No. 53 of 108
August 5, 2025
“Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to discuss the details of his plan to occupy all of Gaza with officials this week.”
A plan to occupy is not a plan. A plan to forcibly occupy is a fool’s errand. A fool’s errand is “a task or activity that has no hope of success.” Why would there be no hope for success? Most if not all folx who are forcibly occupied wish that to be so. There will be fighting and resistance and exhausted resignation, but among the peoples there will be no productive support, lending hands and creativity to clearing and rebuilding. The occupier would be in charge of a ravaged land and angry and suffering peoples, using force to enforce ways. The few countries who have not yet weighed in will turn upon or ghost the occupier. And then, what? Setting aside the rule of law, wherever you may stand on sovereignty and self-determination, responsibility for the suffering of fellow humans, ideologies and… setting all of these considerations aside, a forcible occupation is a bad strategy.