Maybe, I thought, there could be an alternate term for this aspect of the matter. Would nationcide be too awkward, or silly? I typed it into Google Search, expecting no results, but to my surprise the term was shown to be already in existence and could be used to describe the destruction—political, economic, cultural—of a nation-state. This made it different from genocide or ethnocide (destruction of a culture). Still, Google noted, it’s not in any dictionaries, and Google tried mightily to autocorrect it to “nationwide.”
The United Nations, in its Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, defined the crime as: “Acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, as such.” In his Quora discourse, Julien Philippe suggested the following phraseology for a similar, hypothetical Convention on the Crime of Nationicide: “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national entity as such.”
Second, there is now widespread international recognition of the existence of a Palestinian state, as hypothetical as that state might be; 157 out of 193 member states of the United Nations General Assembly, or 81 percent, have recognized a Palestinian state.
As far as the West Bank is concerned, it would be the heart of any Palestinian state, and that is where the Palestinian Authority, which has some limited governing control there, is located. It was birthed into existence by the 1993 Oslo Accords and was thought to be a precursor to full-fledged Palestinian self-rule, but Netanyahu now aims to carve up the West Bank in ways that will render a contiguous Palestinian state impossible.
In doing everything in its power to destroy the possibility of ever creating a coherent Palestinian state, Israel stands guilty of the crime of nationcide.
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