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As intended.
Israel's strategy with the West Bank is masterful. Wholly and completely evil, but masterful.
Either the Palestinians just accept their lot, in which case Israel incrementally takes their land through their "settler" proxies, or the Palestinians (entirely justifiably) try to fight back, in which case the IDF goes in and kills a bunch of them, and Israel takes their land anyway.
It's fucking despicable, but it works, and if one is devoid of morality, empathy or simple human decency, that's all that matters.
Modeled perfectly after the settler-colonial tactics of the US taking over native land.
That just isn't true, the majority of the population of American Indians died via disease without ever meeting a European. Also, Americans on many occaisons had virtually no qualms with just committing outright genocide, whereas Israel actually needs "tactics" to try to cover it up.
Israel doesn't have qualms about committing genocide, they just don't want to piss off their neighbors or make their allies uncomfortable.
That doesn't really change the main point though.
If the rest of your family dies and you live alone in your house, then I come and force you out and steal your house. I still stole it.
I agree, but just for clarity's sake most of the deaths due to disease weren't strictly intentional until long after we were genociding them. I'm not saying it's a mirror image of the US genocides, I'm saying that the Israeli government is modeling their methods after the US, and playing politics about their genocide.