Two anti-Zionist voices. First, Jeff Blankfort:
before that, and as it will surely happen again if Israel seeks another
rematch. Hamas has been portrayed by the Israeli military and its media
and by its supporters in the US as being an Iranian proxy and the
equivalent of Hizbollah but there is no comparison between the
abilities of the two forces and the terrain on which they fight is very
different. Gaza is totally surrounded by enemies and is lightly armed
whereas Hizbollah has Syria. Israel will use its tanks and artillery to blow away the crowded neighborhoods while keeping the press out.
Well-intentioned
people may wonder why Hamas would not accept a cease-fire, but that
would simply leave the punishing siege in place and much of Gaza's
infrastructure in worse shape than before. As it is, the US and the EU
will have much to answer for when the carnage clears but not as much as
will the organized Jewish community world wide which has cheered on its
Huns as it has in all of Israel's past wars.
Israel has passed the âpoint of no
returnâ. Its doomed fate is deeply engraved in each bomb it drops on
Palestinian civilians. There is nothing Israel can do to save itself.
There is no exit strategy. It canât negotiate its way out because
neither the Israelis nor their leadership understand the elementary
parameters involved in the conflict. Israel lacks the military power
to conclude the battle. It may manage to kill Palestinian grassroots
leaders, it has been doing it for years, yet Palestinian resistance and
persistence is growing fierce rather than weakening. As an IDF
intelligence general predicted already at the first Intifada. âIn order
to win, all Palestinians have to do is to surviveâ. They survive and
they are indeed winning.
Israeli leaders
understand it all. Israel has already tried everything, unilateral
withdrawal, starvation and now extermination. It thought to evade the
demographic danger by shrinking into an intimate cosy Jewish ghetto.
Nothing worked. It is Palestinian persistence in the shape of Hamas
politics that defines the future of the region.
