I saw an article on a blog named Discarded Lies (I could only wish they would dsicard more lies), which compares Israeli occupation of neighboring Palestinian territories with the occupation and reconstruction of Germany after the Second World War.
The biggest problem I see with that analogy is that Israel has no interest in breaking the Palestinians down in order to build them up again as a successful democratic society as the Allies did to Germany. The Israelis want, let's face it, to break the Palestinians and keep them broken.
Not drive them out, not exterminate them. Just keep them nearby for a cheap labor force, while preventing them from ever developing a viable civil society, much less a sovereign nation.
The Second World War and the postwar reconstruction were conducted by leftists who held to liberal ideas of human rights and human dignity. Their goal was to overthrow fascism and build a successful democratic nation in Germany. They succeeded, in the greatest liberal victory since the Civil War.
There are two nation-states, and an incipient third one in the territory of Palestine. These nations will not know peace until they are all living by liberal principles.
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