Israeli's stopping the Aid Truck obstruction

Just to point out the absurdity: the BDS movement denounces "Standing Together", the group running the "humanitarian guard" protecting the aid trucks as "normalisers" and "whitewashers":

https://bdsmovement.net/standing-together-normalization

Other things that Standing Together does: protesting regularly for a ceasefire already for months; running various campaigns to stop the radical right from targeting Palestinian students and lecturers on Israeli campuses; attempting to send a truck of food aid from Israelis to Gaza; demonstrating everywhere for equal rights for all citizens in Israel.

Why am I pointing this out? Because there isn't just one pro-ceasefire, pro-Palestinian narrative (listen to the excellent Palestinian podcast "Unapologetic" for the "third narrative"). And this isn't some weird one-off. The BDS movement consistently targets and delegitimises any left-wing Israelis who fall short of denouncing the entire Israeli state as collaborators and moving overseas. Often the more active an organization is, like Standing together, the more they are targeted.

So to answer the pp who wrote "Brings hope that there are some Israelis doing the right thing" - Israel has an active left and many of us have been out on the streets for years. We were wearing anti-occupation slogans in last year's democracy protests, we have been calling for a ceasefire for months, and we are involved in a million and one smaller local issues. Of course it's never enough - no individual can ever do enough. But it doesn't help that many Western people who sympathise with Palestine inadvertently strengthen a maximalist, rejectionist rhetoric which has done nothing to advance the Palestinian cause, rather it just makes people feel good to shout black and white "dismantle Israel" slogans rather than looking at how to actually deal with the mess we are in in order to shape a better future for everyone between the river and the sea.

Brings hope that there are some Israelis doing the right thing. Blocking aid going into a humanitarian disaster zone whilst being told by the UN there are people starving in there is just one of the most fucked up things I have ever heard

Fair play to them. Ní neart go cur le chéile (there is no strength without unity)

I really like this quote from Alon-Lee Green, the national co-director of the Jewish-Arab peace coalition Standing Together:

"... it’s also a battle over the soul of our society, over the question of whether we can remain human in the face of fear, in the face of trauma; whether we can make sure that we choose life over death, or we choose solidarity over hatred and starvation.”

Fair play to them. I hope their numbers grow and people start to arrest those that are obstructing aid getting to starving, injured dying people. Of all the things that have happened I find these settlers vile and evil. How anyone can do this to vulnerable starving people is beyond me.

The settlers had received detailed information about the timing, location, and number of trucks that would pass through the checkpoint that morning.

This struck out at me. These activities are obviously being supported and encouraged.