Gideon Levy, Haaretz:
'..The Palestinians must be extricated from Israel's eternal grasp, and only internationalization can achieve this.
This is an important lesson for the future: Before accusing all those people who protest, resist, struggle and voice subversive opinions abroad, it should be recognized that the only arena in which genuine change can still be effected is the international arena. Only out of it can signs of hope emerge.There is no longer any possibility that Israelis will extricate themselves from the moral abyss into which they have slid, that they will wake up one day and say, let's put an end to the apartheid, the occupation, the malicious domination of another people.
Anyone wishing to combat these phenomena must focus their efforts abroad. There, they will find not only a more attentive ear but also an opportunity for action. Once public opinion leads more governments to mobilize to join this struggle, hope will emerge.The claim that this is foreign intervention in the internal affairs of Israel is, of course, idle nonsense. The fate of the Palestinian people is not an Israeli domestic matter, nor is it an Israeli matter at all. The world has not only a right to come to its aid, it has a duty to do so, given that the Palestinians are defenseless against Israel's occupation machine. Internationalization will introduce new forces into the equations of occupier and occupied, and it is the only thing that could upend them.
The world will enter the Gaza Strip through the provision of aid, through reconstruction and even through military forces that replace the Israel Defense Forces. Up to now, following each periodic IDF attack on Gaza, the Israeli military withdrew, leaving the enclave to its fate until the pleasure of the next invasion arrives, always more brutal than the preceding one. Now, another force is scheduled to enter the vacuum left in Gaza. Inshallah.'
From the comments:
'-As always Gideon is right. One of Israel's mantras, parroted by the West, is that peace must be decided by negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, which is absurd in an occupation. Let's just dream for a Sunday, but add to your wish list that Israel should pay for everything it has broken, as is the rule in a shop. As part of its unaccountability, after every rampage it expects the world to pay for the damage as well as the weapons. That should end.'
'-It was probably never true that American soldiers would ever fight on the ground for the state of Israel, and it is certainly not true going forward. Would they fight on the ground to protect Palestinians from a continued ethnic cleansing and genocide? I think most likely not. But very soon I hope there will be an army of European and American JOURNALISTS in Gaza, and the already large army of "pro-Palestinian"protesters I hope will stay intact and grow larger, to pull their governments into siding with the Palestinian people in full recognition of their human rights.'
haaretz.com/opinion/2025-1
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