"Bring me my bow of burning gold!
Bring me my arrows of desire!
Bring me my spear! O clouds, unfold!
Bring me my charriot of fire!" -
William Blake, "The New Jerusalem"
I have to admit that I was never interested in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to any great degree. Of all the Middle East wars that one has been the least interesting, though most influential and long-running.
I've always been ambiguous about the outcome of the war, favouring neither side because of their extremist positions.
And the nature of the conflict still remains a question.
Is it a land war? An ethnic war? A religious war? It smells and feels like an eternal war.
What happened to wars that start and end?
Also, I don't like people who champion their victimhood status every chance they get, which both the Israelis and Palestinians do.
I don't like victims. I don't like the "oppressed." I don't like people who cry.
Victimhood is a weapon of the weak. Hitler and his weird cadre saw themselves as victims after WWI and look where that attitude got them at the end. Coffins, graves, and body bags.
Israel's victimhood narrative started immediately upon its founding after WWII. It's the victim in every war, every episode of violence, every international controversy. It was the victim during the Biblical Flood, and it will be the victim upon the Second Coming. Always the victim.
Well, to hell with the "victim." Didn't Satan also always cry victim and how he was oppressed by God?
Everyone is a victim in their own story. And that's the problem.
Since October 7 Israel has become unhinged. It saw itself as the victim of a surprise attack, giving itself the free conscience to go on a genocidal campaign that hasn't ceased for a day.
Victim or not, the merciless mass killing of Palestinians, most of them unarmed and not on the battlefield, has gone beyond the limits of human reason. How can any human defend this?
I'm solely on the anti-Israel side in its current manifestation. Its arrogance needs to be checked. It needs to be defanged and its ability to wage war on its neighbours ended for good.
That means grabbing its nukes, shutting down the Mossad, and placing Western, international, and Muslim troops on Israeli territory.
Israel in a new form, as the homeland and sanctuary for Jewish people, has to be defended. But not this violent beast that calls itself Israel. Not an Israel that kills American presidents and pulls off false flags to start wars.
With Hamas and Hezbollah curtailed and their reputations damaged, Israel has little to fear from radical Muslim groups in the future. And with Mossad out of the picture, the likes of Al-Qaeda and other Islamist terrorist groups in the region will also be gone.
I don't see peace in West Asia emerging any other way. A new Middle East is not possible without first a new Israel at peace with itself and its neighbours.
Simply put, Israel has to be humbled.
Thus far the Muslims have treated Israel too tamely. And the Americans have been neutered politically. They've become mere mercenaries for them.
Europe, apart from a few countries, cannot even muster up the courage to condemn the killing of babies. And the Russians and Chinese are too emotionally aloof and geographically distant to be bothered.
Maybe collectively they will get their act together and put an international peacekeeping force in Israel to secure a nuclear free Middle East.
