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- Khurram0
“I wasn’t goin to post in this thread but...”
This shit ain’t about some ineffectual bottle rockets. Israel has been planning this strategy since Hamas got into power a LONG time ago. The debacle of Lebanon was part of the same strategy. To *impose* a unilateral settlement through overwhelming military force.
Israel will never ever give up the whole of Jerusalem or what it calls Judae and Sumeria in a negotiated settlement. The Palestinians wont accept anything less. Israeli’s face a stark choice of having to assimilate a Palestinian population that is set to outstrip the Jewish one in 20-50 years, or force the Palestinians to accept its own solution.
Ariel Sharon was keenly aware that time was running out, and that the country needed to extricate itself of Palestinians as quickly as possible. That was the thinking behind the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza and the consolidation of territory in the West Bank, whilst at the same time bombing and dismantling Fatah.
This policy backfired when Hamas was elected. Israeli strategists realised that they could not maintain an ethno-supremacist state of Jews simply by creating “facts on the ground.” The claims of non-Jews in the land is an ever present reality that would sooner or later undermine the whole project.
Since then Israel has sought to bully its opponents into submission through the unabashed use of violence. First in Lebanon, and now in Gaza. It thinks that it can use this strategy to break the resolve of its enemies to challenge what Israel has acquired through might.
It uses the pretexts of incitement as a cynical media game when the plans set in motion encapsulate a much broader geo-political objective.
Don't worry though, this is the last gasp effort of Israel's attempt to maintain a Jewish only state. No matter how hard it tries, it can't extricate itself of its Palestinian problem. The Palestinians will never negotiate a settlement that doesn't acknowledge the land that was stolen from them. Israel's only option to maintain a Jewish majority state is to wipe out the Palestinian people entirely. This is its latest, futile attempt to beat the Palestinians into bloody submission. For the Palestinians, this is good news, because after this, Israel has run out of options.
In the meantime, I’m gonna console myself by watching Israel squander its last remnants of sympathy in the international sphere.