*HAARETZ Opinion | Israel Can’t Imprison Two Million Gazans Without Paying a Cruel Price | Gideon Levy*

*Behind all this lies Israeli arrogance*; the idea that we can do whatever we like, that we’ll never pay the price and be punished for it. We’ll carry on undisturbed.

We’ll arrest, kill, harass, dispossess and protect the settlers busy with their pogroms. We'll visit Joseph’s Tomb, Othniel’s Tomb and Joshua’s Altar in the Palestinian territories, and of course the Temple Mount – over 5,000 Jews on Sukkot alone.

We’ll fire at innocent people, take out people’s eyes and smash their faces, expel, confiscate, rob, grab people from their beds, carry out ethnic cleansing and of course continue with the unbelievable siege of the Gaza Strip, and everything will be all right.

We’ll build a terrifying obstacle around Gaza – the underground wall alone cost 3 billion shekels ($765 million) – and we’ll be safe. We’ll rely on the geniuses of the army's 8200 cyber-intelligence unit and on the Shin Bet security service agents who know everything. They’ll warn us in time.

We’ll transfer half an army from the Gaza border to the Hawara border in the West Bank, only to protect far-right lawmaker Zvi Sukkot and the settlers. And everything will be all right, both in Hawara and at the Erez crossing into Gaza.

It turns out that even the world's most sophisticated and expensive obstacle can be breached with a smoky old bulldozer when the motivation is great. This arrogant barrier can be crossed by bicycle and moped despite the billions poured into it and all the famous experts and fat-cat contractors.

*The Gaza Palestinians are willing to pay any price for a moment of freedom. Will Israel learn its lesson? No.*

We thought we’d continue to go down to Gaza, scatter a few crumbs in the form of tens of thousands of Israeli work permits – always contingent on good behavior – and still keep them in prison. We’ll make peace with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and the Palestinians will be forgotten until they’re erased, as quite a few Israelis would like.
We’ll keep holding thousands of Palestinian prisoners, sometimes without trial, most of them political prisoners. And we won’t agree to discuss their release even after they've been in prison for decades.


We’ll tell them that only by force will their prisoners see freedom. We thought we would arrogantly keep rejecting any attempt at a diplomatic solution, only because we don’t want to deal with all that, and everything would continue that way forever.
Once again it was proved that this isn’t how it is. A few hundred armed Palestinians breached the barrier and invaded Israel in a way no Israeli imagined was possible. A few hundred people proved that it’s impossible to imprison 2 million people forever without paying a cruel price.

Just as the smoky old Palestinian bulldozer tore through the world’s smartest barrier Saturday, it tore away at Israel’s arrogance and complacency. And that’s also how it tore away at the idea that it’s enough to occasionally attack Gaza with suicide drones – and sell them to half the world – to maintain security.

On Saturday, Israel saw pictures it has never seen before. Palestinian vehicles patrolling its cities, bike riders entering through the Gaza gates. These pictures tear away at that arrogance. The Gaza Palestinians have decided they’re willing to pay any price for a moment of freedom. Is there any hope in that? No. Will Israel learn its lesson? No.
On Saturday they were already talking about wiping out entire neighborhoods in Gaza, about occupying the Strip and punishing Gaza “as it has never been punished before.” But Israel hasn’t stopped punishing Gaza since 1948, not for a moment.

After 75 years of abuse, the worse possible scenario awaits it once again. The threats of “flattening Gaza” prove only one thing: We haven’t learned a thing. The arrogance is here to stay, even though Israel is paying a high price once again.

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A good piece and a warning to the Zionist terrorists.

They won't listen just as said by their brother.

But this time around, things will be different Insha Allah.

This deserves to be on the front page for balance but the unjust MODs have sworn to an oath of eternal bias.

Wetin this black morafuker de talk? When have muslims ever been at peace with people of other religion? Always want to control others and their life style, no freedom of speech/expression without some ragtag drawing a dagger to your neck. From hamas to al shobab, hezbolah, isis, your fulani islamists, no one can have peace with muslims around, except you keep them in a cage.

