{"id":723,"date":"2024-06-12T20:34:14","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T17:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/?p=723"},"modified":"2024-06-12T20:34:18","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T17:34:18","slug":"the-west-defined-success-as-a-massacre-of-270-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/republicpalestine.com\/en\/?p=723","title":{"rendered":"War on Gaza: The day the West defined \u2018success\u2019 as a massacre of 270 Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Israel hasn\u2019t just crossed the Biden administration\u2019s pretend \u201cred lines\u201d in Gaza<\/a>. With its massacre<\/a> at Nuseirat refugee camp at the weekend, Israel<\/a> drove a bulldozer through them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday, an Israeli military operation to free four Israelis held captive by Hamas since its 7 October attack on Israel resulted in the killing<\/a> of more than 270 Palestinians<\/a>, many of them women and children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The true death toll may never be known. Untold numbers of men, women and children are still under rubble from the bombardment, crushed to death, or trapped and suffocating, or expiring slowly from dehydration if they cannot be dug out in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many hundreds more are suffering agonising injuries – should their wounds not kill them – in a situation where there are almost no medical facilities left after Israel\u2019s destruction of hospitals and its mass kidnap of Palestinian medical personnel. Further, there are no drugs to treat the victims, given Israel\u2019s months-long imposition of an aid blockade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israelis and American<\/a> Jewish organisations – so ready to judge Palestinians for cheering attacks on Israel – celebrated the carnage<\/a> caused in freeing the Israeli captives, who could have returned home months ago had Israel been ready to agree on a ceasefire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Videos even show Israelis dancing<\/a> in the street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to reports, the bloody Israeli operation in central Gaza may have killed three other captives<\/a>, one of them possibly an American citizen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In comments to the Haaretz newspaper published on Sunday, Louis Har, a hostage freed back in February, observed<\/a> of his own captivity: \u201cOur greatest fear was the IDF’s planes and the concern that they would bomb the building we were in.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added: \u201cWe weren’t worried that they\u2019d [referring to Hamas] do something to us all of a sudden. We didn’t object to anything. So I wasn’t afraid they’d kill me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Israeli media reported Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant describing Saturday\u2019s operation<\/a> as \u201cone of the most heroic and extraordinary operations I have witnessed over the course of 47 years serving in Israel\u2019s defence establishment\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is currently seeking an arrest warrant for Gallant, as well as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, for war crimes and crimes against humanity<\/a>. The charges include efforts to exterminate the people of Gaza through planned starvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

State terrorism<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Israel has been wrecking the established laws of war with abandon for more than eight months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At least 37,000 Palestinians are known to have been killed so far in Gaza, though Palestinian officials lost the ability to properly count the dead many weeks ago following Israel\u2019s relentless destruction of the enclave\u2019s institutions and infrastructure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel has additionally engineered a famine that, mostly out of view, is gradually starving Gaza\u2019s population to death. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The International Court of Justice put Israel on trial for genocide back in January. Last month, it ordered an immediate halt to Israel\u2019s attack on Gaza\u2019s southern city of Rafah. Israel has responded to both judgments by intensifying its killing spree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a further indication of Israel\u2019s sense of impunity, the rescue operation on Saturday involved yet another flagrant war crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel used a humanitarian aid truck<\/a> – supposedly bringing relief to Gaza\u2019s desperate population – as cover for its military operation. In international law, that is known as the crime of perfidy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For months, Israel has been blocking aid to Gaza – part of its efforts to starve the population. It has also targeted aid workers, killing more than 250 of them since October. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But more specifically, Israel is waging a war on Unrwa, claiming without evidence that the UN\u2019s main aid agency in Gaza is implicated in Hamas \u201cterror\u201d operations. It wants the UN, the international community\u2019s last lifeline in Gaza against Israel\u2019s wanton savagery, permanently gone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By hiding its own soldiers in an aid truck, Israel made a mockery of its supposed \u201cterrorism concerns\u201d by doing exactly what it accuses Hamas of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Israel\u2019s military action also dragged the aid effort – the only way to end Gaza\u2019s famine – into the centre of the battlefield. Now Hamas has every reason to fear that aid workers are not what they seem; that they are really instruments of Israeli state terrorism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nefarious motive<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In the circumstances, one might have assumed the Biden administration would be quick to condemn Israel\u2019s actions and distance itself from the massacre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden\u2019s national security adviser, was keen to take credit for the mass carnage – or what he termed a \u201cdaring operation<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He admitted in an interview on Sunday that the US had offered assistance<\/a> in the rescue operation, though he refused to clarify how. Other reports noted a supporting British role, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe United States has been providing support to Israel for several months in its efforts to help identify the locations of hostages in Gaza and to support efforts to try to secure their rescue or recovery,\u201d Sullivan told CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sullivan\u2019s comments fuelled existing suspicions that such assistance extends far beyond providing intelligence and a steady supply of the bombs Israel has dropped on the tiny Gaza enclave over the past few months – more than the total that hit London, Dresden and Hamburg<\/a> combined during the Second World War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Biden official disclosed to the Axios website<\/a> that US soldiers belonging to a so-called American hostages unit had participated in the rescue operation that massacred Palestinian civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, footage shows<\/a> Washington\u2019s floating pier as the backdrop for helicopters involved in the attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pier was ostensibly built off Gaza\u2019s coast at huge cost – some $320m – and over two months to bypass Israel\u2019s blocking of aid by land. