Four Times Palestinians Rejected a Two-State Solution

If Israel had only given Palestinians their own nation, the attack on October 7th would have never happened. That is the common thread woven into almost all pro-Palestinian protests, but it is a fallacy. The Palestinians have had several opportunities to establish their own nation-state, but they have rejected several good offers. Below are four times Palestinians had a clear path to sovereignty but failed to follow through.

1937 — The Peel Commission

In the early 20th century, international persecution led to a large migration of Jews back to Palestine. (Note that the geographic area was named “Palestine,” but it was controlled by the British and the Ottoman Empires before that. No Palestinian sovereign state has ever existed before then.) The Jews then proceeded to purchase land from Arab landowners. Although a Jewish presence had always existed in the area, the increase in population contributed to unrest in the region.

The Peel Commission was established in 1935 to investigate the reasons for unrest in Palestine, and it eventually developed a recommendation to partition the geographic area and establish both a Jewish and Arab state. However, the Arab Higher Committee rejected the proposal so it never came to fruition. Had they accepted the proposal, the Palestinian state would have…