September 30, 2025
FACT: Israel and the international community have made multiple offers to Palestinian leaders for a Palestinian state that were rejected by the Palestinians.
- In 1948, the UN created a Partition Plan that would have divided the British Mandate of Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. Israel accepted the plan and the Arabs rejected it, with five Arab countries immediately attacking the newly formed State of Israel. Against all odds, Israel won that war. Much of the land that would have constituted a Palestinian state was taken over by Egypt (Gaza) and Jordan (the West Bank). They could have declared a Palestinian state in those areas, but they chose not to.
- In the 1990s, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) agreed to the Oslo Accords – Oslo I was signed in 1993 at the White House and Oslo II was signed in 1995 in Egypt. It included, among other things, a mutual recognition between Israel and the PLO, an agreement to work toward a peaceful resolution of the conflict, and a step-by-step process toward Palestinian self-government. Oslo collapsed due to the escalation of terrorism and violence by Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists, including the 2000-2005 Second Intifada, which killed more than 1,000 Israelis in suicide bombings and shootings in public facilities such as bus stops, cafés, and clubs.
- In 2000, at U.S.-brokered talks at Camp David between Chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Barak offered Arafat a Palestinian state – through a land-for-peace formula and other concessions – and Arafat rejected it.
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- Former President Bill Clinton said: “I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down that would have given them all of Gaza, 96 to 97 percent of the West Bank, compensating land in Israel, you name it.”
- In 2008, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas a Palestinian state – another land-for-peace formula – and Abbas rejected it.
- In 2014, during the last round of direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which took place under Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government, the Palestinians ended the talks and pursued unilateral recognition at the UN instead.
FACT: Hamas is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.
- Its founding charter – which still guides the organization today – calls for the elimination of the State of Israel through violence, rejects any peaceful compromise or negotiation, and seeks the elimination of Jews from their ancestral homeland.
- Terrorism is never a justified means to achieve political ends.
FACT: Hamas targets Israeli civilians in addition to the Israeli military.
- Hamas indiscriminately fires rockets at civilians in Israel.
- It killed more than 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023, and took more than 250 hostages, including women and children, and is responsible for horrific sexual violence.
- The founding charter of Hamas references killing Jews.
FACT: The phrase “Globalize the Intifada” is a call for terrorism against Jews worldwide.
- The historic meaning of “intifada” is explicitly violent, and refers to the First Intifada (1987-1993) where Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists killed more than 100 Israelis in stabbings, shootings, and other violent means.
- It also refers to the Second Intifada (2000-2005), where Hamas and other Palestinian terrorists killed more than 1,000 Israelis in suicide bombings and shootings in public facilities.
- When one calls for this to be “globalized,” it urges intifada-style violence to Jews in the diaspora.
FACT: Hamas has repeatedly refused to agree to a ceasefire and hostage deal, which would provide a surge of humanitarian assistance.
- Hamas continues to operate in civilian infrastructure and interferes with the delivery of aid to innocent civilians, including looting aid trucks to finance its continued terrorism against Israel.
- Israel has allowed nearly 2 million tons of aid since the beginning of the war, an unprecedented volume of humanitarian assistance in the middle of active conflict, and it has been coordinating with the international community along land, sea, and air routes.
- In May 2025, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) was launched to securely deliver aid via designated distribution points, with Israel’s backing. Thus far, GHF has provided more than 138 million meals to people in need.
- The UN and international aid organizations have struggled to safely and securely deliver their aid to people in need with recent reports indicating 9 out of every 10 UN trucks have been looted before reaching their destination.
- Additionally, the UN and international aid organizations have refused to engage or partner with GHF to get aid into Gaza.
FACT: Israel unilaterally withdrew all soldiers and civilians from Gaza in 2005.
- The so-called “Gaza Disengagement” dismantled 21 Jewish settlements in Gaza and removed 8,000 Israeli civilians from Gaza.
- Israel then gave full control of Gaza to the Palestinian Authority.
- In 2007, Hamas violently overthrew the Palestinian Authority in Gaza and since then Gaza has been used as a base of terrorism to threaten Israel.
FACT: The term “apartheid” refers to South Africa’s race-based legal segregation, which does not exist in Israel.
- There are approximately 2 million Arab citizens of Israel – representing 20% of the population – and they have full voting rights, are represented in Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, and some have even served as ministers in previous Israeli governments.
FACT: The Jewish people are indigenous to the land of Israel and have maintained an unbroken presence for more than 3,000 years, including 1,000 years of sovereignty there.
- No other indigenous group has ever established sovereignty there. Modern Israel is not a foreign implant imposed by Europe or the U.S. or a colonial power — it is the political reconstitution of an ancient people in their ancestral homeland.
- Colonialism involves a foreign power sending civilians to exploit land and resources for a separate country.
- Jews had no empire, no colonial sponsor, and no “mother country.” Instead, they were the descendants of the indigenous people of the land, seeking to rebuild their homeland and secure safety after centuries of discrimination, pogroms, and genocide.
- They returned from across the world — Russia, Poland, Yemen, Iraq, Morocco, and beyond — often fleeing persecution. They bought land legally from Ottoman and Arab landowners. Unlike colonial settlers, Jews in Israel have no other country to “go back to.”
- For them, Israel is the only homeland — historically, spiritually, and practically.