I am Jewish and I admire IDF !!
I unfortunately have little respect for most American types
There are many Jews and Israelis for which I have a great deal of respect and admiration for being informed, courageous and ethical enough to condemn genocide when it is committed by right wing Zionist "Settler" types like the ones in the article below who murder, steal and destroy not only with impunity with the complicity of IDF members.
Please remember that these were and are West Bank Palestinians who attacked no one but were murdered just for the "crime" of already living on land coveted by delusional and violent, foreign Jews:
- "Israel Must Loudly Arrest the Murderous West Bank Settlers"
Or risk losing any moral authority in this war.
slate.com
3, November 2023
EXCERPT "Since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack,
settlers there have killed more than 120 Palestinians and injured at least 2,000. They have forcibly expelled more than 800 Palestinians from their homes, blown up their generators and solar panels, and burned down tents of Bedouin herders.
Again: This has been going on not in Gaza but in the West Bank—which is governed by the Palestinian Authority, not by Hamas." CONTINUED
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On the other hand, a growing number of Jews recognize that destroying and attempting to annex Gaza while killing / expelling its native residents is not going to make the Israeli people more secure now or later.
These are just two other Jewish groups who make compelling cases against the genocide that is being carried out by the Netanyahu government"... in plain view."
- “A Textbook Case of Genocide”
“Israel has been explicit about what it’s carrying out in Gaza. Why isn’t the world listening?”
Israel has been explicit about what it’s carrying out in Gaza. Why isn’t the world listening?
jewishcurrents.org
EXCERPT " But the assault on Gaza can also be understood in other terms: as a textbook case of genocide unfolding in front of our eyes. I say this as a scholar of genocide, who has spent many years writing about Israeli mass violence against Palestinians. I have written about settler colonialism and
Jewish supremacy in Israel, the distortion of the Holocaust to boost the
Israeli arms industry, the
weaponization of antisemitism accusations to justify Israeli violence against Palestinians, and the racist regime of Israeli
apartheid. “
“Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant
declared it in no uncertain terms on October 9th: “We are imposing a complete siege on Gaza. No electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything is closed. We are fighting human animals, and we will act accordingly.”
Indeed, Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza is quite explicit, open, and unashamed. Perpetrators of genocide usually do not express their intentions so clearly,
Israel’s goal is to destroy the Palestinians of Gaza. And those of us watching around the world are derelict in our responsibility to prevent them from doing so.” CONTINUED
And:
- “Jews Against Genocide statement and action”
www.ijan.org
EXCERPT “We, Jews Against Genocide, came to Yad Vashem, Israel’s memorial of the genocide committed against Jews, to honor the Palestinian children who are dying in a genocide committed by Jews.
We brought dolls to symbolise the children of Gaza, and tried to bring a glimpse of the horror that Gazan’s face, to Israel’s doorstep. We hope to show Israel, and the world, the absurd reality of using the memory of one genocide to justify another.” CONTINUED
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To be clear,I have a great admiration for the IDF members like those involved in "Breaking the Silence" and I find the deaths of young women who died so young and so unnecessarily to be especially tragic.
It was, I believe, these 11 young women monitoring the sophisticated surveillance system at the Wall who repeatedly reported compelling evidence that an attack was imminent but their warnings were as casually dismissed as were countless specific warnings for over a year.
For example:
- "New York Times report says Israel knew about Hamas attack over a year in advance"
The New York Times is reporting Israel knew about Hamas attack plans over a year before the Oct. 7 operation, but dismissed them as “aspirational."
apnews.com
EXCERPT "The attack was
planned in plain sight. A month before the assault, Hamas posted a video to social media showing fighters using explosives to blast through a replica of the border gate, sweep in on pickup trucks and then move building by building through a full-scale reconstruction of an Israeli town, firing automatic weapons at human-silhouetted paper targets.
In the video, the militants destroyed mock-ups of the wall’s concrete towers and a communications antenna, just as they would do for real on Oct. 7.
Adding to public outrage over the military’s apparent negligence,
the Israeli media has reported that military officials dismissed warnings from female border spotters who warned that they were witnessing Hamas’ preparations for the attack. According to the media reports, the young women reported seeing Hamas drones and attempts to knock out Israeli border cameras in the months leading up to the attack." CONTINUED
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There is just too much evidence that at least some members of the Netanyahu government knew exactly when and where the attack would occur for it to be called a "surprise" attack.
I fully believe that at least members of the more radical right wing of Netanyahu's right wing government chose to let a controlled attack occur as an excuse to destroy Gaza, exterminate / expel its residents and then annex it for "Israel's security".
This wouldn't be the first time that militant Zionists were willing to sacrifice other Jews for their "Greater Israel":
“If I knew that it was possible to save all the children of Germany by transporting them to England, and only half by transferring them to the Land of Israel, I would choose the latter, for before us lies not only the numbers of these children but the historical reckoning of the people of Israel.”
Ben-Gurion (Quoted on pp 855-56 in Shabtai Teveth’s Ben-Gurion in a slightly different translation).
I’ve been engaged in a long-term e-mail debate with anti-Zionists, associated with David McReynolds, a former leader of the War Resisters’ League and a tiny remnant that still calls itself the Socialist Party, USA. Seth Farber, one of the most vociferous (although not quite the nastiest) of my...
www.progressiveisrael.org
Finally, while I have focused on the genocidal excesses of Israel's current government, I can assure those who may have different views than mine that I would be every bit as vocal if hungry and traumatized Israelis and / or Jews were driven from their destroyed homes, herded into squalid refugee camps and massacred indiscriminately.
Even Israeli sources report that: "...the killing of Palestinians is accepted in Israel more lightly than the killing of mosquitoes" (1)
I didn't mean to write this much but like to clarify that I am not hostile toward Israel or its sane citizens.
I am simply repulsed that America's $ Trillions are being used to fund Netanyahu's genocidal expansionism.
Thanks,
(1). "The Israel Massacre Forces"
https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-the-israel-massacre-forces-1.5962852
EXCERPT "The shooting on the Gaza border shows once again that the killing of Palestinians is accepted in Israel more lightly than the killing of mosquitoes"CONTINUED