In parallel with neutralizing Iran, the most critical task at hand is to dismantle the Palestinian narrative that has taken root in our land and poisons global opinion against us. The fabricated identity it promotes is designed to erase our national identity, serving as a step toward our physical destruction.
Iran's hermetic front surrounding Israel posed an undeniable existential threat. Yahya Sinwar's misstep in attacking Israel without coordination with other fronts allowed us to brilliantly dismantle the Shiite axis, a mortal danger, even without addressing the nuclear issue. The internal enemy in Judea, Samaria, and among some Arab citizens of Israel acted as a force multiplier for the surrounding fronts. A coordinated attack by all these fronts, alongside an eruption of tens of thousands of armed individuals from within, presented a challenge that it's uncertain the drowsy and negligent IDF and Shin Bet on the eve of war could have adequately handled.
We must recall that this internal enemy is a creation of the State of Israel itself. The tens of thousands of militants referred to as the "Palestinian Police," trained as a fully-fledged military force, were armed by Israel as part of the Oslo Accords. This dubious proxy, meant to fight terror "without interference from the Supreme Court or B'Tselem," has instead become a threat to us. Add to this the "battalions" of Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants. The establishment of the Gaza front, which has exacted a terrible price from us, began as a consequence of the Oslo concessions.
The damage caused by the Palestinian Authority (PA) far exceeds the sum of its armed operatives. From its inception, the PA has poisoned minds. Children from kindergarten age are raised in a jihadist education system where Israel is erased from maps. It preaches the obligation to "liberate" Jaffa, Haifa, and Ashkelon. Arithmetic lessons involve counting murdered Israelis, and the ultimate aspiration is to die as a shahid (martyr). When Hamas seized control of Gaza, it didn't alter the PA's inciting curriculum. The killers who burned children alive in the south of Israel were educated using the PA's textbooks.
Today, the PLO flag symbolizes nationalistic antisemitism, the form it has taken in our era.
Graduates of this education system—terrorists from Gaza and Judea and Samaria—receive hefty salaries from the PA, including Hamas's Nukhba fighters and their families. Israeli Arab terrorists receive even higher sums, part of the PA's strategy to incite Israel's Arab citizens against the state. This includes fostering extremist leaders, broadcasting incitement, and encouraging studies at hate-filled universities in the West Bank, attended by some 15,000 Israeli Arabs.
The PA is also responsible for much of the international boycotts and campaigns against Israel. It is a hostile entity undermining Israel worldwide, educating and rewarding terrorists, making it a fundamental source of terror.
The greatest harm caused by the Palestinian narrative is the invention of an imaginary people with "justice" on their side and a land called "Palestine." These were fabricated before 1967 as a tool to claim Israel's pre-1967 territory and invert the moral scale: replacing tiny David-like Israel against the Arab Goliath with a fabricated Palestinian David against an alleged Israeli Goliath.
This narrative has been embraced by Israel's enemies worldwide. "Palestine" has become a code word for Israel's destruction, and the PLO flag has replaced the swastika as the symbol of racial antisemitism, which in the 19th century succeeded religious antisemitism symbolized by the cross. Today, the PLO flag symbolizes nationalistic antisemitism, the form it has taken in our era. This flag unites a variety of opponents, all sharing a common antisemitic denominator: extreme left and right, Sunnis and Shiites, progressives and fascists. The dregs of the world rally under the PLO flag, joined by self-hating Jews.
In tandem with neutralizing Iran, the most pressing mission is to eradicate the Palestinian narrative entrenched in our land and poisoning global opinion against us. This fabricated identity aims to erase our national identity as a step toward our physical destruction.
The notion of establishing another nation-state, following the collapse of artificial Arab states in the Middle East, suffered a major blow this week. In 2015, Mahmoud Abbas stated that Pan-Arabism, symbolized by a united Syria, is the backbone of the Palestinian issue, and preserving it requires maintaining Syria's unity. If Syria collapses, the Palestinian issue will follow suit. So let's move forward.
