Why the Oslo Peace Process Failed
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For Jews, Israel is the promised land.
For Muslims, the entire universe belongs to those who follow Allah.
Therefore it is a zero sum game.
The problem with "secular" thinking about these issues is that secular people have no innate understanding of religious fanaticism and do not understand the supremacist worldview of Abrahamic faiths. Perhaps that is one reason behind their constant need for building secular narratives of history ignoring repeating patterns.
There has been written dozens upon dozens of books, one can go to UN resolution back to 70 years, every year dozens broken resolution by Israel. As per UN resolution Israel is occupying force, illegal settlements should be dismantled, as per international law armed resistance to occupation is allowed. In fact, to be consistent the EU and west should blockade Israel (economically, politically, culturally, militarily as they did with RU) until it withdraws to international borders. It seems, no pun intended, there is clearly nationalistic and ethnical element in the way West applies the law and projects its power one can argue with too much evidence in favor for such interpretation (and it is very sad to not have it in the conversation).
One cannot have it both ways, except politicians -- which then creates out of very simple situations very tragic ones for all parties involved.
It does not matter. Even if they gave up on the occupied territories, the problem cannot be solved because the solution, according to the involved theologies, is a genocide of one of the parties involved.
> west should blockade Israel
This will never happen. Jewish over-representation in Western power structures makes this a non-starter.
> there is clearly nationalistic and ethnical element in the way West applies the law and projects its power
They have always done this. The dual-standard adopted by the West on a multitude of issues is well known. Racial and cultural affinity is a big component of such decisions.
Just look at media coverage. There are multiple wars going on in Africa, and there was an earthquake in Afghanistan 24 hours back. But all coverage is primarily about Ukraine or Israel-Palestine.
That right wing government has a strong interest in settling the country, in ways that antagonize the Palestinian population. That absolutely does not excuse a terrorist attack, but we're now locked in a vicious cycle where a lot of Israeli voters put in place a government that is hostile to Palestinians, and each attack entrenches it further.
Those secular Israelis have not been able to keep power. They may be dominant in numbers and in culture, but the government sees the land as "god promised" and acts on it.