European leaders keep recycling the failed “two-state solution” slogan to look moral and relevant, but in reality, it’s political theater with a 0% success rate.
Dr. Avi Perry — former Northwestern professor, Bell Labs researcher, U.S. delegate to the UN’s ITU, and columnist for The Jerusalem Post and Israel National News — takes aim at Europe’s obsession with a Palestinian state. In his essay, he argues that the idea is less about peace and more about European self-delusion, hypocrisy, and posturing.
Why Europe Clings to the Fantasy
- Virtue signaling: Supporting “Palestine” is a cheap selfie filter for moral grandstanding.
- Domestic politics: With large Muslim populations, European leaders win easy votes.
- Global relevance: Marginalized on the world stage, Europe pretends to matter by waving the Palestinian flag.
- Distraction: A convenient smokescreen from immigration crises, terrorism, and stagnant economies.
Why the Plan Collapses on Contact with Reality
- Leadership vacuum: Hamas seeks Israel’s destruction; the PA is corrupt and despised; unity is impossible.
- Security nightmare: Every Israeli withdrawal—Lebanon 2000, Gaza 2005—led to terror and rockets. A Palestinian state in Judea & Samaria would put Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion Airport under fire.
- Borders and settlers: Uprooting 500,000 Israelis or leaving them under hostile rule would be explosive.
- Jerusalem: Not a birthday cake to be sliced. Any division would ignite the region.
- “Right of Return”: Millions of descendants demanding return equals demographic suicide for Israel.
As Perry quips: “The devil isn’t in the details. The devil is the details.”
Europe’s Hypocrisy Laid Bare
- Would France tolerate rockets from Normandy? Would Spain accept daily terror from Catalonia? Never. Yet they demand Israel live with exactly that.
- Europe can’t integrate a few million migrants without riots. But they lecture Israel about living peacefully with armed jihadists next door.
- UN peacekeepers? Perry calls it “stand-up comedy,” given their catastrophic record from Srebrenica to Lebanon.
Mockery as a Weapon
- Europe’s peace plan is the Windows Vista of foreign policy: crashes every time, but they keep reinstalling it.
- Their strategy has a 0% success rate over 75 years, yet they keep selling it as “new and improved.”
- They are “children with toy train sets,” mistaking playacting for statesmanship while lives are on the line.
Conclusion: The IKEA Peace Plan
Europe’s “Palestinian state” project is like IKEA furniture without screws: looks nice in the catalog, collapses instantly in real life. The Middle East has already moved on with the Abraham Accords, proving peace with Arab states does not depend on Palestinian rejectionism.
History, Perry argues, will remember Europe not as a savior, but as clowns peddling an IKEA peace plan that never came out of the box.
