The vote board after the New York Declaration vote on September 12th, 2025
The vote board after the New York Declaration vote on September 12th, 2025

UN’s New York Declaration: Two Arab States, Zero Israel

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The Fraud of Two States: How “Right of Return” Exposes the Plan to Erase Israel. The Chants That Tell the Truth.

Attend any so-called “pro-Palestinian” rally in the West today, and you will not hear calls for coexistence or compromise. Instead, the slogans are unambiguous: “We don’t want two states, we want ’48.” Or, in New York City, stripped of rhyme but filled with venom: “We don’t want no two states, we want all of it.”

This is not rhetoric about borders. It is not protest about settlements. It is the confession, in plain language, that “pro-Palestinian” activism means being against the existence of the State of Israel. To champion their cause is to champion the erasure of Jewish sovereignty in its entirety.

The Cynical Architects: France, England, and Saudi Arabia

Yet even as this agenda is shouted in the streets, three nations, France, England, and Saudi Arabia, are driving the diplomatic machinery to make it reality. Their sponsorship of the UN’s “New York Declaration on Palestine” is not an innocent step toward peace. It is a calculated maneuver to recognize a Palestinian state without negotiations, without security guarantees, without consulting Israelis, and while whitewashing the Palestinian Authority’s ongoing “pay-to-slay” policy, an incentive system that literally rewards the murder of Jews.

France and Britain are not novices here. From Sykes-Picot to the betrayals of the Mandate era, their fingerprints are on every map that turned Jewish survival into an afterthought. Saudi Arabia, for its part, has for eight decades refused to absorb even a fraction of the refugees it helped create. These nations know exactly what they are doing: pushing not for two states, but for two Arab states, at the expense of the single Jewish one.

The “Right of Return”: A Weapon, Not a Principle

At the heart of this declaration lies the poison pill: the “right of return.” Cloaked in humanitarian language, it is nothing less than a demand for the demographic liquidation of Israel.

The UN resolution’s Article 39 “reiterates” this supposed right, despite the fact that no such right exists in international law and even Resolution 194 speaks only of negotiation, not automatic resettlement. By inserting this clause, all the preceding words about Hamas, peace, or even Palestinian governance become irrelevant. The entire text collapses into its core purpose: ensuring that millions of descendants of 1948 refugees can flood into Israel proper, transforming it overnight into yet another Arab state.

Why “Return” Means War, Not Peace

Palestinian leaders are not coy. They call the “right of return” sacred and non-negotiable. It is not a bargaining chip, it is the essence of their political theology.

For decades, Western diplomats indulged the fantasy that this demand could be moderated, traded, or symbolically addressed. That illusion died with Oslo, with Camp David, with Gaza disengagement. Again and again, Palestinians have chosen the myth of “return” over the reality of statehood. It is the clearest proof that their war is not for borders but for the erasure of Zionism.

To take them at their word is not cynicism, it is clarity. The Arab-Palestinian movement does not seek peace with a Jewish state beside them; it seeks peace without a Jewish state at all.

The Historical Continuity of Rejectionism

The British Foreign Secretary in February 1947 described the conflict with perfect candor: it was then, as now, between Jews who want a state and Arabs who want Jews not to have one. Nothing has changed in 77 years. Not wars, not peace plans, not withdrawals, not billions in foreign aid.

And so, the only path to real peace is not through indulging fantasies of return but through Palestinians accepting a Jewish state as a permanent neighbor, not a temporary target. Until then, the conflict is not over land, it is over existence.

Why France, England, and Saudi Arabia Tip Their Hand

By re-inserting “return” into their declaration, these powers are not naïve mediators. They are executioners in diplomatic robes. They are saying openly what Hamas shouts from the rooftops: that Israel has no right to exist as a Jewish state.

France and Britain, humiliated by their colonial mismanagement; Saudi Arabia, humiliated by every failed Arab war against the Jews, they all see in this declaration a chance to rewrite history, to succeed by paperwork where armies failed on the battlefield. A 23rd Arab state, a 57th Muslim state, that is acceptable. One Jewish state, even a tiny one, is intolerable.

The Unasked Question

And so, the question must be asked: What is it that so terrifies the world about the Jews?

Is it that we survived the Holocaust to build a sovereign state? That we turned a desert into a technological powerhouse? That we defended ourselves against impossible odds, defeating armies ten times our size? Or is it the more unsettling fact, that the existence of Israel shatters the world’s favorite myth, that Jews must remain perpetual guests, dependent on the “mercy” of others?

The “right of return” is not a policy. It is the latest expression of a very old obsession: the fear of Jewish independence, the rage at Jewish power, the unwillingness to let Jews decide their own destiny.

This isn’t about two states. It never was. It’s about a lone Jewish state versus none.

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