Excellent article by Patrick Cockburn:
https://x.com/MouinRabbani/status/1978326725231599799
Excellent article by Patrick Cockburn:
For two years, Gaza became a theatre of cruelty in which the horrified audience was the rest of the world. As Israeli airstrikes pounded the homes, hospitals and schools of Gaza into rubble, they also pounded sympathy and support for Israel. Today, polls show that more Americans support the Palestinian people than they do the Israeli government. This week some 38 percent of Britons told YouGov they feel more sympathy for the Palestinians, whereas 12 per cent have more for Israel.
Yet Israeli failure goes far beyond international obloquy and isolation. As in past wars with the Palestinians, Israel showed great tactical military expertise combined with self-defeating political blindness, deluding itself that long term success can be won by force alone: Israelis must have 100 per cent security, even if this means 100 percent insecurity for Palestinians.
The only possible relationship it would consider between the seven million Palestinians and seven million Israeli Jews living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea is what Human Rights Watch calls apartheid, or expulsion. The very great superiority of the Israel Defence Force (IDF) became a liability because it tempted Israelis into convincing themselves that all problems with others can be solved by military means – though this approach has a track record of bloody failure stretching back three quarters of a century.
Israel put great resources into propaganda at home and abroad, but then made the huge mistake of believing too much of it itself. All opponents are demonised as deadly enemies to be physically eliminated. Once this demon was the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) while today it is Hamas, yet if the latter vanished tomorrow it would inevitably be replaced by some other Palestinian movement.
In conscious or unconscious recognition of this fact, Israel’s attack on Gaza was from the beginning a merciless assault on all its 2.4 million Palestinians inhabitants. In the six months since Netanyahu broke the ceasefire on 18 March, a detailed report by the US-based Armed Conflict Location and Event Data (ACLED) reveals that nearly 15 out of every 16 Palestinians killed in Gaza was a civilian.
inews.co.uk/opinion/trump-
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