Israel’s Motto Is ‘We Can Have Peace Tomorrow If We Just Kill A Few More People Today’
Israel’s permanent national security doctrine is basically “We can have peace tomorrow if we just kill a few more people today.”
But it’s always today. Tomorrow never comes.
Israel never succeeds in killing its way to peace, because that’s not actually a thing.
You can’t murder, oppress and tyrannize people into obedience. You can kill off the people who oppose you, but in doing so you just create more people who oppose you. You can scorch the earth killing off every member of Hamas and Hezbollah, but in so doing you just ensure the birth of more Hamases and Hezbollahs.
The only way to murder a population into submission is to kill everyone. To turn the entire middle east into a barren wasteland of death and destruction, so there’s nobody left living to oppose you. That’s the only way “kill today to have peace tomorrow” can work.
And in fairness it did work for other western settler-colonialist projects. In North America and Australia the white man just killed and killed and killed and killed until the opposition was exterminated and the few who remained were broken.
But the indigenous population of historic Palestine is different, in that it doesn’t stand alone. They are surrounded by ancient civilizations who have a longstanding relationship with them, and a kinship of religion and culture. Any move to exterminate the indigenous population like other western settler-colonialist projects have done draws hostilities from surrounding nations, as we are seeing today.
So in order for Israel to kill its way into peace, it needs to not just kill off the Palestinians
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