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<div class="gmail-field gmail-field-field-subhead">Netanyahu is burying any chance of Israeli Jews being able to live in peace with their Arab neighbours for decades to come</div>
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</div>On 19 November 1995, the <a href="https://www.icty.org/x/cases/mladic/ind/en/kar-ii951116e.pdf" target="_blank">indictment</a> of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia against Serb leader Ratko Mladic was issued.</div><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-body gmail-clearfix">
<p>It said that between about 12 July 1995 and 13 July 1995, Ratko <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-42080090" target="_blank">Mladic</a>
arrived in Potocari, where thousands of Bosnian Muslim men, women and
children had sought refuge in and around the UN military compound,
accompanied by his military aides and a television crew.</p>
<p>The Bosnian Serb general<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-18102216" target="_blank"> filmed </a>himself telling Muslims that they would be safely transported out of Srebrenica. Mladic <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-18102220" target="_blank">boarded</a> a bus of terrified refugees and addressed them.</p>
<p>"Good afternoon. You heared the stories about me for a very long
time. Now you are looking at me (the driver interrupts). You shut up.
Your job is to drive. </p>
<p>"I am General Mladic. There are able-bodied people among you. You are
all safe. And you are all going to be transported to Kladanj. We wish
you a safe journey. You who are of military age, do not go to the front
again. No more forgiveness. Now I'm giving your life as a gift."</p></div></div><div class="gmail-field gmail-field-body gmail-clearfix"><p>In Potocari, the men and boys were separated from the women, driven to Bratunac and shot dead by Bosnian Serb soldiers. </p>
<p>On and around the same dates, the indictment <a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=71a052eca22b77491208463feee62c1f2d2231a623138a766c3f078ec0f0f943JmltdHM9MTcyOTY0MTYwMA&ptn=3&ver=2&hsh=4&fclid=294abeae-9141-607f-2618-aa4390a161ab&psq=Muslim+men+and+women+who+had+taken+refuge+in+the+UN+compound+were+summarily+executed+and+their+bodies+were+left+lying+in+the+fields+and+buildings+in+the+compound.&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuaWN0eS5vcmcveC9jYXNlcy9tbGFkaWMvaW5kL2VuL2thci1paTk1MTExNmUucGRm&ntb=1" target="_blank">continued</a>,
Muslim men and women who had taken refuge in the UN compound were
summarily executed and their bodies were left lying in the fields and
buildings in the compound.</p>
<p>Almost three decades later, the same - if not worse - is happening on a daily basis in <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/rapid-extermination-mission-underway-jabalia-refugee-camp" target="_blank">Jabalia refugee camp</a> in northern Gaza. </p>
<p>The killing is as organised.</p>
<p>Men are being <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-forces-raid-northern-gaza-schools-and-march-displaced-people-out-gunpoint" target="_blank">separated</a> from women and are being led off to an unknown fate, some <a href="https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1849020999515210020" target="_blank">never to be seen again</a>. Bodies<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/dozens-bodies-scattered-throughout-streets-jabalia" target="_blank"> litter</a> the streets of Jabalia. </p>
<p>The streets of the camp are strewn with evidence of summary
execution; bodies of men, women and children with their heads torn off
are lying in the entrances to buildings. </p>
<p>Unlike the killing fields of Srebrenica, it's all documented on video. </p>
<p>Meanwhile, an Israeli soldier is filmed handing sweets out to children awaiting transportation.</p>
<p>What is happening in northern Gaza today is qualitatively different to any horror visited on Gaza in the last year. </p>
<h3>Worse than Nakba</h3>
<p>What is taking place before our eyes is worse than<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/nakba-palestine-remembering-what-was-lost" target="_blank"> the Nakba</a> (the Catastrophe) in 1948 when 700,000 Palestinians were made refugees, because what happened at <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/crimes-1948-jewish-fighters-speak-out" target="_blank">Deir Yassin</a> or <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-tantura-massacre-documentary-foundational-myth-exposes-how" target="_blank">Tantura</a> is happening every night in northern Gaza.</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-war-genocide-programme-ai-obliterate-gaza" target="_blank">technology of killing</a> has changed. The intent to leave no survivors behind has not.</p>
