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I'm tired of pretending. I'm tired of being told to respect a nationality that was invented in Moscow in 1964. I'm tired of hearing about an "occupation" of land that has had continuous Jewish presence for 3,000 years. Let me say what everyone on my side is thinking but is too afraid to say out loud.

There has never been a Palestinian state. There has never been a Palestinian currency, a Palestinian king, or a Palestinian language. "Palestine" was a Roman insult used to erase Jewish identity after the Bar Kokhba revolt in 136 CE. The Arabs who today call themselves "Palestinians" are culturally, linguistically, and ethnically identical to Jordanians, Syrians, and Egyptians. They migrated to the Jewish homeland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when Zionists started making the desert bloom and created economic opportunities that didn't exist in their home countries.

The so-called "occupation" is the greatest lie ever sold to the international community. You cannot occupy your own indigenous homeland. Judea and Samaria are Jewish lands mentioned in the Torah thousands of years before Islam existed. Hebron is the burial place of our patriarchs. Jerusalem has been the capital of only one people—the Jewish people. The fact that we allowed Jordan to illegally occupy these territories for 19 years doesn't make them "Arab land."

The United Nations is a joke. UNRWA exists solely to keep Palestinians as permanent refugees to weaponize them against Israel. No other refugee group in history has had their refugee status inherited by grandchildren and great-grandchildren. The "right of return" is a demographic weapon designed to destroy the Jewish state through population replacement. It's not going to happen. Ever.

Gaza is not "occupied." Israel withdrew every single Jew in 2005. They got a terror state in return. The blockade exists because when you elect Hamas—a genocidal terrorist organization sworn to murder every Jew on earth—you don't get to complain when the consequences of that choice affect your daily life. There is no siege. There is self-defense against an enemy that uses children as human shields and hospitals as military command centers.

The two-state solution is dead, and good riddance. It was never a solution—it was a trap. There was never a "two" to begin with, only Israel and Jordan. If the Arabs want a state, they have 22 to choose from. Jews have one. The Jordan River is the natural eastern border of Israel, and every settlement in Judea and Samaria is a legitimate reclamation of stolen Jewish property.

I challenge every person reading this: name one thing that makes "Palestinian culture" distinct from broader Levantine Arab culture. You can't. Because it doesn't exist. It's a fabrication designed to delegitimize Jewish self-determination. The "Nakba" was a self-inflicted catastrophe caused by Arab leaders who promised to drive Jews into the sea and failed. The refugees stayed in camps because Arab states refused to integrate them, preferring to use them as political pawns against Israel.

Stop calling it the "West Bank." It's Judea and Samaria. Stop calling them "Palestinians." They're Arabs. And stop calling this an occupation. It's liberation. The sooner the world accepts that this land is Jewish land and always has been, the sooner we can have real peace—not the fake peace of Oslo that brought us intifadas and terror, but the peace of victory and truth.

Prove me wrong. I dare you.

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