A Letter to Bruce Cain #3

Of Tent Cities and Genocide

A Letter to Bruce Cain #3

Of Tent Cities and Genocide

Dear Bruce,

If you believe the journalists embedded with Hamas on the 7^th of October ought be prosecuted then you ought, logically speaking, advocate the same for those who worked on the position paper, which came to light ten days later. Those involved must have had foreknowledge too. Position papers aren’t written in just a few days; they’re products of months of painstaking research and careful deliberation.

 “On the first day of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip,” Robert Inlakesh tells us “Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, offered a provocative warning to some 2.3 million civilians in the besieged coastal enclave: “Leave now”, he said, knowing that the people were trapped and could not.” 

“However, as time goes on and documents are leaked, there appears to be a real push from within the Israeli regime to ethnically cleanse the people of Gaza into the Sinai desert of Egypt.”

“The Israeli think tank, the ‘Misgav Institute for National Security & Zionist Strategy’ published a position paper on October 17, in which they outlined their proposed ethnic cleansing plan, declaring that “there is at the moment a unique and rare opportunity to evacuate the whole Gaza Strip in coordination with the Egyptian government.” 

This was then followed, shortly after, by a report released on Israeli news outlet, Calcalist, which outlined a document proposing the same strategy. In this case, however, the document bore the official symbol of the Israeli Intelligence Ministry, headed by Gila Gamliel.”

“Both plans, which advocate the same plot to ethnically cleanse Gaza of its Palestinian civilian population, blatantly seek to take advantage of the situation at hand in order to create a ‘solution’ to Israel’s ‘Gaza problem’.”

“The idea is to provide Egypt with an economic incentive – even if that has to be 20 to 30 billion dollars according to the think tank paper – in order to have them submit to accepting the displaced people.”[1] 

Of course, the genocidal ideas of the Israeli establishment are nothing new.

“The right-wing’s wartime success” Max Blumenthal wrote in 2015 “represented the culmination of the process the Israel sociologist Baruch Kimmerling of Hebrew University called ‘politicide,’ or the calculated destruction of part or an entire community of people in order to deny them self-determination.”

“‘Murders, localized massacres, the elimination of leadership and elite groups, the physical destruction of public institutions and infrastructure, land colonization, starvation, social and political isolation, re-education, and partial ethnic cleansing are the major tools used to achieve this goal,’ Kimmerling wrote in his classic 2003 biography of Ariel Sharon, the rightist warrior-politician and then-Prime Minister he cast as the architect of the practice.”

“Kimmerling concluded that the application of politicide against the Palestinian people had transformed Israel into ‘a Thatcherist and semi-fascist regime’ hostile to dissident expressions, resentful of the ‘other,’ and limiting democracy.”[2]

The fact that the current genocide is a disaster for humane, sane and civilized Israelis, for their liberties and the remnants of “democracy” cannot be underlined enough.[3]

One of Netanyahu’s favorite tools for denying the Palestinians their self-determination, of course, is Hamas.

“‘Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,’ he told a meeting of his Likud party’s Knesset members in March 2019. “This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”[4]

And his genocidal views are widely shared.

In 2014 “Israeli parliament member and law-maker Ayelet Shaked …stigmatized all Palestinians as terrorists, wishing death on all Palestinians while supporting the Israeli military assault.”

“…Shaked quoted this on her Facebook page: ‘Behind every terrorist stand dozens of men and women, without whom he could not engage in terrorism. They are all enemy combatants, and their blood shall be on all their heads. Now this also includes the mothers of the martyrs, who send them to hell with flowers and kisses. They should follow their sons, nothing would be more just. They should go, as should the physical homes in which they raised the snakes. Otherwise, more little snakes will be raised there.’

“‘They have to die and their houses should be demolished so that they cannot bear any more terrorists,’ said Shaked. Standing behind the operations on Gaza, ‘they are all our enemies and their blood should be on our hands. This also applies to the mothers of the dead terrorists,’ Shaked added.”[5]

She is not alone in taking a leaf out of Himmler’s book.

In May 2023 “a far-right Israeli minister called for the killing of Palestinian children during an interview with Kan Reshet Bet radio station…”

“‘We are people who will not harm a fly, but if the fly bothers him, the fly must be killed and also his children if he hides behind them,’ said Amihai Eliyahu, the minister of heritage.”[6]

The same minister recently advocated the use of a nuclear bomb.

“A member of the ultra-nationalist Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party, Eliyahu…claimed in a radio interview that since there were ‘no non-combatants in Gaza,’ using an atomic weapon on the Palestinian enclave was ‘one of the possibilities.’”[7]

Netanyahu might cloak his genocidal intentions in the language of the Bible (the Devil has always quoted Scripture) but his intentions (as demonstrated by what is happening on the ground) are much the same.

“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israelis were united in their fight against Hamas, whom he described as an enemy of incomparable cruelty. ‘They are committed to completely eliminating this evil from the world,’ Netanyahu said in Hebrew. He then added: ‘You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible. And we do remember.’”

“There are more than 23,000 verses in the Old Testament. The ones Netanyahu turned to, as Israeli forces launched their ground invasion in Gaza, are among its most violent—and have a long history of being used by Jews on the far right to justify killing Palestinians.”

“As others quickly pointed out, God commands King Saul in the first Book of Samuel to kill every person in Amalek, a rival nation to ancient Israel. ‘This is what the Lord Almighty says,’ the prophet Samuel tells Saul. ‘I will punish the Amalekites for what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they came up from Egypt. Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”[8]

Most telling of all is the fact that Israel does NOT have a “right to self-defense”[9]. Hamas is NOT a state actor but merely a “terrorist organization”. As such it could and should be dealt with by law enforcement.

William Matchett argues, persuasively, that it was the “intelligence war” that defeated the IRA, which left half of them in prison and the other half in the Republic.[10] An “intelligence war” is what is needed against Hamas, not the wholesale slaughter of women and children, which only generates hatred and provides new recruits for terror.

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[1] https://www.palestinechronicle.com/leaked-documents-israeli-intelligence-think-tank-lay-out-plans-for-ethnically-cleansing-gaza/

[2] pp.111-112 the 51 day war Max Blumenthal

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[4] https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2023-10-16/bibi-netanyahu-2019-israel-must-support-bolstering-hamas-and-transferring-money?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral

[5] https://www.dailysabah.com/mideast/2014/07/14/mothers-of-all-palestinians-should-also-be-killed-says-israeli-politician

[6] https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230515-far-right-israel-mk-calls-for-the-killing-palestinian-children/

[7] https://www.politico.eu/article/israel-minister-amichai-eliyahu-suspend-benjamin-netanyahu-nuclear-bomb-gaza-hamas-war/

[8] https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/11/benjamin-netanyahu-amalek-israel-palestine-gaza-saul-samuel-old-testament/

[9] https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2023/11/15/un-special-rapporteur-israel-cant-claim-right-of-self-defence?fbclid=IwAR1HVoCjFeh8mSllHP_6cmv3_tuS3HR05zAxjzc7zqZHIWLMxng6teHAj-Q

[10] p.8 Secret Victory, William Matchett