u/DogitWoofsalot

Vote Binface!

This will probably ruffle some feathers, but I’ll say it anyway.

A lot of people - especially in the West - have become deeply confused about the purpose of war. They treat peace as the goal.

In wartime, that is a self-defeating posture.

If peace is your primary objective, your enemy only needs to do one thing to defeat you: refuse to make peace. As long as they keep fighting (or “resisting”), you have failed by your own standard, and they can claim victory simply by outlasting your will.

Peace is an outcome, not a strategy, and certainly not a goal.

The actual goal of war is to defeat the enemy - to break their capacity and their will to continue fighting - only then does a lasting peace become possible. Anything less invites the other side to treat your desire for calm as a vulnerability they can exploit indefinitely.

History repeatedly shows this dynamic - from wars that ended only after decisive defeat or exhaustion, to prolonged conflicts in which the more patient or ruthless side simply waited out the side that wanted the fighting to stop.

Israel’s objective must be to break the Palestinian will to continue the fight - thoroughly enough that Palestinians themselves abandon the language of "resistance" and imagined victories, and reach the independent conclusion that peace has now become their goal.