Apartheid Does Not Have the Right To Defend Itself, Or To Exist
Jim Kavanagh
Twitter/IsraelArabic
With its latest attack on Gaza—on the families it drove
from their homes in what is now Israeli territory—Israel is surpassing itself
in viciousness. As of today, Israel has killed 212 Gazans,
including at least 61 children and 36 women. It is “obliterate[ing]
multiple generations of families” in the middle of the night—at
least 21 members of the al-Qawlaq family, from 6 months to 90 years old. It is pulverizing
residential towers and media offices, and bombing “civic infrastructure,
businesses and the main roads leading to the city’s al-Shifa hospital.”
Destroying the roads is an instructive example of Israel’s gratuitous, and clever,
cruelty: It of course prevents ambulances and medics from moving where they’re
needed; it also blocks the families who are fleeing to the hospitals for safety
from the sudden explosion of their homes. But, We didn’t bomb the hospital!
Given all of Israel’s precision weapons and careful
advance planning, this is not an accident, nor was the killing of at least two
key senior medical staff in one night—reminiscent of the one day, during the
Great March of Return protest in 2018, when Israeli snipers, who claimed to “know where every
bullet landed,” just happened to wound and kill 18 paramedics. It’s a plan to
increase the suffering and chaos.
A powerful state only does these things to people it despises and fears.
