Israel’s survival depends not on domination, but on rediscovering its moral compass and embracing coexistence with a free Palestine

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There comes a moment in the life of every nation when it must confront the truth about what it has become — and what it risks losing. For Israel, that moment is now. The relentless devastation in Gaza, the tightening grip of occupation, and the growing isolation from the world community have laid bare a crisis not only of politics, but of conscience. The inescapable reality is this: Israel cannot bomb its way to peace, nor can it suppress an entire people into submission without destroying the moral foundations of its own statehood.

For decades, Israel has relied on the language of security to justify actions that would be unconscionable under any other name. Every airstrike, every demolished home, every blockade has been explained as “self-defense.” Yet a state that continues to occupy and subjugate millions of Palestinians cannot claim perpetual victimhood. True self-defense does not mean the defense of domination; it means the defense of........

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