Palestinian civilians in Gaza, who desperately need humanitarian aid, are trapped between a furious Israel and Hamas, which uses them as human shields.
Palestinian children displaced by the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip stay in a U.N.-provided tent camp in Khan Younis on Thursday. Palestinian civilians are lumped together with Hamas terrorists as equally guilty by some in Israel, writes Trudy Rubin.On his trip to Israel Wednesday to support the war on Hamas, President Joe Biden also pushed for humanitarian aid to be allowed into the Gaza Strip.
A thick fog of rage is enveloping Israelis as they mourn the slaughter of Jewish civilians, including women, children, and babies — a fog that obscures almost any sympathy for the suffering of Palestinian civilians. That’s why the following advice, from an empathetic Biden, was so important:. “But I caution this: While you feel that rage, don’t be consumed by it. While we got justice, we also made mistakes.
Rage seems to be guiding Israeli wartime attitudes toward humanitarian aid. Palestinian civilians are lumped together with terrorists as equally guilty.,” the normally calm Israeli President Isaac Herzog said at a recent news conference. “It is not true this rhetoric about civilians not being aware, not involved. They could have risen up. They could have fought against that evil regime which took over Gaza in a coup d’etat.
Former Maj. Gen. Giora Eiland, who served as national security adviser under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon when the latter withdrew Israeli troops from Gaza,Israel should tell all Gaza residents “to either leave for Egypt or gather on the seashore.” He argues that “Israel has no choice but to make Gaza a place that is temporarily, or permanently, impossible to live in. Creating a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza is a necessary means to achieve the goal.
Shaul himself has been deeply shaken. Two members of Breaking the Silence were killed by Hamas. “We knew there was nothing good at the end of the tunnel of permanent occupation,” Shaul said softly, “but when it happens at this scale — the orgy of mass murder of entire families …”
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