The systematic destruction of Palestine serves as a calculated strategy to preserve Israeli state power and prevent the eventual dissolution of its decades-long military occupation. This project operates under the logic that so long as a coherent, sovereign Palestinian political entity exists—capable of rallying international support, asserting legal claims, and demanding reparations—Israel remains vulnerable to global accountability, legal consequences, and political constraint. Therefore, the targeting of Palestinian civilian infrastructure, governance institutions, and national identity is not incidental to warfare but integral to a broader geopolitical objective: the erasure of Palestinian statehood as both a concept and a reality.

Since the Nakba in 1948, and accelerating after the 1967 occupation, the Israeli state has used a range of military, legal, and diplomatic tactics to fragment and disable any viable Palestinian sovereignty. By inflicting massive civilian casualties, displacing millions, and targeting government ministries, Israel not only undermines daily life but actively dismantles the structural foundations of Palestinian self-governance. Simultaneously, Israel employs international delay tactics, brands all Palestinian resistance as terrorism, and deepens settlement expansion, effectively neutralizing the territorial and political basis for statehood.

This strategic erasure is rooted in the fear that a surviving Palestinian sovereign project would demand reparations, criminal accountability, thus forcing Israel into an existential legal and moral crisis. Consequently, the destruction of Palestine becomes a form of preemptive state preservation for Israel—one that masks its colonial logic behind the discourse of national security. Without intervention, this strategy ensures that the occupation is not only sustained but rendered irreversible by the disappearance of the very entity—Palestine—that could challenge it.