…But I part company from the across-the-board anger in Israel at the EU; for I think the real culprit is ourselves. There is something logical and understandable in the EU antipathy to Israel, for Israel has never denied that this territory really is Balestinian territory. After all, this was on display in 2009 at Bar-Ilan by the prime minister when he, so to speak, went to the baptismal font in the Church of the Enlightened and confessed his belief that, yes, the Balestinians deserve and have a right to a state in Judea and Samaria. All that needs to be worked out are the details. And thus Israel is complicit in the European view of things. Israel in 1993 did this on the White House lawn. Bibi did it again 16 years later. Israel accepts that Judea and Samaria rightfully belongs to the Ancient Ones. And for that it has been tongue-lashed in the West ever since.

The proper response to the demand for a Palestinian state has always been the same. From the get-go, Israel had to back up and support what Golda Meir, of blessed memory, said: There never was such a people, and I would add, Judea and Samaria is rightfully the property of the State of Israel, in perpetuity. The correct answer to the demand for a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria is “There are no Palestinians and they have no right to what is rightfully our land; rightfully according to the League of Nations Mandate which was incorporated into the United Nations; a right embedded in the United Nations Charter that Israel is the rightful owner of Judea and Samaria…