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    Deep Neocons: When a whole society supports a terrorist organization

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    When a whole society supports a terrorist organization

    Jonathan Ofir on November 12, 2019



    Palestinians flee with their belongings from the Shejaiya neighborhood of Gaza City to the center of town to seek refugee at a UN school, on August 19, 2014. Warplanes bombed the strip after Palestinian rockets smashed into the country's south. Photo by Ezz al-Zanoun


    After the 2008-9 Israeli onslaught on Gaza that took 1500 lives, a UN fact-finding mission concluded that the three-week campaign was “a deliberately disproportionate attack, designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population.” Note the word “terrorize.”

    But was this an isolated incident? Not at all. Israel has a long and sordid history of state-terrorist activity. There was the pre-state terror, which eventually served as a means of ethnic cleansing, known as the Nakba of 1948. Those Palestinians who tried to return were shot by the thousands, most of them unarmed.
    In the early 1950’s, David Ben-Gurion ordered a massive state-terrorist operation in response to the murder of a Jewish family by Palestinian guerillas. Although the suspects were not found, a “retaliatory” attack was conducted across the Jordanian border in Qibya, commanded by Ariel Sharon. Dozens of houses were blown up with their residents inside, about 70 killed. Ben-Gurion cynically tried to attribute the attack to “Jews from the Arab countries or survivors of the Nazi concentration camps”, apparently the lowest stratum he could think of for his cowardly blaming – above Palestinians, that is.

    It goes on and on. In 2017 I had a debate with a self-proclaimed ”burning Zionist” for a radio podcast, where I pointed out that the former Prime Israeli Minister Menachem Begin was a terrorist. My counterpart argued that since Begin concluded a peace agreement with Egypt (1979), he must be considered a dove in our times. I regret not having yet had the chance to read about Israel’s false-flag terror campaign in Lebanon under Begin’s premiership. The revelations about this roughly-four-year campaign in the years 1979-83, a campaign which took the lives of hundreds of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians, came out last year in Ronen Bergman’s book “Rise and Kill First.” These things are often censored, and years pass until you hear about them. And I’m not even getting into the whole 1st Lebanon war in 1982 which killed almost 20,000 people, roughly half of whom were civilians, all in order to avert a Palestinian ‘peace offensive’. The false-flag terror campaign served as part of the pretext for that war.
    And just as I write these words, there has been another “targeted assassination” by Israeli forces in Gaza, of Baha Abu al-Ata, of Islamic Jihad.

    But there is also the daily terrorization – like last month’s kidnapping and terrorization of 10-year old Qusay al-Jaar by Israeli soldiers, meant to extract information from him about other masked youths he did not know.
    Terrorization has been a consistent means of the Israeli state and army vis-à-vis Palestinians. As Moshe Dayan said in 1955:

    The only method that proved effective, not justified or moral but effective, when Arabs plant mines on our side [is retaliation]. If we try to search for the [particular] Arab [who planted mines], it has not value. But if we harass the nearby village…then the population there comes out against the [infiltrators]…the method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.
    This policy is a violation of international law. But Israelis generally accept it as a ‘necessary evil’ – notice Dayan’s “not justified or moral but effective”. This is why Gaza is being terrorized, this time, ostensibly, for electing Hamas. The unarmed protesters who are being shot and killed by the hundreds are but an extension of the siege policy. The recent siege, which came in the wake of Hamas’s election victory in 2006, is also but an extension of a longer historical siege. Palestinians are simply under a continuing colonialist siege, designed to reduce their territory and their presence.

    So when anti-Apartheid BDS activist Adi Shosberger stands near the Gaza perimeter and calls Israeli soldiers out for being terrorists, Israelis start threatening her family.

    Israelis generally accept this terror, but they won’t have it called out as such. These things that the Israeli army does are just things that have to be done, as it were, by the most moral army in the world. And it’s all about security, it’s about protecting your country. How dare you criticize!

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