Mike Shedlock: Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Names Three Prerequisites for Peace

Mike Shedlock discusses Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, Names Three Prerequisites for Peace

One thing I missed is “Gaza deradicalization”. Will that take months, years, or decades? How does that work? Is it even possible?

Assuming it is possible, Israel will have to prove itself. That will take investment in Gaza, more services, and more jobs. Mistrust is not one-sided.

Israel needs to build enough trust so that the ordinary Palestinian will be willing to hand over extremists and report extremist plans.

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Shedlock subscribes to the myth that the radicalization of Palestinians has nothing to do with the actions of the Israeli state over the past 75 years, nor to the genocidal ideology of Zionism. This myth posits that Palestinian radicalization originates solely with the anti-Semitism of the Palestinians, and therefore the solution to this radicalization is with education of Palestinians about the benevolence and good intentions of the Israeli state.

The reality of Palestinian radicalization lies in the daily oppression by the IDF in the West Bank and Gaza (aka "The Occupied Territories"). Palestinians are radicalised through daily humiliations by IDF and Israeli settlers. They are radicalised by the genocidial rhetoric of Zionism that is espoused explicitly by the Israeli far-right and condoned by the Israeli centre.

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