| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Why is it only Israel that daily makes the news re 'genocide'? | |
| Posted by: | Steven Rose | |
| Date/Time: | 20/08/25 18:24:00 |
| Yes, Philippa, there are fanatics in Israel but not genocidal fanatics nor international revolutionaries like Hamas. While Hamas want to exterminate the Jewish population of Israel, the Israelis don't want to kill the entire Arab population of the Middle East. While Hamas wish to overthrow the regimes of Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, Israel does not want to destabilise these countries. What they want is peace. Israel concluded peace deals with the Egyptians and the Jordanians over thirty years ago which are still intact. And they were about to normalise relations with Saudi Arabia, until October 7 intervened and Jeremy Bowen and Jon Donnison of the BBC told the world that Israel was responsible for a missile attack on the Al Ahli hospital in Gaza (actually caused by Islamic Jihad) whereupon the Saudis broke off negotiations. The Israelis only attack countries which send rockets into Israel viz Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Yemen and Gaza. There are of course Israeli fanatics among the settlers on the West Bank and among their supporters in the government. These can be divided into two groups. There are the religious fanatics who believe that God gave the Jewish people the whole of that area 5000 years ago. But they are outnumbered by the political extremists who believe that the settlements are the best way of preventing the establishment of a Palestinian state on the West Bank which they see as an existential threat to Israel given that polls show that 80% of the population would support Hamas against the 'moderate' faction led by Mahmoud Abbas. In other words, they fear that the West Bank would become a second Gaza, under the control of Hamas and dedicated to the destruction of Israel. Many ordinary Israelis, who would not describe themselves as extremists, share this fear. |