<p>Today, a total siege is being laid.</p>
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<a class="gmail-mee-readmore-img-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-genocide-culture-won-wants-endless-wars" target="_blank"><img class="gmail-mee-readmore-image" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/read_more/public/images-story/Israeli%20right-wing%20activists%20attend%20a%20gathering%20near%20the%20border%20with%20Gaza%20on%20October%2021%2C%202024%2C%20calling%20to%20establish%20a%20new%20Jewish%20settlement%20in%20the%20Gaza%20Strip-afp.jpg.webp?itok=Qx4i5XMb" width="400" height="250" alt=""></a> <div class="gmail-mee-readmore-description">In Israel, a genocide culture has won and wants endless war</div>
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<p>There is <a href="https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/northern-gaza-world-must-stop-these-atrocities-food-and-water-runs-out" target="_blank">no food, water, or medical care</a>
coming in. What remains of the healthcare system after a year of
bombing is being systematically dismantled. Schools are being bombed.
Northern Gaza is being rendered uninhabitable. </p>
<p>As in Srebrenica, the civilian victims are being shunted to "safe areas" and then killed. </p>
<p>It's organised on an industrial scale.</p>
<p>"The smell of death is everywhere," <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1155971" target="_blank">writes</a> Philippe Lazzarini, head of <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/unwra-funding-israel-war-gaza-us-uk" target="_blank">Unrwa </a>"as
bodies are left lying on the roads or under the rubble. Missions to
clear the bodies or provide humanitarian assistance are denied."</p>
<p>More than 8000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed in Srebrenica. </p>
<p>There are up to 400,000 Palestinians in northern Gaza, dozens of whom
are dying every night in artillery fire, drone strikes, or close up in
summary executions.</p><p>This has been going on for three weeks and there is no
international pressure on Benjamin Netanyahu to stop. There are no
statements of condemnation by any western leader. </p>
<p>The<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/israel-war-gaza-international-criminal-court" target="_blank"> two cases</a> before
the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Court of
Justice (ICJ) include some of the most severe allegations of violating
international law of modern times, such as genocide, crimes against
humanity and war crimes. However, they remain <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/icc-history-judge-inaction-judges-must-act-or-step-aside" target="_blank">stalled</a>. </p>
<p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-war-gaza-icc-arrest-warrant-netanyahu-why-late-next" target="_blank">Five months</a> have passed since Karim Khan, the ICC prosecutor, <a href="https://www.icc-cpi.int/news/statement-icc-prosecutor-karim-aa-khan-kc-applications-arrest-warrants-situation-state" target="_blank">requested</a> an arrest warrant for Netanyahu and his Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. The Hamas leaders wanted on war crimes charges, <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/ismail-haniyeh-killing-moment-truth-middle-east" target="_blank">Ismail Haniyeh</a> and <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-war-yahya-sinwar-greeting-people-free-world-his-own-words" target="_blank">Yahya Sinwar</a> are dead, and <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-claims-have-killed-hamas-leader-mohammed-deif" target="_blank">according to Israel</a>, so too is <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/mohammed-deif-hamas-military-chief-alive-says-official" target="_blank">Mohammed Deif</a>. </p>
<p>That leaves only the Israeli officials facing warrants and yet none have been issued. </p>
