What Israel is really

Israel has closed its eyes now and is not seeing the future or learning from the past. If Israel can look to the past, it will apprehend that defeating Palestinians and humbling them does not make them weaker. On the contrary, it makes them more resolute to fight back. If it can think of the future, it should imagine what future confrontation would look like. If it understood the past and properly projected the future, Israel would know that self-respect is indisputable. As long as Israel tries to overpower the Palestinians as well as the Lebanese, it will face confrontation. Israel is declining to give Palestinians statehood. What Israel’s devotees do not accept is that self-respect is important. There is no way that the Palestinians will exchange it for anything else. There is no way that they can live with self-respect while under Israeli occupation. No one lives with self-respect under occupation. This is why the more they feel degraded by occupation; the more they attack, whether that is Hamas, the Palestine Liberation Organization, or any other group. The need for self-respect creates these organizations. When people look at Hamas or Hezbollah as the leading issue, it is a superficial viewpoint. They might be an issue, but more significantly, they are an issue created by a bigger issue: the complaints caused by the sensation of being disgraced. The confrontation with Israel has demonstrated itself in various dissimilar forms, Islamic in addition to secular, national, and pan-Arab. Nevertheless, the common denominator is the element that the people of the South hold on to their self-respect because self-respect is immutable. Israel believed that degrading people by imposing losses and discomfort on them, could calm them down. Israel is mistaken. The cause Israel never constructed settlements in south Lebanon was for the reason that they were never safe. They never felt self-assured enough to transport their families to live there. The soldiers survived in anxiety in south Lebanon. In the end, the Israelis had to vacate. Numerous members of different families underwent killing by Israel over the years. They died so that other members of the families could live with self-respect. It is not correct that Israel has no desires in South Lebanon. It is the Galilee, which is part of what they call Greater Israel. Do you think Israelis do not need the south? They do, but the Lebanese do not let them because their land is more than the soil in which they plant olive trees, it is their self-respect. Israel does not comprehend that the harsher it is, the more it encourages the confrontation. Even if Hezbollah and Hamas fade away, other movements will take their place. Other movements will probably be more ferocious and more prepared. Other movements will learn from their forerunners’ errors and evade repeating them. The political analysts and forecasters see the future as depressing for Gaza and south Lebanon, but it is unwelcoming for Israel. This is for the reason that Israel declines to recognize that self-respect is immutable. Israel might contemplate it has overpowered the Palestinians. Nonetheless, it cannot be triumphant unless the Palestinians confess their downfall and this is something that will never occur. Israel fails to grasp that the West is noticing Palestinians and their want for self-respect. Israel must understand that the world has altered. Many listen to the Palestinian narrative. Israel can no longer carry out mayhem against the Palestinians and get away with it. On the one hand, Palestinians are stubborn people who will not give up on their self-respect. In addition, on the other, they have the West gradually liberating itself from feelings of culpability and beginning to see what Israel is really.