Apartheid South Africa reached a tipping point, Israel will, too: White South Africans realised their apartheid project was unsustainable; Israelis will, too.
They will do well to learn from white South Africans who, after 300 years of minority rule, realised it was an impossible political project to continue to defend so violently, and still maintain any semblance of a moral high ground.
There is a tipping point when even for the defenders of such a project, the faint question rings louder and louder in the collective conscience: how far is too far?
There can be no going back to the promises of security based on what was before. There can be no going forward in peace if it means more and more blood of children and civilians haunting successive generations who will have to take responsibility for the actions unfolding before our eyes today.
As a South African who has lived to cross the Rubicon, I hope this catastrophe will force Israelis to see that only a just and inclusive political solution based on equal citizenship for all is going to bring them freedom from fear.
I agree.
Someday Israelis and the US will realize the status-quo is not sustainable.
My fear is the time it takes will be measured in military actions and deaths.
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