Shir Hever: The war that Israel lost
Back in 2000, the right-wing Israeli politician Ariel Sharon marched into the Al-Aqsa Mosque with a detachment of bodyguards. The provocation sparked the second Intifada, which lasted until 2005. Sharon was the leader of the opposition Likud party at the time. The fighting that erupted after his visit also stoked the flames of populism and nationalism in the country, and less than a year later, in March 2001, the Labor Party government of Ehud Barak collapsed and Sharon became prime minister. The events of this May in Israel-Palestine are a frightening repetition of what happened in 2000.
The results of the March 2021 elections in Israel, the
fourth elections in a two-year period, were inconclusive. Benjamin Netanyahu
(Likud) failed to
gather a majority in his allocated time to form a government. Shortly after the
president gave the opportunity to opposition leader Yair Lapid of the Yesh Atid
party, Netanyahu sent Israeli
police to storm the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem during the Al-Qadr Night
prayers on 8 May, and injured 330
Palestinians.
Some information for Israelis (and the rest of us)
On 10 May, Palestinian groups in the besieged Gaza Strip
(namely Hamas and the Islamic Jihad) fired rockets
in response to the violation of the mosque. Pogroms in
Jerusalem in which angry mobs went hunting for Palestinians to beat up or kill
spread to other cities. In Lod and in other so-called “mixed cities”,
Palestinian citizens of Israel organised their own groups, and one Jewish
Israeli was killed. The Israeli air force began a brutal bombardment campaign
of the Gaza Strip, but the rockets from Gaza did not stop. By the time the
ceasefire came into effect, 11 days after the fighting started, 232
Palestinians (including 65 children) and 12 Israelis, had been killed….
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/north-africa-west-asia/war-israel-lost/
Some
information for Israelis (and the rest of us)
Israel is committing the crime of
apartheid: Human Rights Watch
Israel Guilty of Apartheid, Ethnic
Cleansing of Palestinians: UN Rapporteur
Palestinians Shot In Kusra Clash
With Israeli Settlers
Israel admits it revoked residency
rights of a quarter million Palestinians
URI AVNERY - Is Israel an apartheid
state? // Israel announces east Jerusalem settlements
Israel subjecting Palestinian
children to 'spiral of injustice' - Children in military custody
Juan Cole
- The Map: A Palestinian Nation Thwarted & Speaking Truth to Power
This conflict in the Holy Land must
end – for the children’s sake
The Deir Yassin massacre of 1948
Chris Hedges: Imploding the myth of
Israel
