Israel lives in a constant nightmare

When Thomas Friedman describes the destruction of Gaza as Israel being forced to wage a morally impossible war after suffering a devastating blow, the word ‘impossible’ is, for him as a believer in the lies of the ‘Ten Commandments,’ an expression of his intellectual inability to find a name for what has been built on the dregs of history! It represents an intellectual inability to find a term that corresponds to what has been built on the dregs of history!

Israel has not recovered from its war crimes in Gaza and is no longer able to defend the understanding it has promoted for decades that it is a ‘moral state.’

This moral incapacity has been expressed by leading writers, not to mention the devastation experienced by the settlers there and expressed by the ‘state’ that was born with a complex of fear due to its small population compared to its Arab neighbours, and the exaggerated fears about the future after this war, not to mention the outcome of the war in Gaza.

There is something much greater than the fate of Gaza itself that concerns the Israelis themselves, who live under the weight of existential devastation and the impossibility of living a normal life, after senior politicians failed to move beyond religious hatred and brutal war.

The arrogance of power has led former Defence Minister Yoav Galant to consider Palestinians as human animals that must be placed in a large cage. This is what François Miquelon-Marty, president of the ViaVoix polling institute, described as the main danger when a dynamic of increasing tensions arises in the region, fuelling discontent. It will necessarily lead to a change in the system of government in Israel.

We can then ask the West, which has humiliatingly offered loyalty and obedience to Israel and has merely expressed abstract discontent in a superficial double standard of principles: who among you in the West is morally clean enough to classify who is the victim and who is the killer in today s existential conflict?

This was expressed by former French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin, who took a moral stance against the war of occupation in Iraq in the Security Council and outside it, saying, ‘The current events are taking place under the eyes and gaze of a world that does not see things as Westerners do,’ calling for these reactions to be taken into account.

Whatever the case may be, the existential wreckage has been present since Moshe Dayan s speech in 1956, when he said, "Let us stop accusing the murderers. Do we have the right to make allegations against hatred of Israel? They have been sitting in camps for eight years after we took their land and their homes. We will not demand the Arabs blood, but we will demand of ourselves how we closed our eyes to clearly see our fate."

Such talk about Israel s fate can be found today in the sceptical views of the future expressed by leading writers there. David Grossman, winner of the 2017 Man Booker International Prize, admitted that ‘Israel is living a nightmare,’ asking, ‘Who will we be when we rise from the ashes?’

He wrote, ‘What is happening now is the tangible price Israel is paying for years of seduction by a corrupt leadership that led it from bad to worse.’

Grossman, author of More Than I Love My Life, questioned the ability to discard outdated formulas and understand that what happened in Gaza is so enormous and horrific that it cannot be viewed through old models.

He wrote, "Even Israel s behaviour and crimes in the territories occupied for 56 years cannot justify´-or-mitigate the depth of hatred towards Israel that has been revealed, and the painful understanding that we Israelis will always have to live here in high alert and constant readiness for war... in a constant attempt to be both Athens and Sparta at the same time. There is a fundamental doubt that we will ever be able to live a normal, free life, unencumbered by threats and anxiety. A stable and secure life."

While sociologist Yuval Noah Harari, who has long questioned the Jewish myth of failed peaceful coexistence, Jewish hardliners have led us to a policy of violent coexistence.

Gershom Gorenberg, author of War of Shadows: Codebreakers, Spies, and the Secret Struggle to Drive the Nazis from the Middle East -;-, admits that Netanyahu s delusions have led us to disaster through arrogance and complacency.

There is a growing sentiment among settlers, whom Israeli politics, with its disregard for humanitarian concepts, has reduced to broken people thinking of fleeing. Moran Zer-Katsnstein, founder of a women s rights group opposed to Netanyahu s government, said that ‘there is an entire generation that needs to be saved.’

The issue does not end with the occupied West Bank alone. There are political standards that Arab governments want to impose, seeing normalisation as a solution to save their power, but those standards were broken before they were completed, prior to the Israeli bombing of Qatar. Arab citizens now refuse to allow their rulers to think for them when it comes to accepting Israel.

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