How Bibi Created a Palestinian State
Mike Whitney

In the last few days, a significant number of countries have announced their decision to recognize a Palestinian state. At the same time, the leaders of these countries have repeatedly condemned the attacks of October 7. Can you see the problem here? The two positions are logically incompatible.

It makes no sense to repudiate the actions of a group like Hamas as “terrorism” and then cave in to their demands on statehood. And –despite what you might have read in the western media– the explicit goal of the October 7 attacks was the creation of a Palestinian state.(More on that later) So, yes, condemning Hamas’s methods while giving into its demands appears to be hypocritical.

But is that what’s really going on here or are many of these countries simply acknowledging that Hamas is not a terrorist organization at all but a national liberation movement that is justified in defending its land from foreign occupation? (According to Grok– As of September 23, 2025, only 10 countries have designated Hamas as a terrorist organization.The designation is basically a hoax to propagandize western populations) Aren’t these nations simply admitting what reasonable people have known from the beginning, that oppressed people have the right to self-determination (including armed resistance) in cases of colonial domination, foreign occupation, or alien subjugation. These rights are guaranteed under international law.

So, these leaders are not hypocrites; they’re just acknowledging the “rightness” of Hamas cause, which is why they are throwing their support behind an independent Palestinian state.

And in case there’s any dispute about “statehood” being Hamas’s primary objective, here’s a short video of Hamas’s former military chief Yahya Sinwar underscoring that very point:

“Within a limited period of months—which I estimate will not exceed one year—we will force the occupation to face two options: Either we force it to implement international law, respect international resolutions, withdraw from the West Bank and Jerusalem, dismantle the settlements, release the prisoners, and ensure the return of refugees, achieving the establishment of a Palestinian state on the lands occupied in 1967, including Jerusalem; or we place this occupation in a state of contradiction and collision with the entire international order, isolate it in an extreme and powerful manner, and end its integration in the region and the entire world, addressing the state of collapse that has occurred on all fronts of resistance over the past years.” SuppressedNews @SuppressedNws

There it is in black and white. The explicit goal of the October 7 attacks was the creation of a Palestinian state. So, if we consider the flurry of activity at the United Nations this week, (Note– Canada, the UK, Portugal, France, Australia, Belgium etc have all joined the “recognizers”. As of September 23, 2025, the State of Palestine is recognized by 156 out of 193 UN member states, representing about 80% of UN membership) we must conclude that –on a political level– Hamas is prevailing in its war with Israel. Of course, on the ground, the outcome is entirely different. Israel has obliterated most of the vital infrastructure and killed tens of thousands in a vengeful war of annihilation. Was that part of Sinwar’s plan as well?

It was. With Trump-Kushner’s sinister plan to “vanish” the Palestinian cause for good (The Abraham Accords) by “normalizing” relations between Israel and its Arab neighbors while ignoring progress on the Palestinian issue, Sinwar realized that he must do something truly explosive to capture the world’s attention and put Palestine atop the regional docket. And that is how he settled on October 7; not as a way to inflict military defeat on Israel (Hamas had no hope of that) but to lure Netanyahu into a violent overreaction that would garner the sympathy of people around the world while plunging Israel into deep and protracted isolation.

Did he succeed?

He did, beyond anyone’s wildest imagination, and even Israeli journalists are beginning to acknowledge the strategic foresight of Sinwar’s plan. Check out this blurb from Carolina Landsman at Haaretz just two days ago:

For Netanyahu, the penny has dropped – former Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar checkmated him.

Our own avid chess player, Mr. Security, Mr. War on Terror – the man who devoted his life to preventing a formative Palestinian event – was dragged into playing a part in a scripted historical mega-event. Bibi thought he had besieged the Gaza Strip, but it turns out that Sinwar was the architect of a diplomatic siege on Israel.

The goal of Hamas’ October 7 attack wasn’t a military victory; Hamas lacks the tools to achieve that. The goal was to provoke an Israeli response. Hamas’ murderous attack, with enough documentation to fill three Yad Vashems, was planned to drive Israel out of its mind.

It’s not just the righteous man who knows the soul of his animal, as the biblical book of Proverbs says. A Palestinian who has been jailed in Israel also knows the souls of his jailors…. Sinwar knew that Jews had prepared all their lives for the next Holocaust. That’s why Israel stages flyovers of Auschwitz – to promise that in the event of another Holocaust, we will fight back rather than going like sheep to the slaughter.

This conditioning worked, even if it was only against “terrorists in flip-flops,” as Netanyahu once called them, rather than the Nazi war machine. Following Hamas’ attack, there was nobody to stop the gates of hell from opening. Tragically, Israel played the role Sinwar wrote for the country. It embarked on a campaign of vengeance that even the devil couldn’t have imagined.

And that’s what Sinwar was waiting for. He didn’t create a false facade of genocide; he planned a calculated move that involved exposing his entire people to a genocide that Israel would carry out. The Palestinian genocide was the bloody platter on which their state would be served up.

Sinwar, an expert on Zionism and Jews, pressed all the triggers of Jewish trauma . The note he left about taking “a calculated risk” can now be understood not just a risk, but a calculated genocide.

.... judging by what happened at the United Nations, the move seems to have worked. The world saw a genocide, identified Israel as the party responsible and is finally waking up and taking action (and Sinwar understood both the world and the amount of blood required to awaken it).

This time, the Holocaust isn’t the only historic injustice on the world’s mind as it seeks to advance a solution to the conflict. And just as the Holocaust gave birth to the state of Israel, this genocide will give birth to the Palestinian state. The violence Israel is employing in Gaza has rebounded on it like a diplomatic boomerang….

Bibi thought he had besieged the Gaza Strip, but it turns out that Sinwar was the architect of a diplomatic siege on Israel. In Its Vengeful War in Gaza, Israel Played the Tragic Role Hamas Had Scripted, Haaretz

Bottom line: Netanyahu’s malicious ignorance has helped to create the thing he always hated most, a Palestinian state. The question now is whether Hamas can transform this political victory into a distinct geographical entity with its own borders, independent governing body, and sovereign control over its own territory.

We hope they succeed.

Mike Whitney writes on politics and finances and lives in Washington state. He can be reached at [email protected]

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