I am not a Zionist, I'm not even Jewish. It just seems that most people who are rabidly anti-israel are also rabid anti-semites, scared that the JOOOOOOS!!! are coming to get them.
Zionism is not a religion or an ethnicity; it's a political ideology. Not all Zionists are Jewish, and not all Jews are Zionists.
Hyperbole about people who happen to have opposing political views being "rabid" does not add to any serious discussion.
And the surrender question is not inane. Every warring culture has gotten to the point that further resistance is futile. Even our own southerners turned in the towel once they realized the war was unwinnable.
Who has a “warring culture”?
“Resistance is futile” is a term made up for a television show ("Star Trek") that represents an evil totalitarian government’s threats to use overwhelming force to annihilate the heroic resistance fighters. So you made an interesting analogy there, but probably not the one you intended.
Assuming that the Palestinian struggle against occupation is “futile” would be quite an assumption - one might call it “Zio wishful thinking.” Throughout history, occupied peoples have managed to throw off their oppressors, despite what seemed to be a loaded deck against them.
In fact, in the modern age, when an indigenous population's resistance to foreign occupation turns into insurgency or full-scale war, the resistance usually wins - even when it takes decades. Framing it as “counter-terrorism” doesn’t make any difference.
The American South in the U.S. Civil War was not an example of an occupied people resisting their oppressors (although its society was based on the oppression and control of one ethnic group by another.)
A final settlement of the Israel/palestine question requires one side to give up some of its core demands. Either the Palestinians have to accept that the current borders are whats going to happen, or the Israelis have to leave or accept Arab governance under a single state solution, and these two are NOT going to happen.
Any other ending is not "peace" but mearly an interlude. As clauswitz pointed out peace is not the suspension of a given conflict but the resolution of said conflict.
What “current borders” are you talking about? Please be specific.
Apart from Palestinians accepting these unspecified "borders," you say that the only other choices for a solution would either require Israelis to leave, or to live in an “Arab” state, which you say "won't happen."
But you have completely ignored the standard interpretation of the “two-state solution,” and you ignore the alternative single-state solution which is neither an “Arab” nor a “Jewish” state, but instead is a nation that represents all of its citizens. Do you consider these to be impossible scenarios? If so, why?
