Iran's attacks over the weekend against Israel have lamentably failed. Perhaps Iran intended them to fail because of its cowardice and impotence. It has even begged Israel to consider the "matter concluded", which means Tehran is terrified at the prospects of a major confrontation and, despite decades of virulent rhetoric against Israel, it knows that under the present circumstances it cannot win a war against Israel.
The Iranian attacks have nonetheless demonstrated that Israel's invicibility is not intrinsic to it, but comes from its parasitic reliance on its Western sponsors for money, weaponry and technological advances, despite all the propaganda about Israel's autonomous development of armament. Israel itself is indeed vulnerable despite decades of chest beating and claims of such invicibility. The salient feature of the Iranian attacks is that Israel could not rely exclusively on itself to defend itself. Several countries had to intervene to prevent a potential bloodbath and to protect their bastard child Israel: the US, the UK, France, Germany, and even Muslim Jordan downed the vast majority of the Iranian missiles and drones.
Many of those "friends" of Israel are themselves perpetrators of the
Holocaust and fabricators of the state of Israel: Either as an
atonement for their own anti-Jewish crimes or more likely to drive a
final nail in the coffin of Jewish life in Europe (by manufacturing a
state for their former Jewish victims to make sure they got rid of
them). So these "Stockholm Syndrome" friends of Israel now will
immediately jump to Israel's aid to make sure they won't have to deal
with a massive Jewish migration out of Palestine back to their European
homelands.
Israel's invicibility is a myth drawn from its earlier ethnic cleansing of Palestine (1930s-1940s), when sophisticated, wealthy, and well-armed (with residual post WWII weapons) European Jews found it very easy to defeat mule-mounted poor rural Palestinians just rising from under 400 years of another foreign occupation, the Turkish Ottoman occupation. Subsequent to that "victory", Arab armies too were easily vanquished by the Israeli army in conventional wars in 1967 and 1973. It was those victories that laid the foundation for the myth of invicibility of Israel.
But times have changed. In all subsequent wars since those two Arab-Israel wars, Israel did in fact lose, albeit often by not winning. All these wars, the repeated invasions of Lebanon (1978, 1982, 2006) as well as the Palestinian Intifadas in the occupied territories, showed Israel unable to be in full control of the prosecution of the war unless it committed atrocious massacres and genocides. It takes unrestrained brutality to quell a guerilla war, and right before our eyes the genocide unleashed by Israel in Gaza has not yet yielded any victory for Israel. It still fights Hamas fighters up and down the length of the Gaza Strip and has yet to retrieve its hostage-prisoners held by Hamas.
Why? Because all these wars after 1973 were no longer conventional wars between regular armies. They were all guerilla type warfare, often in urban theaters, which have rarely been winnable by any occupier-invader. In Vietnam, Algeria, Lebanon, Cuba, Korea, and the dozens of anti-colonial, anti-imperialist revolutions in Latin America that went on for decades, the invader-colonizer either lost or could not claim victory, while in most cases the native indigenous guerilleros did win and the invader defeated and expelled.
Therefore, unless the miracle of peace descends on the world that recognizes the historical injustice perpetrated by the colonizing European Jewish settlers of Palestine become reality, Israel is condemned to live in constant warfare and in constant need of help by its western Dr. Moreau surgeon-midwives. This does indeed demonstrate the fragility of an unnatural entity grafted by force in a hostile environment that is alien to it.
Therefore, it seems that Israel must constantly raise the brutality and savagery levels of its "self-defense" against the indigenous Palestinians in order just to save face and not appear vulnerable, let alone score a victory. Is the price of indiscriminately murdering tens of thousands of innocent civilians worth paying to save face? What kind of victory is this? It is the kind of victory that will, down the road, evoke even more retaliatory savage acts of revenge by the indigenous victim defenders of the land, perpetuating the war into an endless vicious cycle. With its barbaric war on Gaza, Israel has raised a new generation of a million Hamas-inspired Palestinian resistance fighters.
As long as there are diehards on the extremes who refuse compromise, the wars and atrocities will continue because there can never be clear winners and losers. The case of the English occupation and savagery in Ireland is in point: There is no doubt in my mind that Northern Ireland, which was torn off Ireland by ultra-religious barbarian English Protestants against the will of the Catholic majority, will one day be reattached to the Irish Republic. The compromise found in the Good Friday agreement was for the Irish Republican Army a mere tactical respite after the "Troubles", but the ultimate objective has never been abandoned. And, there are the uncompromising "extremists" on both sides: The so-called "Real IRA", which rejected the Good Friday Agreement, may be temporarily in the minority, but it keeps the cause visible and alive. The Ulster extremist traitors and collaborators with the English occupiers were satisfied that in the least they remain part of the United Kingdom. But for how long? The Brexit saga has exposed the fallacious attachment of Northern Ireland to the criminal English Crown, and the unification of the entire island of Ireland has never been closer to materialize.
Palestinians have by and large adopted the methods of the Algerian FLN (Front de Libération Nationale) against the French colonizers, and the methods of the Irish Republican Army and its political wing (Sinn Fein) against the English occupiers. The Algerian revolution was a success: its "terrorists" used extreme violence to completely terminate the French occupation and colonization, in both its military and civilian settler aspects. The Irish revolution has been ongoing for centuries, but it has not yet achieved its ultimate objective; it prosecutes its liberation cautiously with ups and downs, by resorting to guerrila warfare at times and striking political arrangements at other times, all the while keeping its eyes on the ultimate objective. Palestine's situation is closer to the Irish model. While the Palestinian Authority makes deals with Israel that never work because of Israel's barbarity and greed for land, Hamas and others reject such deals and maintain alive the option of guerilla warfare.
Israel should have no illusions: It is an unnatural entity imposed by force on a hostile environment. It will continue to operate in a highly volatile far-from-equilibrium state of hypermilitarization, violence and complete reliance on outsiders for its survival, as long as the injustice done to the native indigenous Palestinians one hundred years ago is not recognized, addressed and ultimately redressed. This is still possible despite the inanities of the Torah-thumping ultra-religious idiots of Netanyahu and his radical herd. Otherwise, the digusting life of the the Jewish colony in Palestine is likely to go on for a long period of time. Sado-Masochists may like it, but normal people don't. Israelis: Take your pick.
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