After the genocide ends, Palestinians in Israel will have to live beside those who spent the past year cheering and participating in Gaza’s slaughter
Israelis are fearing the storm. Palestinian citizens fear the calm that follows
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“if you put most of our young people in the army, they’ll see a paradox. They’ll see it strives to be a people’s army … involved in building up the country. On the other hand, it’s a brutal occupation force, similar to the Germans in World War II. Similar, not identical … We’ve become cruel to ourselves as well, but mainly to the occupied population, using the excuse of the war against terror.” Avraham Shalom Shin Bet-1980-86
“The tragedy of Israel’s security debate is that we don’t realize we face a frustrating situation, in which we win every battle, but we lose the war.”Amy Ayalon Shin Bet \1996-2000
the 1995 assassination of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin by Yigal Amir, a radical, Orthodox Jew, who they say was incited by right-wing Israeli politicians and rabbis.
Rabin’s widow, Leah, blamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then head of Israel’s conservative Likud party, for contributing to the atmosphere that led to her husband’s death, vigorously denied by Netanyahu and his supporters.
Things are worse now than they ever were
Source: GOLDSTEIN: The harshest critics of Israel are Israelis | Toronto Sun
Ideologically committed Zionists used to treat pogrom victims of over a century ago and survivors of the Nazi genocide with shame and disdain. They were blamed for lacking the courage to fight, for “going as sheep to the slaughter”. Haim Nahman Bialik,
As the Diaspora Jew was a coward, so the Zionist Jew — the New Hebrew, the Israeli Jew — must be a warrior.
Moreover, political compromises with the Palestinians appear suspect and dangerous. Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Rabin who tried to reach such a compromise was assassinated, effectively putting an end to the idea of a Palestinian state next to Israel.
The state of Israel tends also to dehumanize the Palestinians to vindicate what many experts qualify as genocide. An Israeli high school history teacher was put in solitary confinement for making Facebook posts showing the names and faces of a few of the 18,000 Palestinians killed during Israel’s assault on Gaza. The Zionist state apparently considers humanizing the Palestinians an existential threat.
Source: From Kishinev to Gaza
The exodus out of Ukraine since Russia began its invasion has provoked questions about discrimination between the uprooted. Last week, social media was awash with claims that white Ukrainian refugees at the border with Poland were given preferential treatment compared to other groups, including people from many Middle Eastern and African nations who were living or studying in the country. While initially denied, Flippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, has since confirmed the allegations.
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