from MEMO (H/T Aletho News)
More incitement to violence from
Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir exposes how colonial violence
is aimed at the entire colonised population. Speaking on a podcast with
former Israeli hostage Rom Braslavski, Ben Gvir said that Israeli forced
should kill 30-40 Palestinians each night in Gaza.
Braslavski requested to act as executioner should Ben Gvir’s plan come to pass, to which the security minister replied,
“I will turn the world upside down to make that happen. I promise you
that I will do everything I can and turn the world upside down until it
happens.”
As shocking as the comments are, both
are the product of an enterprise that knows it can only sustain itself
through ethnic cleansing.
Israel’s Channel 14 branded all
Palestinians killed during the genocide as terrorists. Among settlers
that normalise the killings of Palestinians, and which even glorifies
those murdering them, Ben Gvir’s comments are unlikely to elicit any
lingering shock. On the contrary, Ben Gvir’s wish for extrajudicial
killings may well find willing participants. And while Gaza remains
within reach of the Israeli military in terms of extrajudicial
assassinations, the occupied West Bank faces both Israeli institutions
and settlers.
Ben Gvir’s comments were aimed at Gaza,
but Israel’s colonisation plans do not only include Gaza. The occupied
West Bank, which faces daily violence from settlers, is much at risk
from extrajudicial killings. In Ras al-Ain, south of Nablus, Israeli
settlers besieged Palestinian families and cut off their electricity,
water and food supplies. While attracting international attention, the
UN as usual preferred to rely on its usual condemnations while Erika
Guevara Ross, Amnesty International Senior Director for Research,
Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns, described
the siege as “an accelerating and well-documented pattern of
coordinated and strategic settler terror, enabled, backed and funded by
the State of Israel.” True, but what is being done with the information
that is already mainstream knowledge to the rest of the world?...
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