This resolve is nothing new. It has been around for almost a century. But the real and sinister reason for it has largely remained masked. It is only since the horrific events of 7 October 2023 that the reason is becoming apparent. In the death camp at Auschwitz in Poland a quote by George Santayana is displayed: “The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again.” That is exactly what we are witnessing today with the dehumanisation of the Jewish people. There is one difference though: a powerful Jewish state has been reborn in its ancient homeland.
The God of the Bible has recreated this Jewish state, and He is defending it. The almost 78-year War of Independence, and especially the last two plus years, bears witness to that fact.
The modern countries that were part of the Ottoman Empire—namely Syria, Lebanon, Iraq (originally Mesopotamia), Israel, and later Jordan—were born out of a Mandate system which resulted from the San Remo Conference of April 1920 and endorsed 100% by the League of Nations. Otherwise, these countries would have been colonised by Britain and France under the Sykes-Piçot Agreement of 1916. Syria, Lebanon and Iraq were set aside for the self-determination of their Arab populations. Sadly, these are all failed states today. The Mandate for Palestine was set aside for the exclusive self-determination of the Jewish people in their historic homeland (then known as Palestine) in which they were given the right to re-constitute. That right was later carried through into the UN Charter and is legally valid today.
In 1922 the Mandate for Palestine was divided down the Jordan River, and the territory to the east of the Jordan was re-designated to be ruled by the Hashemite Kingdom as an exclusively Arab homeland from which Jews were excluded. One could argue that Jordan is the ‘Palestinian state’. In fact, King Hussein admitted as much in 1981. So why do we need another one?
Most of our readers will be aware of the history up to this point. All was not well with the Mandate over the rest of Palestine, and there were things that happened then which have ramifications to this day. Early on in the Mandate the British High Commissioner, Sir Herbert Samuel, who was Jewish, appointed Haj Amin Al-Husseini, as Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Even before that, in April 1920, Al-Husseini had instigated a pogrom in Jerusalem in an attempt to torpedo the outcome of the San Remo Conference, so that the very idea of a National Home for the Jewish people would be seen as unworkable. However, Samuel believed that if Al-Husseini was given the possibility of making some contribution to the Mandate, then the Mufti would become a force for good. It was a decision that haunted the rest of British rule over Palestine. To describe Al-Husseini as a radical Islamist would be an understatement. His aim was to see all the Jewish people expelled from their historic homeland of Israel. He instigated uprisings and pogroms, the most notable being the 1929 massacres of Jews in Hebron and Safed. When his own people—Arab Muslims—were reluctant to support his radical agenda, he disposed of them too. And he caused no end of trouble for the British who adopted a policy of appeasement towards him.
After the partitioning of Palestine in 1922, the intention was that the remaining part of the Mandate, from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, would eventually become the Jewish state. Article 5 of the Mandate treaty document states: “The Mandatory shall be responsible for seeing that no Palestine territory shall be ceded or leased to, or in any way placed under the control of the Government of any foreign Power.” Does this clause seek to guarantee that the exclusive right of self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in that territory be preserved?
By the mid-1930s, as the Nazis were stripping German Jewry of their civil and human rights, and as the need for the Jewish National Home to become a place of refuge became more urgent, the Grand Mufti, even though he was never seeking the establishment of an Arab state west of the river, ensured that Palestine became increasingly ungovernable. The British offered to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states as a result of the 1936/37 Peel Commission. The Arabs rejected the offer outright. Al-Husseini wanted just one thing: the complete cessation of all Jewish immigration and Jewish settlement of the land through land sales—both central obligations for the Mandatory power to facilitate (Articles 4 and 6 of the Mandate document). For fear that the Arabs would side with the Nazis, which Haj-Amin Al-Husseini later did anyway, the British introduced its 1939 White Paper curtailing Jewish immigration into Palestine to a maximum of 75,000 over the next five years and the outlawing of land sales to Jews. Moreover, the White Paper stated that the Jewish population of Palestine was not to exceed one-third of the total. It was a complete abrogation of Britain’s legal obligations under the terms of the Mandate. The result was that at least hundreds of thousands of Jews who could have escaped Nazi-occupied Europe finished up in the death camps.
