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This is key:
"This does not mean most Israeli Jews became ideological right-wingers; they are not, polling suggests, fully committed to the project of expanding settlements or West Bank annexation. Mostly, they wanted Netanyahu and the right to keep them safe in a way that the left seemingly couldn’t. The prime minister, in recognition of this reality, campaigned first and foremost on security — earning the moniker, perhaps self-claimed, of “Mr. Security.”
Hamas’s attack on Saturday, a mass slaughter of Israeli civilians without precedent in Israeli history, exposed a basic contradiction in this image in the most agonizing way. Simply put, there is no way now to argue that the right-wing ideological project has delivered the security most Israelis crave."
I hope there are enough moderate Israelis out there who can push for a different approach because oppression, theft of land, and brutality isn’t a way forward if the aim is to stop bloodshed from both sides.
oppression, theft of land, and brutality isn’t a way forward if the aim is to stop bloodshed from both sides.
Unfortunately, the aim is to:
- from the one side, to have a State of Israel on land promised by the British to the Arabs
- on the other, to have an Islamic State on land taken by the Zionists from the British
- on another, to have the Armageddon begin and trigger the second coming of Christ
- on still another, to have all the infidels exterminated and have the whole world convert to Islam
Stopping bloodshed is not part of either side, some of the sides are actually asking for more bloodshed 🤦
It does seem hopeless but I grew up during “the troubles” in Ireland, there was a long time where it seemed peace was an impossibility.
