Hussain Abdul-Hussain, a top researched at the FDD, argues that the conflict will continue until Palestinians accept a Jewish homeland alongside their own.
Responding to a Jordanian who insisted that Israel “must and will end soon,” Hussain Abdul-Hussain laid out several basic facts that challenge the idea that Israel is a temporary or illegitimate state.
Roughly half of Israel’s Jewish population descends from families who lived in Arab countries before being driven out or forced to flee. These Jews did not arrive from Europe as foreign colonists; they were part of the Middle East and found refuge in Israel after losing their homes across the Arab world.
Palestine, Abdul-Hussain noted, was historically a geographic term rather than an independent sovereign state. The British attempted to create a political framework for both Arabs and Jews, but the binational experiment collapsed and partition also failed when Arab leaders rejected it.