These are the roots to which the state of Israel turns to whenever it needs to secure a new round of military expansion or to impose a fresh political reality on the conquered population or the invaded neighbors.
Israel's warmongering is not a result of an absence of policy, but on the contrary the result of a premeditated strategy.
The end result is a regional superpower, "ghettoed" by choice into a small physical space and bloody, ill-defined borders.
However, even winning all the wars and killing tens of thousands of Arabs never seems to settle anything for Israel.
Although over decades those root-rules have proved counterproductive to Israel's own security as well as to the larger stability of the region, Israel's two-pronged war today in Lebanon and Palestine unfortunately repeats an historical pattern that conforms with its cyclical pattern of warfare with its Arab subjects and neighbors to impose its grandiose objective of a Pax Israelica.
So far Israel failed. Latest history indicates it will never succeed. Peace cannot be unilaterally imposed by the sword.
After a long and tragic experience Arabs are overdue to respond in kind, unless the world community spares them the agony by committing Israel to the rules of international law and resolutions.
The editor, in response to this intial article, asked the author, "Your article doesn't mention a solution clearly. One could read your article to mean that Israel never deserved and has NO place in the middle east. Is that the message? If not, how can peace be brought to the region, especially when so many Palestinians DO believe that the only solution is NO Israel?
The author replied:
The article reviews less than a century of violence and wars that tried to impose a political reality by the sword in a pattern that contradicts a centuries old tradition of coexistence and concludes:
"Peace cannot be unilaterally imposed by the sword. After a long and tragic experience Arabs are overdue to respond in kind, unless the world community spares them the agony by committing Israel (i.e. the state of Israel) to the rules of international law and resolutions.
This is "how can peace be brought to the region.
True "many Palestinians DO believe that the only solution is NO Israel, but the majority of Palestinians represented by the PLO opted for peace, negotiations and renunciation of violence.
However much more Israelis, some of whom represented by political parties that are members of Mr. Ehud Olmert s ruling coalition, publicly call for the "transfer of even the Israeli Arab citizens 58 years after their fathers forced out less than a million Palestinians.
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