Counterproductive Israeli policy

Israelis celebrated their independence day this week with festivities all over the country. 

On the occasion, it was announced that Israel’s population now counts 8.5 million, with a forecast for 10 million more within 10 years.

At that moment of “glory”, as it was called, Israel could also have added the number of fatalities in the course of time, which reached 22,448.

What next?

Will Israel continue gnawing at more adjacent territories, in the Palestinian West Bank, Syrian Golan Heights or Lebanese Beqaa?

A continuation of its aggressive policy of expansion and usurpation will eventually backfire against its own people and the region.

Neither the Palestinians nor the rest of the Arabs will tolerate the arrogance of the Israeli military power,  which forced an Israeli major general to admit that he sees in the behaviour of his country a replica of Nazi Germany.

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Studies hosted last week two prominent political figures, Saudi Prince Turki Al Feisal Al Saud and Israeli major general (retired) Yaacov Amidror, who discussed the future.

Amidror said: “The Arab Initiative for itself is not an umbrella because there is not any cooperation in this initiative with the state of Israel. It’s an offer to Israel to come — at the beginning, it was take it or leave it; now I understand it is to negotiate.”

Unless a formula for peaceful coexistence for Palestinians and Israelis in two states is reached, the entire region will witness horrible scenes of bloodshed.

Just as decades of occupation resulted in a new generation of Palestinians with explosive belts and suicide operatives, unlike their docile grandfathers, the new decades will bring more generations of revolutionaries and fighters that will be more violent than the savage Daesh.

Israelis used to boast in academic forums about the ethical values of Zionist teachings, which are not reflected in the Israeli military behaviour of the shooting point blank of wounded, unconscious civilians.

Decades of oppression will not give birth to more exemplary King Hussein or Yitzhak Rabin, but to more bloodthirsty Baghdadi or Nasrallah or Qassem Suleimani.

Since the anti-Israeli epidemic has reached the Shiite clerics in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and some of their armed militias have taken their positions on the Golan, a very hot summer is to be expected.

While Daesh throat cutters are only 40 kilometres from the Israeli trenches in Syria, it is counterproductive for Israel to continue its policy with obstinacy and procrastination.

It was a shortsighted move by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to flatly reject the French government’s initiative that would have given some hope, even a false hope, to the desperate Palestinian teenagers in the streets of Jerusalem that some people care for them.