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PragerU - Why Isn't There a Palestinian State? | 5 Minute Video

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Author: PragerU
Categories: History
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Views: 1 · Last viewed: 2026-10-13 22:00 UTC

Short Summary

Main recommendation: The speaker argues that Israel has repeatedly offered the Palestinians a state of their own, and that the real obstacle to peace is Palestinian rejection of these offers, so pressure should be applied to the Palestinians to accept a Jewish state rather than on Israel to make another offer. The video, presented by David Brog of the Maccabee Task Force for PragerU, reviews five historical offers from 1936 to 2008 to support this claim.

Key Points

  • The 1936 Peel Commission proposed two states, with the Arabs receiving 80 percent of the disputed territory and the Jews 20 percent; the Jews accepted, and the Arabs rejected it and resumed violence.
  • In 1947 the UN voted to create two states; the Jews accepted, and the Arabs rejected it by launching an all-out war, which Israel won.
  • A few months after the 1967 Six Day War, the Arab League met and issued its "Three No's" (no peace, no recognition, no negotiations with Israel), which the speaker cites as rejection number three.
  • At Camp David in 2000, Ehud Barak offered Yasser Arafat a Palestinian state in all of Gaza and 94 percent of the West Bank with East Jerusalem as its capital; Arafat rejected it, and the speaker says violence followed, with over 1,000 Israelis killed in suicide bombings.
  • In 2008, Ehud Olmert expanded the offer with additional land, and Mahmoud Abbas rejected it.

Details Worth Noting

  • Concrete instructions: The video gives no step-by-step actions for individuals. Its only policy prescription is that peace efforts should press the Palestinians to accept the existence of a Jewish state rather than pressing Israel to make further territorial offers.
  • The five "rejections" are the speaker's own count, based on the offers and responses he describes; the video does not present the Palestinian perspective or reasons for rejection.
  • The 1936 Peel Commission concluded that Jews and Arabs wanted to govern the same land and proposed a two-state solution.
  • After the 1948 war, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, land the UN had set aside for an Arab state, came under Jordanian occupation, according to the speaker.
  • After the 1967 war, the Israeli government was split between returning the West Bank to Jordan and Gaza to Egypt in exchange for peace, and giving the territory to the Palestinians.
  • The speaker says Israel unilaterally left Gaza, which the Palestinians then used as a base from which thousands of rockets were fired into Israel.

Bottom Line

The video frames the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a matter of repeated Palestinian rejection of two-state proposals, and concludes that the burden for peace should fall on the Palestinians to accept a Jewish state. This is the speaker's one-sided argument, and the video does not address the views or grievances of the Palestinian side.