Israel’s policy on the Gaza Strip has gotten so tangled and self-contradictory that even within the Yisrael Beiteinu-dominated Foreign Ministry they can’t keep their official statements on the matter straight.
Last week’s visit to Gaza by the Qatari Emir brought about the predictable expression of outrage from the ever-outraged spokesman Yigal Palmor, who insisted that the emir’s visit amounted to backing terrorists. At the same time, the other spokesman for the exact same ministry, Lior Ben Dor, praised the visit, saying Israel had always sought Arab states to take responsibility for Gaza aid.
This isn’t just a case of two spokesmen who got their signals crossed but a literal expression of Israel’s actual policy, which on the one hand is to treat Gaza as an open air prison from which only the bare minimum of food enters, and also a territory they have “withdrawn” from and which is the international community’s problem in theory, at least so long as they don’t try to actually deliver any medicine through the naval blockade.
The problem is that the Gaza crisis is becoming more widely acknowledged across the world, and that foreign development aid is no longer theoretical but waiting just outside the boundaries of the strip, with only Israeli threats to keep it from reaching the Gazans. This has left Israel’s ‘policy,’ such as it is, in tatters, and has military officials openly talking up another attack on Gaza just to shake things up, the hopes that the new equilibrium will be more manageable.
So the Israeli government has schizophrenia? Wow, that would explain any number of bizarre Israeli atrocities. We'd better get the Netanyahu crowd a very large anti-psychotic medication and give them a time out.
The Israeli government's true agenda is genocide.
This duplicity is very normal from the lamestream media, particularly the BBC. Their arabic programming is markedly different than the English one. Liars and cheats.
Israeli general Moshe Dyans taking of Gaza in 1967 is taught in all mititary schools as what's NOT TO DO. That is taking a large population with no land or statigic value.
Since 1967 Israel had been looking for ways to keep the Golan and west bank, but unload the Gaza. Israeli PM Shron came up with a brillant idea. Give it up and let America pay for the resettlement of the 6,000 Jews in Gaza; and at the same time be able to say, "look we gave up some land, and still no peace-never again" No mention of making Gaza a prison and frequent assinations by Israel.
Besieged Palestinian Gaza is an experiment in provocation. Stuff one and a half million people into a tiny space, stifle their access to water, electricity, food and medical treatment, destroy their livelihoods, and humiliate them regularly…and, surprise, surprise – they turn hostile. Now why would you want to make that experiment? Because the hostility you provoke is the whole point. Now under attack you can cast yourself as the victim, and call out the helicopter gunships and the F16 attack fighters and the heavy tanks and the guided missiles, and destroy yet more of the pathetic remains of infrastructure that the Palestinian state still has left. And then you can point to it as a hopeless case, unfit to govern itself, a terrorist state, a state with which you couldn't possibly reach an accommodation. And then you can carry on with business as usual, quietly stealing their homeland.
They have to break the people of gaza so the next land stolen will understand voting rule under the boot of the IDF. We provide the ballots but you failed to follow instruction and vote for our puppet. They cannot expel
Uncle Sam, the enabler.