ATLANTA, Georgia, Sep 03 (IPS) – Most individuals assume that Israel’s foremost objective in Gaza is to recuperate the hostages seized by HAMAS on October 7, 2023 with an introduced follow-up mission to get rid of HAMAS as a menace. When you thought that, you’d be improper. Substantial proof reveals a special strategic goal—destroying each shred of Palestinian legitimacy as a nation.
Inspite of continuous pleas from the weak Biden-Harris-Blinken White Home to cease bombing civilians in Gaza, Israel refuses to finish the carnage. What is going on on? As standard within the Center East, the plain plot has no less than one hidden sub-plot.
Israel’s most vital strategic objective all through the greater than ten months of its mindless, horrifically devastating marketing campaign in Gaza has been, not solely to kill HAMAS militants and tens of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, however as an alternative to kill the extensively trumpeted “Two-State Resolution.”
The continuing carnage on the West Financial institution goals to destroy, not simply Palestinian infrastructure or hopeless younger “Lions Den” resistance, however the very concept that the Palestinians have a proper to self-determination, or any legitimacy in any respect as a state. With many of the world decrying the genocide in Gaza, the full-blown warfare on cities and civilians within the West Financial institution has escaped scrutiny.
The obvious proof of that’s the truth that Netanyahu’s extremist Likud authorities continues its gratuitous bombing marketing campaign in Gaza, and continues to refuse HAMAS’ affords for releasing hostages in return for even a short lived cease-fire. Like most American intelligence consultants, Israel’s personal navy leaders have admitted that HAMAS can’t be fully eradicated.
Sadly, the horrific lack of life in Gaza shouldn’t be at this level actually about Gaza. It is a distraction from a land seize for the West Financial institution of the Jordan River, what the Israelis name their very personal territories of “Judea and Samaria.” Netanyahu has echoed the settlers’ declare that Israel can’t be accused of being unlawful navy occupiers of what’s “our personal land.”
One of many first shibboleths from the mouth of President Biden following HAMAS’ obscene warfare crimes on October 7 and simply earlier than he acquired on Air Power One to make humiliating obeisance to the indicted warfare legal Netanyahu, was to supply the meaningless phrases, “Two-State Resolution.”
However absolutely the person who had for years been Chairman of the Senate International Relations Committee will need to have identified that the “Two-State Resolution” was already on its final legs and unlikely to be revived. Now Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris is echoing “Genocide Joe,” not a lot by providing a method for peace as merely parroting an empty phrase.
Lesson primary in worldwide diplomacy on the macro scale is {that a} regime will need to have legitimacy as a folks group earlier than it will possibly obtain any type of concrete actuality as a nation. The beginning of the US is an instance. The Boston Tea Celebration, Patrick Henry’s speech, and Paul Revere’s experience coalesced America’s common id.
Washington at Valley Forge and at Yorktown really birthed the nation. Reaching legitimacy, the unquestionable proper to exist as an organized political entity, is how a inhabitants or rebel motion turns into a state.
By smashing peaceable West Financial institution cities with tanks and jet bombers, bulldozing their streets and tagging all Palestinians as terrorists, the native group is being robbed of its heritage in addition to its present and future legitimacy. Any probability for statehood is being obliterated by Israel’s “excessive” ravages on civilian life and infrastructure in Gaza and all through the West Financial institution.
In the meantime, the political class’s pretense of being pro-peace is a sick charade. Let’s cease saying “Genocide is dangerous” and “Killing folks is dangerous,” with out additionally saying “Killing civil society is a constructive evil as nicely,” as a result of it kills the way forward for a whole folks group.
James E. Jennings, PhD is President of Conscience Worldwide www.conscienceinternational.org and Government Director of US Lecturers for Peace. He delivered help to Gaza’s hospitals from 1987-2014, together with through the 2009 “Solid Lead” bombing and intervals of Israeli, PLO, and HAMAS management.
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