Interview zum Israel-Gaza-Krieg
„Was bombardieren wir jetzt eigentlich noch?“
| Alev Doğan Pioneer Editor, Stv. Chefredakteurin The Pionee Was ist Benjamin Netanjahus Ziel in Gaza? Wie blicken Israelis auf das Vorgehen ihres Militärs? Und wie darauf, dass immer noch nicht alle Geiseln befreit wurden? Über diese und weitere Fragen spricht der ehemalige israelische Botschafter Shimon Stein im Pioneer-Interview. |
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All the genociders must go
| The Anti Empire Project May 20, 2025 American Revolutionary theory states, in the words of Thomas Jefferson, that, “the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Thomas Jefferson was a slaver and genocider but that doesn’t negate the truth of his statement. Chinese political theory had the concept of the Mandate of Heaven, which a ruler could lose, and which would give the people the right to rebel. It’s a myth that Western democracies are messy and unstable compared to so-called authoritarian regimes in the Global South that are free to use repression to impose stability. In reality Western democracies are no less repressive: these states torture, assassinate, mass-incarcerate, and have police do what they like with no accountability. They use all the tools of the dictatorships they criticize, inflicting the same evils at the same scale. These days they do all of these things in the service of genocide.What Western democracies have that others lack is several layers of defense protecting their system of brutality. These pressure releases make Western democracies much harder to overthrow, as they channel rebellious energy into one dead end after another. The genocide Israel is committing in Gaza should have lost the whole Western elite its mandate, heavenly or otherwise. It should have exposed the Western elite as a total, genocidal, racist tyranny. By presenting fake divisions inside of this elite, they give the people false hopes that the genocide can be stopped while they remain in charge, if they could be asked in just the right way.Wait for elections. Trump came in and imposed a ceasefire for a short time, before advancing the genocide to its worst level (and getting worse). Democrats argued that since both parties were genocidal, the strategic voter would vote for the Democrats because they’re better on other issues, and ignore the anti-genocide parties that were running (Stein/Ware, De la Cruz/Garcia…). The idea that there are differences between the parties about genocide makes people think there’s some anti-genocide strategy in voting instead of starting from the premise that all genocidal parties are illegitimate. People are apparently waiting for Israel’s democracy to produce an alternative to Netanyahu, ignoring the fact that there millions of Israelis who are just as genocidal as Netanyahu and who will eagerly continue the genocide were he replaced.Wait for divisions. Apparently Obama hated Netanyahu when he gave him $38 billion. Biden yelled at him on the phone before giving him a thousand new one-ton bombs. Trump doesn’t answer Netanyahu’s calls and doesn’t mention Israel on a trip to Saudi Arabia (which is the historic norm and nothing special) as Israel gleefully embarks on mass starvation. The UK, Canada, and France have issued a “serious warning”, after 19 months of genocide and hundreds of thousands murdered as Israel celebrates.Piers Morgan, after becoming a caricature chasing genocide victims down to ask them if they condemn Hamas, tweets that Israel has gone too far. This is faked controversy and faked division in the most united and monstrous ruling class. Decades ago, during one of Argentina’s economic crises, the people marched shouting the slogan, “que se vayan todos” – all of them must go. It should be common sense that there should not be any mass murderer or defender of mass murder in power anywhere. It’s scary to take on people who are proudly displaying that they have no limits to their depravity. It’s natural to hope for cracks between them that might make the task easier. But the cracks are fake. And there’s no escaping the starting point: all the genociders must go. |
Poll: 82% of Israelis want to expel Palestinians from Gaza; 47% want to kill every man, woman, child
A poll found 82% of full citizens of Israel want to expel Palestinians from Gaza. 47% want to kill every single man, woman, and child. Ex PM Ehud Olmert said Israel is waging a „war of extermination“.
