Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: New Israeli search method at West Bank checkpoint worries Palestinians [View all]Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Palestinian resistance is not based on Israel claiming to be "the Jewish state". It's based on the repression Palestinians are subjected to under the Occupation. I don't approve of a lot of the tactics SOME Palestinians use in that resistance, but those tactics are not the point. If some OTHER army were in the West Bank and were treating Palestinians exactly as the IDF treats them, they'd STILL resist. Why would anyone think they wouldn't?
Yes, other Arab countries had their forces in the West Bank...but none of THOSE armies were there to permanently annex the place and drive the Palestinians out...THAT is the differerence...not the purported ethnicity or religion of the State of Israel or of the IDF. Insisting that the issue is antisemitism distorts reality and works to make it impossible to end the current, unsustainable situation.
Why is it so hard to accept that there's no difference between Palestinians resisting the IDF Occupation of the West Bank and any other occupied people resisting the occupation THEY live under? Anybody is going to resist having another country's army on their land, and you can't assume that nobody else would ever use any form of force.