Gideon Levy telling some home truths:
I think, for me therein lies the crux of the problem.
Over the course of the last 75+ years regardless of the legality of the occupation of these lands, the religious segregation and righteousness, the refusal to integration regardless of who in here sees it as a democracy and where this has led to now; the apartheid occupation of what we now term as Palestine is all too familiar and is a repetition of several histories where an occupying people refuse to integrate with local culture.
In Irish history we were always thought about a millennium of invasion. Of the Vikings and and Franco-Norman invasions it was always said that they became more Irish than the Irish themselves. They inter married and merged the cultures. Simplistic view I know but the real trouble happened with the religious wars in Europe and the Anglo-Norman invasion that did not integrate with local culture but instead chose to try and wipe it out.
A simple view of a complex time, but notwithstanding that, I think it is a problem with any occupation or colonialism.
Settling and integrating has a chance of peaceful existence.
The alternative is cleansing the land. I genuinely feel that Netanyahu has chosen this option.
It’s an atrocity, what happened on the 7th but I feel, shocked and all that he most probably is, he has waited for the one excuse to justify all he wants to achieve.
We’ll wait and see but I wouldn’t be the first to say that Israel has become what they despise and they feel they are right, ironically.
I think denial of this in the face of the 7th is either, self justification for your beliefs. Pure denial of Palestinian suffering and promotion of your own victimisation or perhaps both because of your own belief in a one state solution.
