Another
great column at the Israeli daily newspaper
Haaretz. As usual, more protest of Israel's actions from those at home than from TV liberals and pundit and Democrats in the USA.
Restraint? I’d like to see how Israelis would act and speak if just
once an F-16 squadron swooped down on a residential neighborhood and
dropped a ton of smart bombs on it. Unity? Not far from that stairwell,
the tenants of a luxury high-rise refused to let the residents of the
nearby Givat Amal neighborhood into their shelters when they knocked on
their locked doors with their children.
Only hatred still serves as glue. Many dozens of
Palestinians have already been killed and hundreds wounded in this
limited, compassionate and surgical operation. A complete city, the most
densely populated one in the world, is being pounded. After all, the
editor of Israel Today demanded “to return Gaza to the Stone Age.”
The casualty numbers will continue to rise. But
Israelis will continue to wallow in their exclusive misery and
self-pity. It doesn’t appear in the technical specifications, but Iron
Dome does not intercept only missiles. Apparently it intercepts free
thought as well. It dooms its users to blindness, deafness and dementia.
Has anyone asked himself how and why the “present round of escalation”
began? Who escalated it? Whom and what does it serve? Why are rockets
suddenly falling out of the sky?
To the government’s credit, it made it clear to its
subjects immediately after the youths were abducted that it was waging
an all-out war against Hamas and the Palestinian unity. Despite this,
Israelis continue to recite obediently, at the government’s behest, that
the war was intended “to bring the quiet back to the residents of the
south.” That is a lie. You can’t bring back something that doesn’t
exist.
The residents of the south have been living under
fire for 14 years. So have Gaza’s beleaguered residents. If our leaders
really want them to have quiet, they must strive courageously and
creatively for an overall solution. They must install above us all the
iron dome of a negotiated political settlement. But apparently it
doesn’t pay to manufacture such an item.
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