Editing Land From Terror

[[File:Land-from-Terror.webp]]

In his appearance on [[Sam Harris X Eric Weinstein: Israel-Palestine (YouTube Content) | Triggernometry in October 20, 2023]], Eric Weinstein outlined a '''"Land from Terror"''' strategy (in contrast to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_for_peace "Land for Peace"] strategy) in which any act of terrorism or violence would result in the permanent annexation of land by Israel rather than retaliatory attacks, concessions, or withdrawals. The key points of this strategy are:

* '''Dual Claims to Land''': Acknowledges that both Israelis and Palestinian Arabs have competing claims but asserts that Israel is willing to grant land for peace.
* '''Conditional Palestinian Statehood''': Suggests that if Palestinian Arabs refrain from terrorism for a set period, Israel will cede land to help establish a Palestinian state.
* '''Punitive Annexation''': If violence occurs (e.g., terror attacks, suicide bombings), Israel will annex a corresponding amount of land permanently.
* '''Naming After Victims''': Any annexed land or settlement will be named after victims of terrorist attacks as a symbolic and punitive measure.
* '''Deterrence Through Expansion''': Argues that this approach will prevent further violence by making terrorism counterproductive for Palestinian Arabs.
* '''No More Retaliatory Attacks''': Instead of responding to terrorism with military strikes or destruction, Israel would simply expand, making it a territorial punishment system.

<blockquote>
''Israel has a claim on a lot of land that it controls and the Arabs have a claim on the same land as two competing claims. If you take the Israeli claim, say, look, this land is ours, but we are not pigs and we are not so attached to this land and we are not so blind to your needs that we would not give you a portion of land that we consider to be ours, because it comes from our tradition. We have a schedule. If you want to live as brothers in peace, you know, there are arguments between brothers and families, but if you want a prosperous state, you go this many days without any loss of life due to terror, jihad or any of these things, and we will cede this land to your future state so that guarantee that there will be a Palestine, even though we consider the land to be ours. You're interested in rape? Here's how many acres we will annex. You interested in murder? You interested in blowing up families? You want to take an exit bus over a cliff? Whatever it is that you're thinking about, here's the schedule of the acreage that you will lose. We will have an annexing ceremony, and we will name it after your victims, whatever town, whatever settlement that we're going to put in that, and it'll be permanently a part of Israel. And so that way, when you do something to us where you're begging us to kill you and your children, to blow up your buildings, to bulldoze your houses, we're not going to fall for it anymore. What we're going to do is we're going to have a ribbon cutting ceremony and what we're going to see is a larger and larger and larger state of Israel as your moronic death cult continues to grind against innocent life. So rather than have a single death, you're going to have a transfer of acreage.''

- '''Eric Weinstein''', Oct 20, 2023, on [[Sam Harris X Eric Weinstein: Israel-Palestine (YouTube Content)|Triggernometry {{!}} Sam Harris X Eric Weinstein: Israel-Palestine]]
</blockquote>

[[Category:Ericisms]]