The perpetual conflict and instability in the region is partially being kept alive by intellectuals, he claimed, as “they can’t grasp the notion that that’s how wars are resolved, one side defeating the other and the other side crying uncle and giving up…. Their emotion and compassion get in the way of logical thinking.”
While Israel has debatably won the war against Hamas and Hezbollah, despite not yet having achieved all the goals it set out for the conflict, Lippman acknowledged that there was a key front the Jewish state was sorely losing in: the diplomatic war.
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Unfortunately, nations seldom succeedively produce leaders of the high caliber of Donald Trump, and the US Constitution has put a term limit on this window of opportunity.
This is how the people think that are forcing us into war with Iran and it should legitimately terrify you on this war’s eve.
I would argue that is exactly why Netanyahu is pushing for war on Iran. Netanyahu needs Israel to be a Pariah state maimed by cataclysmic war in order for his own legitimacy not to collapse, not that Netanyahu is the sole villain here by any stretch but it is always worth underlining as you have that this will only hurt jews and make them forever less safe while the true driving culprit of fascism gets off scot free, jews having served as a convenient scape goat for the world’s learned helplessness to fail to evolve and have a more nuanced conversation about colonialism, capitalism and xenophobia yet again.
The story Netanyahu is writing here practically demands the audience say “Blame the Jews!” in a way that offends me deeply and I am not even Jewish, I just find it a disgusting betrayal of a religion practiced by a good portion of the earth with a complex history. This is the kind of evil that can only be done by a small handful of tiny men spending great amounts of effort to lay the architecture for genocide, though complicity extends deeply, irrevocably throughout Israeli society at this late stage of systematic violence of course.
I mean did he try the whole “only I can protect Israel from Hamas” only for that to backfire when Hamas did its bold breakout and Raid operation?
I mean normally that causes a rally round the Flag but in Netanyahu’s case people rallied around wanting him out of office (kind of, he is still holding the plurality but polling put Israel going back to the unstable Kaneset and the Arab Israeli parties sitting as the king makers)