Warning from Joel 3: Why the two-state solution will never bring peace

I read in ALL ISRAEL NEWS recently that the two-state solution is about to come out of a coma and is off life support.

UK, Canada and Australia launched a new “peacebuilding” fund to support a two-state solution.

It’s like when you watch TV and ask yourself, “Is that actor alive or dead?”

Is the two-state solution alive or dead?

The two-state solution is a poke in the eye to God.

It is nations rebelling and thinking they know best.

It is doomed to fail and will never work. Not because of pessimism or lack of effort, but because it is an affront to God Himself.

You cannot go against God and expect to be blessed.

A two-state solution was proposed in 1948. Palestinians were offered a state, and yet they rejected it.

Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered a Palestinian state on roughly 90% to 97% of the West Bank and 100% of the Gaza Strip.

Yasser Arafat rejected it.

Israel even removed its own citizens from Gaza, a painful time for those who had built homes and communities there. They were forcibly removed so that peace could be achieved.

The Palestinians got 100% of Gaza, and instead of building a paradise for their own people and a tourist hotspot, they built a terrorist network with tunnels and rockets, and ultimately committed the October 7 terror attacks, the worst in Israel’s history.

Hamas wants to wipe Israel off the map. It is not a very good start for discussing a two-state solution.

It seems that Israel has been happy to give away its God-given inheritance, just like Esau giving away his birthright. Even handing it over on a plate has never been enough. Hamas and its charter want it all and will use terror to get it.

Even Fatah, Mahmoud Abbas’s party, has an armed wing. It believes in the two-state solution but rejected Barak’s offer of peace.

Perhaps Golda Meir put it well: “You cannot negotiate peace with someone who has come to kill you.”

Israel has a historical right to the land, and yet the world would rather get rid of Israel. But Israel has nowhere to go.

Arab nations expelled the Jews. Spain expelled the Jews. France, Portugal and even Britain, in the 13th century, expelled the Jews. And it is looking increasingly uncomfortable for the Jews in Britain today.

It seems that Jews are not allowed anywhere, and when they go home, they are not even allowed to be there.

The Bible calls the Jews the apple of God’s eye. To me, that tells me that God thinks highly of the Jews. If God thinks highly of the Jews, then I think we should too.

That does not mean we should agree politically. That is never going to happen. But if God loves the Jewish people, then we should too. We should love what God loves and hate what God hates.

And yet the nations of the world have got it so wrong: Split the land, take away Israel’s inheritance, and then we will have peace.

It will not bring peace, and it will put the nations at war with God.

Joel 3:2 is a warning to the nations:

I will also gather all nations,
And bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat;
And I will enter into judgment with them there
On account of My people, My heritage Israel,
Whom they have scattered among the nations;
They have also divided up My land.

Will the nations heed the warning, or will they plough on into destruction?