“With so much faith in the military instrument, the Israeli right forgot about the realities of the political context in which that instrument is used. They have condemned themselves to a great anti-apartheid struggle for a civil and democratic state on the land of Palestine, in which they will go down in history as the last Boers. This struggle will cost Israel its Jewish identity and majority as surely as would have a military defeat.”
Tarak Barkawi of Cambridge. His point seems a bit radical and in need of much defending, but interesting nonetheless. It is not the conclusion that a realpolitik assessment of the situation would lead to.
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