Gaza is not about 1967. It’s not about settlements. It’s not about humanitarian aid, water rights, or another donor conference in Geneva. Gaza is not even about Gaza.
The war Israel fights today is the same war our ancestors faced 1,400 years ago — the Arab–Jewish war. It began when Islam declared that Jews were a cursed people, fit only to be humiliated, ruled, and ultimately erased. It has never ended.
And what drives them mad is not “occupation.” It is Jewish sovereignty. The very existence of Israel is the unforgivable crime. For 1,400 years Jews were allowed to live — but only as dhimmi, broken, subordinate, grateful for the scraps of tolerance thrown their way. Then came 1948. For the first time in Islamic history, Jews stood up, armed, independent, and sovereign in their own land. That is the “Nakba.” That is the real wound that never heals.
Every Western diplomat and well-meaning pundit insists the “conflict” between Israel and Gaza has a solution: a two-state arrangement, land swaps, economic aid, confidence-building measures. They propose endless conferences, road maps, accords. They speak the language of compromise. But the truth is harsher: Gaza is not a land dispute. It is not about settlements or 1967 borders. It is not even about statehood. Gaza is simply the latest battlefield in a 1,400-year Arab–Jewish war that has never ceased — and for which there is no neat solution.
Since the 7th century, when Islam burst out of Arabia, Jews have lived under Muslim domination as dhimmi: tolerated but humiliated, allowed to survive only as long as they knew their place. The Jew could live — but never stand as an equal. This was not colonialism or modern geopolitics. This was theology. The Quran and subsequent Islamic tradition carved out a worldview: Jews rejected Muhammad, and thus they are forever marked as enemies. The Hadith even anticipates the apocalypse in which Muslims will hunt down Jews hiding behind rocks and trees. When Hamas screams that they are “carrying out the will of Allah,” they are not inventing anything new. They are quoting scripture.
What Israel represents is not just a piece of territory in the Middle East. Israel is the ultimate rebellion against 1,400 years of Muslim domination. For the first time since the rise of Islam, Jews are not a tolerated minority under Islamic power, but a sovereign people in their ancestral land, armed, independent, and unwilling to bow. That fact alone is intolerable to the ideological heirs of the Caliphate. No peace plan can erase that humiliation.
The Arab–Jewish war is therefore not cyclical violence; it is the continuation of an ancient clash. Gaza’s rockets and Israel’s responses are modern expressions of an old pattern: Islam’s refusal to accept Jewish sovereignty, and the Jewish refusal to disappear. Every cease-fire is a pause in a centuries-old war of civilizations. Every attempt at compromise founders on the same reef: Israel insists on being, and the Arab world insists it cannot be.
Western negotiators, sitting in air-conditioned hotels, refuse to hear this. They treat Gaza as a solvable border dispute, as if Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat could sign away 1,400 years of theology. But ideas rooted in scripture do not vanish with diplomatic signatures. That is why every “peace process” has failed, and why each new round of violence erupts with greater ferocity.
Does this mean Israel is doomed? No. It means Israel must stop believing in fantasies. There will be no permanent peace, no handshake that “ends the conflict.” Israel survives, and thrives, by strength — by recognizing that survival is the goal, not utopia. The only “solution” is deterrence, vigilance, and a clarity of vision: we are not engaged in a border squabble but in an ancient war, with no expiration date.
The Gaza war is not 2025. It is 732, 1099, 1929, 1948, 2023. It is the same story told over centuries: the Jew insists on life and sovereignty; the Arab world insists he cannot have it. That is why the Gaza–Israel war is not solvable — because it is not a conflict at all. It is the continuation of the Arab–Jewish war, 1,400 years old, and still raging.
There is no solution. There is only survival. Israel’s only path is to fight, win, and keep winning. To crush those who rise against her. To stop yearning for the photo-op handshake that will never come. This war will not end in our lifetime because it did not begin in our lifetime. It began in Medina in the 7th century. It roared in Hebron in 1929, in the refugee camps in 1948, on the Temple Mount in 2000, and in the skies over Gaza today.