I am an Israeli Jew. I believe that the Palestinians in the West Bank live under apartheid rule. I support Palestine and a Palestinian state. I am opposed to the occupation.
Until this Saturday, I opposed Netanyahu and his government of fruitcakes, but now priorities have to change.
We have seen the massacres of civilians the like of which we have not seen since the Einsatzgruppen went to Ukraine, since the Cossacks raped and ran our people down. We cannot negotiate with those who live stream their barbarism. We cannot negotiate with ISIS.
At the moment I feel utterly united with the whole nation of Israel in its war against the Isis style government of Gaza
This is our Bataclan. Our 9/11. Our Blitz. Our Pearl Harbour. They are our ISIS. What they do not understand is we are now bound with them into a struggle to death whatever the cost to us and to them. Their regime must fall.
If they had attacked military targets we could not complain. If they dragged off our bloodied and dazed 19 year old soldiers to Gaza, that would be in the nature of the conflict of nations, and I have already explained I feel a great deal of sympathy with the plight of the Palestinian people. There are no shortages of military targets around Gaza, and they achieved an impressive feat in overwhelming our military bases and destroying our most modern weapons.
But they did not come to fight against our soldiers.
When they came such was the shock they had 5 hours they could have spent on military objectives. Instead they were exultant, live streaming, driving up and down the paths of a music festival in pick ups, to methodically kill our children, to rape and then murder our girls, to kill Thai farmers with a shovel while shouting in a grotesque blasphemy Allahu Akhbar..... We have seen that look in the eye of the Gentiles for thousands of years.
The world is disgusted and ashamed.
No more.
We act not out of anger, and not out of fear, but out of a love for the lives of our children who have been born and have not yet been born, so that they should never know such horrors.
We cannot and we will not judge force to a nicety. We. Are. At. War.
The terrible truth is that we cannot even surgically work around our own children and elderly held hostage. We must put our operational needs above their safety. The bombs will fall where they need to fall, on the tunnels and weapons caches, and may God have mercy on the poor souls, the souls of the hostages, the souls of the civilians of Gaza, and especially their poor children and elderly.
During both world wars, during the Falklands war, during the Iraq war, it was widely accepted that during war time all supplies are blockaded including supplies of food. British planes dropped botulism to kill German cattle and to starve the German people. The horrors of Hamburg, Dresden, Hiroshima live on. More recently, Ukraine turned Crimean agriculture into dust when they turned off the waters of the North Caucasus canal in 2014. The Sri Lankan war ended in a full on assault with mortars against a ragged encampment full of fighters and women and children, and that was the end of Isis and that will be the end of Hamas.
This is the nature of war. We try not to hit the civilians, but violence is violent and we cannot always carry out precise surgery under fire.
We. Are. At. War.
We fight for our own country and our own children, for our boys and girls, and for our freedom. War is terrible, but war has come to our homes, our religious festivities, and our farms, our villages and our dancing, to our children and our grandparents, and there is now no turning back, no half measures.
We are at war. At this time there is: No food. No water. No petrol. No electricity. Not for our own people held hostage in Gaza and not for their people.
We will re-evaluate in a few days after we have captured more ground.