Please watch the Al Jazeera documentary "October 7" in full
And my comments that address certain misleading implications made therein.
My comments:
In response to the comment, "What kind of person dances and raves in front of a concentration camp and on stolen land?"
Hitler Youth
In response to someone calling them "innocent":
All citizens of the Zionist entity, men and women, are required to serve in the Israeli Genocide Forces for at least two years (barring some religious exemptions). They are the babykillers who massacred 500 Palestinian children and 2000 other civilians in 50 days in the summer of 2014. They massacred more than a 1000 civilians in the winter of 2008-9. They are as innocent as a slave-owning family that gets caught up in a slave rebellion. They are as innocent as families of white settlers who genocided indigenous people in the US, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa. This is what the settlers did to indigenous babies in Australia. This is what the settlers do to indigenous babies in Palestine. Settler-colonialism is violence. If they want to be safe, if they want their families to be safe, they should leave indigenous lands and work to bring about justice.
In response to someone saying that they're not settlers because they are in "Israel proper":
No such thing as "Israel proper". It is PALESTINE, from the RIVER to the SEA. Sovereignty has never been ceded to one square inch of Palestine.
In response to a comment that the Palestinians who entered occupied Palestine "lost their heads":
Watch the documentary Tears of Gaza, about the 2008-9 massacre that the Zionist entity perpetrated in Gaza. You can find it on my pinned post at the Telegram channel apvidya. See those babies burned with white phosphorus and shot point blank in the head. I want to ask those condemning the resistance, how would you react if your babies were murdered in that way? It's a form of racist dehumanisation to expect people who have gone through what the Palestinians of Gaza have gone through to be perfect in their resistance and not want revenge.
Screenshots from Tears of Gaza:
”People started right away to compare the Palestinians to Nazis, as usual when Palestinians react in a violent way to the occupation in Israel, they present it as anti-Semitic heinous crimes against helpless Jews, forgetting that we are a nuclear power with one of the strongest armies in the world and about the occupation. So somebody wrote in a closed Whatsapp group of the college where I work, they showed a video published by a university professor where he explains very academically why the Hamas are like Nazis. And I responded that they are not like Nazis, because Nazism is an ideology that serves a state with an army, that decided to exterminate minorities. And then I said maybe we should compare them to other occupied people like the Algerians for example, and I quoted Jean-Paul Sartre, who said that After years and years that the heel of your boots was on the neck, suddenly they are given a chance to raise their heads and look at you, what kind of look do you think you will find there? This is the look we saw on the 7th of October.”
Nurit Peled
In response to a comment that the inhabitants of the kibbutzim were "unwitting human shields" and who mourned the two babies who were killed on October 7 (whether by the Palestinian resistance or by the Zionist entity through the Hannibal Directive):
They are militarised settlements. They're not unwitting human shields, they know their role and they brought their babies into that situation. Certainly the children are innocent. It's their settler/soldier parents who don't value their lives who need to be held accountable for putting them in the way of Palestinian resistance, just like slave owners who were responsible for children being killed in slave uprisings. Slavery/settler-colonialism is violence, it's terrorism. It is the slavers and the settler-colonialists who are responsible for the violence of the oppressor and the natural consequences of that violence (the violent resistance of the oppressed). The end of settler-colonialism would mean the end of violence.Peace is not an absence of war; it is the presence of justice.
”Israel, Dyan said, cannot be settled without the “steel helmet and canon’s maw.” War, he said, was Israel’s “life choice,” and as such Israel was condemned to a life of militarized diligence, “lest the sword be stricken from our fist and our lives cut down.”
As people reflect on the violence which took place on October 7, when hundreds of heavily armed Hamas fighters surged out of Gaza and fell upon the military outposts and Kibbutzes that surrounded Gaza, they should never forget the origins and purpose of these installations—to literally pen the population of Gaza into what is in effect an open-air concentration camp, and the emotions produced amongst the Arab population imprisoned there. The Israelis who lived, worked and served in these encampments bore “the heavy gates of Gaza” on their shoulders, laboring under the “burning hatred” of a people forced to sit in refugee camps while, before their eyes, the settlers in the surrounding Kibbutzes transformed “the lands and the villages where they and their fathers dwelt” into the Israeli Jewish homeland.
These Israelis all grasped the sword of Zionism firmly in their hands. None among the adults who lived and worked in these encampments can be considered innocent—they were part of a system—Zionism—whose very existence and sustainment demand the brutal imprisonment and subjugation of millions of Palestinians who had their homes stolen from them 75 years ago. They lived out their “fate,” as Moshe Dyan called it, with all its inherent brutality. The “heavy gates of Gaza” was the destiny of their generation, until, like Roi Ruttenberg before them, the gates weighed too heavily of their shoulders and overcame them.
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Today I know that the only true victims in the Israeli saga (outside the children from every walk of life who are caught up in the tragic events foisted upon them by adults who claim to be working for a bright and shiny tomorrow, but only deliver death and destruction) are the Palestinian people.”
Why I No Longer Stand With Israel, Scott Ritter Extra
In response to a comment that Israel deliberately allowed the resistance operation to happen:
You're underestimating Israel's racism and incompetence as well as the competence of the Palestinian resistance fighters.
”In the present war between the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Hamas on the Gaza battlefield – “the American project”, as the Russian Foreign Ministry called it in a statement on October 29 *** – the doctrine of anti-Semitism as a race hatred crime is being applied to protect the race hatred crime being perpetrated against the other Semites, the Palestinians.
This doctrine, however, has had a negative impact on the ability of the Israelis and the Americans to wage their war. A fresh Russian analysis of the military intelligence failures exposed by Hamas in its offensive of October 7, illustrates how and why the Israelis failed to anticipate because they underestimated their Arab adversary; and because they regarded him as a racial inferior.”
Jewish Anti-Semitism Towards Arabs was Hamas’s Strategic Opportunity on October 7 - Still Is, John Helmer
”I don't give much credibility to some of the allegations by our left-wing friends that Israel basically allowed this to happen, US imperialism allowed this to happen so that they can escalate. I think that that does not give sufficient credit to the Hamas and some of the opposition forces. It's almost as if our friends on the left find it unbelievable that the Israelis might find themselves in a crisis, that they are involved in a war where according to some observers as we speak they've already lost. … And the longer this war goes on, the more apparent and evident it will be that the Israelis and their sidekicks in Washington have suffered an ignominious defeat, because Israel wants a quick end to this conflict because of the aforementioned knock-on effects negatively on the economy.
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We should also take a moment to look at the unorthodox tactics of the opposition, not only using boats you might well espy on Lake Michigan in the waters of Chicago, that is to say very small boats with outboard motors, but also paragliders, the fact that they developed these flying contraptions featuring one individual which of course bespeaks the failure of the Iron Dome and all the 'sophisticated technology' (so-called) that led many to conclude that Israel had one of the top five militaries in the world, something that's obviously going to have to be reconsidered. And also their use of drones, and the dropping of grenades from drones, the fact that they were able supposedly to take tanks away from the Israeli military, invaded Israeli military bases.”
Dr Gerald Horne