<p>The average wait for the judges of the pre-trial chamber to approve a warrant requested by the prosecutor is<a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=0a42156633acb49c01977d573e6a13b7bd38dcdbbf8ccb5b2f0ba00acdc7f29bJmltdHM9MTcyOTY0MTYwMA&ptn=3&ver=2&hsh=4&fclid=294abeae-9141-607f-2618-aa4390a161ab&psq=The+average+wait+for+the+judges+of+the+pre-trial+chamber+to+approve+a+warrant+requested+by+the+prosecutor+is+two+months.+&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWlkZGxlZWFzdGV5ZS5uZXQvbmV3cy9pc3JhZWwtd2FyLWdhemEtaWNjLWFycmVzdC13YXJyYW50LW5ldGFueWFodS13aHktbGF0ZS1uZXh0&ntb=1" target="_blank"> two months</a>. </p>
<p>The Rome Statute says the purpose of the court is not only to hold
those accountable for war crimes to account, but to stop further crimes
from being committed.</p>
<p>But for five months this court has been paralysed while war crimes are being committed daily.</p>
<h3>'Finish the job'</h3>
<p>Far from facing an arrest warrant, Netanyahu is taking a bow to general applause.</p>
<p>At home, Sinwar’s death is being taken as vindication of his policy of defying his chief armourer, <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/us" target="_blank">US</a> President Joe Biden, who told him to stop the war many months ago.</p>
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<p>What is happening in northern Gaza today is qualitatively different to any horror visited on Gaza in the last year</p>
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<p>Amit Segal, a commentator of Israeli TV's Channel 12, said that the
"success" in killing Sinwar was due to Israel not listening to anyone
for a whole year and continuing its military strategy, avoiding a
ceasefire despite all international pressure.</p>
<p>Abroad, a cigarette paper divides the traditional camps of centre left and right on Palestine.</p>
<p>Biden says one thing, but as we all know continues to arm Israel to
the teeth. Donald Trump has the dubious distinction of saying what he
thinks. </p>
<p>Both are wholly acquiescent by their silence. If anything the Keir
Starmers and and Anthony Blinkens of this world are worse than the likes
of the former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo or Trump's son-in-law
and adviser <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/tags/jared-kushner" target="_blank">Jared Kushner</a>.</p>
<p></p>
<p>On his 11th tour of the region, <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/netanyahu-and-blinken-discussed-post-war-governing-framework-gaza" target="_blank">Blinken</a> told Netanyahu that there was "a perception" that <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/israel-gaza-palestine-what-generals-plan" target="_blank">a plan</a>
conceived by retired generals to force the population of northern Gaza
out by starvation was being enacted. He was easily batted away by
Netanyahu who simply lied to him, as he has done to Biden repeatedly. </p>
<p>A perception of a massacre? It's what we report every day.</p>
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<p>The killings in Gaza are happening now because Netanyahu knows that
Biden is two weeks away from a presidential election and has run out of
political capital to stop him</p>
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<p>The killings in Gaza are happening now because Netanyahu knows that
Biden is two weeks away from a presidential election and has run out of
political capital to stop him.</p>
<p>Whether they admit it publicly or not, Netanyahu has been persuading
all of them that he is turning the tide of this war in Gaza and <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/lebanon" target="_blank">Lebanon</a> and that he should be allowed to "finish the job".</p>
<p>But what does that mean? Where does the job end?</p>
<p>For the religious Zionists of the <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-elections-jewish-power-itamar-ben-gvir-kach-kahane" target="_blank">Jewish Power party</a>, the end of the war is eviction of all Palestinians and the <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/settler-leader-daniella-weiss-says-palestinians-will-disappear-gaza" target="_blank">total takeover of Gaza by settlers</a>. </p>
<p>To emphasise their "power",<a href="https://www.instagram.com/middleeasteye/reel/DBclWkyvfxP/" target="_blank"> a conference</a> was
held on Monday three kilometres from the Gaza border, and to the sounds
of shelling. A goodly number of Likud Knesset members came along.</p>
<p>Many of those attending carried stickers celebrating <a href="https://youtu.be/rpKnTo6fL6k" target="_blank">Meir Kahane</a>, the US born rabbi and convicted terrorist who said that all Palestinians should be forced out of Israel.</p>
