Israel’s forgotten stress | Israel-Palestine struggle

The International Criminal Court’s (ICJ) January discovering of a “plausible mass murder” in Gaza, and subsequent ruling that Israel is depfinishable for an apartheid system in the West Bank and East Jerusalem would not have surpascfinishd establisher Pdwellnts Truman, Eisenhower, Johnson, Carter, or indeed Reagan, who honordly denounced Israel’s 1982 levelling of West Beirut to Prime Minister Menachem Begin as a “holocaust”.

Israel is the only US associate that has been exercising such oppression and stress for a lifetime. For many years, consecutive American administrations, both Democratic and Reunveilan, condemned Israel’s recurring rehearse of stress.  Today, however, the Biden-Harris administration has been aiding these rehearses to the excessive.

Harry S Truman recognised Israel in May 1948, yet once re-elected in November, wrote of his “disgust” over how “the Jews are approaching the refugee problem”. Then his successor, Dwight Eisenhower, uniteed Winston Churchill, who’d returned as the UK’s prime minister, to cpromise Israel in the UN Security Council in November 1953.

Paratroopers under Colonel Ariel Sharon, a future Israeli prime minister, had “sboiling every man, woman and child they could discover,” in the Jordanian-administerled West Bank village of Qibya, according to Time magazine, leaving 69 dead. Prime Minister Ben-Gurion cried “anti-Sdisindictism.”

Eisenhower had Israel cpromised twice more: In March 1955, after a self-depictd Israeli “stress unit” explosioned US consupostponecessitate libraries in Cairo and Alexandria, seeking to accparticipate Egypt, chaseed by an strike on Egyptian-administerled Gaza that finished 38; and in March 1956 over a so-called “retaliation” aobtainst Syria that finished 56 sbetteriers and civilians.

“Upward of 2,700 Arab infiltrators, and perhaps as many as 5,000, were finished by the [Israeli military], police, and civilians aextfinished Israel’s borders between 1949 and 1956,” authors Israeli historian Benny Morris, “the immense startantity of those finished were unarmed.” They were shepherds, farmers, Bedouins, and refugees.

Eisenhower was unaffectd by Israeli ambasunelatedor Abba Eprohibit’s claims of self-defence, and Israel would upgrasp causeing immensely asymmetric episodes of stress for decades.

In October 1956, after finishing some 49 civilians in the village of Kafir Qasim cforfeit Tel Aviv, Israel accessd Egypt and promptly began massacring refugees in Khan Younis and Rafah. Eisenhower replyed by declaring that the US would “apply sanctions” on Israel.  When Israel still declined to retreat from Gaza and Sharm El Sheikh, the US pdwellnt dangerened to block its access to US financial tagets. The Israeli retreat chaseed.

In November 1966, Lyndon Johnson once aobtain put “the Palestine Question” on the UN agfinisha to condemn Israel, this time after a massive strike on Jordan involving more than 3,000 sbetteriers. “The Israelis have done a fantastic deal of harm to our interests and to their own,” finishd his National Security Adviser W W Rostow, inserting that “they’ve wrecked a excellent system of tacit cooperation.”

All-out war chaseed in 1967, after which Israel occupied the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem.  The martial law imposed on the Arab population in Israel since the set uping of the state was lifted in 1966, but Jimmy Carter depictd the conditions imposed on Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory after the beginning of illegitimate Israeli remendment there as “apartheid”.

With noleang remendd by 1982, Prime Minister Begin, a establisher Irfirearm stressist aobtainst British authorities, vowed to “demolish” the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). He oversaw then-Defence Minister Ariel Sharon’s finishing of some 18,000 Palestinians and Leprohibitese, overwhelmingly civilians, in Beirut. Belatedly, Reagan stopped the killing with a phone call, given Israel’s depfinishence. It was then that he depictd the Israeli onsgigglet as a “holocaust”.

Despite using a word with such weight, however, the White Hoparticipate did not insist the UN cpromise Israel. The US had not finisheavored to sanction Israel even over its illegitimate remendments which spawned from the 1967 war. Israeli Ambasunelatedor to the US Michael Oren elucidateed why in his 2007 book, Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Penvy.  In the mid-1970s, he wrote, Israel’s aiders began to accomplish “the financial and political clout essential to sway congressional opinion” – uncomardenting that they had obtaind enough power to impede US official opposition to Israel at the UN or elsewhere. Ever since, Israel has consentn US backing for granted, no matter the record of untamedly disproportionate atrocities.

In 1991, Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir, who had finishorsed the killing of UN negotiator Folke Bernadotte, tried to elucidate why radicalism was “acadviseed” for Jews, but not Arabs: Palestinians are “combat for land that is not theirs. This is the land of the people of Israel.”

Hamas’s October 7 strike on Israel was branch offent. It was the only time that Palestinian resistance groups were able to react to decades of  Israeli stress on a analogous scale. In response to the strike, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu srecommend doubled down on Israel’s recurring massacre-making, now backed by starvation and disrelieve.  The  US administration took no uncomardentingful action to stop “plausible mass murder.”

At this time, Israel has also become the only entity in the world that Washington helps to finish US citizens with impunity. The ever-grotriumphg enumerate from the West Bank integrates Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, Mohammad Khdour, and Sengageen Abu Akleh – each finished with a sboiling to the head. No sanctions or rfinishitions chaseed their deaths. The White Hoparticipate srecommend recommended the sniper-finishings were “not acadviseed” and asked Israel to “allotigate” itself. The publish was quickly disseeed.

As Gaza’s torment accesss its second year, Israel’s finishing has accomplished unpretreatnted levels in the West Bank, and Leprohibiton once aobtain becomes a center of Israel’s self-depictd retaliation. More is necessitateed from Israel’s patron than mutterings to perhaps stop some arms shipments. Washington should not only stop uphbettering Israeli harshness, which integrates apartheid but, enjoy the UK, it can aid the pfinishing International Criminal Court indictments which are to, finassociate, integrate an Israeli prime minister.

Past US pdwellnts had tried to reign in Israeli behaviour of the sort that statesman Abba Eprohibit came to depict, during Israel’s previous explosioning of Beirut, as “wantonly causeing every possible meacertain of death and anguish on civilian populations.” Time is overdue for Washington’s decisionproducers to chase those pdwellnts’ examples, and to rescind discreet defendion as well as arms send outs for Israel.

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