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Unraveling the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict An Insightful Exploration of History and Delusions by Einat Wilf

  • Let go of delusions

  • Oct 7 was decades in the making

    1. Sustaining and stocking of the Palestinian vision; with enough violence they can win
    2. Israel had it coming
      • Placard Strategy
        • Israel/Zionism = Colonialism, Racism, Apartheid, Nazism, Genocide, Ethnic Cleansing
        • Chosen to evoke evil
          • White supremacy; was being used in US and then just transfer it to Israel and Jews
        • Soviet Union properganda
          • Protocols of Zion
          • Created Anti-Zionism
        • Oct 7th is justified, because Israel/Zionism = Evil; and Evil should be eradicated
  • Delusions

    • “Hamas doesn’t represent Palestinians”
      • Hamas emerged from the idea of Israel’s destruction
      • Projected on them, our vision; We thought like Zionism, all the Palestinians wanted was to build a state and if free to do so, there will be peace
      • Denying peace offers; walked away. Followed with brutal violence
      • What do Palestinians want?
        • They were clear.
          • Jews are not a people
          • No connection to land of Israel
          • No right to self-determination
          • The problem is Israel’s existence
          • Ernest Bevin quote ““His Majesty’s Government have thus been faced with an irreconcilable conflict of principles … For the Jews the essential point of principle is the creation of a sovereign Jewish State. For the Arabs, the essential point of principle is to resist to the last the establishment of Jewish sovereignty in any part of Palestine””
          • 1948 is still an open case and they can still win it.
          • Westplaining; Westerns will explain Palestinian intentions away even when they say it clearly
    • It’s not about the economic conditions; Palestinians living well won’t stop their desire to destroy Israel
  • Need a radical vision like it took to uproot Japan and Germany and transform it.