Seth Leibsohn: We Should Not Reward Hamas With Statehood

Thursday, September 25, 2025

The UN recognizing a State of Palestine is in vogue. While the popularity of such a cause is increasing, so, too, is its danger, ignorance and capitulation to ahistoricism.

The Palestinian effort, Palestinianism, is a cause and ideology of hate and violence, no matter how dressed up its propagandists try to color it.  The official emblem of the Fatah party which governs in the West Bank is two rifles and a grenade over the entire map of Israel. As for Hamas, in Gaza, its entire covenant is a screed against Jews. And remember: the PLO was founded years before Israel ever had control of the West Bank or Gaza. It’s not about statehood for a 22nd Arab state but eliminating the State of Israel. It always has been.

The Palestinian movement is marked by global terrorism, hijacking, rape, and killing—including massacres of kindergartners, Olympic athletes and the assassination of a U.S. Ambassador.

A reward of statehood will yield little more than another Yemen or Libya. And the world has enough of that, already.

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