, but as most anti-Israel ones are, she is guided by ignorance, hate, and distortion of the FACTS. Jordan and 4 other countries invaded Israel in 3 separate wars in unison to kill it, but have failed, and Jordan until this day hold onto land that should be Israel’s, only some has Israel taken back. Maybe Her Highness should explain why
2 million + Arabs CHOOSE to live in Israel, which accepts them but Her Highness’s own country WILL NOT allow Palestinians to live in Jordan. And the 2 million Arabs in Israel not only voluntarily choose to live in Israel, but join the I D F and fight FOR Israel.
Rob Porter says
Well said, Kosh’s Shadiow, Queen Rania of Jordan false claims reflect the sort of one-eye’d stupidity to which Muslims have a special aptitude. There is no logic or intelligence to their vacuous claims. As Robert constantly emphasizes, Arabs, most through their seventh century campaigns, own 22 countries – after stealing other people’s country, but to these mentally-cramped morons Israel’s existence constitutes an injustice. The Arab Muslims have lost every war they launched against Israel and now through other means they wish to steal the small parcel of land that is Israel. The whole miserable lot should migrate back to Arabia and other failed Muslim countries from which they or their forbears migrated to Israel. I am so heartily sick of their never-ending lies and barbarism.
One thing is abundantly evident, Islam is not a civilization. Wherever they go jn numbers, very quickly there is violence, lawlessness and civil unrest while they try to take over. Right now Toronto is a graphic example of this with cowardly Canadian authorities compounding the problem through their weak actions in response to Muslim lawlessness.
rick says
Unbelievable!!! A member of the Hashemite Tribe who were thrown out of Arabia- their homeland – and convinced the British – without too much effort I am sure – to simply give them 70% of the Palestine Mandate as their “new” country, thus removing that part of Palestine out of the reach of Israel and the Palestinians to claim it and forcing Palestinians in Israel to demand Israel give up much of the remaining 40% of the Palestine Mandate to this Jew hating group of Arabs. The Hashemites are the real “Outsiders” in the region. Better they simply moved to London and lived among their most loyal friends the British. If ever there was an instance of the “kettle calling a stainless steel pan, “black”, this is it. Outrageous! and time to throw the Waqf off the Temple Mount and create a new authority.
David Fahey says
The entire Muslim world is built on occupied territory, lands that the Muslims conquered and enslaved since the late 600s/early 700s AD. So let’s turn the clock back a bit more, and give every country back to its original inhabitants….Islam would be confined to the Hejaz, where it originated, and all of North Africa and the Middle East, including Turkey, would go back to Christians. Iran would be given back to Zoroastrian Persians; Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh would all become Buddhist and Hindu regions again…What a crock of sh ** t from a unentitled despot!
rbla says
Hey Rania, er, your Highness. You’re violating Islamic law by not being covered and looking good. Perhaps the Imams have given you a pass for a while because you’re such a useful idiot. Wait until Islam rules the world, it will be burka time for you.
Rufolino says
Considering that her majesty has half the value of a man, she is very uppity with her opinions.
rbla says
There is one uppity Muslima, Tlaib, who would look a lot better if she was covered.
Rick Olsha says
SHE IS WRONG AGAIN .
AM ISREAL CHAI !!!!!!!
StacyGirl says
After 9/11, the queen sat down with Katie Couric to discuss how awful it was, but …the poor Paleostinians. The miserable existence of the paleos is necessary and serves the Muslim cause.
OLD GUY says
It’s good to be Queen, I don’t know s–t but I’am beautiful and important just ask me. Oh I left out I deserve to be, cause I’a, special.
40 rounds says
Too bad her brain doesn’t match her looks
loek says
Please Hugh, if you read this: I really appreciate your articles, but please explain the “3700” years. If I am correct the Jewish nation at that time was in Egypt. Correct me if I am wrong. with thanks