WORLD WORLDWIDE ITALY News Journal Update - (en) Italy, FDCA, Il Cantiere #21: This horror has context. We must find a new way - Hagai Matar* (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

Editor's note: We believe it is of great interest to highlight the
voices of Israeli dissent ---- Any damage to the civilian population is
a crime, but today we must remember that this is not a unilateral
attack, but part of a reality derived from long years of oppression and
ccisions. Revenge will bring nothing but more blood. The only way to
stop this bloody cycle is to choose peace and equality. ---- October 7,
2023. It's a horrible morning. Waking up to alarms and explosions,
hearing about the dead, seeing the videos coming from the south and
imagining the terror of those who see the Hamas and Jihad militiamen
roaming the streets far and wide. As I write, news of even worse events
is arriving. Horror. Any harm to civilians is a crime, like today's
attack from Gaza, and our thoughts are with the victims and their families.
What cannot be said is that it was an attack that came out of nowhere,
unilateral, without context, completely unexpected. For weeks
commentators have been warning of the growing escalation in the
Territories, of the total and unstoppable control assumed by the
settlers - with the creation of new settlements and pogroms against the
Palestinians, and with the provocation of the far-right Israeli MP
Sukkot who went to Hawara, in the West Bank, with the support of the
army - and continued clashes in Palestinian towns, around the entrances
to Joseph's Tomb, and new invasions by the Israeli army. This year there
have been more Palestinian deaths caused by Israeli gunfire than there
have been in the last twenty years, and even more Israeli deaths than
there have been in many years now.
Start of moduleEnd of moduleAll this adds to Israel's system of brutal
and ongoing oppression against Palestinians, the military regime imposed
in the West Bank, and the suffocating blockade of Gaza, which prevents
any reasonable human existence for the two million residents of the country.
Strip.
I write and I feel that these words lose their meaning as the years go
by, but this does not make them any less real for those who suffer from
the lack of running and clean water, those who live with four hours of
electricity a day, those who suffer from unemployment and of poverty
which are growing at impressive rates. All of this is largely due to the
Israeli blockade and no one in the government is thinking about a
long-term strategy, what direction we are going in, whether there are
alternatives to the increasingly serious clashes that are costing us all
this blood. The only answers offered by the government (but also by a
large part of the opposition) are always stop-gap remedies: there are
tunnels, so we will build an underground barrier; there are rockets, so
we intercept them; there are casualties, so we will start another cycle
of war, destroy more parts of Gaza and kill hundreds more innocent
people. But swabs are never a solution. The possible agreement with
Saudi Arabia still remains in the background.
For years, Netanyahu has sold the Palestinians the story of peace,
claiming that the Abraham Accords for cooperation and security can be
applied throughout the Middle East and that this is the path to peace.
In practice, it is clear to everyone that it is a question of pulling
the ground from under the Palestinians' feet, of taking away one of
their last bargaining chips against the regional power that has trampled
on them for decades, and which they have no chance of defeating
militarily. or diplomatically, after the rest of the world has long
since abandoned them. The agreement with Saudi Arabia, which is
reportedly closer than ever, is considered the culmination of these
efforts, and the Palestinians know that after this they will be left
almost completely alone.
None of this justifies anything. Certainly not the killing of civilians.
Moreover, it helps to understand why all this is happening, and why the
solution, again, cannot lie in more wars and more blood. Once this Hamas
attack is over, the right thing to to do is to think of a new path. To
understand, just as in Israel we are protesting against the government
for democracy and equality, that the Palestinians have been suffering
from the Israeli regime of tyranny for decades and that the right to
democracy and equality belongs to everyone , from the Jordan to the sea.

This means, first and foremost, that we must now refuse to go to war in
Gaza, where once again hundreds of innocents are expected to be killed
(and yes, brothers in arms, I am addressing you, who know how to
criticize the government very well regarding Jewish rights, but are you
ready at the first alarm to rush to bomb civilians.)  After that, this
wicked and failed government must be overthrown, because during its
short term so many Israeli citizens die in vain in the conflict.
Therefore it is necessary to end the occupation and the siege and,
together with the Palestinians, promote a solution that guarantees a
better future for all of us. In the blood and horror we see now in
Israel this is hard to imagine. But we must remember that even more
blood and terror have been the reality of Palestinian life for decades,
that clashes in the streets and in front of homes are an integral part
of Palestinian life in the West Bank, that deadly bombs have been a
reality of life in Gaza for a lot of time. We are not the only ones who
feel horror. What is happening today with the Hamas attacks makes many
of us respond with a desire for revenge, with the desire to mercilessly
strike the other side, because there is no point in talking to them,
because "they are human animals". But in the same way they have also
been feeling and speaking on the other side, for decades, in the face of
everything we do to them.
Precisely because blood and terror have been an integral part of our
lives for decades, and because there is no other way, we must choose
peace, equality, justice for all.
*Hagai Matar is an Israeli journalist and political-social activist.
Article taken from https://www.mekomit.co.il, translated and adapted
from the Hebrew language. We thank comrade Ilan Shalif for reporting it
to us.

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