SATISH SHARMA - not just Rotigraphy.: Ben Gurion and the Doctrine of Force

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Translated from French

Ben Gurion and the Doctrine of Force

Even before the proclamation of the State of Israel, its founders had formulated the guiding principle of the Zionist project: to impose sovereignty by force.  
Their national ideal already merged with a military strategy.

In 1938, David Ben Gurion—who would become Israel's first Prime Minister ten years later—stated bluntly:

“Once we have become a significant force… we will abolish the partition and extend our influence across all of Palestine… The State must maintain order—not through sermons, but through machine guns.”

This statement encapsulates the entire doctrine of the era: abolishing partition, erasing coexistence, militarizing politics.  
The conquest of the land becomes the very condition for the existence of the future State, and the use of violence, its founding legitimacy.

Through this vision, Ben Gurion speaks not of a refuge State, but of a conquering State, ready to reshape the demography through war and exile.  
Zionist ideology then ceases to be a liberation movement: it becomes an engineering of domination.  
Every machine gun, every expropriation, every destroyed village will be justified in the name of “security” and “survival.”

From then on, the memory of the Jewish people’s persecutions turns into an argument of authority: trauma becomes doctrine.  
This moral shift paves the way for what follows: colonization, ethnic cleansing, and the rewriting of language—when force becomes justice, and yesterday’s victim claims the right to produce new victims.