Fabio Manganiello on Nostr: npub1ffeh6…82lmq If Israel claims the legitimacy of bombing Gaza in order to ...
npub1ffeh63h9kke3sjcn3f7kuzh80xdtmey52axtpjjjdfd4cwhum4tq682lmq (npub1ffe…2lmq) If Israel claims the legitimacy of bombing Gaza in order to eradicate Hamas, then it should also accept the responsibility of rebuilding it after Hamas is gone.
Sure, in theory it should be the international community's job to help rebuild and reorganize Gaza in such a way that it gets on the right path and steers away from Teheran's sphere of influence, not Israel's alone. But whose international community are we talking about? The UN? As we have learned in these weeks, Israel, with the American complicity, feels entitled to dismiss anything that comes out of the UN, and it even gets away with addressing personal insults to its highest representatives without even getting a mild slap on their hand. No initiative from the international community, in any form, can ever succeed as long as Israel wants Gaza to remain a radicalized wasteland. Israel has even gotten away with blocking humanitarian efforts into Gaza and cutting water and electricity supplies: how could a hypothetical peaceful transition of power under the UN supervision even take place if Israel most likely would even deny entry visas to UN representatives?
I'm putting so much stress on Israel's responsibilities here because its government should be forced to take a stance. Israel's should clearly state what its interests are: Either:
1. To peacefully coexist with its neighbours - which means that Palestinians should also get their own State, illegal settlement plans should stop right now, and all illegal settlers must leave right now: no democracy can ever develop without a functioning State and an internationally recognized territory.
2. Or Israel's interests are to continue with their slaughter and illegal occupation, betting everything on getting all the land from the river to the sea for themselves, under the well-proved assumption that denying all the rights to a group of people keeps them angry and radicalized and makes violence against them more justifiable.
My hypothesis is that Netanyahu's proto-fascist government needs Hamas just as much as Hamas needs Netanyahu. Extremisms always need each other in order to justify their violence, their perennial state of emergency and their continuous violation of the rule of law.
Without Israel's aggressive colonial plans, Palestinians could have their own State and Hamas would have no reason to exist. Ordinary people choose violence only when they have nothing left to lose.
And without Hamas, Netanyahu couldn't say "I'm dropping bombs on Hamas". He'd be forced to say "I'm slaughtering hundreds of civilians in Gaza every day because many of the proto-fascists within my government coalition got millions of orthodox votes on the promise of an homogenous ethnic-religious State and territorial expansion, and I need these guys if I want to stay in government, avoid the 6th election within 4 years, and possibly avoid jail because of the corruption trials awaiting me".
We should make it very clear that we won't send a single helmet or bullet to Israel, and we should also threaten sanctions on them, as long as members of its government keep explicitly supporting ethnic cleansing and opposing any form of coexistence with their neighbours. Government representatives can't get away with harassing Muslims in mosques, pushing for their illegal program of evictions and settlements, and come out with phrases like "move all the Palestinians to Ireland or to the desert". Those who break things have the moral obligation of rebuilding them.
Sure, in theory it should be the international community's job to help rebuild and reorganize Gaza in such a way that it gets on the right path and steers away from Teheran's sphere of influence, not Israel's alone. But whose international community are we talking about? The UN? As we have learned in these weeks, Israel, with the American complicity, feels entitled to dismiss anything that comes out of the UN, and it even gets away with addressing personal insults to its highest representatives without even getting a mild slap on their hand. No initiative from the international community, in any form, can ever succeed as long as Israel wants Gaza to remain a radicalized wasteland. Israel has even gotten away with blocking humanitarian efforts into Gaza and cutting water and electricity supplies: how could a hypothetical peaceful transition of power under the UN supervision even take place if Israel most likely would even deny entry visas to UN representatives?
I'm putting so much stress on Israel's responsibilities here because its government should be forced to take a stance. Israel's should clearly state what its interests are: Either:
1. To peacefully coexist with its neighbours - which means that Palestinians should also get their own State, illegal settlement plans should stop right now, and all illegal settlers must leave right now: no democracy can ever develop without a functioning State and an internationally recognized territory.
2. Or Israel's interests are to continue with their slaughter and illegal occupation, betting everything on getting all the land from the river to the sea for themselves, under the well-proved assumption that denying all the rights to a group of people keeps them angry and radicalized and makes violence against them more justifiable.
My hypothesis is that Netanyahu's proto-fascist government needs Hamas just as much as Hamas needs Netanyahu. Extremisms always need each other in order to justify their violence, their perennial state of emergency and their continuous violation of the rule of law.
Without Israel's aggressive colonial plans, Palestinians could have their own State and Hamas would have no reason to exist. Ordinary people choose violence only when they have nothing left to lose.
And without Hamas, Netanyahu couldn't say "I'm dropping bombs on Hamas". He'd be forced to say "I'm slaughtering hundreds of civilians in Gaza every day because many of the proto-fascists within my government coalition got millions of orthodox votes on the promise of an homogenous ethnic-religious State and territorial expansion, and I need these guys if I want to stay in government, avoid the 6th election within 4 years, and possibly avoid jail because of the corruption trials awaiting me".
We should make it very clear that we won't send a single helmet or bullet to Israel, and we should also threaten sanctions on them, as long as members of its government keep explicitly supporting ethnic cleansing and opposing any form of coexistence with their neighbours. Government representatives can't get away with harassing Muslims in mosques, pushing for their illegal program of evictions and settlements, and come out with phrases like "move all the Palestinians to Ireland or to the desert". Those who break things have the moral obligation of rebuilding them.