How Can Israel Make Peace with Neighbors Threatening to Annihilate It?

Israel has the strongest, diversified economy in the Middle East and brags about being the only true democracy in the region.  While the former claim is certainly true, the latter is a matter of how one defines "democracy."  But the reality is that at this moment in history, neither of the two aforementioned factors  matter. Israel is a magnet for chaos and regional instability, and its dominant political philosophy has evolved into a post-modernist version of fascism.

The re-election of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sealed the Jewish state's fate.  Neither he nor his supporters realized that the invisible laws of the cosmos imposed an existential deadline on making peace with their Arab neighbors.   That time has just about run out.  And rather than seeking to fit in to the Middle East neighborhood, Israelis have, in a bizarre twist of grievance politics all but dumped responsibility for the Nazi Holocaust onto the Arabs and two thousand years of Christian Anti-Semitism in Europe onto the Iranian mullahs.

But how do you make peace with people who at every turn threaten to annihilate you?  A state claiming to be based on spiritual principles should have figured that out by now, but since they haven't I'll try to offer some help.  The pivotal issue is neither diplomacy nor militarism.  It is attitude. For an educated citizenry to promulgate such foolishness as that the Palestinians are not a real ethnic group because the territory which became Israel was uninhabited before the Jews showed up is shameful and ludicrous,  Israelis remain just as clueless today as they were 70 years ago about the civilizations that flourished in the region before the Zionists showed up. They are incapable of even reading the literary contributions of these cultures, because the Jewish state considers Hebrew to be the only Semitic language worth learning.  How can you reach out to your neighbors when you have convinced yourself that they're irrational savages rather than real live human beings, as culturally sophisticated as you and with every right to feel aggrieved by your treatment of them?         

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