“Apartheid, occupation, siege of Gaza, rejection of the Palestinian state, settlers, army activities would have been no different or only slightly better. “And what about the successors?” he writes Gideon Levy in an article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, December 28, 2023. The translation comes from Luisa Rabolini.
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What if Benjamin Netanyahu hadn't been prime minister for 16 years? Wouldn't this terrible war have broken out? Would the war have turned out differently? Can we be sure that the surprise and fiasco of October 7th would not have occurred? Wouldn't the hostages have been taken? Israel would not have committed such heinous mass murder in 2010 Gaza?
These are not “what if” questions, nor are they intended to reduce by one point Netanyahu’s enormous responsibility and the gravity of his culpability for what happened. Netanyahu It must come out yesterday, today, tomorrow, like the entire crazy government of zeros on the left that formed it and that brought us to the edge of the abyss.
But there are leaders Israel that they would behave fundamentally differently towards Gaza and the Palestinians? No way.
Blame all misfortunes Israel For Netanyahu, that means saying that without him everything would have been different. This is what “everyone but Bibi” has been doing since day one. If it hadn't been for Netanyahu, Gaza It wouldn't have been a prison, the settlements would have been Israel and that wouldn't have happened Foreign direct investment (Israeli Defense Forces) would have been a moral army.
That's obviously not true. There are enough things that, if it weren't for Netanyahu, Israel It would have been a better place, but removing the curse of occupation and siege is not one of them.
There are honest politicians in Israel, full of good intentions, who are more modest and loyal to their positions than he is it would have been more pleasant to live with them.
Israel The same apartheid state would have remained, only nicer. Netanyahu has corrupted and infected the political system, destroyed the justice system and the law enforcement system, and as for his personal behavior, it is better not to start with that.
But when it comes to the heart of the matter, the heart of the matter Israel is on the run as if it were fire, the core of what Netanyahu had planned to drop from the agenda it appears that Netanyahu acted as his predecessors did and as his successors will do.
Apart from the commendable efforts of former Prime Ministers like Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, Ehud Barak, Ehud Olmert It is Ariel Sharon In order to find a solution, even if only partial, none of them had any intention of giving the Palestinians the minimum justice they deserve, without which there is no solution.
All prime ministers spoke out in favor of continuing the occupation and siege of the Gaza Strip. Neither of them thought for a moment about allowing a real one Palestinian state, with all powers, a state like any other. They didn't think about freeing her Gaza Strip the oppressive siege. Without all of them, Hamas might not exist.
The siege of Gaza was not initiated Netanyahu; The Government of Change did not think of repealing it. Maybe with Naftali Bennett the money from Qatar It would have flowed more responsibly to Hamas, but the policy would have been essentially the same. Nobody thought about opening Gaza to the world, even in a controlled way: the only policy that was not tried and the only one that might have led to a solution.
It is also difficult to judge whether Foreign direct investment With a different prime minister they would have been a different army.
Could the fiasco have been avoided? It is not right. The occupation missions, which made up the majority Foreign direct investment were not invented by Netanyahu. Any other prime minister would have used insane amounts of power and resources to appease the colonists and their whims. This has been the case in all Israeli governments.
The candidates warm up at the starting line. Any of them will be a better prime minister than Netanyahu. Certainly more honest, humble and respectable than him. But will any of them change the steep downward trend? Israel?
Yair Lapid He said he was in favor of the Palestinian Authority's invasion of Gaza, but soon changed his mind and is now against it. Lapid has no opinions.
Benny Gantz It is Gadi Eisenkot take part in warfare with all its crimes, which will, however, prove useless. None of them suggested a new path, a path that had never been tried before. It's just strength and more strength.
Netanyahu It has to come out, there are no more doubts. But Israel will continue on its path.
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