Commenting http://www.newsweek.com/israel-palestinians-war-occupation-gaza-west-bank-trump-kushner-abbas-two-656304

This is basically Liberal Zionist propaganda that blames victims for their own continued oppression while with barely concealed mirth celebrates 'Invincible Israel' as it makes token gestures to lament the situation which the writer thinks and clearly wants to go on.

The very title plays to the Zionist mindset. Lets throw it to the trash bin where it belongs to - occupation, ethnic cleansing, Apartheid, mass incarceration - these are not "war". They are oppression, they are racial segregation, they are simply acts of ideological hate.

Now, let's put forward a few simple facts: The occupation of what remains of Palestinians' lands is kept up only by the support and acceptance of the "West". The occupation - as does the siege of Gaza - will go on as long as the "West" allows. The day when it doesn't allow it anymore, it will stop.

Currently it goes on because, firstly, "Western" media is utterly on Israel's side, hiding the reality of the occupation and Apartheid and simply refusing to tell news that are negative to Israel; increasingly "Western" media just cut and pastes what Israeli authorities tell them.

As an excuse "Western" media tells us that Israel wouldn't allow its reporters in Israel or occupied territories at all if it wouldn't report what Israel tells it to report; the claim is that propaganda for the occupier is better than reporting from a distance.

Secondly "Western" politicians think that their careers and the success of their parties' depend on doing Israel's bidding. This is largely based on antisemitism, the idea of Jews - and to "Western" politicians all Jews are Likudniks - controlling media and the financing of those political careers.

"Western" companies making profit out of the occupation also finance these politicians, who then loudly oppose BDS. The importance of BDS is not, at this stage, of making serious dent to occupation profiteering: It's still ground-work for that, winning the fight for the right to boycott in the first place and making the boycott movement known.

In the end, Israel is doing suicidal things which the Liberal Zionist writer doesn't mention - it's regime is deliberately attacking and alienating not only its Palestinian but the Druze minority also. Increased destruction of homes and entire villages, taking of citizenship even from those who have served in Israel's occupation forces while leading Israeli politicians openly favour ethnic cleansing of Palestinians with Israeli citizenship without condemnation.

Since 1960s Israel has tried to isolate Arab communities in Israel from each other so that they wouldn't form large continous areas that might be eventually returned to Palestinian political control. Now Israel increasingly attacks those communities and there is no realistic way to separate more than a tiny part of them from Israel and to keep any kind of geopolitical coherence.