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Criticising Hamas
Among Palestinians and their supporters in the West, there has been a range of reactions to Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israeli border communities: justification for it, with all its horrors; justification, joy and satisfaction at the suffering of others; justification and a lack of interest in the evidence of the bacchanalia of murder; justification for the entire attack and pride over its military aspects alone; justification for the military action, along with the understanding or the explanation that it developed into a spree of sadistic slaughter as a direct result of long years of Israeli oppression and dispossession.
The reactions have also included justification for the military action while ignoring or repressing the existence or the extent of the horrors; pride in its military aspect and a focus on the few news reports of the slaughter that turned out not to have been accurate – in an effort to cast doubt on the rest of the reporting; drawing a distinction between armed Hamas fighters and the “rabble” that came over the border into Israel with them, attributing the killing and sadism to the latter; justification for the military action on the one hand, along with shock and disgust at the brutal murders; shock and open or privately expressed repudia
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Stephen R. Shalom
THE COURAGEOUS ISRAELI journalist Amira Hass, in her 1996 book Drinking the Sea at Gaza, tells us that in Israeli slang “go to Gaza” means “go to hell.(1)”
She wrote these words long before the murderous economic blockade imposed on Gaza, and also before the 23 days of savage violence that we’ve just witnessed, making Gaza a living hell not just in the Israeli imagination, but in reality.
But in creating this nightmare for the people of Gaza, Israel didn’t act alone.
It had the support of Egypt, which kept the Rafah crossing closed. It had the support of the European Union, which joined in the shunning of the elected representatives of the Palestinian people.
And most importantly, Israel had the decisive support of the U.S. government. Many of the weapons used by the Israelis in their ferocious assault were provided by the United States: the aircraft, the helicopters, the bunker-buster missiles. But the United States provided as well crucial diplomatic backing, making sure that no resolution would emerge from the Security Council that could interfere with Israel’s agenda.
To understand the role the United States played as Israel’s enabler in Gaza, we need to look more generally at what Washington hopes to
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Summary
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