PNN – Like the French in Algeria, the Dutch in Indonesia and South Africa, the Belgians in the Congo, the Spanish in South America and the Europeans in North America, the Zionists also massacred the natives of the Gaza as a prelude or justification for sin.
The horrific scenes of death and destruction in Gaza are a reminder that, for Israel, violence is not random, random or random. It is part of its colonial DNA.
Like the French in Algeria, the Dutch in Indonesia and South Africa, the Belgians in the Congo, the Spanish in South America and the Europeans in North America, the Zionists also massacred the natives of this land as a prelude or justification for sin.
In 1948, Israel was founded on the ruins of the people of another country called the Palestinians. Through the intentional ethnic cleansing of the 750,000 Palestinian residents of this land, it became a Jewish majority state. Since then, Israel has maintained its security through state repression, military occupation, bloody wars, and countless massacres of civilians.
Nazareth, the city of my birth, was one of the few cities that escaped ethnic cleansing, but only because a military commander named Benjamin Dunkelman, a Canadian Jew who led the 7th Brigade of the Israeli army, refused orders from his superiors. The reluctance to purge the Christian-majority city was, as he later wrote, largely due to fear of international repercussions.
About 400 other Palestinian towns and villages were not so lucky. All of them were depopulated and the majority were completely destroyed. Their inhabitants were either killed or driven out. The property in them was either destroyed or confiscated. They were given new Hebrew names. Those Palestinians who wanted to return to their homes were either shot or forcibly sent to neighboring countries.
Meron Benonisti, an Israeli political scientist, wrote in his book “Sacred Landscape: The Buried History of the Holy Land” from 1948: “Since the late Middle Ages, the civilized world has witnessed the total capture of the holy places of a defeated religious community by members of a victorious community.
Since then, Israel has looked at the Palestinian people regardless of who their leader is. Palestinians are seen by Israel either as an enemy from within that must be eradicated or as a demographic threat that must be destroyed. It is no coincidence that since its inception, Israel has created a repressive regime of “Jewish supremacy”.
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After the war and the occupation of all Palestinian land in 1967, this regime expanded from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. Therefore, the Palestinians shout: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
For decades, Israel has used its unconventional weapons of power and carried out countless massacres against Palestinian civilians as a form of revenge, punishment, and deterrence.
The same vengeful mindset was applied in Gaza 70 years later. This is a strategy on the part of Israel that seeks deterrence, deliberately harming civilians in the belief that it will lead to alienating them from the leaders and groups fighting in their name.
Today, Israel’s propaganda machine is collecting cries of despair and rage, real or even fake, from Gazans who blame Hamas for inflicting Israel’s wrath on them.
Israel will never accept an “eye for an eye” in dealing with the Palestinians. The country insists on a ratio of 1 to 10 or 20 regarding its civilian casualties compared to Palestinian civilian casualties. Therefore, Palestinian civilians have to pay a heavy price in every conflict regardless of moral and legal considerations.
Although Israel claims it has “no choice,” its occupation is actually based on strategy, not necessity. Over the past six decades, Israel has controlled the Palestinian territories in part to colonize them through hundreds of illegal settlements on stolen Palestinian land, holding its population hostage until its leaders accept political dictates.
Another important factor behind Israel’s violence against Palestinian civilians, as I explained here, is hatred—hate fueled by fear, jealousy, and anger.
Israel is afraid of all that is Palestinian steadfastness, Palestinian unity, Palestinian resistance, Palestinian poetry and all Palestinian national symbols. Such fear breeds hatred because a government that is always afraid cannot be free. Israel is angry with the Palestinians for not giving up despite all the oppression for not leaving their homes.
Palestinians resist and refuse to surrender their basic rights to Israel, let alone admit defeat. Israel also envies the internal strength and external pride of Palestine. He envies their strong beliefs and willingness to sacrifice.
For the past 75 years, Israel has tried to live by the sword, but it has mostly planted the same insecurity, infamy and anger. Repeating the same strategy over and over and expecting different results is really stupid. If Israel continues to deprive Palestinians of a life and a future, Israel will ultimately have no life or future in this Arab region.