Any Pat, Simply Stated Answer To That Is An Opportunistic Lie. The kind of lie the American media specializes in.
I DON'T KNOW if the severe and factually exigent critic of Israel, child of Holocaust survivors and, incidentally, atheist, Norman Finkelstein would call himself an antizionist or not but he is one of the most consistent of revealers of the crimes of the Israeli government and military, one of those many Jews who are regularly dismissed as "antisemites" in the total irrationality that that term has gained in the campaign to weaponize it against the critics of the many, many, the whole list of crimes of the zionists that extend well back in the colonization of Palestine.
I was shocked the first time I heard him point out that the crimes of October 7th, which he, as I do, acknowledged as terrible crimes and atrocities, were understandable considering the 20 year blockade with intermittent Israeli atrocities in Gaza, what the Israelis in the government and military jokingly called "mowing the lawn" the "grass" being Palestinians, children, women, non-combatant, entirely innocent HUMAN BEINGS, their homes, the infrastructure that they need to live and their environment. Finkelstein noted that most of those involved had grown up in what was, in fact, a very large concentration camp where the Israeli government and military had terrorized their entire lives, their parents, their sisters and brothers, everyone they knew, never knowing at what time the fascists that rule Israel would decide to "mow the lawn" again.
That is that it was understandable, as in you can understand it. I can't remember which of the Jewish antizionists said that while they acknowledged that October 7th was an atrocity they couldn't bring themselves to condemn People who lashed out in such a terrible way, I can condemn it though I can understand why People who have experienced what the Gazans have for the past twenty years would not see it the same way I, who has never experienced anything like that, would. I can say that what the Israeli government and military has done has little to nothing to do with October 7th which, like our own 9-11, they had ample warning of and, like the Bush II regime here, did nothing much to prevent. So, why don't you put that in your equation as another factor in assigning responsibility for it.
Most Americans, most Europeans, most People outside of the Palestinian People probably couldn't name any single date of any of these "mowings of lawns" like they can October 7th because the Western media and media elsewhere doesn't much talk about them, not while they're happening, not after. The sheer number of those added to the Israeli's periodic attacks, not with a large mob of barely trained young men but with one of the largest militaries of any country, on Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank and elsewhere are so routine as to barely make it into the news and, never, ever without the kind of explanation of motives, such as they are, being an excuse for the Israeli government and military being part of the story.
As a citizen of the United States I must point out that that privilege granted by the media and the enforced common consensus to Israel, to keep millions of People under concentration camp conditions for decades, to launch military attacks on civilian populations with impunity, to wage wars of conquest or for other economic motives, all without the media honestly reporting on them, WITH the media covering for them if not entirely burying it, that happens all the time when the American government and military does that. When there is actually no excuse one will be lied up as it was in the invasion of Iraq by Bush II, one of the most catestrophic military adventures that a corrupt American government has ever undertaken, one of which the horrific loss of life and disastrous globe-shattering consequences is still playing out. I would bet you anything, if anyone took a rigorously conducted survey of, say 20,000 Americans, maybe even limiting those surveyed to those who graduated high school if not college, those who remembered or were aware of that invasion - and I'll bet a large percentage of those who lived as adults through it wouldn't really remember it - most of those would probably agree that Saddam Hussein was the mastermind of 9-11 (that is if they even remembered that). .
I could go on but I'll answer about that other atrocity, October 7th, when you answer about any of the major "lawn mowings" that the Israeli government and military waged against the Palestinians in Gaza. If we're going to talk about supposed justifications of genocide when it's Israel, we should really go back to what motivated what they exploited as their chance to, as the Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, "halve the population of Gaza" and . . . well, you don't have to take my word for it.
Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has said Israel should occupy the Gaza Strip and halve its Palestinian population by encouraging "voluntary emigration".
"We can and must conquer the Gaza Strip, we should not be afraid of that word," Smotrich said late Monday at an event organised by the Yesha Council, an umbrella group representing Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.
"There is no doubt that in Gaza -- with the encouragement of voluntary emigration -- there is here, in my opinion, a unique opportunity that is opening up with the new administration," the minister said, referring to Donald Trump's recent re-election.
"We can create a situation in which, within two years, the population of Gaza will be reduced by half," Smotrich said.
Smotrich leads the ultranationalist Religious Zionism party and has courted controversy with his comments in recent months.
"Courted controversy" I think actually means the war criminal sensed a political opportunity by appealing to the worst in Israel, what has been politically ascendant for a half a century, now.
I will remind you that he said that in the context of his government and military having killed more than 40,000 Palestinians, destroying everything in the northern part of Gaza, a strip of land about five miles wide and twenty-five miles long holding millions of People. And, as is the case whenever Israel grabs land, they'd send the terrorist-settlers in who would start on attacks on whatever Palestinians remain, as they have in the West Bank. Many of those terrorists hold citizenship in the United States and vote in our elections as well as Israeli ones.
That, by the way, would fall well within the legal definition of genocide. The Israeli government is an apartheid, genocidal government and when you look at the blatant statements of its leaders going back to the beginning with Ben Gurion, it always has been. You don't have to take my word for that, either. Oh, yeah, and remember, Ben Gurion was one of those nice, socialist, Labor guys, not one of the real bad ones, the ones who have actually ruled most of the history of Israel, the overt fascists in the line of Jabotinsky.
Note: Anyone who calls the Israeli Military the "IDF" "Israeli defense force" is misidentifying it. It is among the most consistent and effective terror organizations in the world. I won't ever use that name for it, ever again. As I said, their genocide in Gaza has changed everything forever.
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