The British government sought to arrest the Mufti. Nevertheless, he eventually escaped to Berlin where he met with Adolf Hitler in November 1941. Not only did he embrace Hitler’s ‘Final Solution’ to obliterate the entire Jewish population of Europe, but he adopted a plan to extend the ‘Final Solution’ across North Africa, and the entire Middle East. This would have included the murder of 70,000 Jews living in Egypt, over half a million in Palestine, and another 150,000 or more in Iraq and Persia.
In his book El Alamein—Halting a
possible Holocaust in the Middle East, historian Kelvin Crombie describes how the German High Command established the Einsatzkommando-Egypt to attach itself to Rommel’s Panzer Africa Army. The aim of this group, largely made up of Muslim SS soldiers from Bosnia would, in cooperation with local Arabs led by Haj Amin Al-Husseini, carry out the mass murder of Jews across the Middle East. The God-given Allied victory against the Germans at El Alamein which included Australian forces known as ‘the rats of Tobruk’ prevented that from happening.
Why do I mention this? Because Al-Husseini was a mentor to both Yasser Arafat, who was born in Cairo in 1929, and later to Mahmoud Abbas. Both of these men have been at the core of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) since its inception in the 1960s. Al-Husseini who, by the way, at no time referred to himself as ‘a Palestinian’, was never interested in self-determination for ‘the Palestinians’ because at the time they did not exist as an identifiable national people.
Those known as the ‘Palestinians’ in the Mandate era were in fact the Jews living there. No, Haj Amin-Al Husseini had one primary aim: the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestine’s Jewish population. This is the spiritual and operational foundation of the PLO from the start and remains so to this day.
This genocidal ideology was re-iterated when, again, the Arabs living west of the Jordan River were offered a state alongside the proposed Jewish state by the UN general Assembly in November 1947. They rejected it outright and immediately went to war with the Jews of Palestine. Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam, then Secretary-General of the Arab League, said the formation of the Jewish state would lead to “a war of extermination and momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacre and the Crusades.” By God’s grace, the outnumbered nascent State of Israel survived, and another Holocaust was averted. Today the Palestinian narrative calls it ‘The Nakba’ or ‘Catastrophe’.
“…the White Paper stated that the Jewish population of Palestine was not to exceed one-third of the total.”
Then came the Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), which was an invention of Soviet Russia’s KGB in 1964 (three years before the six-day war of 1967). The purpose of its establishment, which involved both Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas, (the latter did his doctoral thesis on Holocaust denial at Moscow University) was twofold. One, to undermine the legitimacy and viability of the Jewish state and, two, to erode support of Israel across the Western world.
UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 of 1975 that declared ‘Zionism is Racism’ was central to the KGB’s propaganda strategy and, even though the Resolution was rescinded in 1991, it remains at the centre of the BDS campaign today, along with accusations that Israel is an ‘illegal apartheid colonialist’ enterprise. The equal political and civil rights that the Arab population—and other minorities—enjoy as citizens of the State of Israel expose the absolute lie of this slander.
Today the PLO is the governing body of most of the people known as ‘the Palestinians’—certainly those living in Israel’s historic heartland of Judea and Samaria. Of course, Hamas, which is internationally proscribed as a terrorist organisation, has controlled the population of Gaza since 2007. To understand the raison d’être of the Palestine Liberation Organisation, one only has to look at its ‘Constitution’ or Founding Charter (1968 version) which tells us that Palestine is an indivisible Arab homeland, and that the Palestinian people are in integral part of the Arab nation (Article 1). Article 2 defines its boundaries as the borders of the British Mandate—i.e. ‘From the River to the Sea’. In other words, there is no room for the right of the Jewish state to exist. Article 9 states “Armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine”—i.e. terrorism. Article 15 calls for the elimination of Zionism in Palestine. This Palestine National Charter is valid to this day. It is reflected in the education system operated by the Palestinian Authority, which incites their children to hate Jews, to murder them and even become ‘martyrs’ in doing so. Moreover, the PA’s ‘Pay-for-Slay’ policy, which is largely funded by Western nations, rewards terrorists who murder Jews with generous life-long pensions. If the terrorists are ‘martyred’, then the pensions go to their families. The Palestinian Authority, which is supposed to be Israel’s peace partner under the Oslo Accords, could have had their own state alongside the Jewish state 25 years ago. For the last 15 years the PA has refused to negotiate any Final Status Agreement with Israel under ‘Oslo’, but has chosen instead to internationalise their conflict with Israel through the United Nations.
