Nearly Three Quarters Of Palestinians Support the Recent Jihad Murder of the Yaniv Brothers

The Bidenites would have us all believe that the biggest obstacle to peace between Israelis and Palestinians at present are those “far-right extremists” in the Israeli cabinet – Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich — who have the gall to think Jews ought to be allowed to settle in Judea and Samaria, where Jews have lived continuously for the past 3000 years. But the latest opinion poll makes clear that the Palestinians are the real obstacle to peace. In that poll, nearly three-quarters of Palestinians approved of the murder of the two Yaniv brothers, Yigal and Hillel. Since those cold-blooded killings were no different from any of the terrorist murders carried out by Palestinians, over many years, their approval of the Yaniv murders surely means that they approve as well of all the terrorist murders carried out by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the PFLP, Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, and the Lions’ Den.

More on this opinion poll, and what its results signify, can be found here.

A large majority of Palestinians support the terrorist attack that took place near Huwara in which two Israeli brothers Hallel and Yagel Yaniv were killed last month, according to an opinion poll published by the Palestinian Center for Research on Policy and Investigations (PCPSR).

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The survey also shows that support for the two-state solution among Palestinians has declined, while demand for the resignation of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has increased. Furthermore, many Palestinians support a return to armed confrontation with Israel and a third Intifada.

Support for the “two-state solution” has declined because most Palestinians don’t see it as the best way to ultimately defeat Israel. But they can conceive of defeating Israel through the “one-state solution.” What, in practice, does that mean? For some Palestinians, it means initially sharing a single state with Israeli Jews, but then demographically overwhelming those Jews, both through the higher fertility rates of the Palestinians, and also through the millions of Palestinians who would be persuaded to exercise their “Right of Return” and flood into the binational state where, within a few years, the Palestinians would overwhelm the country’s Jews demographically.

But most of the Palestinians have another “single state” in mind: they don’t hide their desire to create a Palestinian state “from the river to the sea.” Some intend to gain this directly by wearing the Jews down through constant terrorism and intermittent war, perhaps with the aid of outside powers, such as Iran. That is certainly the hope of Hamas and PIJ. The “moderates” associated with the Palestinian Authority share the same ultimate goal – the disappearance of Israel – as Hamas and the PIJ, but they want to accomplish that goal in stages. First, through diplomatic pressure of all kinds, including resolutions at the U.N., and I.C.C. judgements, the P.A. hopes to first weaken Israel, forcing it to agree to be squeezed back within the scarcely defensible 1949 armistice lines. That would mean stripping Israel of the Golan Heights that help the IDF defend the state against a possible invasion from the north, and removing the Jordan Valley from Israel’s possession, too, that controls the invasion route into Israel from the east. Israel would again be left with a nine-mile-wide waist from Qalqilya to the sea. That is the “two-state solution” that the P.A. favors, seen as the first stage before the Palestinians and other Arab allies — with Israel now so reduced in size — go in for the kill to defeat the Jewish state.

Of the 1,200 Palestinians polled, 71% said they supported the killing of the Yaniv brothers in Huwara, while 21 percent expressed opposition to this and other attacks.

Only one-fifth of Palestinians oppose terrorist murders of Israelis. Not a hopeful sign. And it’s something that Israeli political leaders have to keep firmly in mind when the Bidenites, and the EU, and the UN, insist that they stop building settlements on “occupied Palestinian land.” The Palestinians do not want peace with Israel. They differ on tactics and timing, but not on the ultimate goal. Nearly three-fourths of Palestinians want the Jewish state to disappear. The only way for Israel to keep the peace is through deterrence. Israel must remain overwhelmingly stronger than its enemies, and that means it has to retain, at a minimum, the Golan Heights (which it annexed in 1981), and military control of the entire West Bank, especially the Jordan Valley. Civilian settlements in the West Bank (remember, almost all of those civilians have served in Israel’s military and many are still reservists) — help strengthen Israel’s military hold on Judea and Samaria.