There are a couple of burning questions I’d like to pose and hopefully can be answered by people far more informed than me about the Israel-Hamas war and what’s happening in Gaza right now.
But before I do, can I just stress how horrific the holocaust of the second word war was and as always my thoughts and prayers extend to all Jewish people of the world over the barbarity they suffered at the hands of the Nazis.
Now, where was I? Question one: is there anything really wrong with Hamas wanting to wipe Israel off the face of the earth?
Please, before I elaborate on that or hear the knock of Mossad at my front door, can I just restate my belief that anti-Semitism has no place in the modern world and we must never, ever, forget the more than six million innocent Jewish people who were murdered in Nazi concentration camps.
Right, that question again. It’s fairly obvious that Israel, especially under the rule of right-wing thug and sociopath Benjamin Netanyahu, has had absolutely no interest – never has had – in a two-state solution as demanded by just about every country around the world.
And I understand that the state of Israel believes it’s perfectly entitled to defend its right to exist in its historic religious homelands all by themselves.
But seeing Israel clearly wants Hamas and the Gaza strip eliminated, why can’t Hamas feel the same way about it? Why castigate them for a perfectly reasonable standpoint?
Israel’s savage, heartless and total control over the Gaza Strip over recent decades and its “security” wall built in parts well into the other part of a supposedly Palestinian homeland, the West Bank, against international law, have made it abundantly clear Israel has never had any real intention of sharing sacred religious homelands with Palestinians.
Need proof of that. Since Hamas’s cowardly and murderous attacks inside Israel on October 6 Israel has made it abundantly clear that the Gaza Strip will not exist when this war is over. It has basically razed the top half of Gaza to minimise the loss of its own troops and that process is now under way in the bottom half with further horrific loss of civilian life. Israel has brutally told the two-million plus Palestinians now crammed in the southern half of Gaza – a quarter of the size of Canberra – to move to Egypt or anywhere else. Many hundreds have died since the ceasefire ended.
Have I mentioned the holocaust? We should never, ever, forget that and the images from the concentration camps should haunt all decent people forever! Love and respect to people of Jewish faith everywhere!
Nevertheless, and bearing in mind how much trouble the United Nations General Secretary Antonio Guterres got into trouble for saying the Hamas action on October 7 didn’t “happen in a vacuum”, if Hamas as a political organisation long ago came to the conclusion that Israel doesn’t deserve to exist, could you blame them?
And with Israel’s typical and historic massive overreaction to that barbarism in early October and the way Israel settlers with IDF support have used the cover of the Gaza bombings to push further into the West Bank, displacing Palestinians and killing even more of them for throwing rocks, can you blame them if such a view has hardened? Yes, I know there are “terrorists” there that hate Israel as much as Hamas and do some terrible things, so please don’t write in, okay?
Look at these images from World War 2! We must never forget what happened then!
The second question is this: if Australia regards Hamas as a terrorist organisation, why doesn’t it put Israel in the same boat?
Does anyone seriously doubt that Israel right now is raining terror on Gaza? Or truly believe that Israel has not committed serious war crimes in Gaza these past two months? The deliberate displacement of a large civilian population was the first mentioned. Fifteen thousand civilian dead, including thousands of children. The slaughter continues and most of the western world is saying “Meh!”
And I’ll leave fancy weasel-word definitions from world groups as to what constitutes genocide (it’s supposedly based on a percentage of a population killed), but genocide is exactly what I call what’s happening in Gaza right now.
No-one can condone the barbaric killing of kids and innocent civilians on October 6 but if the aim of Hamas was to spark a typical monstrous Israeli overreaction and cement in place deep hatreds that will now last many more centuries, it’s been a very effective strategy and has shown to the world what Israel has always thought of a two-state solution.
Now, before I finish, I really do wish to stress my belief that I am not, and never will be, anti-semitic.
I love Jewish people for one very good reason: if there’s any one race on earth that more abhors the senseless, widespread killing of countless innocent people – and with very good reason – it’s them.
Although I’m probably entitled to wonder why they would keep voting in a cunt like Netanyahu. You’d think they more than anyone else on earth could spot a final solution when they see one being enacted.
Don Gordon-Brown
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