Israel and Mythology
"Like the colonial France of Fanon’s scholarship, Israel will one day see defeat. Perhaps it won’t be because the Palestinians acquire enough power to resist Israel’s occupation effectively .."

Israel is a little like Icarus. Icarus crafted wings made of wax and, fascinated with the powers of flight offered by his creation, flew higher each day despite the warnings of wiser folk who noted that power must come with equal parts of prudence. Icarus, delusional with strength and inundated with thoughts of glory, ignored their advice. He finally flew too close to the sun. His wings melted. Icarus paid a heavy price for his foolishness.

Like the venerable figure from Greek mythology, Israel continues to crystallize the pathos of its fantasia. For some reason, most Israelis believe that brute force can remedy the omnipresent fear gripping Israeli society. Nevermind that it is a self-fulfilling fear, in existence because of the equally omnipresent fear that Israel inflicts daily on a defenseless civilian population that never asked for Israel’s presence in the first place.
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