Israeli Right, Left Admit They Kinda Just Waiting For Palestinians To Give Up

They acknowledged the remote nature of such a development in their lifetimes.

Tel Aviv, December 22 – A new study confirms a longstanding understanding that prevails regardless of an individual’s progressive or conservative leanings, showing that the vast majority of the Jewish State’s polity operates under the desire and possible anticipation that the rival claimants to the land that state controls will simply drop their century-old opposition to Jewish sovereignty there.

A meta-analysis of public opinion surveys bore out this week that aside from the fringes that seek drastic measures to settle the conflict once and for all, Israelis just want the Palestinian armed factions to realize sooner rather than later that if the Resistance hasn’t driven the Jews into the sea as promised in 1948, perhaps further pursuit of that goal is both unattainable and counterproductive, and just change careers or something. The Israelis also acknowledged the remote nature of such a development in their lifetimes.

Researchers collated replies from more than two hundred public-opinion surveys conducted over the last three years. Their analysis indicated that with the exception of the extreme right – representing no more than five percent of the population – and the extreme left – in similar proportions – the overwhelming majority of Israelis believe that eventually, maybe in the not-too-distant future, Palestinian opposition to Israel’s existence will simply fade away, and can we get there already, but in the meantime let’s pretend there’s something we can do about it, for political gain.

Experts observed that simply waiting for the Palestinians to give up represents a failure to grasp the honor-shame dynamic governing the Arab side of the conflict: losing in 1948 to the Jews, whom their culture relegates to second-class at best and had close to no international support against seven invading Arab armies plus local irregulars, constitutes a shameful failure so vast that it cannot simply disappear into history but requires violent expiation no matter how long it takes; otherwise everyone will know Arabs have small penises or something.

Analysts also noted the parallel phenomenon in the more militant ethos that dominates Palestinian society: the assumption that if they simply keep attacking Jews, as they have for the last hundred-plus years, at some point the Jews will decide they’ve had enough and go, regardless of all the evidence contradicting that assumption, and that day must be coming soon, or at least we have to pretend we believe that because otherwise our popular support and foreign funding will dry up, and a terrorist organization’s gotta make a living in this economy.

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