Mvnster:
Wetin this black morafuker de talk? When have muslims ever been at peace with people of other religion? Always want to control others and their life style, no freedom of speech/expression without some ragtag drawing a dagger to your neck. From hamas to al shobab, hezbolah, isis, your fulani islamists, no one can have peace with muslims around, except you keep them in a cage.

I don't think arguing with you is worth it because by reading your post I believe you get your facts from the mainstream media.
It would be a nice idea if you keep hate aside and try reading about Jews, you would understand who Jews Really Are.

MAMMAN777:

I don't think arguing with you is worth it because by reading your post I believe you get your facts from the mainstream media.
It would be a nice idea if you keep hate aside and try reading about Jews, you would understand who Jews Really Are.

Shut up .

We hate head slamming mohammadian terrorists

We have seen how Muslims kill Christians in Nigeria, kidnap Christian girls and turn them to sex object...

Dead to all head slammers..

Enemies of Muslims are our friends

God bless Israel

But Arab world can more than imprison Israel and the world watches. What a logic!

See. Palestine existed alongside Israel of the biblical times. It was then known as philistine then.


The migrated from Europe, and like the Jews they pushed the aboriginal Canaanites and pitched their tent.

They had five city states, and they were Ashdod, Ashkelomln, Gaza, Gath and Ekron.

You can't say there was nothing like Palestine; they were the philistine people the bible said Israel fought continues war with.


The thing is that as the Jews went into exile, and the Roman empire ceased to exist, the Arabs conquered the region (both Israel and Palestine)

The same way the Spanish started another race called Latino with women of indigenous America, was the same way the Arab sired children with the Israeli and philistines that still remained in the land then.


Those Palestinian are not complete Arab. After their land was conquered by the Arab, in the quest to spread Islam, the Arab took their woman and started producing these people you and I know as palestine.


Their claim to the ownership of the land is partially right.

And Israeli claim to the land is also partially right.


For example, the philistines had five city states; Gaza, Gath Ashdod, Ashkelom and Ekron, which were all located west of biblical Israel

Now, how come is Gaza the only remaining City Palestine/philistine city in the west of Israel

About the Wes t bank: The Israeli who forcibly took Jerusalem from the Jebusites are hypocrite for trying to have have Jerusalem all alone, without the Palestinian there.


I not supporting any party. But for the sake of humanity let there be two states in that region.

MAMMAN777:

I don't think arguing with you is worth it because by reading your post I believe you get your facts from the mainstream media.
It would be a nice idea if you keep hate aside and try reading about Jews, you would understand who Jews Really Are.

But this is not limited to the jews alone, its just the islamic substance to go the violent way at every opportunity.
If there were no jewish-palestine crisis today we would still be dealing with isis, al qaeda, al shabab and the rest. If you are a non-muslim living in a muslim dominated area you are never safe, thats a fact. The jew-palestine crisis is no different, muslims are taught to constantly pass judgements on non-muslims, and that breeds violence.

Whites and false christians have already declared they are pro-genocide

Mvnster:

But this is not limited to the jews alone, its just the islamic substance to go the violent way at every opportunity.
If there were no jewish-palestine crisis today we would still be dealing with isis, al qaeda, al shabab and the rest. If you are a non-muslim living in a muslim dominated area you are never safe, thats a fact. The jew-palestine crisis is no different, muslims are taught to constantly pass judgements on non-muslims, and that breeds violence.

I understand your point of view about Islam.
But before making conclusions about what you believe about Islam, firstly try to study Islam by reading the Qur'an translation and Explanation (Tafseer) and you will understand if truly ISIS, BOKO-HARRAM, BANDITRY etc are following Islamic teachings.

Go study quoran very well.

MAMMAN777:

I understand your point of view about Islam.
But before making conclusions about what you believe about Islam, firstly try to study Islam by reading the Qur'an translation and Explanation (Tafseer) and you will understand if truly ISIS, BOKO-HARRAM, BANDITRY etc are following Islamic teachings.

You may want to say islam is peacful...however when you are the minority in a muslim dominated region your rights are limited to what muslims tolerate. People like deborah slaughtered in sokoto and many other examples murdered for expressing their honest opinion do they deserve death because of mere speech that doesnt take away a strand of hair from any one?
That tendency to take the life of the infidels/kafir disrespecting your prophet/religion is what fuels terrorism.