Gilad #Atzmon #2023
This is what I wrote exactly a year ago, my first reflection on #7October, it is almost upsetting being right all the time:

I have been following the Israeli media and social networks 24/7 in the last 3 days. I must admit that I don’t see a single moment of self reflection. They all tend to agree that the Hamas has performed a spectacular military operation. They agree that the IDF, its intelligence, the Mossad the Shabak have failed catastrophically. Many of them blame Bibi and his government (despite the fact that it was actually Ehud Barack who made the Israeli army ‘small and clever’, clearly not as clever as the enemy).
Yet not one voice in #Israel asks what did WE DO that brought such hatred upon us. What did WE DO that made these Palestinians so revengeful. No one in Israel asks whether being locked and besieged for decades as refugees contributed somehow to this aggression. NO ONE in Israel delves into the thought that the People of #Gaza are, at large, refugees from a land that was plundered back in 1948.
It is indeed devastating to learn that 260 party enthusiasts were slaughtered in a horrific massacre on the sand of Gaza border, but the question I myself ask is who came with the sickening idea putting a 24 hours dance and drugs party next to a besieged concentration camp? What was the purpose of this party and what kind of people would attend such a party in such a location,… I don’t see one voice in Israel who attempts to see the the suffering in the other side. I don’t see one voice who considers reconciliatory act or any form of changing direction. They all parroting the same mantra: they want to see Gaza wiped out. And if this is not enough they are all cheered by the support they receive from the Bidens of this world.
The tragic truth is that there is nothing Israel can do to wipe out the unimaginable #Hamas operational victory. For the same reason that there was nothing Israel could do to wipe the Egyptian victory on 6 October 1973. It took Israel 6 years to understand that and in 1979 it accepted the Egyptian offer and entered a peace negotiation. Israel then gave back the whole of Sinai to Egypt and secured a peace deal. Israel has never recovered from its 1973 humiliating Yom Kippur War. It took the soldiers 5 decades to open this wound but the nation has learned literally nothing. This week they fail into the exact same trap. Sadly the hubris is that which keeps them together and happy in between the disasters they inflict upon themselves. Those amongst the nation who against, all odds, learned something, most often turn their back to the tribe. I guess you should consider me as one…

#history #genocide #Palestine