The Jewish state is offered acceptance on two terms: 1) become less Jewish, and 2) take in those who want to end the Jewish State permanently.
The first demand asks the Jewish state to thin the very idea that created it. The national home is treated as temporary, acceptable only if its defining character softens and disappears.
The second demand asks the state to normalize existential risk. The perpetual state of war and support for killing Jewish civilians is ignored is rationalized under the rubric of Arab “frustration.”
Each demand strains reality. Together they form a toxic contradiction.
A country cannot weaken the basis of its existence while expanding exposure to those who challenge that existence, and still promise a degree of safety to its citizens. The condition for global approval erodes the basic condition for survival.
This is the impossible conditional embedded in international language, highlighted in UN resolutions. Acceptance in the Middle East and the community of nations is framed as the reward for steps that make recognition unnecessary because the conflict’s central object -the Jewish state – is expected to disappear into a new secular bi-national entity at best, and from the face of the Earth at worst.
Unsurprisingly, Israel cannot accept such terms. So the UN blesses the violence against it.
Remarkably, the world cannot understand why Israelis will not embrace the offer of acceptance coupled with the demand for self-immolation.
First One Through 
The nations of the world demand from Israel only the same self-destruction they adopt for rhemselves. Churchill wrote WWII was the easiest war in history to have avoided, that the West’s desire for safety and a quiet life led directly to the “bull’s-eye of disaster” .”The malice of the wicked is reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.”
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