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Haggai Matar is an award-winning Israeli journalist and political activist, and is the executive director of +972 Magazine.
Contrary to what many Israelis are saying, and while the army was clearly caught completely off guard by this invasion, this is not a “unilateral” or “unprovoked” attack. The dread Israelis are feeling right now, myself included, is a sliver of what Palestinians have been feeling on a daily basis under the decades-long military regime in the West Bank, and under the siege and repeated assaults on Gaza. The responses we are hearing from many Israelis today — of people calling to “flatten Gaza,” that “these are savages, not people you can negotiate with,” “they are murdering whole families,” “there’s no room to talk with these people” — are exactly what I have heard occupied Palestinians say about Israelis countless times.
Yet I remember that everything that I am feeling now, which every Israeli must be sharing, has been the life experience of millions of Palestinians for far too long. The only solution, as it has always been, is to bring an end of apartheid, occupation, and siege, and promote a future based on justice and equality for all of us. It is not in spite of the horror that we have to change course — it is exactly because of it.
Source: Gaza’s shock attack has terrified Israelis. It should also unveil the context
A massive assault by Palestinian resistance fighters infiltrating Israeli military bases around the outer edges of the besieged Gaza Strip led to the killing of between 30 and 70 Israelis (different sources have reported different numbers), mainly soldiers. The subsequent bombing of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli airforce and military has led to 198 Palestinians being killed.
The Palestinian resistance movement’s attack comes in the midst of ongoing attacks on Palestinian civilians, their property and desecration of Muslim and Christian holy sites. During the first eight months of 2023, Israeli paramilitary settler attacks on indigenous Palestinians came at the rate of 3 per day, according to the United Nations.
Source: 198 Palestinians, at Least 40 Israelis Killed in and around Gaza Strip | – IMEMC News
It also comes at a time of mounting tensions between Israel and
the Palestinians, with the peace process effectively dead for years.
Over the past year, Israel’s far-right government has ramped up settlement construction in the occupied West Bank, Israeli settler violence has displaced hundreds of Palestinians there and tensions have flared around a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site. (Huff Post)
Isn’t this a case of Victim Blaming when put into the context of what has occurred in recent years and what Israel is promising will occur? Netanyahu literally stood at the UN with a map showing there was no Palestine. Putin did much the same declaring the Ukraine to be Russia he invaded the world and condemned him. But not Netanyahu.
Nearly 300 Israelis and Palestinians have already been killed with the death toll expected to rise.
Source: After Surprise Attack by Hamas, Netanyahu Says Israel Is “At War” – Mother Jones
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