Then came the atrocities of 7 October 2023. Most of the Kibbutzniks living near Gaza who were butchered by Hamas that day strongly supported Palestinian self-determination through statehood. The vast majority of Arabs living under the PA supported the carnage of Hamas’s attack. The Hamas Charter of 1988, by the way, not only calls for the destruction of Israel, but for the murder of all Jews everywhere—i.e. genocide. Since the Hamas attempted genocide of 7 October we have seen the massive pro-Hamas/anti-Israel demonstrations right across major cities in the Western world, including here in Australia. These horrific demonstrations actually began before Israel responded against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Since then, of course, there has been a litany of lies accusing Israel of genocide and starving the Gazans to death, all of which have contributed to the massive rise in Jew-hatred across the West. Along with calls to ‘Free Palestine from the River to the Sea’, ‘Globalise the Intifada’ and ‘Death, death to the IDF’, many Jewish people have come to see the Palestinian flag as a symbol of the destruction of the only Jewish state, rather than as a symbol for Palestinian self-determination. British journalist Melanie Phillips recently admitted that the Palestinian flag instils a fear among many Jewish people. For them it symbolises what the Swastika did in the 1930s and 40s.
Then, in the midst of all this, on 21 September 2025, the governments of France, Britain, Canada and Australia gave formal recognition to ‘The State of Palestine’. Not only does this recognition have absolutely no basis in international law, but it is widely seen as rewarding Hamas for the atrocities of 7 October—and that is exactly the way that Hamas interpreted it.
Just as seriously it could be interpreted as the Australian government’s support for the destruction of the Jewish state that has been so widely called for on our streets over the last two years. Attacks against Jews, the torching of cars and Jewish property, the fire-bombing of synagogues culminated in the terror attack at Bondi Beach on 14 December which saw 15 people—mostly Jews—murdered as the first candles were being lit for the Feast of Hanukkah. The alleged perpetrators were radical Islamists inspired by ISIS.
The Albanese government continued to ignore the main cause of the explosion of Jew-hatred—Islamic extremism—amid calls for a Royal Commission into the circumstances that led to the massacre. Nearly four weeks later, in early January, the PM finally capitulated after extreme pressure across the political spectrum, and particularly from the Jewish community.
If it is to have any value, I believe that the Royal Commission into the rise of antisemitism needs to look at the government’s inaction to deal with it, as well as the negative consequence the government’s unlawful recognition of the so-called ‘State of Palestine’. It needs to look at the fact that the Palestinian cause has its ideological roots in the murder of Jews and the destruction of the only Jewish state, which is the case both historically and practically to this day. ‘7 October’ is proof of that.
Which brings me to the question posed in the title of this article: “What is really behind the resolve of the nations to establish the State of Palestine?”
Dr Einat Wilf was one of the participants in our documentary Whose Land? A former Member of the Knesset, she had been a Chief Advisor to then Foreign Minister Shimon Perez at the time the ‘Oslo Accords’ were being formulated in the 1990s. Until ‘7 October’, she was a firm advocate for the establishment of a Palestinian state. She is the author of several books, most recently The War of Return which she co-wrote with Adi Schwartz. The book focuses on the role of UNRWA in perpetuating the Palestinian conflict with Israel, and ensuring it is only ever resolved with the disintegration of the Jewish State.
Last year, in a Podcast with TBN-Israel
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFOCOpUh0TA), Dr Wilf pointed out that “UNRWA is the ideological infrastructure—literally the womb in which every Palestinian terrorist organisation is born.” She went on to say that the Palestinians—even before 7 October—“are committed to the ideology of no Jewish state ‘from the river to the sea’—what they call ‘return’—and they continue to maintain themselves as perpetual refugees.” She went on to say: “The fanatical support that UNRWA gets (from the international community) caused a darker thought to enter my mind after 7 October… that somewhere in the deep recesses of the Western consciousness there continues to be a deep ambivalence with the existence of a Jewish state, and by supporting UNRWA and supporting what I have come to call ‘Palestinianism’—the ideology of no Jewish state—they are out-sourcing their ambivalence of Jewish power, of the Jewish state, to the Palestinians.”
With the rampant anti-Israel bias at the UN and in the international media—and especially in regard to the Gaza war—there seems to be little evidence, if any, to contradict Dr Wilf’s dark thought. With the guilt of the Shoah slowly fading in the memory of the Western mindset, is this really what is behind the push for a hostile terrorist Palestinian state in Israel’s Biblical heartland?
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