The "Israel-Has-No-Alternative" Myth
In 2004, train bombings in Madrid resulted in Spain withdrawing from Iraq -- and peace for Spain.
Many are claiming that Israel has no choice.
It has to bomb Gaza, there is no alternative.
In fact, Israel has a choice.
A clear choice.
To reflexively react and bomb Gaza amid massive propaganda before assessing the facts is deranged.
One clear fact is that Netanyahu promised security and he failed. Israelis of every political stripe should be fuming at him, as some are. Never mind for the moment that he had warning of the Hamas attacks and almost certainly wanted conflict.
The choice facing Israel is highlighted by this:
In 2004, bombings on commuter trains in Madrid killed over 190 people. The government was immediately voted out and a new government came in, swiftly got Spain out of Iraq and nothing like that has happened in Spain since.
But the lessons of the train bombings is memory holed and even falsified.
NPR’s Dina Temple-Raston reversed what happened, claiming after the Orlando shooting — which was also followed by a flood of lies — that after the bombings in Spain, “the more conservative candidate ended up winning.” (In NPR-speak, “conservative” means more pro-war.) Total propaganda.
The lesson is clear.
Netanyahu isn’t out to protect Israelis.
If he was, he would embrace peace.
You want to stop a group like Hamas from attacking you?
Solve the conflict.
Abide by international law.
Stop bombing people.
Repent for having expelled nonviolent activists.
Withdraw.
Agree to peace.
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I’ve been suspended by X/twitter, but you can now see my past material there. I’m also now posting on Gab.
I am sorry that you are suspended. The current level of censorship and antagonism is worse than ever. I am for peace too, with dignity and respect for all.
I would not say that Netanyahu's behavior is "deranged." I would say it is calculated, long-planned, consistent with the long-term vision and goals of the Zionist project.
This comports with your assessment that Israel has wanted the conflict. I agree.
Since Israel played a part in the founding of Hamas in the first place, there was a part of me asking, "Qui bonis?" when the attacks first took place.
Of course, I didn't think they were false-flag; it was clear that Hamas had outwitted the IDF at the tactical level, and been incredibly innovative, brave and brazen.
The strategic outcome is TBD, but depends on how well the rest of us call out Israel's grisly machinations, lies, outrages, projections (accusing Palestine, or in the case, Hamas, of doing what they actually do to Palestinians on the daily) and the U.S. taxpayer-dollars-turned-killing-machines always backing them up, and how well we resist the demonization designed to silence us, even relatively powerless critics-from-afar.
Meanwhile obviously the Palestinians are being subjected to genocidal opportunism.
Please continue to call out the slavish servitude of NPR, NYT, and all the other purportedly respectable and liberal outlets continuing to conceptually underwrite western neocolonial hegemony, which Indi.ca on Medium aptly calls "White Empire."