I think for a lot of the people arguing in favour of the continued bombardment this is about revenge. And fear.
But I actually think it goes a step further for Netanyahu and his fellow extremists. For them, Hamas provided cover for them to do what they've been wanting to do for decades: wipe out Gaza, kick all of the Palestinians out, and eventually settle the land.
We've already seen the pace and brazenness of settler brutality pick up in the West Bank. 400 Palestinians there have been killed. There's no way to justify this (or even the indiscriminate nature of the response in Gaza), by talking about Hamas' attack. As despicable as it was. But it makes perfect sense if your goal is ethnic cleansing. Slowly but surely, I think the people who blindly defended it are realising that.
I think you're right. Netanyahu and his even more right wing crazies are taking a play from whoever said "Never let a crisis go to waste."
And unfortunately, Biden's too mired in the old story of "poor Israel, surrounded by enemies" to push back against them. Think of how embarrassing it is that we had to resort to airdrops to get trivial amounts of food into Gaza because our supposed *ally* won't cooperate in preventing the mass starvation of civilians in plain view of the world. And the levels of aid we're sending are far too low to actually change anything anyway.
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I think for a lot of the people arguing in favour of the continued bombardment this is about revenge. And fear.
But I actually think it goes a step further for Netanyahu and his fellow extremists. For them, Hamas provided cover for them to do what they've been wanting to do for decades: wipe out Gaza, kick all of the Palestinians out, and eventually settle the land.
We've already seen the pace and brazenness of settler brutality pick up in the West Bank. 400 Palestinians there have been killed. There's no way to justify this (or even the indiscriminate nature of the response in Gaza), by talking about Hamas' attack. As despicable as it was. But it makes perfect sense if your goal is ethnic cleansing. Slowly but surely, I think the people who blindly defended it are realising that.
I think you're right. Netanyahu and his even more right wing crazies are taking a play from whoever said "Never let a crisis go to waste."
And unfortunately, Biden's too mired in the old story of "poor Israel, surrounded by enemies" to push back against them. Think of how embarrassing it is that we had to resort to airdrops to get trivial amounts of food into Gaza because our supposed *ally* won't cooperate in preventing the mass starvation of civilians in plain view of the world. And the levels of aid we're sending are far too low to actually change anything anyway.
Completely agreed. But thereβs hope. Kamalaβs public call for a ceasefire is huge.