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In reply to the discussion: I am sick of the slaughter in Gaza [View all]Avalon Sparks
(2,742 posts)Of all the details of Israels crimes against humanity.
Reality check: It has never been about "destroying Hamas". That's absurd. IDF officers are very smart people. They know better than anyone that military force cannot destroy a social and political movement deeply embedded in Gazan society. That's just the cover story they put out to those gullible enough to believe it. And there are many. No, the real, underlying story is simply genocide: to destroy Gaza itself, its institutions, its medical care system, its schools, its economy, its religious and cultural sites, its infrastructure, and of course its people.
That's why you deliberately kill writers, professors, doctors, aid workers, ambulance drivers, journalists, photographers, to crush the spirit of resistance in its people. It's to randomly kill enough Gazans to terrify and demoralize the rest , and herd the survivors into a much smaller space to control them better. That's ethnic cleansing with genocidal intent.
When you murder entire extended families sleeping in their beds; when you destroy bakeries providing precious bread to starving people(lots of Hamas hiding in those bakeries!); when you repeatedly bomb UN schools where people are sheltering from your bombs; when you attack hospitals and destroy the medical care system; when you bomb helpless fleeing people on the very road you told them to use to evacuate; when you cut off basic necessities of life (food, water, fuel, power) to an entire population; you have only one purpose, and its not to target Hamas. Its to terrorize, demoralize and punish the entire population of Gaza. That is genocide.
This is not the "Israel-Hamas war", it's a war upon the entire people of Gaza. A rogue State that believes it is above the law is bombing and killing tens of thousands of women and children, who are helpless and trapped, with nowhere to run to. War crimes. Crimes against humanity. Starvation as a weapon of war.
Its a land grab by genocide.