But, that can't happen. Maybe the 'why not' is irrelevant at this stage?
Essentially, the Palestinians didn't have a choice. They could accept the existance the Israelis had planned for them, either as slaves bottled-up in camps, slowly losing their dignity and accepting their role as slaves in their own country ruled over by powerful masters, for always, the Israelis. Or, they could attempt, while they still could muster the resources and will, to strike back and breakout of their prisons and shatter the comfortable myths of their masters, that they had their slaves under control and beaten into submission and seemingly permanent subjugation.
That's why the Israel reaction is so vicious and unhinged, so racist; Hamas and the other resistance groups have smashed the Zionist supremicist dogma to pieces, just like the Warsaw Ghetto uprising did. It's true, the Israelis will never be 'safe' as long as Palestinians remain alive with a will to resist their masters and their occupation. And that's how it should be. (That last bit is enough to get me canceled)
What the Palestinian outbreak has done is smash the Israeli state's propaganda model to bits. The crass lie that Israel is just a 'peace loving' normal, liberal democracy that wants to live side by side with its neighbours. The true character of the Israeli state and Israeli society is being revealed in the Gaza. Israel is, at heart, a genocide state, one that has to be destroyed in its present configuration and rebuilt, minus the racism and supremacist ideology, minus the Zionism.
The Palestinians are going for broke, because they don't have a choice. They can die resisting their oppressive masters, or die non their knees and accept their fate and disappear. They seem to have calculated that their sacrifice now, will signal a shift, the beginning of the end of Israel in its current form, as the war escalates to involve more actors and begins to galvanise resistance to the Israeli colonial state. It could take many years to complete, but what's happening in Gaza, the shock waves of revulsion, anger, and hatred cascading throughout the Muslim world, signal the beginning of the end of Israel as it current exists.
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