Palestinians were living like caged animals. There's no future for them other than a slow purge. If they resist, at least they'll get some sympathy and room at the negotiating table. In fact, they will not be given anything for staying quiet. The only way to get anything in this life is to fiercely resist injustice and let the chips fall how they may.
Israel is faced again with the painful and totally unnecessary reality all oppressors eventually face about the geopolitics of hope. But as they have done every time before, they will learn the wrong lessons from this and continue on their dead-end path.
People will always have hope. If you seek to crush the hopes of a whole people in the deluded expectation that they will simply all lie down and die, you will find that they instead invest all of their hope into the dream of resistance.
To truly end a sectarian conflict, you have but two proven options. Genocidal mass murder, or reconciliation and integration. Israel doesn’t have the stomach for the former, but also lacks the courage for the later, which is why they are trapped in this never ending cycle of violence and hatred.
Israelis mocks China’s ‘Xinjiang model’ believing the American manufactured lies that China has achieved the former, when in reality China has gone the opposite way and fully embraced the latter and is now enjoying the fruits of its generosity and capacity for forgiveness. Israel will instead reap the bitter harvest for generations to come from planting more poisonous seeds of hatred in Gaza.
