Haaretz: “Netanyahu Isn’t Israel,” Claim Israeli Intellectuals. They’re Lying To Themselves | Opinion | Ilana Hammerman
Haaretz: “Netanyahu Isn’t Israel,” Claim Israeli Intellectuals. They’re Lying To Themselves | Opinion | Ilana Hammerman
The open letter circulated by 160 Israeli authors, academics and intellectuals ignores that the ongoing war in Gaza has been a war of annihilation from its inception
“Netanyahu is not Israel – his government does not represent us!” That was the headline of an open letter against the war in the Gaza Strip that was released on May 30. It was signed by 160 Israeli authors, academics and intellectuals, and since then, thousands more have signed…
The people behind the letter immediately translated it into English and sent it to media outlets overseas. Apparently, that was so people overseas – those who aren’t antisemites, of course – would know that despite everything, justice is on our side. That on October 7, 2023, in a complete surprise that came out nowhere (that is, out of Gaza, or in other words, out of the jail/ghetto we built for its residents), “human animals” came to slaughter their neighbors, residents of the western Negev.
After that, we launched a just war against those who barbarically – with their own hands, face-to-face – murdered babies, mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers, entire families. We fought with great intensity and we didn’t let up. For 19 months, we bombed, shelled, destroyed, razed, killed and expelled. And nevertheless, according to the open letter, this war was justified.
But then, the letter implies, something changed utterly. “The war that began on March 18 with Israel’s violation of the cease-fire and its failure to comply with the agreement to release the hostages is not the same just war that we set out to wage on October 7 after the horrific massacre in the communities of the western Negev. … A war in which more than 15,600 children have been killed is immoral,” it said, while declining to explain that most of these children were killed in the initial war we launched on October 7, 2023, along with their mothers and fathers, grandmothers and grandfathers.
After all, this war was a war of annihilation from its inception, 19 months earlier, with massive airstrikes by air force pilots and drones that dropped bombs weighing almost a ton from afar (in modern wars, we no longer kill face-to-face), and even more so once the ground operation began. And in fact, this war had goals other than military victory.
Increasingly, it was waged in the spirit of the calls from senior politicians, ministers and Knesset members, as well as generals, to destroy Gaza – to flatten, uproot, kill, starve, seize control and even establish Jewish settlements there. And thus, long before March 18, the entire Gaza Strip – cities and towns, residential neighborhoods, refugee camps, tilled fields, orchards – had become a wasteland over which death hovered constantly.
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I digress, while Netanyahu might be the agreed upon scrapegoat, what to do with Gaza after the war seems less clear. One thing is for sure. The Israeli’s haven’t stopped desiring Gaza for themselves“…
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