from 2012, on the #IDF #Israel 2009 assault on Gaza:

"Three years since Operation Cast Lead: Israeli military utterly failed to investigate itself | B'Tselem

https://www.btselem.org/gaza_strip/20120118_3_years_after_cast_lead

"you must understand something: I’m an Israeli, and when I say what I say, I say it because I care for the state of #Israel. And this is in the interest of the state of Israel, to take these measures that I propose, not because I care for the Palestinians. I care for us.
[...]
we can’t afford to continue to live under circumstances where there are millions of people without rights, which we occupy without giving them the basic elementary rights that they deserve...

—Ehud Olmert, Vox interview

"Pulling out of the territories will require a certain degree of risk that we will take. But we have the power to take these risks, and we’re going to benefit from pulling out from these territories because we will cease to be occupiers, and we will almost automatically win the support and the sympathies and the friendship of many of the Arab and Muslim countries across the world."

—Ehud Olmert, Vox, March 16, 2023. https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/3/16/23639947/palestine-netanyahu-israel-protests-ehud-olmert

#ceasefire #Israel #Gaza #occupation #genocide

just to be clear:

if you read the whole interview, i hope one of your takeaways is that this bombing of #Gaza is a #policyFailure for the state of #Israel.

what policy you may ask?

#settlerColonialism

Ehud Olmert says it right there, as plain as day:

"the only possible way to guarantee our future is to make an effort for a two-state solution, to pull out from the territories, and to have a smaller state."

Ben Gvir, the guy rubber-stamping the bombings, is the face of that policy failure.

"So he led his neighbors on a reign of terror through Palestinian villages — torching homes, mosques, cars and olive groves. They got into fights with Palestinian landowners and faced off against Israeli security forces. But in every confrontation, he said, they felt confident knowing they had a brilliant, fiercely dedicated advocate in their corner — the attorney Itamar Ben Gvir, now #Israel national security minister."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/15/israel-ben-gvir-netanyahu-government/

#ceasefire #Gaza #genocide

SAME ENERGY

and no, i do not believe Johnson's accession to Speaker of The House is a coincidence.

at all.

Previously:
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/111304239075394545

#USA #Israel #fascism #FogOfWar