I suppose Oct 7's orgy of mass murder, torture, necrophilic rape and hostage taking was another example of Israeli escalation.
Listen to Dr. Einat Wilf, veteran Israeli Labor Party MK and negotiator under Barak and Olmert with that tactically invented nationality according to its own leaders, the Palestinians about the delusion demolition that's needed for peace to happen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1ku4cE_e4U&t=1091s
She cites the Japan case and John Dower's Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of WWII to illustrate the scale and scope of the deprogramming required to accept the two states for two peoples solution.
% of West Bank and Gazan Arabs who support a two state solution: 3%.
Listen to what they say when interviewed by Corey Gil-Shuster's The Ask Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5ocDyVaMt8&t=11s
It's virtually unanimous: it's our land--all of it. ALL of the 7.3m Jews in Israel must leave and go back to where they came from.
% of Israelis in 2020 who supported a two state solution: 45%.
In one of his Ask Project videos voiced a similar diagnosis of Palestinians' conformist fear of dissenting from the 1948 Nakba Lost Cause mythology.
The election of Shinzo Abe in 2012, and his nationalist agenda of whitewashing the war crimes of his grandfather and Japan, showed how the job of delusion demolition is never finished (https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/lost-causes-and-their-lying-losers-americas-south-and-japan-c6dc560bff4a)
Since the Palestinians are still convinced they're undefeated and that 1948 can be reversed, the job here is far harder than that faced by Japan and Germany's occupiers after 1945. Freeing the Palestinians from the priority that Bevin described is more analygous to rewiring Russia out of its 1/2 millenium old imperial identity without occupation.
Just to start you'd have to have someone like Son of Hamas founder Mosab Hassan Yousef assume the PA presidency and make Bassam Eid education and telecoms minister to drain the delusional cultural swamp the Palestinians are drowning themselves in. What's involved is a cultural and psychological Marshall Plan lasting 20-30 years that combines the radical Japan occupiers' root and branch approach your lecture referred to with the deradicalization deprogramming the Saudis used on their ISIS and Al Qaeda radicals.
This counterfactual of the Palestinians getting from the river to the sea they wish for shows the level fo delusion demolition that's needed: https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/palestinians-wish-granted-israelis-return-to-where-they-came-from-8d336e7d606c
