Blood Libel #15 | “There should be a one-state solution. Jews can live peacefully within a Muslim Majority.”
Anti-Zionist:
Let’s be honest — Israel already controls everything from the river to the sea. It’s already a one-state apartheid system, so just make it one state with equal rights.
Pro-Zionist:
You say Israel controls everything — so tell me: who governs Gaza? Who runs the Palestinian education system, police, and parliament in Ramallah?
(They might try to blur the lines — press them.)
Pro-Zionist:
The truth is more complicated than slogans:
Gaza is run by Hamas — a terrorist group elected by Palestinians and now ruling by force.
Area A & B in the West Bank are governed by the Palestinian Authority under the Oslo Accords, which both sides agreed to.
Israel does not “control everything” — and it offered statehood multiple times, only to be rejected.
Now let’s talk about the one-state idea.
In that “one state”:
Jews would become a vulnerable minority in a region that expelled nearly a million Jews from Arab lands in the last century.
The Jewish identity of the state — its calendar, language, and public life — would be dismantled.
The right of return for millions of Palestinians would be a demographic weapon to erase Israel — not to promote peace.
Equal rights are essential — but so is national self-determination. You wouldn’t ask Kurds, Tibetans, or Armenians to surrender their independence.
So let’s be clear:
This isn’t about equality. It’s about undoing the existence of the one Jewish state — and pretending it’s justice.
Anti-Zionist:
But an ethnostate is immoral! Muslims and Jews should share Israel and live together in peace.
Pro-Zionist:
Can you name a single Muslim-majority country in the region where Jews currently live freely and in large numbers?
(Pause — they can’t.)
Pro-Zionist:
Because the sad truth is:
In Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Yemen, and Iran, ancient Jewish communities were expelled, murdered, or terrorized out of existence. In fact, Jews in Iraq, Egypt, Libya, and Syria tried to live peacefully for centuries — until they were stripped of rights, massacred in pogroms, or expelled after 1948. Over 850,000 Jews were ethnically cleansed from Arab lands — and no one offered them return, reparations, or refugee status.
Today, the only country in the Middle East where Jews live freely is Israel — and it’s also the only country where Muslims have full democratic rights.
Let’s be clear:
Jews already tried living as minorities under Muslim rule for centuries — sometimes in peace, often under persecution, forced conversions, pogroms, and dhimmi status.
A “one-state” solution would mean the end of Jewish sovereignty, and likely, the destruction of the Jewish people’s only safe haven.
And let me ask — if the goal is peaceful coexistence, why not start by asking Arab states to welcome Jews back into their lands? Or by asking the Palestinian Authority to stop paying salaries to terrorists?
The two-state solution was always meant to ensure freedom and self-determination for both peoples.
A one-state solution is not peace. It’s erasure disguised as inclusion.
Anti-Zionist:
But Jews and Muslims coexisted peacefully in Islamic Spain. We can go back to that kind of coexistence — we don’t need a Jewish state.
Pro-Zionist:
You’re referring to the so-called “Golden Age” of al-Andalus — but can we be honest about what that actually was?
(They’ll likely describe it as tolerant or enlightened.)
Pro-Zionist:
Yes, there were periods where Jews were tolerated in Spain. But that “tolerance” came under the dhimmi system, where Jews lived as second-class subjects:
Forced to pay special taxes.
Banned from bearing arms or holding political power.
Often required to wear distinctive clothing and live under legal and religious restrictions.
And when things turned?
Jews were massacred in Granada in 1066 — long before European pogroms.
In later centuries, the Almohads gave Jews the choice to convert, flee, or die.
So no — it wasn’t peaceful coexistence. It was conditional tolerance that ended in persecution and exile.
If history teaches us anything, it’s this:
Jewish safety must never again depend on the kindness of a majority.
That’s why Israel exists — not to dominate others, but to ensure Jews never again have to beg for protection.