You cannot seriously be contending that "peace via annexation and apartheid" represents a plausible interpretation of the word. You're well into Humpty Dumpty territory at that point; it's the kind of propaganda a Roman Emperor might use to justify invading and conquering some irritating barbarian tribe. (And there's no logical stopping …
You cannot seriously be contending that "peace via annexation and apartheid" represents a plausible interpretation of the word. You're well into Humpty Dumpty territory at that point; it's the kind of propaganda a Roman Emperor might use to justify invading and conquering some irritating barbarian tribe. (And there's no logical stopping point to it; it would justify invading every neighboring country of Israel that has ever been involved in a war with it, might be involved in a war with it, or might one day think about going to war with it.)
Tacitus had a nice turn of phrase to describe this thinking: "ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant", "they make a desolation and call it peace". That's stood the test of time in a way that none of the braying, trumpeting rhetoric of the emperors did.
You cannot seriously be contending that "peace via annexation and apartheid" represents a plausible interpretation of the word. You're well into Humpty Dumpty territory at that point; it's the kind of propaganda a Roman Emperor might use to justify invading and conquering some irritating barbarian tribe. (And there's no logical stopping point to it; it would justify invading every neighboring country of Israel that has ever been involved in a war with it, might be involved in a war with it, or might one day think about going to war with it.)
Tacitus had a nice turn of phrase to describe this thinking: "ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant", "they make a desolation and call it peace". That's stood the test of time in a way that none of the braying, trumpeting rhetoric of the emperors did.