Gaza’s shock attack has terrified Israelis. It should also unveil the context
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Haggai Matar, responding to the crisis unfolding in Israel and Gaza and deploring the attacks on civilians, stresses that this is not a “unilateral” or “unprovoked” attack.
He writes:
- The dread Israelis are feeling right now, myself included, is a sliver of what Palestinians have been feeling on a daily basis under the decades-long military regime in the West Bank, and under the siege and repeated assaults on Gaza.
- [T]here is a reason to everything that is happening today… as in all previous rounds — there is no military solution to Israel’s problem with Gaza, nor to the resistance that naturally emerges as a response to violent apartheid.”
- The only solution, as it has always been, is to bring an end of apartheid, occupation, and siege, and promote a future based on justice and equality for all of us. It is not in spite of the horror that we have to change course — it is exactly because of it.
Read on…
RK
This article was originally published by +972 Magazine on Sat 7 Oct 2023. Read the original here.
Gaza’s shock attack has terrified Israelis. It should also unveil the context
The dread Israelis are feeling after today’s assault, myself included, has been the daily experience of millions of Palestinians for far too long.
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Sorry, but I can not possibly buy the rather naive supposition here, that this has been an attack, that the ultra-equipped security services somehow seemed to have missed spectacularly. After all, no part of our globe is been so closely monitored electronically and otherwise by security services, than Gaza (and the Occupied Territories).
Cynical as I am in relation to this dossier, I thus would rather opt for the possibility, that this attack has been willingly allowed (i.e. semi-orchestrated) by the Netanyahu clan. An attack that can be both used to rally around the (recently) heavily critized political leader, with the potential of organizing in addition another round of ethnic cleansing among the indigenous People of Palestine.
I will go even further than this : I am rather inclined to compare this attack of convenience with the carefully provoked 1929 Hebron massacre. Provoked that is, by the notorious Ashkenazi Fascist Jabotinsky brigade; its leader, being one of the predecessors of the current Likud leader. It was Jabotinsky that let his Mussolini friendly Betar army parading on the Wailing Wall in 1929, while aggressively shouting and flagging, that “this Wall is ours” (knowing of the sacred monuments of both the other two religions at that very place).
Carefully provoked, because a renowned USA journalist and writer of that time – called Vincent Shean – had been invited by a USA Zionist publication – called The New Palestine – to go to Palestine at exactly that time fully at their expenses, “just to experience and write about the peaceful atmosphere over there”.
Well he did indeed experience soon enough at first-hand what had happened at that time in 1929, and he did realize soon enough with what hidden (real) purpose he had been invited : to support the Zionist agenda, by writing Zionist friendly propaganda pieces for the USA press about a carefully provoked massacre.
I will give you a link to his revealing account of affairs of those tumultuous days, so you can judge for yourself what had really happened at that time.
https://www.wrmea.org/from-our-archives/seeing-the-light-holy-land-august-1929.html
At the same time, you can become aware of the ridiculous accusations that he received, when he handed back the money to his (apparently over-generous) Zionists financiers of his trip to 1929 Palestine. Handing back the money, because that money would have risked his steady reputation of credibility / integrity ruined, by opening up the dangerous suggestion of lack of independence of his (now harrowing) eye witness reports of the terrible events in Palestine of August 1929.
What an empathetic, well argued piece of journalism . All the news channels have constantly reminded us that Israel has a righ to defend themselves from these ‘terrorists’ with no balance by mentioning the terrible conditions Palastinions are living under. Every life lost both Jewish and Palastinian is a tragedy and the sooner the world wakes up to this and stops enabling the right wing Israeli government to continue this occupation the better.
Excellent article, the underlying implication of which is how few empaths there are in Israel. Certainly in respect of Palestinians and their lot. I happened to end up watching a couple of documentaries on youtube last night that I hadn’t come across before, one about Auschwitz (Auschwitz: Unveiling the Nightmare of Human Experimentation), and one about Mein Kampf (Mein Kampf: The Secrets of Adolf Hitler’s Book of Evil) and, of course, as with dozens of other such documentaries I’ve seen over the years, I was deeply moved by the horrors and the brutality and the suffering.
I in fact came across them (in the recommended listings) whilst checking out the latest videos posted about ‘Gaza’ by Al Jazeera and several other major news outlets to see how they were reporting it.
Anyway, the different feelings and emotions I experience when watching such documentaries are of course subjective, but I know that I don’t experience the emotion of fear, and never have, but I think it would be a different matter entirely if I were Jewish. And I can’t help wondering if it’s fear – along with the hatred generated by the manipulators and hate-mongers – that blinds many Israeli Jews to the suffering of the Palestinians.
I am disappointed that this article has evoked so little response. It was one of the first written, live, from Tel Aviv, as events unfolded, and startling in its mix of humanity and politics. I am also shocked at the first comment you posted. The individual who will, eventually, pay for this is Netanyahu. The idea that this had been somehow ‘semi-orchestrated’ by the ‘Netanyahu clan’ is the worst form of conspiracy theorising.