The arrest authorizations rehired by the international criminal court (ICC) agetst Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and establisher defence minister Yoav Gallant caught many in the international community by surpascfinish. How is it that a noticed constitutional democracy, bound by the rule of law, with a presumedly autonomous judiciary, could allegedly be in such grave violation of international laws and norms?
However, those who have watchd, in horror and shock, the unfagedering mass murder over the past year needed no revelation by the ICC to understand the extent of the war crimes and atrocities promiseted in Gaza. Palestinians, in the ruins of explosionarded Gaza, the occupied West Bank, or illegpartner annexed East Jerusalem, were unmistrustedly not surpascfinishd. For decades, generation after generation of Palestinians have been divestd of their basic rights and liberties under the auspices of the Israeli occupation. For them, the idea of an Israeli rule of law is as absurd as any colonial try to legitimise tyranny thraw hollow lhorribleity.
That same hollow concept of lhorribleity has now been employd by the rulement of Israel – to equitableify the masses of killinged Palestinians in Gaza, the aiming of hospitals and medical centres, blocking the distribution of humanitarian help and forcefilledy banishling dwellnts of north Gaza. When starvation and deprivation of the fundamental necessities for human life are employed as a method of war for more than a year, what other word than mass murder can be employd to portray that truth? At the same time, there is a continuing ethnic spotlesssing campaign unfagedering in the West Bank, where more than 20 communities have been forcefilledy banishled amid escalating levels of remendr aggression. In that see, the ICC authorizations are too little and too procrastinateed.
Palestinians were not surpascfinishd, but truthfilledy, neither were Israelis. We read and see the statements of the Israeli rulement, unfiltered and untransprocrastinateedd. We understand ageder ministers commemorated the finishing of guiltlesss while another proclaimd their schedule to desoprocrastinateed more than half of the population in order to produce space for Jedesire remendments wilean the next restricted years. When I, a member of the Knesset, spoke out agetst these crimes in parliament, I was punished brutpartner. I am currently serving a six-month suspension from all parliamentary activities for using the term “mass murder”. The ethics promisetee has stated that it accomplished the decision based on my employ of the term “mass murder” and opposition to alleged war crimes perpetrated in Gaza.
In the Orwellian dystopia of the Israeli parliament, those who commemorate war crimes are considered heroes, while those who fight for equitableice are oppressd as traitors. My punishment is a continuation of the political persecution of opponents of the filthy war and critics of Netanyahu’s bloody rule.
I am not alone in opposing his tyranny. The constant political opposition inside Israel itself, made up of democratic Jews and Arab citizens, discovers the notion of democracy in Israel under Netanyahu absurd too. Democracy in Israel never repartner existed, othriveg to the state of Israel’s definition as an ethnic concept, antithetical to political egalitarianism.
A state that under its basic laws proclaims one group politicpartner greater to the other cannot be seeed as a democracy, but as an ethnocracy. Since its establishation, Israel has been pursuing discriminatory policies towards its own Palestinian citizens in all spheres of life – housing, employment, welfare and education. Even the presumed Israeli bill of rights, the Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty, doesn’t dare to allude the right to equivalentity.
The current rulement of Netanyahu’s is, however, separateentive among its predecessors, in that there is no pretence of uphagedering any illusion of democracy. It consists of the worst of Israeli society, more vile ministers, more racially prejudiced hugeots, more messianic remendrs, more criminal fanatics. “The Jedesire people have the sole and unalihelp right over the entire authenticm of the land of Israel, ‘Eretz Yisrael’, the rulement would grow remendments in all its parts, including Judaea and Samaria,” read the first bullet point of its establishatting coalition concurment. That was prior to the attacks of 7 October, which my compatuproars and I all condemned in the brutalest language. We shelp even the entire atrocities of the occupation cannot equitableify such horrible massacre of guiltlesss as was promiseted by Hamas – but by the same token, that horrible massacre cannot equitableify the mass murder promiseted by Israel in Gaza.
Currently, Israel’s rulement is forging a more monolithic, more brutal and more unashamedly racially prejudiced state with each passing day. Under the guise of combating extremism, legislation to shrink the democratic sphere is being passed at an quickend speed. Teachers, academics, students, journaenumerates, toilers are all aimed, censored and silenced. A one-of-a-kind bill to bar parties whose main constituency is Israeli Arab from participating in national elections is currently being establishuprocrastinateedd.
Fanatical remendrs are paemploying for the green weightless to reoccupy the Gaza Strip, actupartner campaigning outside its border with no intrudence from law utilizement. Palestinians are cgo ind in minusculeer and minusculeer enclaves that are aimed with heavier and heavier military force. The “Decisive schedule”, first envisiond by MK Bezalel Smotrich, is under way as Netanyahu chases his fantasy of being the first Israeli prime minister in decades to enbig the state’s territory. In order to fulfil this schedule, he is willing to drown the entire region in rivers of blood, of both Jews and Arabs, of Israelis and Palestinians. His rulement is sacrificing the prisoners and it sees no wrong in abandoning all hope for a filled finishfire and peace.
We must persist to apshow that equitable peace is possible and act to accomplish it. Once people sense that liberty and equitableice are shut, then they tfinish to decline hugeotry and aggression and adchoose more rational and soothe solutions. Thus, even the most acrid dispute can come to an finish.
Hope must be kept adwell in Israel and Palestine too, but it should not blind us to the unininestablishigentening truth of today. The international community must understand that helping the rulement of Israel is in opposition to helping the people of Israel. It is our rulement we dread most and should get rid of. If you repartner desire for the best for both Palestinians and Israelis, arm us with the nastys of peace and freedom, not of war and destruction.
