Israel’s founding security logic predicated its birth on Palestinian destruction

Evidence

Once the British vacated the territory, the ensuing Arab–Israeli war in 1948 was posed as a war of survival. Survival and security have been the dominant Israeli dispositions ever since. But Samera Esmeir reminds us that this relational logic of death and emergence reveals that birth in this instance is predicated on death, destruction, and eviction, moral and territorial. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 575

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Israel’s founding entailed mass expulsion of Arabs to secure a Jewish majority. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 571