Netanyahu’s famous “self-defense” continues. Anything that moves is considered “suspicious”, “terrorist” and killed. Like the three Israeli hostages who were killed by Israeli army fire. It was also “self-defense”! These people, suffering, were holding a white sheet, which was written in Hebrew “help”. And they were half-naked so that it wouldn’t be perceived as having strapped themselves with explosives, or that they were hiding weapons.
But the Israeli army is of the “believe and do not investigate” doctrine. They considered them terrorists. As they consider the children, women, old people that they kill daily in Gaza, to be terrorists. Everything that stands on its… feet, such as hospitals, buildings, and infrastructure, is flattened. With this “logic” they hit churches, and schools, arguing that terrorists were hiding in them. Were they hiding?
It was a “mistake” the army admitted about the three hostages. The admission has no meaning, as these people, after so many days of being held hostage, were killed by “their own” bullets. No, it wasn’t a mistake. Because they kill without limits and restrictions. Either Hamas is against them or not. They “christen” them all terrorists and kill them. Like the three hostages.
In the context of “self-defense” the Israeli army has killed approximately 19,000 people, mostly women, children, and teenagers. At the same time, in addition to Gaza, they are also hitting the West Bank, because the plan to exterminate the Palestinians is always “up-to-date”.
Israel is led by a government that has no inhibitions, and no limits. Netanyahu, has a personal agenda, which concerns his political future, as do those in the leadership of the army and the secret services, who… caught asleep, are now creating a vast cemetery. Netanyahu’s behavior is a threat to stability in the region. This is now recognized by the Americans, Israel’s closest allies. That’s why the US “advised” Israel to show “restraint” because, as President Biden tried to explain, it is “beginning to lose the support” of international public opinion due to “indiscriminate bombing”.
Since October 7th, a lot of water has flowed into the ditch. The first shock, the international condemnation of the terrorist attacks against Israelis, seems to have been “overcome” by what followed. Of course, the dead are there to remind us of that attack and terrorism. Since then, however, a lot of innocent Palestinian blood has flowed into the ditch. The extremes of Hamas were exploited by the extremists in Tel Aviv to end the Palestinians. To raze them and those who remain to drive them out.
Ethnic cleansing and genocide. This is being done by the State of Israel, first in Gaza and then in the West Bank and this cannot be disputed. Netanyahu is presented as the guarantor who will not allow the creation of two states. He states that he will not allow Gaza to become either “Hamastan” or “Fatahstan”. What does this mean; He will control Gaza completely. By “renewing” the population and by military and political control. The crime will continue until the end. In this process, children, and women will be murdered, and hostages will be shot because they are considered “suspicious”.
The Palestinians, unprotected even by the Arab states, are not just numbers. They are not statistics that record how many were killed, injured, or displaced. They are people. People who want to live in their land, even if they have to face terrorist attacks, attacks that occasionally may find “international legitimacy” in the name of… self-defense.
PS: Pantelis Boukalas in Kathimerini of Athens, wondered “If in a few days in Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, the fairy-tale message ‘peace on earth, prosperity among men’ will be heard?”, to add that “nothing is more dramatic than the manger of rubble, with a baby doll between them: the image of despair with extreme clarity”.
