1/ Israel is shocked to hear that our newly appointed military attachè to Belgium, Col. Moshe Tetro, who served as coordinator of IDF civilian-related activities in Gaza, may be investigated for war crimes. He authorized and denied food entry into Gaza. —>
2/ He was also the one who spoke with Gazan hospital administrators to inform them their hospitals will be destroyed and that they must “evacuate” within hours. These are the crimes for which arrest warrants were issued against our PM and former defense minister. —>
3/ Israelis are saying that Netanyahu and Gallant are defending themselves and throwing good men under the bus. The vanity we all share is maddening. There are no “good men”. It is no single person’s fault. All of us have spilt and are spilling this blood. —>
4/ The same vanity is responsible for our combative approach when it comes to Hizballah’s violations of the ceasefire. We violated it, in the most commonsensical sense of the word, about 60 times before Hizballah shot two mortar shells into Israeli territory. —>
5/ That does not count, of course. We were taking care of business, defending our security, preventing Hizballah “empowerment”. The reason is that as far as we are concerned, Hizballah and Lebanon and everybody else on the planet lacks a third dimension. They are not real. —>
6/ The Palestinians are the least real of all. We send, to Belgium, an officer directly in charge of the starvation of the Palestinians. This man confirmed the horrid deaths of the weakest, the sickest, the most incapable. We send him. Why? Because we don’t care. —>
7/ The trend in Israel now is to waffle about the civil war that Israelis are now fighting between the secular left and the religious right. The former fight for a liberal Israel. The latter fight for a religious Israel. We are all genocidaires. Hence the wafflng. —>
8/ We are genocidaires not just in the death and destruction we rain on the Palestinians. These are the product of a culture built on foundations of dehumanization. To be ourselves we erased our other. We thought we could do this quietly. We were wrong. —g
9/ There is nothing delicate or gentle about humanism. Solidarity should be raucous. It should drown out the fearmongering, isolating drums of Fascism. Solidarity should define and choose between the good and the bad, life and death. Israel is deathly quiet now.
