Surprise, surprise. The violent resistance of the Palestinians in the West Bank has come to a head. The human monsters woke up and started blowing themselves up with explosives. Suicide terrorists are back in our lives, and an army of Israeli analysts has a scientific explanation: it's Iranian money. Without him the West Coast would be peaceful, people are willing to kill themselves to get money. It's that Iranian octopus.
How easy it is to blame everything on Iran. Israelis love it. There is a devil called Iran, because of which all this is happening. Maybe there is Iranian money, maybe not - but the intensification of the Palestinian rebellion is the most expected and understandable consequence of everything that is happening in the West Bank during the last months of the war in Gaza. The only surprise is that it didn't happen earlier.
In these 11 months of war in Gaza, Israel has turned the West Bank upside down, as it is now turning the roads to Tulkarem and Jenin, of which nothing remains. This is the worst attack on Palestinians in the West Bank since the military operation Homat Magen in 2002, and even surpasses that operation because it is taking place under the cover of another, more barbaric attack in Gaza. Unlike the Homat Magen operation,1 there is no reason or justification for the current attack. Israel used the war in Gaza to intervene in the West Bank. The reaction of the residents was late, but it is here now.
The attack on the Palestinians this time is coming from two directions: on one side are the army, Shabak and Magav (border police), and on the other the violent settler militia. They are coordinated so that they do not interfere with each other. Sometimes they go together, so the savages from the settlement stations put on uniforms and turn into "preparatory units"2, which gives them the justification to carry out the pogrom. The military is careful not to interfere. In this context, the statement of a high-ranking military official who warned at the end of the week that the violence perpetrated by the settlers is unimaginable (Haaretz, 29.08.2024/XNUMX/XNUMX) seems incredible. "Jewish terrorism is doing a great deal of damage to security in the West Bank," said a source whose forces could and should have stopped Jewish terrorism a long time ago. There has not yet been a pogrom in which the soldiers did not stand by. Sometimes they even participate, and a senior officer dares to complain.
That October 7 is not only the day of our disaster, but also of Palestine. There are no words to express how Israel is living over Gaza. But he did not lay hands on the West Bank without the encouragement of the Kahanist ministers and the silence of the prime minister, other ministers and the public. In recent weeks I have visited Jenin, Tulkarem, Qalqilya, Ramallah and Hebron. Nothing more resembles reality there by October 6, although the West Bank did not participate in the October attack. Three million Palestinians woke up on October 8 to a new reality, which does not mean that the previous one was more humane or more legitimate. Eager to seize the opportunity for revenge, the Israeli boot mercilessly tramples the West Bank.
Tens of thousands of dulums of land have been appropriated, seized and razed in recent months, and there is hardly a hill in the West Bank that does not have an Israeli flag or a settlement outpost that will one day become a city. And the roadblocks are back in full force, it's impossible to travel from one place to another without getting stuck at a roadblock and suffering humiliation for hours.3 It's impossible to plan anything, in a reality where at least 150 people have lost their income since their is forbidden to work in Israel. All were punished for October 7th. 11 months left without income, what did you think would happen?
A new player has arrived in the neighborhood: the drone. In the darkness of the ongoing war in Gaza, the Air Force began using snipers in the crowded West Bank. According to United Nations data, 630 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the beginning of the war, 140 of them in about fifty airstrikes. What is allowed in Gaza is also allowed in the West Bank. The soldiers adopted this and adjusted their attitude towards the Palestinians accordingly. If we are not already in Gaza, at least we will act as if we are there. Ask any Palestinian what he has been through. Hopelessness in the West Bank has never seemed so inextricable.
And after all so that there is no terrorism?
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1) The operation followed a terrifying number of attacks on Israeli civilians during March and April 2002 by Islamic Jihad, Hamas and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade. The horror of these attacks was also in the fact that most of them were carried out by suicide bombers who would blow themselves up in places where a large number of people gathered.
2) "Kitot HaKonenut" are small units in settlements that serve as a quick response to security incidents, and are made up of trained residents. Their activities had died down in recent years, but they became relevant again after Hamas's attack on the south of the country. Settlers use the situation to arm themselves and harass Palestinians under the auspices of the state.
3) Haaretz also reports on sexual harassment of Palestinian women by Israeli soldiers at roadblocks. Improper touching, requests to walk, turn, spin are part of what they go through to get to where they started.
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