<p>The extremist settlers' leader, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/middleeasteye/reel/DBclWkyvfxP/" target="_blank">Danielle Weis, </a>claimed
that her organisation Nahala had already entered a deal worth "millions
of dollars" for temporary housing units as a preliminary to settlement
of the strip. "You will witness how Jews go to Gaza and Arabs disappear
from Gaza," Weis said.</p>
<h3>Watching Gaza burn</h3>
<p>Gatherings like these are dismissed by Israel’s supporters in Britain
as colourful cranks, unrepresentative of the state they still call
"Israel proper". The majority of Israelis reject the plan to reoccupy
Gaza, they say.</p>
<p>But <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-genocide-culture-won-wants-endless-wars" target="_blank">the majority of Israelis</a> are witnessing a plan to empty Gaza and are doing nothing to stop it. This is all self deception.</p>
<p>More telling than <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/edge-gaza-israeli-settlers-applaud-thud-artillery-fire" target="_blank">the presence</a>
of Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at a conference in which
Jews were dancing and celebrating Gaza’s collapse, were the Likud
Knesset members who turned up.</p>
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<p>Never have Israelis been so oblivious to the forces they are stirring
up in the hearts of Arabs, regardless of background, clan or creed</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Netanyahu denies his plan is to empty Gaza, but his MK, Tally Gotliv, knows her party leader better. She <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/edge-gaza-israeli-settlers-applaud-thud-artillery-fire" target="_blank">told</a>
MEE: "I have no doubt that he is supporting the settlement of Gaza
because it will bring more security, not just for the area around Gaza
Strip but for Israel."</p>
<p>Gotliv fully supports what is happening in northern Gaza: "The people
in the north of Gaza allowed the Hamas fighters to go through on
October 7th," she said. "I have no mercy. The only mercy we have is that
we give them the chance to leave… They should leave and go to the
south."</p>
<p>Watching Gaza burn is a spectator sport. Israelis had gathered in their cars at one vantage point.</p>
<p>Never has the gap in understanding between conquerer and subject been
so great. Never have Israelis been so oblivious to the forces they are
stirring up in the hearts of Arabs, regardless of background, clan or
creed.</p>
<p>Opinion in the two Arab countries that have signed peace treaties with Israel, <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/egypt" target="_blank">Egypt</a> and <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/jordan" target="_blank">Jordan</a>, could not be clearer.</p>
<p>Mortada Mansour is an Egyptian politician who called the revolution
of 2011 "the worst day in Egypt’s history". He hated the Muslim
Brotherhood and ardently supported Sisi’s military coup. No Islamist is
he.</p>
<p></p>
<p>But he<a href="https://www.facebook.com/share/MzpLyXc41GhGT4Af/?mibextid=WC7FNe" target="_blank"> writes</a>
of Yehia Sinwar’s death: "The martyrdom of the Palestinian fighter
Yahya Sinwar at the hands of the criminal Zionists and his injury to the
face confirms that he was a brave soldier who faced death bravely in
defence of his occupied homeland and did not flee or hide in a tunnel as
the Arab Zionists claimed.</p>
<p>"He did not flee to Paris or London where some wealthy Arabs struggle
in gambling halls and nightclubs spending millions of dollars on their
whims while the children of the brotherly Palestinian people cannot find
a drink of water. Rather, he remained in his occupied homeland
resisting until he was martyred."</p>
<p>The Nasserite <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/tags/hamdeen-sabahi" target="_blank">Hamdeen Sabahi</a> was another fierce critic of late Egyptian President <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/mourning-morsi-palestinians-gaza-remember-how-egyptian-leader-embraced-them" target="_blank">Mohamed Morsi</a>.</p>
<p>Addressing the dead Hamas leader he <a href="https://x.com/hamdeensabahy/status/1846932001578013013?s=12&t=ejzRPoAJrFQDpEoeiib8zA" target="_blank">writes</a>:
"The image of your martyrdom will throw stones at the skeptics. You
were martyred like all the heroic people of Gaza, not hiding in tunnels
nor surrounded by their prisoners. You were with your men facing the
