The Israel-Gaza conflict has destroyed certain assumptions about the world order and pushed us closer to nihilism.
We’re living through an era of collapsing paradigms. The conceptual frames that many people use to organise their understanding of the world are crashing and burning upon contact with Middle Eastern reality.
The second paradigm that fell apart this month was what you might call “pogromism.” This is the belief, common in Jewish communities around the world, that you can draw a straight line from the many antisemitic massacres in ancient history, through the pogroms of the 19th century, through the Holocaust and up to the Hamas massacres of today. In this paradigm, antisemitism is the key factor at work, and Jews are the innocent victims of perennial group hate.
After this month’s events, several assumptions underlying this worldview seem shaky: that most people on each side will eventually come to accept the legitimacy of the other’s existence, that Palestinian leaders would rather devote their budgets to economic development than perpetual genocidal holy war, that the cause of peace is advanced when Israel withdraws from Palestinian territories, that Hamas can be contained until a negotiated settlement is achieved, and that extremists on both sides...
The worldview that has been buttressed by this month’s events is unfortunately the one I find loathsome.
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