ATLANTA, Georgia, Sep 03 (IPS) – Most individuals assume that Israel’s major purpose in Gaza is to recuperate the hostages seized by HAMAS on October 7, 2023 with an introduced follow-up mission to eradicate HAMAS as a risk. In case you thought that, you’ll be incorrect. Substantial proof reveals a distinct strategic intention—destroying each shred of Palestinian legitimacy as a nation.
Inspite of continuous pleas from the weak Biden-Harris-Blinken White Home to cease bombing civilians in Gaza, Israel refuses to finish the carnage. What is going on on? As regular within the Center East, the plain plot has a minimum of one hidden sub-plot.
Israel’s most necessary strategic purpose all through the greater than ten months of its mindless, horrifically devastating marketing campaign in Gaza has been, not solely to kill HAMAS militants and tens of 1000’s of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, however as a substitute to kill the extensively trumpeted “Two-State Answer.”
The continued carnage on the West Financial institution goals to destroy, not simply Palestinian infrastructure or hopeless younger “Lions Den” resistance, however the very concept that the Palestinians have a proper to self-determination, or any legitimacy in any respect as a state. With a lot of the world decrying the genocide in Gaza, the full-blown battle on cities and civilians within the West Financial institution has escaped scrutiny.
The obvious proof of that’s the truth that Netanyahu’s extremist Likud authorities continues its gratuitous bombing marketing campaign in Gaza, and continues to refuse HAMAS’ gives for releasing hostages in return for even a short lived cease-fire. Like most American intelligence consultants, Israel’s personal army leaders have admitted that HAMAS can’t be utterly eradicated.
Sadly, the horrific lack of life in Gaza will not be at this level actually about Gaza. It is a distraction from a land seize for the West Financial institution of the Jordan River, what the Israelis name their very personal territories of “Judea and Samaria.” Netanyahu has echoed the settlers’ declare that Israel can’t be accused of being unlawful army occupiers of what’s “our personal land.”
One of many first shibboleths from the mouth of President Biden following HAMAS’ obscene battle crimes on October 7 and simply earlier than he obtained on Air Pressure One to make humiliating obeisance to the indicted battle prison Netanyahu, was to supply the meaningless phrases, “Two-State Answer.”
However certainly the person who had for years been Chairman of the Senate International Relations Committee will need to have recognized that the “Two-State Answer” was already on its final legs and unlikely to be revived. Now Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is echoing “Genocide Joe,” not a lot by providing a components for peace as merely parroting an empty phrase.
Lesson primary in worldwide diplomacy on the macro scale is {that a} regime will need to have legitimacy as a individuals group earlier than it could actually obtain any type of concrete actuality as a nation. The start of the US is an instance. The Boston Tea Occasion, Patrick Henry’s speech, and Paul Revere’s trip coalesced America’s widespread id.
Washington at Valley Forge and at Yorktown truly birthed the nation. Attaining legitimacy, the unquestionable proper to exist as an organized political entity, is how a inhabitants or rebel motion turns into a state.
By smashing peaceable West Financial institution cities with tanks and jet bombers, bulldozing their streets and tagging all Palestinians as terrorists, the native group is being robbed of its heritage in addition to its present and future legitimacy. Any likelihood for statehood is being obliterated by Israel’s “excessive” ravages on civilian life and infrastructure in Gaza and all through the West Financial institution.
In the meantime, the political class’s pretense of being pro-peace is a sick charade. Let’s cease saying “Genocide is unhealthy” and “Killing individuals is unhealthy,” with out additionally saying “Killing civil society is a optimistic evil as effectively,” as a result of it kills the way forward for a complete individuals group.
James E. Jennings, PhD is President of Conscience Worldwide www.conscienceinternational.org and Government Director of US Teachers for Peace. He delivered assist to Gaza’s hospitals from 1987-2014, together with throughout the 2009 “Forged Lead” bombing and intervals of Israeli, PLO, and HAMAS management.
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