AJ writes, and Crabgrass thinks, don't blame "Israel" blame the individuals who are doing this to Gaza because they, for now, hold the tools of power.
Israel came into being as a recognized state by some primarily European people taking land not theirs.
Truman did not listen to Marsall, listening instead to Clark Clifford, and it's history now.
Currently Israel exists. By virtue of military might and historical fact. It is a nation, a collection of people, not all of whom support its current extermism. Disproportionately many killed, those still alive in Gaza suffering under a brutal intentionally cruel siege. AJ wrote -
The sense of dislocation from the slaughter in Gaza is echoed in
Israel’s parliament, where resistance to the war from the official
opposition has focused only on the details of its prosecution while
opposition to the war itself has been relegated to its fringes.
Meanwhile,
with National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister
Bezalel Smotrich now key to sustaining Netanyahu’s coalition, the far
right has essentially gained a veto over policy.
Far-right
Israeli ministers Itamar Ben-Gvir, left, and Bezalel Smotrich are
accused of taking advantage of the war to force through their hard-right
agenda [File: Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP]
“Israeli
politics is in a fight for its soul,” Mekelberg said. “This didn’t start
with the war, though the war’s accelerated it. It began with the last
election and the legitimisation of far-right messianic forces by an
opportunistic and cynical prime minister.”
From his re-election in
2022 to the onset of the war, Netanyahu has struggled to build and
maintain a coalition to govern Israel.
In part, this has been due
to the clash of his own right-wing policies, intended to appeal to the
hard right and pro-settler groups. In part, analysts also attributed it
to his ongoing trial on multiple corruption charges going back to 2019.
“Netanyahu is lucky in that his opposition is incompetent,” Pinkas said.
“They
joined him for limited periods before leaving, which gave him
legitimacy,” he said of how figures like opposition leader and
Netanyahu’s former rival for prime minister Benny Gantz joined him in
the security cabinet after the October 7 attacks.
“All the while, they’re captive to this outdated idea that when the military are fighting, we must all support the government.
Those two clasping hands each have untold amounts of blood on their hands. Nobody should touch them. Not even each other. Each is a pariah to the world and to history. Each better having never been born.
Israel is not as bad as those running Israel. It could not be. The country is a war criminal only through the war criminals and land thieves running the country. Many of the people of that nation have clean hands.
