Israel at 78 still believes it can live by the sword alone. A reckoning is due [a must-read article by Gideon Levy]
1mon 23d ago by lemmy.ml/u/pete_link in israel_palestine_pol from www.middleeasteye.net
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46420699
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46420696
April 23, 2026
At the beginning of this state was the Nakba: our day of celebration was the day of another people's historic catastrophe, a people who were here before us. Everything since has been bound up with what came before. What began in 1948 has not ended, not even in 2026.
From the Nakba to today, the basic principles by which Zionism operates have not changed, nor has the policy of successive governments of the Jewish state. The Nakba has never ended; it has merely altered in form. How disheartening it is to think that the values that led to the Nakba 78 years ago are still driving the State of Israel in 2026 - the same principles, the same objectives, the same methods.