Will a Palestinian State Ensure a Peaceful Coexistence Between Israel and the Palestinians?

On Sunday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time endorsed a Palestinian state beside Israel. He did so under mounting U.S. pressure. For the past two decades he was not supportive of a Palestinian state beside Israel. Also, Netanyahu had condemned peace talks in the past as failures. However, he called for peace negotiations immediately and called for the Arab world to work with him.

He called for a Palestinian state that would be demilitarized (unarmed) as well as Palestine must recognize Israel as a Jewish state. With Palestine recognizing Israel as a Jewish state, that means Palestinian refugees could give up on returning to the land of Israel.

The question that must be asked is could there be peaceful coexistence between Israel and the Palestinians? The answer is a definite no. Since the Biblical days of Isaac and Ishmael, there's never been peaceful coexistence between the two lands. There's too much enmity there. Also, you can't trust the Palestinians to demilitarize. Everytime Israel has been asked to give up land for peace, the Palestinians still fire rockets at them. In 2005, Israel gave up Gaza. The Palestinians still fire back at them.

Another problem that's not in Israel's favor is that Hamas controls the government of Palestine. The Hamas is a terrorist group. As long as Hamas controls the Palestinian government, they'll be warring with Israel all the time. The goal of Hamas is for the complete destruction of Israel. Giving up all the territory they acquired through the Six-day war in 1967 will render Israel weaker and weaker. There's no way both countries could live side by side in peaceful coexistence. The only way a Palestinian state is possible is for the Palestinians to move to another area in the Middle East to chart their own geographical territory. There's never any possibility both countries will live peacefully side by side.

The United States has a president that's sympathetic to the Arab World. That's very troubling. God told Abraham that He will bless those that bless Israel and curse those that curse Israel. It would be in the U.S.'s best interest to support Israel and not push for a Palestinian state. It's not in Israel's best interest as well as it isn't for the U.S.'s best interest.