The thing I would like for those who fixate on destroying Israel to understand is that this idea is corrosive. Not for Israel, but for the people who hold it. Incoming thread. 
1) It is not feasible. You can invoke apartheid South Africa all you want to insult Israel. That regime came down with the collaboration of the whites. They had no memory of genocide. No memory of mass expulsion. No memory of forcible assimilation.
Israel, by contrast, is nothing like South Africa or French Algeria or you name it. The country has no parallels on this planet. Nobody has gathered a global diaspora and revived a language. Nobody has faced annihilation so frequently and come back from the brink.
Israelis would and do violently oppose the dismantling of their state. Even the most left wing among them who still have a relationship to reality understand it would be October 7 on a bigger scale.
Fundamentally, those who seek to dismantle Israel do not understand what makes it a strong and durable society. Their thinking about it is two dimensional. Their warped moralism, seeking the annihilation of a society, clouds their judgement.
2) I don't know if it is the cause of bad thinking or the symptom of it, but this unwillingness to engage with reality is what is so corrosive.
The societies that fixate on destroying Israel suffer because of it.
The societies that fixate on destroying Israel suffer because of it.
They don't have an accurate grasp of reality. Information that contradicts their preferred Israel narrative is simply ignored or spun.
Iran is an instructive example.
Iran is an instructive example.
The Iranian regime has spent tens of billions of dollars destabilizing Lebanon, Yemen, the Palestinian territories, etc... all in the name of destroying Israel. It was a good tool for building their regional influence. But they drank their own kool aid.
When the war Iran had been building towards was started by their proxies in Gaza and expanded by their proxies in Lebanon Iran thought they had the upper hand.
It never seriously occurred to them that the violence they export could come to their lands.
But it did.
It never seriously occurred to them that the violence they export could come to their lands.
But it did.
Israel’s strikes devastated Iran’s missile and nuclear infrastructure, wiped out key military and scientific leadership, reduced their oil revenue, and left Iran isolated. Allies like China and Russia sat on the sidelines while Israel won a war in 12 days.
What does the Iranian regime have to show for this effort? A crippled nuclear program, shattered missile sites, dead commanders, oil exports declining, global isolation, mass arrests at home, water shortages, blackouts, and a society pushed deeper into dysfunction.
It is the Iranian people who suffer because of the delusions of their regime. As I write this the Iranians are seeking to rebuild their terrorist network and beef up their missile capabilities. They learned nothing because they continue to be fixated with a self-destructive idea.
Israel is not going anywhere. More to the point, the people who cannot accept this are condemning themselves, their societies, and their descendants to worse lives. Broaden your imagination. Abandon ideas of destruction. Not for Israel, but for yourselves.
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