| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:The atrocities continue | |
| Posted by: | Robert Fish | |
| Date/Time: | 29/07/24 12:40:00 |
| Since 7th October, nearly all the atrocities have come from the Israeli side, and that's why I concentrate on them. Hamas aren't currently killing Israelis in numbers, nor destroying their houses (although they will ultimately have to face a day of reckoning for 7th October). There have not been 75 years of "ongoing hostilities against the state of Israel". There have been several short-term outbreaks of war, not all of them initiated by Israel's neighbours (think Suez, for example). That there has been ongoing hostility (singular) is undeniable. But that might well have abated by now, were it not for the oppressive colonialism of successive Israeli governments, which have made no attempt to placate their neighbours. Indeed, the oppression has only become worse. The dispossessions in the West Bank and the settler violence are indelible stains on Israeli society. Majdal Shams may just have been an unfortunate accident (the jury is out on this) but the many times greater deaths in Gaza are the result of a deliberate policy of visiting wholesale death and destruction on a captive population. There is no moral equivalence between Hezbollah's violence, inexcusable as it is, and that of the Israeli government. |