Will Palestinian recognition bring peace to Israel?
The United States Holocaust Museum describes appeasement as both a practical and a moral failure. The recent recognition of a Palestinian state by many countries across the world brings with it no guarantee of a change in attitude towards Israel and of long-term peace in the region. After Hitler’s threat of war against Czechoslovakia in 1938, Britain, France and Italy’s Mussolini signed the Munich Agreement ceding Sudetenland in the north of Czechoslovakia to Germany to avoid a war. Churchill referred to the agreement as a “total and unmitigated defeat” for Britain and the rest of Europe, and stated that such appeasement had “deeply compromised, and perhaps fatally endangered, the safety and even the independence of Great Britain and France.” Appeasement by weak leadership would prove to be a failure.
Over the past seven decades, almost one million Jews have been driven out of Middle Eastern countries and finding sanctuary in Israel, a country fighting for land that historically belongs to them; an area six times smaller than England. Leaders are wilfully ignoring the imams and warmongers who preach that they don’t just want Palestine; they want the destruction of all infidels across the globe. In his address to the United Nations (UN), Australia’s PM, Anthony Albanese, avoided any mention of the existing terrorist-affiliated Palestinians who will continue to fester. It seems a stretch to accept that decades of Jew-hatred, in a breeding ground for terrorism taught from kindergarten-age upwards, will dissipate without issue.
Among the thousands who marched in Sydney in August, was a placard of Iran’s Ayatollah and various Al Qaeda and ISIS symbols and flags, all under the guise of a ‘free Palestine’. The faces of many demonstrators were behind masks, which should be a red flag in itself. Much about the pro-Palestinian protests makes little sense, with attendees citing Israel as genocidal, falsely displaying an image of a starving child in Yemen, and failing to understand the meanings behind the jihadist slogans they chant. This isn’t surprising, as social media videos are abuzz with influencers who have limited background knowledge of the history and hostilities in the region, and Israel-leaning articles are almost always at the back of search results. Most wouldn’t have heard about the victims of Hamas and Hezbollah, firsthand witnesses, who are suing the UN agency UNRWA for employing staff directly involved in the October 7 attack.
Demonstrators don’t want to be reminded of October 7, or that the bodies of the two strangled Bibas children, being returned to Israel, were followed by a cheering Palestinian crowd of men, women and children. The pro-Pal groups have conveniently forgotten about the girls at the Nova festival, billed as “a journey of unity and love”, violently gang raped, their bodies mutilated, with some only recognisable by DNA. The usual shouty feminists are noticeably silent about these abuses, never mind that women in Gaza don’t have the same rights as men and that homosexuality is a criminal offence.
Very few have any knowledge about the region where Palestine sits today, and where Judaism was founded. In antiquity, the Romans conquered and expelled the Israelis, derisively renaming the region of Judea as ‘Syria Palaestina’, loosely translated as rival or hostile, to punish the Jews and obliterate the link to their holy land. After the fall of the Ottoman Empire and WWI, came the ‘Balfour Declaration’ by British administrators to create a "national home for the Jewish people" in 'Palestine'. Persecuted Jews from Eastern Europe fled there for safely, as did many Western Jews during the WWII Holocaust.
Arab-Jew hostilities in the region have been occurring for over a century, resulting in deaths and expulsions on both sides. In an attempt to end the hostilities, the United Nations partitioned the region into two: Palestine and Israel. In 1948, Arab forces from Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon invaded Israel, which resulted in Israel gaining more land. The same countries again fought in 1967, and Jews once more gained control of Jerusalem after 2000 years. Since then, Palestinian leaders have refused a two-state solution with Israel multiple times. The breakdown of the current situation is simple. Israel fights for the right to exist, while certain belligerent nations fight to wipe Jews off the map. After years of pogroms, expulsions, and racial discrimination, the worst of it during the Holocaust, it is no surprise that Israeli defence is now one of the best in the world, and their retaliation swift.
Credulous Westerners have soaked up a false narrative, and it is easy to see how the situation has been fuelled. Should we emerge from this mess unscathed, future studies of propaganda should examine why journalists, social media, and members of academia misled the more vulnerable, whether for financial or ideological gain, or whether Marxist-styled chaos was intentionally encouraged by foreign-paid influencers and politicians or those with a particular axe to grind. Regardless of progressive educational changes, to suit a changing multicultural demographic, the history of the Holocaust should be preserved and form part of the curriculum to avoid a 1930s Berlin mindset that certain people still carry. Hamas and Hezbollah marketing departments have been in overdrive since well before the attack, rebranding Zionism as a dictatorship. A haven for Jews is Zionism in a nutshell, and with the rise in anti-Jewish hate crimes, they need it.
In 1933, a boycott began in Germany, discouraging the public from shopping at Jewish businesses. Jewish stores were damaged en masse during ‘Kristallnacht’ in 1938. Recently, a sign in Feldberg, Germany, read, “Jews are banned from entering here!!!!”, and a pizza restaurant in Furth displayed a sign in their window declaring that Jews aren't welcome. On Monday, after Italy decided it wouldn’t ‘bend the knee’ to terror and recognise a Palestinian state until there was peace in the region, a riot broke out between police and protesters, destroying property in Milan. Unprovoked attacks on Jews and fire bombings have been occurring more frequently in Australia and around the world, one of the worst being the death of an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor in Colorado from an Egyptian national after he threw a Molotov cocktail and screamed “free Palestine”.
One would imagine that anyone outspoken about colonialism and indigenous heritage would be supportive. Apparently not when it’s Israel. The motivation for the protests hinges on the idea that Israelis are aggressors and advocate for apartheid. Jews make up 74% of the country, Muslims 18%, and the rest are Christian and Druze. If serial protesters want actual apartheid, they need to look elsewhere. There were no protests for the 2014 expulsion of 400,000 Yezidis driven from Iraq, where 6000 women and children enslaved, and 5000 men and older women executed; there have been none for the Nigerian Christians, 7000 of which were killed this year alone from Islamic terror groups. Recognising a Palestinian statehood is a backward step for those refugees seeking a safe and better life in the West, and a consequence of the decision may be the reluctance by genuine refugees to apply for residency. In the meantime, others continue to suffer from western ignorance: Iranian women fight for their rights under a barbaric, regressive regime, and whose ancestral land was once a culture of festivals, the arts, and tourism.
Despite the importance of diplomacy and of not downplaying the humanitarian situation in Gaza, a handful of courageous countries, such as New Zealand, will not recognize Palestinian statehood until Hamas is expunged, and the hostages are freed. The Maori haka in support of Israel is worth watching. However, most countries voted in favour, and this feels a lot like capitulation. So, has terror won this round? According to Ghazi Hamad, a senior Hamas leader in Doha, it did, pouring praise onto the UK’s Keir Starmer and stating that the recognition is “one of the fruits of October 7”. With continued praise of Hamas by jihadis and useful infidels in the West, peace for Israel seems unattainable, and appeasement by the members of the United Nations will more than likely fail, as it did in WWII. In the meantime, we can gauge the strength of our leadership by the state of our own backyards: Australia’s current world terror threat level is at “Probable”; the UK’s terror threat is “Substantial”, and France’s terror level is at its highest. Our leaders have been disregarding genuine assimilation concerns for years.
Gemma Liviero
27 September 2025
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