Ignorant media accounts and flighty college students would have you believe that the State of Israel holds a large percentage of the land in the Mideast. Those greedy, imperialistic Jews!

But they don’t. The State of Israel is about one-third of one percent of the Middle East. Virtually none of that land holds oil and gas reserves, by the way. It is very arid land that is challenging to just farm.

Jewish inhabitation of what is now Israel dates back to before recorded history. Their capital was Jerusalem, the site of Solomon’s Temple – which was a real, not mythological, building. The Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians in 587 B.C., long before the glory days of Athens.

The Jews rebuilt. The Second Temple was destroyed in 70 A.D. by the Romans – another civilization that was centuries younger than the Jews.

From the destruction of their Second Temple, through the diaspora and the Holocaust, and up to the time the State of Israel was established by the United Nations in 1948, Judea was controlled by the Romans, the Byzantines, a series of Caliphates, European Crusaders, the Ottoman Empire, and the British.

A people called “Palestinians” appears nowhere in that long list. Indeed, historical accounts do not refer to a people called “Palestinians” at all. The word “Palestinians” to identify a people is a modern invention, much like “gay” or “Native American” or “Latinx.”

Anyway, now that “Palestinians” have a name, there’s a move to give them a country.

I’m not sure that’s wise. These people have shown a singular inability to run their own show, as we recently saw in Gaza where they put on a display of barbarism for the ages.

But, OK. If it will make college kids feel good, let’s give the “Palestinians” some land. They can call it “Palestinia” or “Palestan.” Or maybe “Cuba” will be available by then.  

But here’s where it gets interesting. Those college kids want to give the “Palestinians” the State of Israel. They could be given any land, mind you. Such as a piece of the 99.60% of the Middle East that is not part of Israel.

But nooooooo. They have to be given land that’s part of Israel.

And not just some of Israel, but all of it. The college kids don’t hide this goal, they boast of it. They have a chant, which in their vernacular passes for analysis. The chant goes “From the River to the Sea.”

These kids don’t know the Jordan River from Michael Jordan, and they can’t tell the Mediterranean Sea from Club Med, but they know that this chant means the “Palestinians” get all of Israel. Not part of it, but all of it.

Remember that, next time one of these kids tells you he’s not antisemitic, but merely anti-Zionist. He doesn’t hate Jews, he’ll kid-splain to you; he merely wants them to have nowhere to live.

How long before these kids finally come up with a solution like affordable camps for the Jews?