My thoughts a few days after the acceptance of Palestinian statehood by the UN and the Israeli retaliatory responses

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Israel has the right to exist!

Palestine has the right to exist!
Nobody has the right to push the "Jews" into the Mediterranean sea!
Nobody has the right to push the Palestinians into refugee camps for generations!
Nobody has the right to keep a nation in abject helplessness even if their superior power makes it feasible!
Ancient, obsolete religious morals should not be the basis for modern political decisions!
Geopolitical considerations should be addressed by diplomatic negotiations under impartial moderation!
Israel should be reassured that another Holocaust-like event will never again be tolerated by the world community!
Israel should convince itself that such commitment exists, that it is unfailing, and fully trustworthy.

In today’s technological reality no military superiority can be maintained for substantial time without the risk that the opposing force will gain enough destructive power to inflict unacceptable damage on the seemingly superior party.
No matter how vigilantly the “enemy” is being policed, the tools of retaliation will eventually fall into its hand. A brilliant physician one day will somehow avoid targeted killing and will advance the “enemy’s” military technology. One day a capable spy will manage to pass nuclear secrets to an embittered terror organization. By a bad lack of the draw, on a stormy night, said secrets might be stolen from the safest place.
And there will come more blown-up airplanes, more developed missiles with longer range and more damaging warheads, dirty bombs making it through the seemingly impenetrable defensive networks and blowing up in the middle of crowded metropolises, trains derailing along indefensible stretches of railway tracks, and who knows where is the limit.

In the long term, only earnest and rational negotiations, and not old-fashioned muscle flexing, will have a chance to solve major confrontations such as today’s Middle-Eastern crisis.