WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE ISRAEL PALESTINE GAZA - news journal UPDATE - (en) France, OCL CA #337 - Despite the ongoing massacre, Israel is failing in Gaza (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 The brutality of the Israeli attack against the civilian population of

Gaza has several causes. It is of course the result of the
dehumanization of the "other", of the Palestinian. When Israeli leaders
call the Palestinians "human animals", when they dream out loud of
returning Gaza to the Stone Age, of dropping an atomic bomb on them, of
burying them alive, of starving them or sending them in Congo, they have
the support of a significant part of public opinion. Israel is a toxic
society. Years of impunity and colonization have fascisized the
population. There is support for the settlers who are increasing the
pogroms in the West Bank with the complicity of the army. There is a
majority feeling towards "Arabs": "we don't want to live with these
people". Israeli leaders have theorized that women and children are also
targets. Gaza society must not reproduce itself.
Another reason that explains the ongoing genocide is that October 7
shattered an Israeli myth: that of its invulnerability. For the first
time, Israeli colonial society paid a price for the suffering inflicted
on Palestine. The ferocity of the Israeli army in Gaza is intended to
drown this affront in blood. The myth of Israel's identification with
Jewish security has collapsed. Israelis will never be safe as long as
Israel destroys Palestine.

Netanyahu and the assassins around him have announced big plans by
invading Gaza.
First "eradicate" Hamas. Purely propagandistic sentence. Hamas is not an
army. The tunnels exist but the network the Israeli army speaks of is a
fantasy. Resistance, peaceful or armed, is part of the Palestinian
population. In every family, there are resistance fighters, often from
different parties. The incredible ferocity of the Israeli aggression and
the fact that entire families were knowingly exterminated have united
the Palestinian population. There is no other choice than resistance.
Each wanton murder creates new resistance fighters.
The Zionist project has always been ethnically pure "Greater Israel."
But to carry out a new Nakba, we must be able to send the Palestinians
somewhere. This deadly project is off to a bad start. No country, even
Egypt, will agree to participate in a new deportation.

The images of the atrocities perpetrated in Gaza, despite the complicity
of many media outlets, have largely destroyed the image of Israel. The
BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement is gaining strength. He
achieved success with Puma's decision to stop sponsoring the Israeli
soccer team. Carrefour, which opened stores in Israeli settlements and
sent packages to Israeli soldiers, is the subject of a campaign that
will surely force this multinational to change its policy. Western
countries that claim to be democratic and respectful of the law in the
face of states that trample it (Russia, Iran, Syria, China, etc.) have
discredited themselves by denying the genocide, arming and protecting
Israel. South Africa's complaint against Israel for genocide has a huge
resonance and raises a lot of hope in Palestine. Even if international
justice has no power, this complaint, coming from a Southern country
crowned by its victory against apartheid, seriously undermines the
supremacy of the West.

A Palestinian leader once told me: "Israelis are afraid that they are no
longer afraid." This sustained fear is the cement of Israeli society.
Certainly, there is consensus in Israel on the Palestinian question. But
the clashes (secular versus religious, Sephardim and Oriental Jews
versus Ashkenazim, Europeanized Israelis versus settlers, Russians
versus all the others, etc.) are more and more evident. The far right is
certainly hegemonic in Israel but it is very deeply divided. The
post-war period in Israel will give rise to harsh clashes.
Especially since Biden shot himself in the foot by responding to all of
Netanyahu's wishes at this point. This war has already cost more than 50
billion dollars. Who will pay ? How will a society as divided as Israel
face the coming crisis?

One of Israel's strengths has always been the exploitation of
anti-Semitism. This worked well after October 7 when demonstrations were
banned in France. We even had a prefect declaring: "supporting the
Palestinian cause is an attack on human dignity". This campaign which
regularly claimed that the Palestinians were anti-Semitic and that
October 7 was a "pogrom" is failing. In Israel itself, hundreds of
people signed a text in support of South Africa's complaint. 50
researchers working at Yad Vashem (the Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem)
signed a letter urging the director of the memorial to denounce the
ongoing genocide. In the United States, where 40% of the world's Jews
live, Jewish organizations occupied the Statue of Liberty and New York
Central Station shouting "Stop the genocide in Gaza."
In short, despite the terrible suffering suffered in Gaza, we can always
hope.

Pierre Stambul on January 16, 2024

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