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Observers argued at the time <\/a>that it was not only an extraordinarily impractical and inefficient way to deliver aid but that there were likely to be hidden, nefarious motives<\/a> behind its construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its location, at the midpoint of Gaza\u2019s coast, has bolstered Israel\u2019s severing of the enclave into two, creating a land corridor that has effectively become a new border and from which Israel can launch raids into central Gaza like Saturday\u2019s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those critics appear to have been proven right. The pier has barely functioned as an aid route since the first deliveries arrived in mid-May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pier soon broke apart, and its repair and return to operation was only announced on Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the fact that it appears to have been pressed into immediate use as a beachhead for an operation that killed at least 270 Palestinians drags Washington even deeper into complicity with what the World Court has called a \u201cplausible genocide\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But like the use of the aid truck, it also means the Biden administration is joining Israel once again – after pulling its funding to Unrwa – in directly discrediting the aid operation in Gaza when it is needed most urgently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was the context for understanding the World Food Programme\u2019s announcement on Sunday that it was halting the use of the pier for aid deliveries, citing \u201csafety\u201d concerns<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Successful\u2019 massacre<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

As ever, for western media and politicians – who have stood firmly against a ceasefire that could have brought the suffering of the Israeli captives and their families to an end months ago – Palestinian lives are quite literally worthless. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The German Chancellor Olaf Scholz thought it appropriate to describe the killing of 270-plus Palestinians in the freeing of the four Israelis as an \u201cimportant sign of hope<\/a>\u201d, while the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak expressed his \u201chuge relief<\/a>\u201d. The appalling death toll went unmentioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imagine describing in similarly positive terms an operation by Hamas that killed 270 Israelis to liberate a handful of the many hundreds of medical personnel kidnapped<\/a> from Gaza by Israel in recent months and known to be held in a torture facility<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The London Times, meanwhile, breezily erased Saturday\u2019s massacre of Palestinians by characterising the operation as a \u201csurgical strike<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Media outlets uniformly hailed the operation as a \u201csuccess<\/a>\u201d and \u201cdaring<\/a>\u201d, as though the killing and maiming of around a thousand Palestinians – and the serial war crimes Israel committed in the process – need not be factored in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BBC News\u2019 main report on Saturday night breathlessly focused<\/a> on the celebrations of the families of the freed captives, treating the massacre of Palestinians as an afterthought. The programme stressed that the death toll was \u201cdisputed\u201d – though not mentioning that, as ever, it was Israel doing the disputing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reality is that the savage \u201crescue\u201d operation would have been entirely unnecessary had Netanyahu not been so determined to drag his feet on negotiating the captives\u2019 release, and thereby avoid jail on corruption charges, and the US so fully indulgent of his procrastination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It will also be very difficult to repeat such an operation, as Haaretz\u2019s military correspondent Amos Harel noted at the weekend<\/a>. Hamas will learn lessons, guarding the remaining captives even more closely, most likely underground in its tunnels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The remaining captives\u2019 return will \u201cprobably occur only as part of a deal that will require significant concessions\u201d, he concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leveraging murder<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Benny Gantz, the politician-general who helped oversee Israel\u2019s eight-month slaughter in Gaza inside Netanyahu\u2019s war cabinet and is widely described as a \u201cmoderate\u201d in the West, resigned from the government<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although ostensibly the dispute is over how Israel will extricate itself from Gaza over the coming months, the more likely explanation is that Gantz wishes both to distance himself from Netanyahu as the Israeli prime minister faces possible arrest for crimes against humanity and to prepare for elections to take his place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"US<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (L) poses with Benny Gantz in Tel Aviv, 11 June 2024 (David Azagury\/AFP)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pentagon and the Biden administration see Gantz as their man. Having him out of the government may give them additional leverage over Netanyahu in the run-up to a US presidential election in November in which Donald Trump will be actively trying to cosy up to the Israeli prime minister. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The focus on Israeli politicking – over US complicity in the Nuseirat massacre – will doubtless provide a welcome distraction, too, as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tours the region. He will once again wish to be seen rallying support for a ceasefire plan that is supposed to see the Israeli captives released – a plan Netanyahu will be determined, once again, to stymie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blinken\u2019s efforts are likely to be even more hopeless in the immediate wake of the Biden administration\u2019s all-too-visible involvement in the killing of hundreds of Palestinians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Washington\u2019s claim to be an \u201chonest broker\u201d looks to everyone – apart from the reliably obedient western political and media class – as even more derisory than usual. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The real question is whether Blinken\u2019s serial diplomatic failures in ending the slaughter in Gaza are a bug or a feature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The stark contradiction in Washington\u2019s position towards Gaza was exposed last week during a press conference with State Department spokesman Matthew Miller. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He suggested that the aim of Israel and the US was to persuade Hamas to dissolve itself – presumably by some form of surrender – in return for a ceasefire. The group had an incentive<\/a> to do so, said Miller, \u201cbecause they don’t want to see continued conflict, continued Palestinian people dying. They don’t want to see war in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even the usually compliant western press corps were taken aback by Miller\u2019s implication that a crime against humanity – the mass killing of Palestinians, such as took place at Nuseirat camp on Saturday – was viewed in Washington as leverage to be exercised over Hamas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But more likely, the seeming contradiction was simply symptomatic of the logical entanglements resulting from Washington\u2019s efforts to deflect from the real goal: buying Israel more time<\/a> to do what it is so well advanced doing already. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Israel needs to finish pulverising Gaza, making it permanently uninhabitable, so that the population will be faced with a stark dilemma: remain and die, or leave by any means possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The same US \u201chumanitarian pier\u201d that was pressed into service for Saturday\u2019s massacre may soon be the \u201chumanitarian pier\u201d that serves as the exit through which Gaza\u2019s Palestinians are ethnically cleansed, shuttled out of a death zone engineered by Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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