Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
It's very easy to vilify and try to make those who get in their way disappear, as is happening today to Israelis with regard to the Palestinian people.
Thus, ignorant of the numerous resolutions passed by the United Nations for the creation of two states, one Israeli and one Palestinian, in the original land of Palestine, 67% of Israelis are overwhelmingly in favor of killing all Palestinians, and 82% want them expelled from the Gaza Strip.
This thirst for blood is linked to a biblical passage, the one reported in Joshua, 6:21 about the conquest of Jericho: "Then they consecrated to extermination all that was in it, passing by the edge of the sword men and women, children and elders, cows, sheep and donkeys". In the view of a significant majority of Israelis, the Israeli Armed Forces should act similarly in Gaza, "killing all its inhabitants".
These are questions that do not usually arise with such frankness in a poll on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but in a recent one they show a clear radicalization of religious Zionism and a gradual acceptance by civil society of its postulates. "The lay Israeli Jews, they say in Haarezt, are unable to articulate a vision that questions Jewish supremacy"
This trend has only increased since Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza in 2005. One of the most influential propagandists of the concept of Jewish supremacy is Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh, who chairs the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva located in the Israeli settlement of Yitzhar. Twenty years ago, after the dismantling of the Jewish settlements in Gaza, he delivered a powerful sermon outside parliament. «He prepared his followers for mass violence and ethnic cleansing, policies that two decades later are taking place in Gaza.
An example of this violence is the tactic used by the Israeli army in recent days: shooting at hungry people who come to humanitarian aid stations, in addition to using snipers to kill children, to prevent them from growing up and taking revenge, and women, to prevent them from having children.
THE WORST OF ALL
It is always historically reported how reactionary the Zionist governments have been, but this, the current one, is the worst of all, without a shred of humanity, and this is endorsed by prestigious American universities not suspicious of leftism.
The current cabinet is Israel's 37th, formed on December 29, 2022, following the Knesset elections of November 1, 2022. It has been described, I emphasize, as the most right-wing government in Israel's history, as well as the most religious.
The government is a coalition of seven parties: Likud, United Torah Judaism, Shas, Religious Zionist Party, Otzmá Yehudit, Noam and National Unity, led by a well-known criminal, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Several journalists and human rights groups, far from being considered progressive, claim that the ideology espoused by the Israeli extreme right is fascist and racist towards Palestinians, Arab citizens of Israel and immigrants. They consider it a danger to democracy and claim that it uses violence and encourages human rights violations.
Even former US President Joe Biden, a self-confessed Zionist, admitted that Benjamin Netanyahu's government included some of the most extremist members he had ever seen.
In 2023, the Likud-led coalition was described in authoritarian terms by the progressive Israeli newspaper Haaretz as "fascist" and "a dictatorship."
MISDEEDS
In 2023 and 2024, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir initiated at least four marches toward the Al-Aqsa compound in East Jerusalem, each with up to a thousand ultranationalist Israeli settlers—a provocation in itself.
On February 26, 2023, in retaliation for the shooting of two Israeli settlers earlier that day by an unidentified assailant, hundreds of Israeli settlers carried out a violent nighttime massacre in Huwara and other Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank, leaving the city in flames. While soldiers on the scene failed to intervene, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right politician who is partly responsible for the West Bank administration, called for the army to "annihilate" Huwara.
But this is only a "passage" of the criminal spirit of the Zionist cabinet members.
Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter (Likud) told Israel's Channel 12 in November 2023 that the war would be the "Nakba of Gaza," using the Arabic word for "catastrophe" that many use to describe the 1948 displacement of approximately 700,000 Palestinians.
Heritage Minister Amihai Eliyahu (Otzma Yehudit) stated in a November 2023 interview that dropping a nuclear bomb on the Gaza Strip was "one of the possibilities."
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (National Religious Zionist Party) stated in a November 2023 letter that Palestinians should be excluded from "security zones" in the occupied West Bank, even for "harvesting olives." He also called for the creation of "sterile security zones" around West Bank settlements to "prevent the entry of Arabs."
Perhaps the cruelest thing was exposed without hesitation by Minister for the Advancement of Women, May Golan (Likud), who said in a speech in February 2024: "I am personally proud of the ruins of Gaza, and that every baby, even 80 years from now, will tell their grandchildren what the Jews did." (Text: Arnaldo Musa/Cubasí) (Photo: Cubasí)
