Its been over sixty years and the memories of the Holocaust, like the ashes of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, now lie scattered along 
The Arabs knew a hate that had no bounds, a rage that could not be stilled.
the margins of an unremembered past. And so it is time to begin again: time to once again revisit mankind's most enduring obsession - the Jewish Question.
For most of the Western World, Israel has become an annoyance, an impediment to their perceived interests. For the Arab World, the cut runs much deeper. For a dhimmi people (the Jews) to have a sovereign state in the hallowed precints of Islam is, in their view, an unmitigated assault on the primacy of Islam.
In the forlorn hope that Israel might somehow mollify the Arab World, just about every Israeli prime minister, beginning with Ben-Gurion, was prepared to do the unthinkable - surrender Israel's Biblical Heartland. That willingness to abrogate the covenantal relationship that binds us to this Land only lends credence to the charge that they, the Palestinians, are in fact the indigenous inhabitants and that we are and shall forever be the uninvited and the unwanted.
Suppose we examine the Palestinian claim that the land between the river and the sea is their Promised Land. The Arab assertion is, of course, contradicted by the scores of towns and cities that dot the Israeli landscape. Cities like Jericho, Hebron, Beersheva and Jerusalem are cities that literally resonate with their Biblical past. For generations, these once great cities sat and waited, or so it would seem, for the promise of our return.
It should be noted, since the Arab incursion some 1400 years ago,they, the Arabs have not founded a single city of any consequence. But even more telling, the Arab occupation managed to turn this once verdant land into a desolate wasteland. Before the Bar Kochbar Revolt, some 2000 years ago, the land supported some six million Israelites. But by the latter half of the 19th century, according to a Turkish census, the land could hardly support a hundred thousand.
In the 1800's the Europeans, particularly the English speaking world, seemed to have rediscovered the Holy Land. William Thackeray, George Eliot, Herman Melville and, of course, Mark Twain are some of the literati who visited the Holy Land. Their findings read like a post-mortem. What was once a land flowing with milk and honey had become a mournful expanse, a grieving desolation. According to their reports, the Arabs knew a hate that had no bounds, a rage that could not be stilled.
How can we begin to understand this rage, this malevolence, that continues undiminished? Can it be attributed to a consuming need for a Palestinian state? Or could it be better understood as an unrelenting compulsion to obliterate the Jewish one? The devotees of the peace process are seemingly convinced that a Palestinian state would mollify the Arab heart. Once their grievances are addressed, the peace camp believes, their zealotry would subside. That pious expectation hangs on the frail hope that the great divide between what is and what could be can be bridged.
So let's suppose that Israel, putting their misgivings aside for the moment, would agree to the creation of a Palestinian state. What might we expect?
There is a near certainty that the 400,000 or so descendants of refugees now encamped in Lebanon and Syria would be transferred to this nascent state. In addition, some part of the two million registered "refugees" in Jordan
will also be transferred. And now, if we factor in the Arabs that now reside in Judea and Samaria, the total number of Palestinians could easily swell to millions.
Now a large part of Judea and Samaria is a desolate expanse that would need reclamation as the Jews have done wherever they live. What remains is a patch of ground of no more than 1600 square miles (including Gaza) that is presently inhabitable.. Packing millions of Arabs into 1600 square miles would result in a population density of 3750 per square mile. That density is more than the land could possibly bear.
So where does that leave us? A state along the lines of pre 1967 Six Day War Israel would hardly satisfy the Arab needs and aspirations . But that wouldn't matter because what really matters is the strategic significance of such a state. A state carved out of Israel's heartland would leave Israel terminally venerable. That, of course, explains why there is so much interest in a forming a Palestinian state.%ad%