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The huge Arab jihadi voter turnout might be directly linked to illegal foreign influence. For the past few years, Israelis were bombarded with “Qatargate” allegations of Qatari connections surrounding Netanyahu, portrayed as an enormous scandal that could finally help bring him down. Yet at the very same time, Gadi Eizenkot, the political Left and the mainstream media were relentlessly pressuring Netanyahu to accept the Qatar-mediated hostage deal they demanded, even when it meant ending the war before Hamas was destroyed and risking leaving Hamas in power in Gaza. Think about the irony. The political left accused Netanyahu’s people of “working for Qatar,” while politically they were doing Qatar’s work for it: pressuring Israel to accept an outcome that would have served Qatar’s interests at the expense of Israel’s, ending the war with its Hamas ally still ruling Gaza. Netanyahu resisted that pressure because Israel had a war to win. And now, after years of “Qatargate,” w...

Britain declared its support for the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. The territory subsequently covered by the Mandate for Palestine included the lands of present-day Israel and Jordan, as well as the West Bank and Gaza. In 1920, the Allied powers met in San Remo, Italy, and agreed to incorporate that commitment into the British Mandate for Palestine. In 1922, the League of Nations formally approved the mandate, explicitly recognizing the Jewish people’s historical connection to the land. This recognition did not create that connection. It acknowledged it. Even the Hashemite leadership acknowledged the Jewish people’s ancestral connection to the land while still ruling Islam’s holy cities in Arabia. On March 23, 1918, Al-Qibla, the official newspaper of Hussein bin Ali, King of the Hejaz and Sharif of Mecca, published an article recognizing that connection. Hussein was a leading figure in the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans, supported by ...