(en) France, Organisation Communiste Libertarie (OCL) - Courant Alternatif #243 - Clash of civilizations in Gaza by ocl-lyon (fr, pt)

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On the one hand, there is Israel, a Western and over-armed country became the vanguard of 
the "civilized world" against the "barbarians," "terrorists" and "fundamentalists." ---- 
In Israeli society, it is called "tunnels of death" to describe the basic structures 
through which Gazan fighters have surprised the brave "IDF", "the most moral army in the 
world." And as said Holland, Israel "has the right to defend itself." Ban-ki-Moon has 
added a layer of barbarism ... speaking of Hamas, believed to have kidnapped an Israeli 
soldier in the Gaza Strip! Ironically, the Israeli historian Shlomo Sand recalls that as a 
child he was of course for the cowboys and the Indians against daubed, screaming, 
grimacing and swinging arrows as they could. The cowboys were white hero. The Israeli army 
is Custer or Chivington revered for having exterminated wild in Washita River and Sand Creek.

Israel toward fascism?

Michel Warchawski evokes fear that installs in Israel. When an anti-colonial protest, he 
sees the face "dozens of fascists who belch their hatred and racist slogans." "The 
colonial violence has risen to a higher level as shown by the assassination of Abu 
Muhammad Khdeir burnt alive by three settlers." Israeli demonstrators in Paris pro 
explained: "For us, a Jewish child who dies, it's serious, we love life; for the 
Palestinians, it's nothing, it's another martyr. " With the complex of Masada (*), 
Israelis see themselves as victims. Eyal Sivan shows how Holocaust denial has become 
widespread in the speech. It would not kill Israelis but Hamas using human shields and 
hostages! Eyal says "bleaching" of the Jews. They were the "Arabs" of Europe. By adopting 
the Islamophobic discourse, they are the vanguard of the fight against the Muslims. It can 
be concluded on the "Aryanization" of Jews. Zeev Sternhell talks collapse of Israeli 
democracy and compares the atmosphere in the country to that of France in 1940 Meanwhile, 
the extreme right manifesto against the marriage of two Israeli-do-s, it Jewish, 
Palestinian him, with the support of public opinion. The Haaretz newspaper quoted a girl 
of 10 years: "For me, the Arabs are something I can neither see nor bear. I'm terribly 
racist. I come from a racist home. If I'm lucky the army to kill one, I will sometimes 
twice a day. I am ready to kill my hands if it's an Arab ... ". What is significant, it 
does not say that this kid in all camps can find examples of this kind. It is not a 
question here of a vox pop and these remarks are indicative of what Israeli society has 
become.

A scheduled biennially war

Zionism does not protect the Jews. It deliberately creates tension and war for their 
"offer" the only "realistic" solution: the imprisonment of over-armed Israelis in a bunker 
is a tragic symbolic reconstruction of the ghetto. Except this time, he was chosen and not 
imposed. Necessary to go back? 2002 invasion of the West Bank. 2006 attack on Lebanon, 
2008-2009 first major massacre in Gaza followed by another in 2012 and from that year. In 
the bunker, the one-e-Israeli life is not sacred, that of a Palestinian-e-do not count. 
Besides the Israeli military "intervene to save the Palestinian Gaza ne s Hamas" is well 
known. And this surreal version gained wide approval in the Israeli public "protective 
Border" funny name for a massacre. This time the Israeli Newspeak lacked imagination to 
give a poetic touch this mass murder. Why Netanyahu pushed by the fascist Lieberman Bennet 
and he launched this operation? The extreme right-wing Israeli government had been in 
trouble during flu negotiations imposed by John Kerry. It had dropped heavy threats words, 
speaking of obstruction and even apartheid. Driven by an overwhelming popular sentiment, 
Fatah and Hamas had come to form a national unity government and the Palestinian 
government was about to be recognized by the major nations of the world. And then the 
pressure on the Palestinian Authority had increased to a complaint for war crimes is 
finally filed against Israeli leaders. The Israelis do not want to have to recognize that 
the occupation and apartheid will never stop and there will be no Palestinian state unless 
the current Bantustan we baptize State. The purpose of the current slaughter is certainly 
not weaken Hamas and Israeli propaganda has succeeded in demonizing sustainably. It is 
clear to weld the Israeli public and nearby allies to perpetuate colonization and the 
status quo. Israel is the champion of "security ideology" and the military-industrial 
complex runs the government. The invasion of Gaza has tested the effectiveness of a 
missile shield for sale. The Israelis were sure the Americans instantly replace the 
ammunition used and they were not wrong. Incidentally, in the words of the 
anti-colonialist journalist Gideon Levy, the Netanyahu government was also intended to 
kill a maximum of Arabs, as if the destruction and suffering could permanently eradicate 
any notion of living together in the future.