| Support for genocide, mass murder, and ethnic cleansing is widespread in Israel. Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert admitted that his country is waging a „war of extermination: the indiscriminate, unrestrained, cruel, and criminal killing of civilians“. Meanwhile, the vast majority of Israelis want to expel Palestinians from Gaza, and roughly half want to kill every single man, woman, and child in the besieged strip. This is according to a poll that was published by the major Israeli newspaper Haaretz. It found that 82% of Israelis want to expel Gazans, and 47% support killing all Palestinians in Gaza. The more religious an Israeli is, the more likely they are to support genocide and ethnic cleansing. The survey was conducted in March by Israeli scholar Tamir Sorek, a professor at Pennsylvania State University. He worked with the Israeli polling firm Geocartography Knowledge Group. |
| Most Israelis want to expel Palestinian citizens Roughly 21% of citizens of Israel are Palestinians, although they are not considered to be fully Israeli. They are third-class citizens, and are denied equal treatment by the Israeli regime. “Israel is not a state of all its citizens”, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared with pride in 2019. “According to the basic nationality law we passed, Israel is the nation state of the Jewish people – and only it”, Netanyahu stressed, making it clear that Palestinians are not truly considered to be Israelis. The March 2025 poll commissioned by Pennsylvania State University found that 56% of Jewish Israelis — who are the only ones considered to be true, full citizens — want to expel all Palestinian citizens. This includes 66% of Israelis under the age 40. The younger an Israeli is, the more likely they are to be a far-right extremist, the survey showed. How the political systems of Israel and the USA promote far-right extremism Professor Tamir Sorek, the Israeli scholar who conducted the poll, noted that some prominent religious leaders in Israel have advocated for the mass murder of Palestinian civilians. As an example, Sorek cited Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh, an influential Israeli settler leader in the West Bank, which according to international law is Palestinian territory that has been illegally occupied by Israel since 1967. Ginsburgh, who wants to eliminate Palestinians and establish a theocratic monarchy in Israel, is also an American. He was born and raised in the United States, and did not move to Israel until he was in his 20s. Sorek wrote that the attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 „only unleashed demons that had been nurtured for decades in the media and the legal and educational systems“. In Haaretz, Sorek wrote (emphasis added): Zionism, besides being a national movement, is also a movement of immigrant-settlers, seeking to displace the local population. Settler-immigrant societies always encounter indiscriminate violent resistance from indigenous groups. The desire for absolute and permanent security can lead to an aspiration to eliminate the resisting population. Therefore, virtually every settlement project has the potential for ethnic cleansing and genocide, as indeed happened in North America in the 17th through 19th centuries or in Namibia in the early 1900s. Sorek warned in another article in April that, „In Israel, calls for genocide have migrated from the margins to the mainstream“. A clear example of how fascism has become mainstream in Israel is the country’s extreme-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, a member of the government’s powerful security cabinet. Smotrich described himself as a “fascist homophobe”. The top Israeli official has called for the “total annihilation” of Gaza, and he argued it would be “justified and moral” to starve to death all 2.1 million Palestinians in the strip. Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says Israel is waging a „war of extermination“ in Gaza Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has accused his country of committing war crimes and waging a „war of extermination“ in Gaza. Olmert led the Israeli regime from 2006 to 2009. He was previously a decades-long member of Netanyahu’s right-wing political party, Likud. He made these frank admissions in a Hebrew-language article in Haaretz in May. (The following quotes are from Google Translate.) „What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination: the indiscriminate, unrestrained, cruel, and criminal killing of civilians“, Olmert stated. He made it clear that this is the „result of a policy dictated by the government, knowingly, intentionally, viciously, maliciously, recklessly“. Olmert explained that, in 2023 and 2024, he denied that the Israeli regime was intentionally committing war crimes, but he now realizes that he was wrong. „There are too many cases of brutal shooting of civilians, of destruction of property and homes“, the former Israeli prime minister said. „Looting of property, thefts from homes, which in many cases IDF soldiers have also taken pride in and published in personal posts. We are committing war crimes“. Olmert stated in no uncertain terms that Israel is using hunger as a weapons: „Yes, we are depriving the residents of Gaza of food, medicine, and minimal means of subsistence as part of a declared policy“. He referred to the Israeli regime as a „gang of criminals“, and wrote that „the ministers of the Israeli government, led by the head of the gang, Netanyahu, are actually adopting, without forethought, without hesitation, a policy of starvation and humanitarian pressure whose outcome could be catastrophic“. Israel officially calls its war in Gaza „Operation Gideon’s Chariots“. Olmert said this is an „illegitimate military campaign“, in which Israeli soldiers have gone on a „rampage“, and have turned Gaza into a „humanitarian disaster zone“. The army is acting „recklessly, carelessly, and excessively aggressively“, he added. The large number of Palestinian civilians killed in Gaza is „unreasonable, unjustifiable, unacceptable“, he wrote. Olmert also admitted that Israelis „massacre Palestinian civilians in the West Bank as well“, and „commit heinous crimes every day in the West Bank“. In an interview with ABC News, the former Israeli prime minister acknowledged, “We have destroyed Gaza”. |
