No matter the pressure, Israel cannot and will not renounce its God-given historical right to the Land from the Jordan to the sea

“Man proposes, God disposes,” as the saying goes. The mounting pressure on Israel to accept a two-state solution reflects this enduring historical tension between human plans and God’s purposes. Up today, more than 70% of United Nations member states have recognized “Palestine” as a sovereign state alongside Israel. This growing global consensus, however, is not forming in a vacuum.

The world is rightly shaken by the horrifying images of suffering in Gaza. The grief is real, the loss is devastating. Innocent civilians—many of them children—have paid the price for Hamas’ ruthless decisions. Every life lost, whether Israeli or Palestinian, is a human tragedy. And the suffering of Gaza’s population should stir compassion, not cynicism. Yet tragically, this plays directly into Hamas’ cruel strategy: to deepen the humanitarian crisis as much as possible and manipulate public opinion through fake news, half-truths, and staged images. And the strategy works: the modern digital consumer, overwhelmed by fragmented content and lacking historical or biblical clarity, reacts emotionally, forming strong but superficial opinions.

As emotions run high and facts get blurred, more Western leaders are now considering recognizing “Palestine,” believing it a step toward peace. But this may only reinforce the very crisis they seek to end.

There is growing consensus—even within Israel—that the status quo cannot last. Change is inevitable. But what kind of change can truly bless both peoples?

Only God’s redemptive plan can offer such lasting peace—one that allows Jews and Arabs to flourish without dividing the Land He entrusted to Israel.

Supporters of the two-state solution may act with sincere intentions—but sincerity alone is no substitute for divine wisdom. That’s why we must seek not just political solutions, but alignment with God's revealed purposes.

Because Israel is not merely a modern state—it is the vessel of a much older story, a people chosen to carry God’s covenant through history.

Chosen people

As with all living beings, so too with nations and cultures: they are born, and sooner or later, they vanish. But God, in His sovereign will, chose Israel not to disappear like the rest, but to live through the storms of history, to remember what happened, and to bear witness to God’s eternal law and redemptive plan.

Over the course of more than three millennia, mankind has devised countless plans to annihilate the Jewish people. From Haman in ancient Persia to the Roman expulsions, from the inquisitions and pogroms to Hitler and the Nazis—again and again, the end of the Jewish nation was plotted. Yet God had a different plan.

“If you don’t know where you came from, you won’t know where you’re going,” says another proverb. The chosen people remember. And as with individuals who gain wisdom through life experience, so too with nations: the more they’ve endured, the wiser they can become. Israel has survived more attempts at destruction than any other people—because it has always survived. And so in God’s provision, Israel possesses more accumulated life experience than any other nation, preserved in a body of writings spanning millennia and studied daily by many with discipline and reverence.

This thousands of years of experience is a form of advantage. For some, it breeds resentment. The ancient heritage of Israel, alongside its miraculous survival, is a stumbling block to those who do not believe in the God of the Bible. It becomes fuel for the satanic fire of antisemitism.

Yet, for a believer Israel’s survival through the centuries is not just an accident of history—it is the unfolding of a divine strategy.

God’s plan

In contrast to human plans, God’s ways may unfold differently. As we rightly say: “Man proposes, God disposes,” one might also say: “God plans, and man carries it out”. Throughout history, whenever God determined to move His redemptive plan forward, He appointed a leader—flawed, like all men, yet chosen—to guide His people according this plan. These leaders, from Moses up until to Theodor Herzl, and David Ben-Gurion: none of them was perfect. Their leadership was marked by mistakes, and both they and their people paid the price—sometimes dearly—in their personal lives and also on a national level. So is too today: Israel’s leadership is not flawless, and the consequences of past and present errors are real and painful.

The events of October 7 and the ongoing war since can be interpreted as divine judgment—on both peoples. Though not in equal measure, of course.

However, God’s redemptive plan moves forward nonetheless—unstoppable, often in spite of limited human understanding and failure. He alone guarantees its fulfillment.

“He remembers His covenant forever,
The word which He commanded, for a thousand generations,
The covenant which He made with Abraham,
And His oath to Isaac,
And confirmed it to Jacob for a statute,
To Israel as an everlasting covenant,
Saying, ‘To you I will give the land of Canaan
As the allotment of your inheritance.’” (Psalm 105:8–11)

Eastern borders of the Promised Land
Israel remembers not only the divine covenant recorded in the Bible—a covenant that granted it the land of Canaan, but also the historical events they went through living in the Land. That memory is preserved in Israel’s literature, prayers, and continuous historical consciousness. The Jewish people also know well that the eastern border of Canaan, their God-given inheritance is the Jordan River: the Jordan is mentioned nearly thirty times in the Bible as the eastern border of the Land promised to Isaac and Jacob.

For those who act against the Jewish people, and do not believe the Bible is the word of God, this means nothing. They attribute Israel’s survival through two thousand years of exile, and its return to its ancestral homeland, merely to Jewish stubbornness—a refusal to disappear from the stage of history. They consider the alignment of Israel’s modern reestablishment with biblical prophecy to be nothing more than coincidence. And of course, they do not believe a God that says to Israel: “I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you” (Genesis 12:3). But this truth has never failed. Nor will it now.

Judea and Samaria for peace?

At first glance, the idea of two states for two nations may indeed seem tempting—a promising, ideal solution to a painful and long-standing conflict. Strong arguments have long been made in its favor. Before October 7, Israeli society itself was almost evenly divided on the question. Among modern Israeli leaders, some firmly believed this was the price of peace. Three prime ministers—Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, and Ehud Olmert—sincerely believed in and fought to implement a peace based on this human calculation. Their efforts often began with hope and broad international support. Yet the plans never came to fruition. A political assassination. A mysterious health collapse. A surprise intifada. October 7.
Something always intervenes. But perhaps it’s not chance that intervenes—but the unseen hand of God.

So let the nations beware: the God of Israel does not forget His promises. And Israel cannot forget them either. God won’t let it happen.

Even if every country in the world were to recognize Palestinian statehood, one thing remains certain: after the 2005 unilateral Israeli withdrawal from Gaza—followed by Hamas' takeover—and especially after October 7, there is no longer any public trust in Israel in the two-state solution.

Attempts may still be made to force the Jewish state into relinquishing its fundamental security interests—but one has reason to believe they will fail, especially when trusting that God has a better plan.

“For the Lord of hosts has purposed, and who will annul it?
His hand is stretched out, and who will turn it back?” (Isaiah 14:27)