Echo Chamber Thought Police wrote:Glorious Hong Kong wrote:A one-state solution would entail just another Arab state in the Levant. Granting so-called Palestinians Israeli citizenship and formally annexing the entirety of Judea & Samaria + Gaza would be tantamount to Israel abolishing itself entirely. Iran and much of the Muslim world and virtue-signaling Left would quickly lose a convenient scapegoat while the Israeli Jewish minority would lose their only homeland and be reduced to a humiliated, persecuted, oppressed minority all over again. That's if they're allowed to stay and live. Otherwise, they will likely perish or be ethnically cleansed while racist Muslims and woke leftists gloat and celebrate over their corpses because mUh wHiTe JeWiSh pRiViLeGe. In the short term, Iran would hold street parties and celebrate into the night as Israeli Jews face a grim and uncertain future and liberal democracy suffers a grave setback in the region. In the long term, it would be business as usual for the Ayatollahs except they'll have to find another scapegoat to latch onto i.e. the United States.
so israel should allow the existence of a secure Palestinian state in the west bank to avoid this
They could if the Palestinians behave themselves. The overriding fear is that if Israel just outright withdraws from the disputed region, Hamas or Islamic Jihad will take over and the West Bank will devolve into an even larger and much more potent launching pad for rocket attacks as Islamist extremists are emboldened by what they regard as Israeli weakness. It would be yet another stepping stone toward total Arab domination of the region. Also, don't forget about the fedayeen terror attacks and raids into Israel that occurred pre-1967 when the West Bank and Gaza were occupied by Jordan and Egypt and there were no calls for a "Palestinian" state as we know it today because this is all historical revisionism demonstrating a level of collective self-delusion that would make QAnon LARPers appear harmless by comparison given just how many people on both sides have lost their lives in this needless conflict. There was no such thing as a "Palestinian people" at the time. This is dangerous misinformation calculated to inflame and divide rather than heal and unify.
It would be much more difficult for Israel to place an unoccupied, terrorist-run West Bank under a total blockade like they've done with Gaza short of violently re-invading the region a second time with all the death and misery that entails. Barring a second invasion attempt, the West Bank would be a much more miserable place for Palestinians due to the Israeli-imposed border closures and economic blockade that would occur in response to incessant, never-ending terror attacks, not to mention Israelis residing in any of the major settlement blocs would be discriminated against as second-class citizens at best and outright expelled and ethnically cleansed and massacred at worst.
As if the Second Intifada and numerous suicide bombings against Israelis weren't bad enough. Israel had to literally build a wall to put a stop to these attacks. The wall was effective in doing so. A wall that many bleeding-heart, open-borders leftists staunchly oppose because they don't believe in bourgeois concepts such as national sovereignty nor do they appreciate the beauty and glory of Western civilization. The world would be a much scarier place for ordinary Israelis up and down the country and not just Sderot and Ashkelon if both the West Bank and Gaza stood unoccupied and governed by literal copies of ISIS.
Simply put, any concession by Israel, however minor, would serve merely to embolden her enemies to demand more and more territory and concessions with the (im)moral backing of BDS instead of actually negotiating in good faith, which they've never, ever done in history.
We have to understand that the Arab Islamist/nationalist/communist mindset, similar to the Chinese communist or Russian nationalist mindset, revolves primarily around elaborate displays of strength and total domination and seeing one's enemies crushed beneath tank treads. This is how illiberal dictators and theocrats insufficiently exposed or overly resistant to liberal, Western ideas operate on the most fundamental level. These are the kinds of people Israel and the broader Western world are dealing with. Being from formerly British and now communist-run Hong Kong and formerly British and deeply conservative, Muslim-dominated Malaysia, I understand and appreciate this existential threat to freedom, human rights, and democracy very deeply. So does Nekostan-e-Gharbi, who largely shares my views on Israel, the Arab world, Japan (minus the WWII revisionism), and present-day Communist China.
In response, the West, Israel included, must never cede an inch to those who don't share our most fundamental values. First, they will come for Israel, then Europe, and finally, the United States, the last remaining bastion of freedom, democracy, and human rights in the world. When that happens, as Yuri Bezmenov warned us in the '80s, there will be no more safe haven to flee to. We shouldn't hesitate to flaunt our liberal, moral and cultural superiority in this regard.
Seeing as Jordan has since relinquished its claim over the West Bank and there has never been a Palestinian state, Israel currently has exclusive rights to the region. But maybe if Jordan were to annex part of the West Bank consisting of Palestinian settlements while Israel annexes the remainder consisting of the major Israeli settlement blocs with some limited land swaps and/or population exchanges, things might work out for the better. Possibly. Hopefully. If only Jordan and other adjacent Arab states would simply grant Palestinian so-called "refugees" citizenship and integrate them into their societies, there would be a lot less terrorism and misplaced anger, particularly in Lebanon. There would be no need for another Black September in Jordan. Palestinians would be able to enjoy a far better quality of life than they do now.
But this thread is about Iran's response to Israel ceasing to exist and the thread title should be changed to reflect that. The Iranian regime and many older, rural Iranians sympathetic to the Ayatollahs would celebrate overnight. Many younger, more liberal-minded Iranians could care less about Israel and the Palestinians and continue with their fight for freedom and democracy at home. Upon Israel ceasing to exist, Tehran could simply turn its attention to Washington and Riyadh. Hezbollah, Hamas, and other Iranian-backed militias could simply be ordered to focus their attention on Saudi Arabia now that Israel has been practically annihilated. Nothing much would change otherwise except the Jews in the region would be enslaved, exterminated, and/or persecuted once again while racist Muslims and woke leftists turn a blind eye because rAcIsM = pOwEr + pReJuDiCe and the nefarious, all-powerful, Freemason Illuminati Jews who practically control the whole world can't really be oppressed, can they?