Israel Planned Gaza Destruction

Life in Gaza today is composed of misery, starvation, and fear.    NYT photo.

IS IT POSSIBLE THAT ISRAELI GENOCIDE IN GAZA WAS THE ORIGINAL BIBI-IDF PLAN?

DISGUSTED by the behavior of the Israeli Defense Forces and their commanders, I stand with the accusations by the president of South Africa and other heads of state, academics and journalists across the world, that Israel is a country guilty of genocide by bombing and by starvation.  The president of Brazil has said that Israeli actions in Gaza are similar to the Nazi Holocaust.  Alas! The past few weeks of IDF atrocities force me to agree with him.

Note that I say ‘country’ and not ‘nation’:  the citizens of Israel are not guilty.  It is the government and military commanders who are guilty of creating a Gaza Holocaust.  Israel’s leaders failed to defend Israelis on 7th October 2023 against a terrorist attack that had been telegraphed by the security services. They have wantonly destroyed Gaza, killed thousands of innocents and displaced millions.

 UNLESS, of course, GENOCIDE AND THE DESTRUCTION OF GAZA WAS THE ORIGINAL ISRAELI GOVERNMENT AND I.D.F. PLAN ?

 Let us examine what happened on 7th October 2003.

Israel’s military and political establishment failed to protect their citizens. The incompetence of Israeli ministers and colonels in no way diminishes the horror of the Hamas actions on 7th October 2023. But those 1200 Israelis should not have died on 7th October.  The hostages should not have been seized by Hamas. 

How did it happen?  We know that Israeli intelligence warned of an attack by Hamas - warnings that were ignored by senior IDF officers responsible for security in Southern Israel.  Despite this intelligence, Israeli authorities allowed a large concert to be organized near the sensitive frontier fence that Hamas assassins burst through on October 7th.  Why was such a soft target offered to Hamas?  Young female military “frontier watchers” have recorded their dismay at Israeli army failure to respond to their descriptions of Hamas attacking the border fence. These Israeli women witnessed the fragility of the border fence, reported what they were seeing, and revealed that the IDF did not respond to their warnings.

Israel’s military and intelligence services are famous for their efficiency.  Was their non-response deliberate?  Did they want the Hamas attack to happen?

Substantial reporting shows that Benyamin Netanyahu actively encouraged the funding of Hamas and the build-up of weapons in Gaza. Why?  Was this simply to weaken cohesion within a possible Palestinian State, or was the policy intended to provoke a Hamas aggression that Israel could use as justification for the destruction of Gaza?  Perhaps “destroying Hamas” was really code for launching a long-term project to destroy Gaza and remove Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. Statements by ministers Katz and Smotrich suggest that their objective is Ethnic Cleansing “From the River to the Sea”  - this slogan often cited by Zionists to criticize Palestinian dreams, seems in reality, to be the ambition of senior ministers in the current Israeli administration.

If you add to the Ethnic Cleansing we see today, the astonishing “incompetence” in October 2023 of the excellent Israeli defense forces, I am bound to wonder if Netanyahu did not deliberately set a trap for Hamas, using the rock concert and the innocent inhabitants of nearby villages as a bait to lure the terrorists. Did he reckon that sacrificing 1200 Israeli dead and a few hundred hostages was worth it, to justify the destruction of Gaza?  He has ordered the killing of 60,000 - or maybe 100,000 - Palestinians and the “cleansing” of the population from the Gaza Strip. Bombing, disease, starvation, total destruction ….. was the October 7th massacre one part of Netanyahu’s long-term plan for a Final Solution in Gaza, to satisfy the cause of establishing a Greater Israel from the River to the Sea?