for: definition - permanent security, examples - permanent security

definition: permanent security

• Extreme responses by states to security threats, enacted in the name of present and future self defence.
• Permanent security actions target entire civilian populations under the logic of ensuring that terrorists and insurgents can never again represent a threat. It is a project, in other words, that seeks to avert future threats by anticipating them today.

example: permanent security

• Russian-Ukraine war
  • Vladimir Putin reasons that Ukraine must be forcibly returned to Russia so that it cannot serve as a launching site for NATO missiles into Russia decades from now.
• Myanmar-Rohingya conflict
  • The Myanmarese military sought to squash separatism by expelling and killing the Rohingya minority in 2017
• China-Uyghur conflict
  • China sought to pacify and reeducate Muslim Uyghurs by mass incarceration to forestall their striving for independence forever
• Israel-Palestine conflict
  • Israel seeks to eliminate Hamas as a security threat once and for all after the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel
• US-Iraq-Afghanistan
  • The US sought to eliminate Saddam Hussein's nuclear capabilities and to eliminate Osama Bin Laden for his bombing of the World Trade center.

for: quote, quote - conflict resolution, quote - Israel / Palestine conflict

quote

• For “The West”, all deference must be given to Israel.
  • Calling Palestinians innocent is tantamount to
    • Holocaust denial.
    • A hate crime.
• For the “Muslim World” and various anti-colonial, global liberation movements, all deference must be given to Palestine.
  • Calling Israelis innocent is
    • colonialist.
    • Racist.
    • Nakba denial.
    • A hate crime.
• We need a better way.

date: Oct 9, 2023

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• the world is far more complex than these simplifications