Why Not Bring Peace to the Middle East by Making Israel into a Binational Democratic State of Jews and Arabs?

    This "brilliant" idea has been suggested by Western intellectuals as well as members of the Arab world. They forget that the idea of a Jewish National Homeland in which Jews and Arabs would live peacefully together has already been tried.  Even though this homeland was under the supervision of the British during the British Mandate, Arabs attacked the Jews. The British cut 3/4 of Palestine from the area specified by the League of Nations for a Jewish National Home and gave it to Emir Abdullah on April 11, 1921, as payment for his cooperation with the British in World War I. Creating this separate Palestinian state did not result in peace in the Middle East. In fact afterwards, the anti-Jewish violence was so bad that the British decided that the only way to bring peace to the region was to cut out another piece of the remaining 1/4 of Palestine add that to Jordan and create a Jewish State in what was left. According to the Guardian (July 8, 1937) the Royal Commission wrote a unanimous report in favor of this partition plan. In that report the need to partition the remaining 25% of Palestine into two states was given as follows:

The Commission declares its inability if the mandate is maintained to make recommendations for the "removal" and "prevention of the recurrence" of the grievances of Arabs and Jews - as instructed by its terms of reference. It suggests certain "palliatives" but insists that only the "surgical operation" of partition "offers a chance of ultimate peace. No other plan does."

    Thus was born the idea of separation.  That idea failed as well.  After the creation of the separate country of Israel the Arab World united in an attempt to destroy her in 1948.  They failed and it was the superior strength of the tiny State of Israel that has bought whatever peace that has existed to the Middle East. 

    What about an Arab ruled state with Jewish inhabitants?  Canon Antoine Morison from Bar-le-Duc in France, during his travels in the Levant in 1698 wrote about how desolate such a state was and commented that the Jews in Jerusalem are "there in misery and under the most cruel and shameful slavery," and although a large community, they lived under regular extortion.   (Eurabia, p50 Bat Ye'or)