Genocide is Israel’s Strategy
By Paul Larudee | Syria Support Movement | November 12, 2023
Israel is losing the battle. They cannot afford to remain fully mobilized this long, even with unlimited US financial support. It is estimated that despite limited commercial flights, more than a quarter million Israelis have left the country. This is also the number that have evacuated settlements in both the south, in a large radius around Gaza, and in a wide ribbon along the northern border with Lebanon.
Israel is not used to this, and despite its sophisticated military equipment, it depends upon concluding its combat quickly and overwhelmingly. The problem is that it can’t. Hamas is too well dug in, and Hezbollah is too strong. Both have their own sophisticated equipment, despite an absence of navy and air force. Their strategy has been to make air and naval forces largely useless against them by means of a vast and well equipped underground network of reinforced, sealed and well defended tunnels. Their strategy is attrition: to draw out the conflict longer than Israelis are willing or able to endure.
It appears to be effective. Israelis are taking casualties at a rate to which they are not accustomed. This is making them slower and more cautious, except in the air, and it is disrupting civilian life to an unprecedented extent. The resistance forces of the Palestinians and their allies have planned for a confrontation of unlimited duration, while Israel plans only short, massive attacks designed for a quick, decisive victory, which in this case is illusive.
This is the main reason they have chosen genocide as a tactic. They reason that massive, horrible deaths of vulnerable civil Palestinians, mainly women and children, will force Hamas, Hezbollah and their allies to take risks and expose themselves. But genocide is not working. And when it doesn’t, Israel’s answer is to use more genocide.
Gaza is largely without food, medicine, electricity, fuel or potable water. Israel is trying to force a panicking population to leave or die. If they leave, it is to the Sinai, never to return to their own country. That suits Israel, but not Egypt, which has arrayed a solid row of tanks and other equipment along the border to prevent being forced to admit the Palestinian population.
This is why Israel is resorting to bombing hospitals, schools, mosques and even the few churches of the tiny Christian community that opened their doors to their Muslim brothers and sisters seeking refuge. The Israeli strategy seems to be that when pictures of gaunt living skeletons of children and mounds of corpses begin to be estimated in the hundreds of thousands, or more, the fighters will become desperate and/or the international community will compel Egypt to open its doors.
The strategy could backfire. The international community could become so horrified that no amount of hasbara [friendly media] will cover such epic crimes. Instead, their staunchest allies may be forced to abandon them, and other powers may enter the fray on the side of the Palestinians. At that point, the consequences become unpredictable. Demonstrations by the millions are already beginning to occur around the globe. At least one prominent voice in Israel has suggested the nuclear option.
The call for a ceasefire is becoming louder, but Israel sees that as a Palestinian win, and the Palestinian factions have little stomach for returning to the status quo ante, which means little more than confinement to destitute concentration camps or “reservations”. Caring people from around the globe are beginning to mobilize near the conflict zone, to try to, at minimum, allow the resumption of humanitarian aid, fuel, electricity and water to the besieged, starving, sick, parched and dying people of Gaza.
This is just the beginning. Things could change very quickly, for good or bad.
Paul Larudee is a board member and key supporter of Syria Support Movement. He is currently in Egypt with a group of activists attempting to deliver aid to the people of Gaza.
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Ann Jones’ new book, They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America’s Wars: The Untold Story, is devastating, and almost incomprehensibly so when one considers that virtually all of the death and destruction in U.S. wars is on the other side. Statistically, what happens to U.S. troops is almost nothing. In human terms, it’s overwhelming.
Know a young person considering joining the military? Give them this book.
Know a person not working to end war? Give them this book.
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Contrary to common opinion in the United States, war is not inevitable. Nor has it always been with us. War is a human invention — an organized, deliberate action of an anti-social kind — and in the long span of human life on Earth, a fairly recent one. For more than 99 percent of the time that humans have lived on this planet, most of them have never made war. Many languages don’t even have a word for it. Turn off CNN and read anthropology. You’ll see.
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A “mad dog”, that is, a rabid dog, must be shot. Otherwise, pen it with its owner. A metaphor, thanks to Moshe Dayan and he defined Israel. Let it be turned on itself. More and more, the world is turning on the mad dog.
Beyond the home of the mad dog, in perhaps its second home, the American House of Representatives imitate the mad dog and vote to censure someone who calls to its attention the mad dog. But they are stupid, cowardly and act the stooge. No discussion, they say. No debate, they say. No opposition, they say. We want war.
What if the American people have a vote on the use of their taxpayer money that Congress and Joe “I’m a Zionist” Biden give to Israel? How would the American people vote? Would they vote for more money for a terrorist nation/state? Would they vote in support of what the mad dog’s air force does daily, hourly? Would they vote for the imprisonment of thousands of Israel’s non-citizen ‘citizens’ to be held in prison without habeas corpus?
Would America want this for themselves? No habeas corpus. No trial. Agriculture ruined. On and on and on.
No wonder Israel attempts censorship. Twisted language to continue its brutality. Money given without question as to how it is used.
How did America come to be aligned with such a country and such a people, such domestic partisans which sow more and more discord and divisiveness?
How did America have such censorship of the betrayal, the traitorous actions by a foreign nation so that investigations of its elected presidents assassinations is stymied, the Israeli hand in attacks stymied and false flag events presented as true in order to manipulate America into a war on the behalf of Israel?
The truth of these thing will eventually be revealed. Then the truth of how Israel is not an ally to America, but the opposite.
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“But genocide is not working. And when it doesn’t, Israel’s answer is to use more genocide.” Psychopaths and Israelis only know force, and if that doesn’t work use more force. They appear incapable of learning.
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Questions about how USAmerica this and USAmerica that should give way to a mournful, but great relief that that evil state and its worldwide proxies and allies are on the ropes. In spite of capitalism’s indifference to military victory, continuous losses will bring its downfall. It is to be hoped that the Zionist Entity’s defeat in the current “war” will be the final nail in the coffin of the USofAs.
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