Israelis saw something on October 7 the rest of the world didn’t and still mostly refuses to see, something with ramifications for the future that are still hard to calculate. We have not yet begun to see the fallout from October 7 in the Israeli psyche, what a future Palestine looks like when Israelis know viscerally what Palestinians aspire to do to them. And no, it isn’t about occupation. Hamas only recently started pretending to be Palestinian nationalists or to fly the Palestinian flag. It’s about a vision of religious redemption and conquest that no peace offer or compromise can ever satisfy - the thing that caused terrorism to spike at every peace attempt for two generations. I’ll put it bluntly: Even in a best-case scenario for Palestinians, in which they emerge from the destruction of Hamas with a state, as so many western observers want for them (and on my good days, so do I), it’ll be a Somalia. The Israeli economy will be closed to it for a generation. Trust will be less than zero. The worst will be assumed for a very long time and reaching deep into Israel’s progressive far left. And that’s the best-case scenario. https://bird.makeup/@rubinreport/1767849404378059046
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