Dennis PragerFounder, PragerU · Founder of PragerU | NYT best-selling author

Should the Palestinians Have Their Own State?

11 Jun 2026 · 3 min

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In this interview, Dennis Prager argues that if European nations recognize a Palestinian state after the October 7 Hamas attacks, it will set a dangerous precedent for other separatist movements worldwide. He claims that groups such as the Kurds, Uyghurs, and Basques would interpret the recognition as a reward for violence, encouraging further secessionist ambitions. Prager explains that he once supported a two‑state solution but abandoned it after the Second Intifada, noting that Israel was prepared to cede most of the West Bank and Gaza under Bill Clinton, yet Yasser Arafat continued to endorse bombings of Israeli civilians. He cites a PragerU video stating that Palestinians and broader Arab leadership have repeatedly rejected a two‑state framework, instead demanding a single state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. Throughout, Prager links Hamas’s atrocities to the broader political push for Palestinian statehood, portraying the recognition as a “massive victory” for a movement he characterizes as violent and illegitimate.

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What do you think the impact on the world is going to be after European countries declare that the Palestinians should have a state?
Well, all of the groups in the world that want to be, uh, independent states will learn the lesson. If you kill a lot of innocents and engage in atrocities in the name of your movement, you may get a state. What will the Kurds learn? Who, by the way, do deserve a state. What will the Uyghurs learn in China? But what will the Basques and others who want independence from Spain learned. I mean, how many groups in the world believe that they should secede and become their own state? The lesson, it is unbelievable that after the rapes and atrocities and murders and hostage taking of October 7th, The Hamas won this massive victory of recognition of a, of a so-called State of Palestine, a state that nobody can find on the, on the map. What does it mean? And by the way, I was always for a two-state solution. I stopped being one with the Second Intifada when I realized under Bill Clinton, Israel was willing to give up more than 90% of the West Bank and all of Gaza. And that's when Yasser Arafat said, put bombs in Israeli buses. And schools and bar mitzvahs and weddings. That was, that was what they got. Palestinians, we have a PragerU video that David Brontë gives that shows that 5 times the Palestinians and the Arabs deny it. The right to have their own state. Rejected, not denied, rejected it. It's, they don't want two states. They want one state from the river to the sea. Palestine will be free. That's what they want.