Betrayal of kin is the price of peace in a fault line war

Evidence

For many Serbs, however, he had become a traitor. He was denounced in Belgrade by Serbian nationalists and the leaders of the Orthodox Church and he was bitterly accused of treason by the Krajina and Bosnian Serbs. In this, of course, they replicated the charges West Bank settlers levied at the Israeli government for its agreement with the P.L.O. Betrayal of kin is the price of peace in a fault line war. — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 823

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A compressed structural claim: peace in civilizational-fault-line wars requires the core state to betray its co-ethnic kin, generating traitor stigma that echoes across Serbia, Israel, and Armenia in one chapter.
• APHORISMS: “Betrayal of kin is the price of peace in a fault line war” reads as durable political wisdom: leaders must sacrifice co-ethnic loyalty to secure state-level settlement.
• XREF: Reverses the West Bank settler versus Israeli government dynamic from the same chapter; connects to leverage-through-withdrawal ideas recurring across the book.