A second nakba? A warning from Haaretz
JVL Introduction
A cautionary Haaretz editorial warns about the serious danger of a second Nakba.
It isn’t even one that requires a further expulsion of Palestinians. That, from the northern Gaza Strip has already happened, and Israel shows no signs of letting those refugees return.
On the contrary, with over a million displaced Palestinians in the Rafah region alone, pressures are intense within Israel for an invasion of the area with the countless dead and wounded civilians it will entail.
Haaretz concludes:
A prolonged occupation and the building of settlements in Gaza would be a war crime and a moral crime, which would only intensify the conflict and cause Israel to be hated the world over.
This article was originally published by Haaretz on Tue 26 Mar 2024. Read the original here.
Israel's war on Hamas must not turn Into a second Palestinian Nakba
Haaretz Editorial
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Just a note that even from the virtuous Haaretz the point made is about the danger of “revenge”, not immorality, illegality or insanity.
Perhaps the editor feels that the readership is beyond any ethical appeal and would only consider prudential considerations.
My concern is that part of the “ceasefire” will be the collaboration by the Fatah leadership within the PLA to act as the policemen for the Zionist Apartheid Settler State.
The constant cry that October 7 was an unexpected, devastating, unprovoked action when the Israeli occupation and decades-long mistreatment of the Palestinians and immediate completely disproportionate continuing genocidal behaviour visible to all is a sign of loss of rational humanity. To be unable to live without destroying the people who happen to be different and resistant to their eradication is not a sign of God’s will or rational reflection.
I have just read Ilan Pappe’s book Ten Myths about Israel. Written in 2017 , its longest and most terrifyingly prescient chapter is about Gaza. Already seven years ago Pappe was naming the treatment of Gaza as ‘a slow genocide’.