enemy. Your pure blood is an inspiring support for the resistance until
the liberation of Palestine. May you live long in this life and the
hereafter."</p>
<p>It's the same in Jordan.</p>
<h3>No justice served</h3>
<p>The families of the <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israelis-wounded-fighters-who-entered-occupied-west-bank-jordan" target="_blank">two fighters</a> who staged a cross border attack in the south Dead Sea area, injuring two Israeli soldiers, were mobbed by well wishers.</p>
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<a class="gmail-mee-readmore-img-link" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-war-srebrenica-genocide-we-learn-nothing-did" target="_blank"><img class="gmail-mee-readmore-image" src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/read_more/public/images-story/A%20Bosnian%20Muslim%20woman%20mourns%20near%20the%20caskets%20containing%20remains%20of%20her%20relatives%20near%20eastern%20Bosnian%20town%20of%20Srebrenica%2C%20on%2011%20July%2C%202022%20%28AFP%29.jpg.webp?itok=YnYu-7KA" width="400" height="250" alt=""></a> <div class="gmail-mee-readmore-description">War on Gaza: Did we learn nothing from the Srebrenica genocide?</div>
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<p>The father of one of the men, Amer Qawas, was carried on the shoulders of the crowd during a <a href="https://youtu.be/x5HPRNyUFgM?feature=shared" target="_blank">demonstration</a> in Amman. Nasser Qawas said the blood of his son was not more precious than the blood of Palestinian people.</p>
<p>Everyone has forgotten the man after whom the <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/26/who-are-qassam-armed-resistance-in-gaza#:~:text=Hamas%20established%20its%20military%20unit%2C%20the%20Qassam%20Brigades%2C,who%20struggled%20against%20European%20colonisers%20in%20the%20Levant." target="_blank">Qassam Brigades</a> were named.</p>
<p>He was a Syrian preacher, Ezzedine al-Qassam, who died in an uprising
against European colonisers in the Levant during the Mandate in 1936.
Fifty six years after his death, Hamas created its military wing -
taking after his name - which fought a longer war against Israel than
all the Arab armies combined.</p>
<p>In Yahya Sinwar, Israel has created a legend of resistance even more powerful than Qassam in Palestinian and Arab minds.</p>
<p>As commentator Fadi Quran <a href="https://x.com/fadiquran/status/1847535966086410324?s=12&t=ejzRPoAJrFQDpEoeiib8zA" target="_blank">rightly notes</a>, the more Israel takes the lives of students like <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/shaban-al-dalou-19-year-old-student-killed-israel-gaza-tent-fire" target="_blank">Sha’ban al-Dalou</a>, burned alive in the courtyard of a hospital, or <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/west-bank-woman-fatally-shot-back-israeli-soldiers-while-harvesting-olives" target="_blank">Hanan Abu Salami</a>,
the 59-year-old woman who was killed by an Israel soldier while
harvesting her olive trees in the West Bank, the more hundreds of
thousands of Qassams and Sinwars will be committed to fight back.</p>
<p>Netanyahu thinks he is winning this war by burying his enemies in
rubble. He is burying any chance of Israeli Jews being able to live in
peace with their Arab neighbours for decades to come.</p>
<p>Karadjic and Mladic had their day in court, and are now serving life sentences in The Hague and Parkhurst. </p>
<p>This year, the General Assembly adopted a resolution <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/05/1150156" target="_blank">designating 11 July</a> as the "International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Genocide in Srebrenica", to be observed annually.</p>
<p>I doubt whether Netanyahu, Gallant and all those who have created this genocide will ever be brought to justice in their lives.</p>
<p>Maybe they will have a few questions to answer in the next. </p>
<p><i>The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye.</i></p>
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<div class="gmail-author-bio-content">David Hearst is co-founder and
editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker on
the region and analyst on Saudi Arabia. He was the Guardian's foreign
leader writer, and was correspondent in Russia, Europe, and Belfast. He
joined the Guardian from The Scotsman, where he was education
correspondent.</div>
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