Two States? The Bloody Hatred of Israel

1 In the West, for over fifty years, generations have been born, grown, and grown old hearing (almost) daily news about the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Many other wars have come and gone, but this one. The phenomenon, however, is much broader in time, since the Jewish question has been an integral part of the European unconscious since its origins, later contaminating the Western peoples derived from them, particularly the North Americans. The seed of hatred and violence dates back to the split within the Jews from which Christianity arose. That is, Jesus Christ was Jewish and was martyred and crucified by his own, and Christians are his followers, whom time has made the overwhelming majority. Endemic, the bloodthirsty vengeful impulse of the original trauma cyclically reinvents itself to return to the surface.

2 It happened more than a millennium later in Southern Europe, between the 15th and 18th centuries, through the Inquisition. After migrating to Northern Europe, it resurfaced in the 20th century, between 1933 and 1945, from then on outside the religious sphere, then in the state or secular version of Nazism. Soon after, in 1948, the founding of the State of Israel became the lure that once again caused evil to migrate, now returning to its starting point outside Europe. The old, permanent blaming and harassing of the Jews became latent with the impulse to annihilate the earthly territory that welcomes and dignifies them. Such a tragic, millennia-old historical-geographical cycle should impose upon us all the duty of ending it. Unfortunately for us, ignorance and irresponsibility are today as biblical as the phenomenon itself.

3 Whatever the Palestinians suffer, these people have had the misfortune of being caught in the curve of history as instruments of Westerners' unconscious hatred of Jews. The processes, agents, and spaces change, but the substantive content is the same wherever the ancient European spirit hovers. After the Portuguese and Spanish (Inquisition) and the Germans (Nazism), the Western left has made itself the current heir to the vengeful bloodthirsty impulse. It revived it in the most cynical formula ever: to love some (Palestinians) to death the more they strive for the death of the object of Western hatred (Jews). In other words, evil now doesn't even need to stain its hands with blood. No matter how long the conflict lasts, the good Western left will sleep soundly. It knows that it is not Europe or the United States of America (USA) that risks disappearing from the map; it knows that it is not its blood or that of its own that will flow. To hell with Palestinian blood as long as it causes Jewish blood to flow. This alone explains the only conflict on the face of the earth that has been dragging on every day for over seventy years!

4 It is the pathological cruelty of this mental melting pot that drives the growing obsession with recognizing two states: the State of Israel (which already exists) and the State of Palestine (which is being projected). This will never be the path to peace, short of a more mutually annihilating war. Thomas Hobbes and Max Weber explain why. The creation and viability of any state serves to grant it a legitimate monopoly on the use of physical and armed violence within a given territory, which includes exercising it over the population living there. Since violence is always endemic, the state exists to exercise the good violence that nullifies the bad violence .

5. History has never been wrong. A state power is viable (it guarantees good violence ) when between the center of its power and the center of power of the neighboring state(s) there is a sufficiently vast territory equivalent to a no-man's land because it is uninhabited, crisscrossed by mountains, valleys, rivers, forests, natural features, oceans, and other geographic and population discontinuities. This is why, for example, Lisbon and Madrid are not side by side. Only when there are no competitors or enemies nearby, just across the street, does the legitimate violence of the state become persuasive or latent, not manifest, used rarely, (very) sparingly, within the legal framework. This is how a state guarantees peace, tranquility, prosperity, and dignity to its populations. On the contrary, the permanent activation of state violence instigated by the enemy always at the door is destructive to the human condition, societies, and economies.

6 It's easy to conclude the obvious. Between the State of Israel and a hypothetical future State of Palestine, not only will the basic territorial and population discontinuity between the two states never exist, but collective identities shaped by mutual hatred over generations are at stake, cementing the rupture between the two peoples in every dimension: religious, linguistic, cultural, identity, lifestyles, and forms of political and economic organization.

7. Without moral support and without the slightest rational or historical evidence, the UN, in collusion with the Western left (including the Portuguese PSD), is accelerating toward an aggravated bloodbath: imposing impossible associations between the establishment of peace and the existence of two states : Israel and Palestine. Such madness must be stopped. Under these circumstances, there will never be any other path to peace other than the existence of a single state, the State of Israel, and the peaceful integration of the Palestinian community into it. Even so, perpetual peace will only come to the original biblical lands, Israel and Palestine, when the Western left realizes what it is, the direct heir of inquisitors and Nazis, and assumes the duty to heal itself of its bloodthirsty mental disorder.