Mr.Spock: "perhaps we should accept our extermination then."
In order to find a rightful return to multiculturalism in the Levant, this sentiment needs to be addressed seriously by every party concerned. The cycle of oppression that has brought us to where we are is only going to end when Palestinians and their supporters can achieve and articulate a determination to abandon violent retaliation- not only on moral grounds, but also out of awareness of the military facts.
Israel wields a power to destroy, that Palestinians and their allies (real and contrived) cannot reasonably hope to rival with force. Many on all sides worship force as the ultimate means. Most elites are built upon violence, or the threat thereof. These consistently reveal insecurity in their response to the mere mention of proven alternatives.
There is a defining struggle underway within Israeli and Palestinian societies that is increasingly challenging the flawed assumption that violent retaliation is a means to a solution to the problem of Jewish coexistence in the Mideast. Only non-violent solidarity will expose, discredit and overcome the minority elites that are perpetuating the cycle of fighting between Jews and all the other inhabitants the Levant. That solidarity must continue to expand beyond the ethnic lines being so crudely drawn with bulldozers and blood, until there has developed sufficient reciprocity and trust for the most violence-prone on all sides to become politically marginalized.
The foundation of apartheid in Israel is not weaponry. It is the failure of the Palestinian people and the Arab World to address the often deliberately-inflamed fears of Israeli Jews, just as Mr. Spock expresses them:
"let the palestinians kill as many israelis as they can, and wait till all the rest of the neighborhood join the party."
Palestinians must gain not only the sympathies, but also the trust of enough non-zionist Israelis (of whom there are many) to meet them on the other side. Zionism's worst nightmare is not holocaust, or the threat of a repeat holocaust. Shoah is the tenaciously-perpetuated impetus, cover, and raison d'être for zionism's oppression and violence.
Zionism's worst nightmare and bane is not holocaust, but instead multiculturalism, built on multi-ethnic reciprocity and trust. The end of zionism in the Levant will come when sufficient trust has been cultivated on both sides of zionism's walls for Palestinians to
get up and walk, leaving their useless weapons behind.
