The pope in Israel

So it’s the work that needs to be done over the next couple of months that has a regional answer to this – that is not a two-state solution; it is a 57-state solution.

~ King Abdullah, Jordan

Regarding the seemingly perpetual, intractable Israel-Palestinian wars, Pope Benedict XVI, who yesterday wrapped up a tour of the Middle East, has proposed a two-state solution along with most of Israel’s European allies, including the United States. However, now Jordan’s King Abdullah, in a recent interview, has raised the ante and put more pressure on President Obama to prove that he is an honest broker between the Muslims and the Jews by agreeing to a 57-state solution as the road to peace.

Dr. David Meltz, former dean of the John Marshall Law School, once told our constitutional law class: If Israel doesn’t own the land explicitly and repeatedly decreed to them by God in the Torah, then no nation can ever claim better title to any land on earth. If that statement is true, then how can one logically or morally square that aphorism with the tautology among the nations of the world demanding a two-state solution or a 57-state solution as a viable means to secure an Israeli-Muslim peace?

One-state solution? Two-state solution? 57-state solution? Any choice will amount to Hitler’s “Final Solution” to kill all the Jews in Israel and eventually throughout the entire world.

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On this point Richard Beeston, in a recent interview with King Abdullah for the Times of London, quoted the king of Jordan regarding his 57-state solution peace process:

If you consider that a third of the world does not recognize Israel – 57 nations of the United Nations do not recognize Israel, a third of the world – their international relationships can’t be all that good. More countries recognize North Korea than Israel. That is a very strong statement when we are offering a third of the world to meet them with open arms. The future is not the Jordan River or the Golan Heights or Sinai, the future is Morocco in the Atlantic to Indonesia in the Pacific. I think that’s the prize … that is not a two-state solution; it is a 57-state solution.

If a two-state solution is national genocide of Israel, then a 57-state solution is total genocide of Israel to the 57th power.

Why wouldn’t Pope Benedict visit Israel’s Holocaust Museum? I’m told because it contains the following controversial inscription criticizing Pope Pius XII (1939-58), who was pope during the World War II period. The caption in the museum reads: He [Pope Pius XII] maintained a neutral position during the years of mass extermination of Europe’s Jews.

That said, wouldn’t it have been a magnanimous gesture by Pope Benedict XVI, born of German extraction, to extend the olive branch of peace to the Jewish people by apologizing for the genocide against the Jewish people at the hands of Germany, Hitler and the Nazis during World War II? Instead, as described by one Israeli newspaper columnist, all the Jewish people received was a “restrained, almost cold speech” about the pope’s hopes that the Catholic Church can be instrumental in eventually bringing peace in the Middle East through the policy of the two-state solution.

May God forbid.

If Pope Benedict, President B. Hussein Obama, King Abdullah, the Palestinian people or those 57 nations that hate the Jewish state truly desires peace, then I only ask them to lead by example and divide their own countries in half (or in 57 parts) and give those divided lands to the poor, to the disenfranchised, to the indigenous people before they arrogantly lecture the Jews and the nation of Israel about any two-state solution.

For example, King Abdullah’s Jordan has the largest number of Palestinians in the world (2,700,000), which amounts to between 75-80 percent of Jordan’s total population. However, in 1987 when the Palestinians started the Intifada for a homeland in Jordan, Abdullah’s father, King Hussein, brutally crushed the revolt, killing thousands of his own countrymen – yet the Jews are universally condemned for defending their country against the entire Muslim world?

As a neighbor to the 21 Muslim countries in the Middle East, Israel has only one-sixth of 1 percent of the total landmass, yet the pope, Obama and most nations of the world want to take much of this tiny sliver of land from them.

I read on WorldNetDaily earlier this week that Obama has broken off America’s long-standing foreign policy to keep our ally Israel briefed on all Middle East concerns. If this is true, then can it be argued that perhaps Israel has lost its last friend and ally on the planet.

May God forbid.

If the choice is between Obama, Pope Benedict XVI, King Abdullah, the 44 Arab states and the Palestinians verses the Jewish people and the nation of Israel, I choose to go with God who through King David said in Psalm 137:5-6:

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

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Ellis Washington, currently a professor of law and political science at Savannah State University, former editor at the Michigan Law Review and law clerk at The Rutherford Institute, is a graduate of John Marshall Law School and a lecturer and freelance writer on constitutional law, legal history, political philosophy and critical race theory. He has written over a dozen law review articles and several books, including “The Inseparability of Law and Morality: The Constitution, Natural Law and the Rule of Law” (2002). See his law review article “Reply to Judge Richard Posner.” Washington’s latest book is “The Nuremberg Trials: Last Tragedy of the Holocaust.”

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