Greenleft, a human rights advocate organisation recently reported that Ayelet Shaked, a parliamentarian for the far-right
Jewish Home party, posted comments on Facebook calling for killing all
Palestinian mothers.
Furthermore, the site went on...With Israel’s assault on Gaza claiming more than 1400 lives as of
August 1, mostly civilians, Israeli leaders claim the offensive is self
defence against Hamas, the party governing Gaza, in response to rockets
fired at Israel.
However, it is hard to ignore the many genocidal incitements coming out of the mouths of Israeli politicians and other commentators.
The most recent infamous case was an August 1 op-ed published at widley-read website The Times of Israel by Yochanan Gordon entitled "When Genodice is Permissible".
In it, Gordon states: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clearly stated at the outset of this incursion that his objective is to restore a sustainable quiet for the citizens of Israel. We have already established that it is the responsibility of every government to ensure the safety and security of its people."
“If political leaders and military experts determine that the only way to achieve its goal of sustaining quiet is through genocide is it then permissible to achieve those responsible goals?”
The article was subsequently deleted by the website.
Calls for genocide
But there are Israeli politicians making similar calls.
For instance Israeli member of the Knesset (Israeli parliament) for the far-right Jewish Home party, Ayelet Shaked, posted comments on Facebook stating: “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.”
The article was originally written by Uri Elitzer, a leader of the Israeli settler movement, Electronic Intifada said on July 7.
Electronic Intifada said of the comments: “It is a call for genocide because it declares that ‘the entire Palestinian people is the enemy’ and justifies its destruction, ‘including its elderly and its women, its cities and its villages, its property and its infrastructure’.”
From 2006-2008, Shaked was director for the office of now-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Moshe Feiglin, deputy speaker of the Knesset from the governing Likud party, detailed his solution for Gaza in an op-ed for Arutz Sheva.
Feiglin said: “Sinai [in Egypt] is not far from Gaza and they can leave.”
He said targets should be attacked “with no consideration for ‘human shields’ or ‘environmental damage’. It is enough that we are hitting exact targets and that we gave them advance warning.”
Over the operation’s aim, he said: “The IDF will conquer the entire Gaza ... Gaza is part of our Land and we will remain there forever ... it will become part of sovereign Israel and will be populated by Jews.”
Ben Packer, the director of Jerusalem Heritage House and co-director of Young Jewish Conservatives, echoed Feiglin in Arutz Shiva that the current attack “is an opportunity for Israel to achieve a victory — to move the border!”
Israeli academic Mordechai Kedar of Bar-Ilan University provided a shocking example of the dehumanisation of Palestinians when he told Israel Radio Bet that the only way to stop terrorist attacks was to rape the sisters and mothers of Hamas militants.
International Business Times reported on July 22 that Kedar said: “The only thing that could deter a suicide bomber is knowing that if caught, his sister or his mother would be raped.
“It sounds very bad, but that's the Middle East. You have to understand the culture in which we live.”
Such comments are extreme, but far from uncommon. They also are the most blatant and honest expression of Israel’s goals: to defeat Palestinian resistance by any means necessary and extend the apartheid Jewish state by dispossessing the land Palestinians still control.
It is this, rather than homemade rockets fired from Gaza, that is the cause of the conflict. The rockets are a response to Israeli occupation and its siege on Gaza.
To understand the current bloodshed, and genocidal calls, it is important to look at the foundation of Israel as a settler state that displaced and continues to oppress the original people of the land, the Palestinians.
Only in this context does the cycle of violence make any sense.
Read the Real History of the State of Israel an why and how it was created here
However, it is hard to ignore the many genocidal incitements coming out of the mouths of Israeli politicians and other commentators.
The most recent infamous case was an August 1 op-ed published at widley-read website The Times of Israel by Yochanan Gordon entitled "When Genodice is Permissible".
In it, Gordon states: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu clearly stated at the outset of this incursion that his objective is to restore a sustainable quiet for the citizens of Israel. We have already established that it is the responsibility of every government to ensure the safety and security of its people."
“If political leaders and military experts determine that the only way to achieve its goal of sustaining quiet is through genocide is it then permissible to achieve those responsible goals?”
The article was subsequently deleted by the website.
Calls for genocide
But there are Israeli politicians making similar calls.
For instance Israeli member of the Knesset (Israeli parliament) for the far-right Jewish Home party, Ayelet Shaked, posted comments on Facebook stating: “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.”
The article was originally written by Uri Elitzer, a leader of the Israeli settler movement, Electronic Intifada said on July 7.
Electronic Intifada said of the comments: “It is a call for genocide because it declares that ‘the entire Palestinian people is the enemy’ and justifies its destruction, ‘including its elderly and its women, its cities and its villages, its property and its infrastructure’.”
From 2006-2008, Shaked was director for the office of now-prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Moshe Feiglin, deputy speaker of the Knesset from the governing Likud party, detailed his solution for Gaza in an op-ed for Arutz Sheva.
Feiglin said: “Sinai [in Egypt] is not far from Gaza and they can leave.”
He said targets should be attacked “with no consideration for ‘human shields’ or ‘environmental damage’. It is enough that we are hitting exact targets and that we gave them advance warning.”
Over the operation’s aim, he said: “The IDF will conquer the entire Gaza ... Gaza is part of our Land and we will remain there forever ... it will become part of sovereign Israel and will be populated by Jews.”
Ben Packer, the director of Jerusalem Heritage House and co-director of Young Jewish Conservatives, echoed Feiglin in Arutz Shiva that the current attack “is an opportunity for Israel to achieve a victory — to move the border!”
Israeli academic Mordechai Kedar of Bar-Ilan University provided a shocking example of the dehumanisation of Palestinians when he told Israel Radio Bet that the only way to stop terrorist attacks was to rape the sisters and mothers of Hamas militants.
International Business Times reported on July 22 that Kedar said: “The only thing that could deter a suicide bomber is knowing that if caught, his sister or his mother would be raped.
“It sounds very bad, but that's the Middle East. You have to understand the culture in which we live.”
Such comments are extreme, but far from uncommon. They also are the most blatant and honest expression of Israel’s goals: to defeat Palestinian resistance by any means necessary and extend the apartheid Jewish state by dispossessing the land Palestinians still control.
It is this, rather than homemade rockets fired from Gaza, that is the cause of the conflict. The rockets are a response to Israeli occupation and its siege on Gaza.
To understand the current bloodshed, and genocidal calls, it is important to look at the foundation of Israel as a settler state that displaced and continues to oppress the original people of the land, the Palestinians.
Only in this context does the cycle of violence make any sense.
Read the Real History of the State of Israel an why and how it was created here
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