Last week, Colonel Douglas Macgregor (ret.) published an article in The American Conservative arguing that Israel’s conflict with Hamas is an unnecessary “war of choice” and suggesting that the Jewish State is using the war as a pretext to ethnically cleanse Arabs.
Is this really the case, or has this battle been forced unto Israelis by a genocidal Hamas?
Macgregor rhetorically asks if Israel’s goal is an “Arab-Free Israeli State from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean.” But if Israelis really wanted to murder all Palestinian civilians, why does the Israeli military warn Palestinian civilians ahead of incoming attacks, giving them time to get to safety? And if Jerusalem wanted to expel all Palestinians, why didn’t it do so long ago?
Macgregor’s assertion that “Israelis knew from Israel’s inception that a Jewish State in the Middle East could only be sustained through force of arms” is also untrue. As related by the historian Martin Gilbert, Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, wrote during the period of Zionist immigration into what would become the State of Israel: “The vital interests of the Jewish people … require absolutely and unconditionally that the rights and interests of the non-Jewish inhabitants of the country be guarded and honoured punctiliously.”
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