"Gaza has become a wasteland from which can emerge only groans"

This sentence is Jacques Kupfer, a French international who heads the Likud. Before the 
Israeli attack, Gaza was a cage, a testing ground for the murders more or less targeted 
fishing boats machine-gunned, fleets arraisonn?es, bombed fields and trampled by tanks, 
groundwater pumped. With the active complicity of the Egyptian army, it became very 
difficult to enter or leave Gaza, the closure of tunnels having accelerated the chaos with 
widespread fuel and electricity shortages. Nearly 90% of the 2,000 death-es and older are 
women, children, old people, civilians. One third of the population of Gaza had to flee 
his home, but there is no safe haven in this tiny territory. Villages, neighborhoods were 
sprayed. The entire population has almost died one time or another and was traumatized. 
The Israeli army blew's building (but he was not there that day) Mohamed al-Dhaif, leader 
of al-Qassam Brigades. There have been many victims. The quake struck at 2 km radius. The 
Israeli army only speaks of Hamas. Certainly it is a part of the population and the 
majority of armed groups. The savagery of the Israeli attack welded the entire population 
and all armed behind the idea that resistance is an absolute right groups. Islamic Jihad, 
PFLP and Fatah have been fighting with Hamas. The letters that come to us from Gaza speak 
orphans never as many, terror inspired drones that run all day like vultures, smiles are 
gone, the acute need for psychologists in order to survive. In France, support for Gaza 
came mostly popular neighborhoods and postcolonial population. It is not a coincidence. It 
was logical that the murderous contempt and destruction of a society echoes.

And if Israel had lost?

The Arab world is paralyzed and many countries experience civil war situations. The 
expedition to Gaza should have been a cakewalk for the fourth army in the world. Yet, the 
Israeli army has had more than 60 people. 50 days after the start of the offensive 
missiles from Gaza continued. In a few years, they will reach Israeli cities. Wildest in 
opinion can ask them to send an atomic bomb on Gaza, but the Israeli military have no 
solution. When they bomb the Gaza sewage station, pollution back to Tel Aviv. To manage 
apartheid, the Israeli government needs a fragmented Palestine. One goal of the offensive 
was to break Palestinian unity. It is missed, the desire for unity is such that even in 
Palestine Mahmoud Abbas can not work as he often did. The presence of a right-wing 
government in Jerusalem uninhibited causes diplomatic isolation ever known. After Bolivia 
and Venezuela, Chile and Brazil have frozen political relations. Damage to Netanyahu in 
world public opinion are significant. The rogue state can no longer deceive, blackmail 
antisemitism walk less, it just serves to put Jews in danger and urge those in the 
Diaspora to emigrate. Reality ("it's Zionism is anti-Semitic") grew in the mind. BDS (**) 
wins every day new success. A growing number of artists explicitly refused to perform in 
Israel. Of Oakland dockworkers refused to unload a ship company Zim. Sports clubs require 
the exclusion of Israeli clubs competitions. Cartoonists refuse the Angouleme festival is 
sponsored by SodaStream. Shares in supermarkets spreading. European leaders have 
multiplied all the tricks to not sanction Israel will be forced to gradually ban 
settlement products from our stalls. Those who work with Netanyahu will pay. According to 
a survey, half of the American public and a majority of Democratic voters disapprove of 
the attack against Gaza. In France, dozens of elected Socialist Party have publicly 
protested against the collusion of Valls and Holland with the aggressor. In Israel itself, 
there is a run on the second passport. The most westernized of the population no longer 
has confidence in the strategy of "make or break" and is preparing for a possible start. 
Already 15% of the Israeli Jewish population lives outside of Israel.

Questions about the cease-fire

Two key issues were played before the cease-fire got pat the Egyptian army. That the 
blockade. There was unanimity Palestinians for not accepting a cease-fire that would 
maintain the blockade of Gaza or reconstruction which would exclude the opening of a port 
and an airport. Netanyahu has long said no, it would be political suicide for him but he 
was not ready for a war of attrition. The agreement allowed the Egyptian military to play 
their own part: end the blockade against the takeover of a demilitarized Gaza by the 
Palestinian Authority. Eventually, such a future seems unrealistic and the Egyptian regime 
terrified of having to take Gaza with the only opening of the Rafah border. And even if we 
are still far away, even if "justice" International has been created only to judge the 
enemies of the West, assuming a charge of Israeli leaders is not an unreal fantasy . There 
would be a terrible blow to Zionism, similar to what had been the expulsion of South 
Africa at the time of the Olympic apartheid Games. So what really was signed in Cairo? 
Part of the solidarity movement claiming victory and compares the cease-fire evacuation 
from Lebanon after 20 years of occupation. It is obvious that Netanyahu does very weak 
with his public. Not for the crimes committed, but for its "inefficiency". If Gazans after 
more than 2,000 deaths and destruction appalling obtain the lifting of the blockade, the 
right to fish and the opening of the port and the airport, it would be an incredible 
victory for armed resistance, as opposed to the total ineffectiveness of a Palestinian 
Authority that is mired in the shameful negotiations. There is no evid