Once again: It’s the occupation, stupid

Another horrible attack in Israel on June 8 which killed 4 Tel Aviv citizens.
Another blinkered and stupid israeli response.–revenge and collective punishment.
Why is it that intelligent people whose forebears suffered repression and occupation can not understand what precipitates violence. The same people which celebrate Hanukkah, the revolt of the maccabees and also the heroes of the Warsaw ghetto in April 1943 cannot understand the idea of resistance to massive injustice.

More and more one can understand Israeli writer Gideon levy’s oft quoted analysis—Israelis are the most brainwashed people on earth, a citizenry which has gorged itself on the powerful government decades old propaganda.Arabs they believe are congenitally anti-Semitic. for no reason they murder jews. what kind of bizarre thinking is this?
Israel is becoming a sad caricature of the person who buries his head in the sand.

 

But outside Israel thanks to electronic devices, more and more people are witnessing a callous, brutal state which periodically “mows the grass” of a people with no army, no missiles, no Apache helicopters or Merkava tanks.

 

As the man said, “it is not going down well” , In the rest of the world people have eyes to see.

In Tel Aviv, the mayor literally spit in the face of the oafish PM Netanyahu:
Ron Huldai pointed squarely back at Israel’s occupation as the root cause of violence.
Israel is “maybe the only country in which another people is under occupation and in which these people have no rights,” he told army radio:
“We can’t keep these people in a reality in which they are occupied and [expect] them to reach the conclusion that everything is alright and that they can continue living this way.”
And to add more clarity, one of the parents of the deceased said, “Last night, after the attack, the prime minister and two of his ministers arrived and yet another security cabinet issued decrees – not to return corpses, to put up barriers, to destroy houses, and to make lives harder, “These solutions create suffering, hatred, despair and [lead] to more people joining the circle of terror.What’s needed is a solution rather than saying all the time that there’s nobody.”
The solution: end the occupation.