Read the room, dudes. Read the room.

It’s been two months since the elected governing entity in Gaza inflicted the worst genocidal attack on Jews in a single day since Nazi Germany. During that time, Hamas has insisted that it will not allow Israel to exist and plans further grotesque massacres, rapes, and pillaging of Israeli civilians until the jihadis conquer them. Not only does Hamas remain popular with Gazans, but they and their annihilationist agenda has also become wildly popular in the West Bank too.

For some reason, however, Joe Biden and his administration keep pressing the Israelis to commit to a two-state solution, even after watching the results from Gaza’s quasi-state two months ago. The Israelis have had enough, even the Israeli Left, which had been pushing Benjamin Netanyahu for a path to Palestinian statehood. Netanyahu opponents Benny Gantz has joined with others in the unity government to tell the White House to shut up, as Israelis are entirely united against the idea after October 7:

Israeli leaders have been privately urging the Biden administration to refrain from publicly talking about the two-state solution in the fallout of Hamas’s October 7 terror onslaught, four Israeli and US officials told The Times of Israel this week.

The message is not just being voiced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose resonance is more limited since Washington is convinced he has been engaged in a “politically motivated campaign” on the matter, a US official said. Other war cabinet members including Benny Gantz, President Isaac Herzog and even Opposition chairman Yair Lapid have also conveyed their discomfort with the Biden administration’s revived rhetoric regarding the need for a two-state solution since the war’s outbreak, according to two Israeli officials.

“A two-state solution after what happened on October 7 is a reward to Hamas,” said one of the Israeli officials, referencing the terror group’s shock attack, in which 1,2000 were massacred and some 240 were taken hostage in Gaza.

“Netanyahu is the one saying it loudly and bluntly, but there truly isn’t any appetite right now in Israel across the political spectrum for the idea of two states,” the official added.

And why would there be? When Ariel Sharon unilaterally ended the occupation of Gaza and forcibly ejected between eight to ten thousand [corrected] Israeli settlers in 2005, he created a de facto Palestinian state in the territory. What did the Palestinians do with it? They elected Hamas to run it and turn Gaza into an armed military/terrorist base for the conquest of Israel and the Sinai. That’s why Israel and Egypt had to partner on a containment regime to prevent cross-border attacks and full arming of Gaza, a project that ultimately only had limited success even before October 7.

In the meantime, Gazans have fired an almost continuous volley of rockets and missiles into Israel for the last 17 years, aimed “indiscriminately” (to use Biden’s term with far more accuracy) at Israeli population centers. They have provoked the Israelis into war on several occasions, which then get halted by US-led interventions for “cease fires” that supposedly help move peaceful solutions forward. In fact, one of those was in place on October 7 when Hamas raped, kidnapped, and murdered hundreds of Israeli men, women, and children across southern Israel.

How would a “state” in Gaza look any different — other than having access to better weaponry by which to carry out Hamas’ charter agenda of conquest and genocide?

So what’s the alternative to a two-state solution? That is a good question, but that’s not the issue at the moment. Right now, radical Islamic jihadists have embedded themselves in Gaza and have to be forcibly removed and destroyed, just as the US did with ISIS in Raqqa and elsewhere a few years ago. The Israelis all across the spectrum understand and have united to deal with an existential threat to their survival, both as a nation and as a people.

Until that happens, it’s impossible to craft any solutions to the Palestinian issue, especially with the popularity of Hamas’ genocide so clear among them (and among their terror-symps in the West too, unfortunately). It is as absurd to be talking about the creation of a Palestinian state in this context as it would have been to suggest that we cede territory from Iraq and Syria to convince ISIS to transform into a responsible governing entity, or for the Allies in 1944 to attempt a settlement with the Nazis as long as they promised to behave themselves in the future.

After October 7, the scales should have fallen from everyone’s eyes about the nature of Hamas and other Iranian proxies surrounding Israel. Those scales have fallen from the eyes of those in Israel that believed in the peace process and considered their own country the main obstacle. The Free Beacon has a video of former peace activist Natali Yohanan titled “Netflix and Kill,” which discusses her hard lesson on October 7:

On Oct. 7, a Gazan woman walked through Yohanan’s unlocked front door and made herself at home for hours, eating, singing, and watching Netflix. Sometimes, the woman served drinks to armed terrorists who stopped by for a break from the massacre they were conducting outside.

Yohanan, hiding with her family in the safe room of the house, did not get a chance to see the unwanted house guests. But she imagines the woman is a young mother like her and wonders how she could have been so cruel. Like many survivors of Hamas’s surprise attack from Gaza, Yohanan no longer believes coexistence with the Palestinians is possible.

“It’s very hard for me as a mother to think about a woman who came to my home and saw the pictures of my kids and still came to steal and to terrify my kids,” Yohanan told the Washington Free Beacon at a hotel in this Red Sea resort city where her family relocated along with most of the kibbutz. “I never thought the common people, kids and women, would participate in things like that. It broke my faith in the goodness of people, especially people from Gaza.” …

“I think about it a lot, that maybe she looks like me, that she’s a young mother,” Yohanan said. “It was very hard for us to know that regular people, people we thought are not involved in the conflict, came just because they had an opportunity to plunder, to steal.”

According to a dozen members of Nir Oz, Gazan women and children as young as 10 years old followed Hamas terrorists into the kibbutz on Oct. 7, looting, helping the armed terrorists, and apparently enjoying themselves.

Should we reward that with a state? Should we even be incentivizing it with talk of a state? The Israelis say no … and it’s mystifying why anyone would say otherwise.

Update: I misremembered the number of Israeli settlers that had to be relocated from Gaza in 2005. Depending on who’s counting, the actual number is between 8,000-10,000, not 50,000, as I originally wrote. I have fixed it above.