"Who are the real terrorists in the Middle East?

What exactly is being defended? Is it the citizens of Israel or the nature of the Israeli state?"

The Independent UK,

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the bitter answer

"What is Israel defending?"

It tries to portray this horror as necessary for its self-defence.

Israel is a state which, instead of defending its citizens, puts all of them, Jews as well as non-Jews, in danger.

Israel's statehood is based on an unjust ideology which causes indignity and suffering for those who are classified as non-Jewish by either a religious or ethnic test.

Israel fosters an image of victimhood. Provoking violence, consciously or unconsciously, against which one must defend oneself is a key feature of the victim-mentality.

endorsing a Palestinian state implicitly endorses the ideology behind a Jewish one.

The very creation of Israel required an act of terror.

This action was carefully planned. Without it, NO STATE WITH A JEWISH MAJORITY AND CHARACTER would have been possible.

the Israeli state must hide the core problem, by nourishing a victim mentality among Israeli Jews.

Israel must breed conditions for violence. Whenever prospects of violence against it subside, Israel must do its utmost to regenerate them:

Israel's successful campaign to silence criticism of its initial and continuing dispossession of the indigenous Palestinians leaves the latter no option but to resort to violent resistance.

The truth is that there never could have been a partition of Palestine by ethically acceptable means.

Israel was created through terror and it needs terror to cover-up its core immorality.

******Whenever there is a glimmer of stability, the state orders a targeted assassination, such as that in Sidon which preceded the current Lebanon crisis,******

The more we silence its voice, the more violently actuality is sure to speak.

In Hebrew, the word elem (a stunned silence resulting from oppression or shock) is etymologically linked to the word almut (violence).

Silence about the immoral core of Israeli statehood makes us all complicit in breeding the terrorism that threatens a catastrophe which could tear the world apart.