LurkerJ said:
I think we are definitely dealing with "human animals" here, but they are not the people of Gaza, that's very clear. |
This is what propaganda and indoctrination leads to. Settler kids get indoctrinated from birth. They take their kids with them to these protests, both where they were trying to set up shacks in Gaza and during these blockades.
Ben-Gvir (The Settler minister in the war cabinet) encourages them by claiming Hamas takes all the aid that enters Gaza and has convinced them that aid agencies are supplying and feeding Hamas. The IDF denies there is famine, that the Palestinians are 'crying wolf' like they have been telling the Israeli public for many decades. The belief in 'the most moral army on Earth' is solid.
This is what happens when you define yourself by victim hood, believing the whole world is against you. UNWRA is Hamas, the UN is aiding Hamas, even Biden is aiding Hamas by not allowing Israel to finish the job.
Hence the only way out is by dismantling the indoctrination, exactly that which Netanyahu accuses UNWRA of doing in schools has been happening in Israel for decades. UNWRA doesn't need to be taken under the loop for its education system, Israel needs to be.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-jerusalem/how-the-religious-right-transformed-israeli-education
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2020-01-26/ty-article/.premium/in-israel-indoctrination-starts-in-kindergarten/0000017f-e0d2-df7c-a5ff-e2fa3c6b0000
Militarized Education in Israel after 1948
https://cpsa-acsp.ca/documents/conference/2017/Gold.pdf
Israel has been taken over by ultra religious fanatics long ago. The government never had the courage to stand up to the idealistic Settler movement from the get go. Then as settlements grew any resistance further eroded and the Settler movement gradually took political control to where we are now.
This documentary shows how the Settler movement managed to corrupt Zionism and the Balfour declaration. (The often overlooked second part which states "nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.”)
The international community is to blame for letting this build up for 75 years. Now we're dealing with an entire indoctrinated population, young and old, every generation currently alive in Israel. There are counter voices and many still believe in a 2 state solution, yet atm, even the more moderate National Unity party (which might win in re-elections) is not against the 'war'.
National Unity
In 2022 Defense Minister Benny Gantz teamed up with Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s like-minded New Hope party and another former Israeli army chief of staff, Gadi Eizenkot, to form the National Unity party. It’s a new party but it’s deeply rooted in Zionism and liberalism. It has vowed to protect Israel’s Jewish identity and has an ambiguous position on a two-state solution. The National Unity party also aims to focus on government corruption and impose term limits. It aims to shift the economy to focus on macroeconomics and is pushing to invest in education. The party hopes to attract votes from the center-right who will not vote for Netanyahu or Lapid.
Sa'ar split from National Unity again already.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/saar-splits-from-gantzs-national-unity-party-demands-seat-in-war-cabinet/
Without Biden putting his foot down or at least stop politically protecting Israel at all cost, I'm afraid not much will change. 'Evil' has rooted itself too deeply inside Israeli society.
Gantz seems to just want to go back to how it was before Oct 7 while I guess turning Gaza into another West Bank mess.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-697070
Palestinians will have 'an entity,' not a state, says Gantz
Defense Minister Benny Gantz described a future where Palestinian sovereignty, and Israeli security, are mutually respected.
At least Gantz wants to actually include the Palestinians in their future: "Gantz, however, strongly advocates negotiation with Palestinians." One thing the US never actually mentions when discussing the future.
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