[News] 'Programmed and Directed' - Gaza Genocide has Sealed Israel’s Fate as 'a Country of Blood'

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'Programmed and Directed' - Gaza Genocide has Sealed Israel’s Fate as 'a
Country of Blood'September 17, 2024
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Israel continues to carry out massacres against Palestinian civilians in
Gaza.(Photo: Mahmoud Ajjour, The Palestine Chronicle)

*By Iqbal Jassat <https://www.palestinechronicle.com/writers/iqbal-jassat>*

Posing a challenge to Israelis, Levy says the time now is for them to ask
themselves if they are willing to “live in a country that lives on blood”.

In an astonishing piece published in Haaretz by one of its most forthright
journalists, Gideon Levy launches into a powerful and courageous attack on
Israel and Israelis.

In his fearless column, Levy accuses Israel of turning into a country that
lives on blood. He writes that while the daily crimes of the occupation are
already less relevant, the past year has seen the emergence of a new
reality of mass killing and crimes of an entirely different scale.

“We are in a genocidal reality; the blood of tens of thousands of people
has flowed.”

Posing a challenge to Israelis, Levy says the time now is for them to ask
themselves if they are willing to “live in a country that lives on blood”.

“Are we, the Israelis, willing to live in the only country in the world
whose existence
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is based on blood? The only vision that is widespread in Israel now is to
live from one war to another war, from one bloodletting to the next, from
massacre to massacre, with intervals spaced as widely as possible.”

Levy slams the “right” for promising a permanent blood-soaked reality: war,
mass killing, systematic violation of international law, a pariah state,
repeating in an endless cycle.

“The Palestinians will continue to be massacred, and Israelis will continue
to close their eyes to it? Hard to believe. A time will come when more
Israelis will open their eyes and recognize that their country subsists on
blood. Without bloodshed, we are told, we have no existence – and we make
our peace with this horrific statement.”
‘Exist Forever?’

Can such a country “exist forever”? According to Levy, Israelis not only
believe that it will but are convinced that its existence is dependent on
“blood offering”.

“We not only believe that such a country can exist forever, we are
convinced that without the blood offering, it has no existence. Every three
years, a bloodletting in Gaza, every four years, in Lebanon. In between,
there is the West Bank, and, occasionally, a blood sortie to additional
targets. There is no other country like it in the world.”

Levy’s column makes clear his infuriation and annoyance with Israel’s
population. He finds it difficult to imagine them willing to “live in a
country that runs on blood”.

Describing the war in Gaza as a watershed, he lambasts Israeli media for
campaigns that demonize and dehumanize the Palestinians.

In his unrestrained fashion, a trademark of his forthrightness, Levy slams
a “monstrous chorus of commentators” for “successfully selling us the idea
that we can live for eternity on blood”.

Clearly *“gatvol” (fedup/exasperated) *Levy writes that living in a country
of blood requires that “… we will execute generation after generation of
young regime opponents, imprison tens of thousands of people in
concentration camps, we will expel, cull, expropriate and, of course, kill,
and that is how we will live…”.

Has the world allowed it?

Yes, indeed the world continues to allow Israel to commit the most
horrendous genocide in Gaza. Notwithstanding efforts undertaken by South
Africa at the International Court of Justice, the world has failed to rein
in Netanyahu and his criminal gang of warlords.

However, the question posed by Levy is whether the Israelis are willing to
allow it and how long can they live with the knowledge that their existence
depends on blood.

“When will we ask whether there genuinely is no alternative to a country of
blood? After all, there is no other country like this.”
‘Programmed and Directed’

Levy writes that Israel was programmed and directed to behave
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as a country that lives off blood, even more so after October 7.

As is widely known, though Zionist apologists try to sweep it under the
carpet, October 7 did not happen in a vacuum.

The carefully coordinated attack launched by Hamas was a powerful reminder
that Israel’s colonial enterprise is neither tenable nor sustainable, as
per Marwan Bishara, a senior political analyst at Al Jazeera.

Though Levy does not – in this article at least – extend his anguish to
countries and Zionist organizations who fund, facilitate
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and defend Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians, it is essential to charge
them as complicit in the shedding of blood.

Not a single pro-Israel Zionist group may escape from their culpability, no
matter whether they are based in New York or Johannesburg.

Jonathan Cook makes a number of pertinent observations in his book
‘Disappearing Palestine: Israel’s Experiments in Human Despair’, that may
explain why Levy’s consternation and dismay are justified.

Though published almost two decades ago, Cook warned that Israel has
developed and refined policies to disperse, imprison and impoverish the
Palestinians in a relentless effort to destroy them as a nation.

The crux of it lies in the false Zionist narrative that Palestinians never
existed as a people.


*– Iqbal Jassat is an Executive Member of the South Africa-based Media
Review Network. He contributed this article to The Palestine Chronicle.
Visit: **www.mediareviewnet.com* <http://www.mediareviewnet.com/>
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