ATLANTA, Georgia, Sep 03 (IPS) – Most individuals assume that Israel’s most important objective 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 improper. Substantial proof reveals a special strategic purpose—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 ordinary within the Center East, the plain plot has at the least one hidden sub-plot.
Israel’s most essential strategic objective 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 an alternative to kill the broadly 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 many 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 specialists, Israel’s personal army leaders have admitted that HAMAS can’t be fully eradicated.
Sadly, the horrific lack of life in Gaza just isn’t 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 bought on Air Pressure One to make humiliating obeisance to the indicted battle prison Netanyahu, was to supply the meaningless phrases, “Two-State Answer.”
However absolutely the person who had for years been Chairman of the Senate International Relations Committee should 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 should have legitimacy as a folks group earlier than it may possibly obtain any sort of concrete actuality as a nation. The beginning of the USA is an instance. The Boston Tea Social gathering, Patrick Henry’s speech, and Paul Revere’s trip coalesced America’s well-liked 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 neighborhood is being robbed of its heritage in addition to its present and future legitimacy. Any probability 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 folks is unhealthy,” with out additionally saying “Killing civil society is a constructive evil as effectively,” as a result of it kills the way forward for a complete folks group.
James E. Jennings, PhD is President of Conscience Worldwide www.conscienceinternational.org and Government Director of US Lecturers for Peace. He delivered support to Gaza’s hospitals from 1987-2014, together with in the course of the 2009 “Forged Lead” bombing and intervals of Israeli, PLO, and HAMAS management.
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