This past week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out at the Biden Administration for presumably withholding weapons to Israel. Netanyahu likened himself to Churchill and Israel’s war on Gaza to World War II, declaring: “Churchill told the United States, ‘give us the tools, we’ll do the job.’ And I say, ‘give us the tools and we’ll finish the job a lot faster.'”
Two observations in Tom Segev’s recent Foreign Affairs piece, “Israel’s Forever War,” shimmer in a deeply dark text.
The Palestinians also hold on to the illusion of return, the principle that they will one day be able to reclaim their historic homes in Israel itself—a kind of Palestinian Zionism that, like Israel’s maximalist aspirations, can never come true.
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