Ilan Pappe admits that BDS was not initiated by a “call” from Palestinian Civil Society

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6. In some ways this reminds me of an older argument

That ending slavery in the US would be bad for slaves.

I also do not recall reading of a widespread call for the end of slavery in the United States from the slaves themselves.

Israel seems very unlikely to ever willingly relinquish hold on anything between the river and the sea, and seems unlikely to be able to be forced to do so. It would then seem that the occupation must become more and more harsh to drive out the Palestinians that can be driven out, and at the same time provoking the remaining Palestinians to pointless, impotent violence in order to justify ever harsher measures.

Perhaps I am mistaken, but sometimes it seems that the greatest existential threat to Israel would be the absence of an existential threat to Israel.