[Haaretz Israeli News source->http://www.haaretz.com/]
On the Facebook page ‘Across the Wall,’ Israelis read personal stories by Gazans in Hebrew, until the last update came in: ‘The entire family of this page’s founder has been bombed to death.’ The Israeli co-founder of the page now says: ‘I don’t know if we’ll be able to build that bridge again’
A Hamas terrorist was taken out of the debris, carried in his father’s arms. His face is covered with dust, his body jerking like a sack, his stare blank. It’s not clear if he’s alive or dead. He is a toddler of three or four, and his desperate father rushed him to the Gaza Strip’s Indonesian Hospital, which was already bursting with wounded and dead people.
For 14 years, Netanyahu’s policy was to keep Hamas in power; the pogrom of October 7, 2023, helps the Israeli prime minister preserve his own rule
Even in ‘ordinary times,’ 90% of Gaza’s tap water is undrinkable, and things get worse during war
In a few days Israelis went through what Palestinians have experienced as a matter of routine for decades, and are still experiencing – military incursions, death, cruelty, slain children, bodies piled up in the road, siege, fear, anxiety over loved ones, captivity, being targets of vengeance, indiscriminate lethal fire at both those involved in the fighting (soldiers) and the uninvolved (civilians), a position of inferiority, destruction of buildings, ruined holidays or celebrations, weakness and helplessness in the face of all-powerful armed men, and searing humiliation.
‘Not a chance in the world,’ says Mohammed Abu Khdeir’s father, adding that he lost sleep after request. ‘What did they think, that we’d say yes?’
The creation of Palestinian enclaves is an internal Israeli compromise: making the Palestinians disappear without expelling them. In the meantime, Israel reaps great profits, in part by turning the West….
The great majority of those who are so contemptuous of Ben-Gvir live very well with Israel’s apartheid – they just don’t shout it from the rooftops In the months that….
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