Biden's Misguided Middle East Policy; Part II-Terrorism in the Holy Land

The modern definition of the War on Terrorism was developed by Benjamin Netanyahu in an institute he founded in the 1980s named after his brother Jonathan, who was killed on the Israeli raid on Entebbe, Uganda, in 1976. Netanyahu's father, Benzion Netanyahu, was a follower of the radical Zionist Vladimir Jabotinsky who was the founder of the Revisionist Movement and its armed wing the Irgun, later headed by Menachem Begin, who later became prime minister of Israel. Both the Irgun and its more radical offshoot the Stern Gang used terrorist tactics during the Palestinian Mandate. The chief of operations of the Stern Gang was Yitzhak Shamir, who also later became prime minister of Israel.
Terrorism was also used by Palestinians during the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Included in these group was the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), its offshoot the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Black September Organization (BSO), the Palestinian Islamist Jihad (PIJ), the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), and Hamas.
However, terrorism is not an enemy. It is a tactic of asymmetrical warfare of nonstate fighters against national armies. When it uses tactics that kill innocent civilians, women, and children it can be considered a war crime, whether done by nonstate fighters or national armies.
President Biden needs to understand that Benjamin Netanyahu never was and never will be in favor of the two-state solution. Even if he is removed from power, the majority of Israelis want to see a continued occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. The United States should not be providing weapons to a country that has an established religion, reduces Palestinian-Israelis to a second-class citizenship, and provides no rights to Palestinians in the occupied territories. However, even a two-state solution would only be a temporary solution until a single, secular state of Israel that is a homeland to both Palestinians and Jews can be established. But that might take a generation until the hatreds on both sides have died out.