Collapse of the Iron Wall

Shereen talks about the recent violence in Palestine and Israel, why Hamas’ surprise attack is so unprecedented, and how Gaza is suffering as a result.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
All Zone media. Hello everybody, and welcome to it could
happen here. My name is Sharene, and a lot has
happened recently and we definitely need to talk about it.
There's a lot to cover and things are changing every day.

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I can't possibly talk about everything in a thirty minute
podcast episode, but just for context, I'm recording the bulk
of this on Wednesday, October eleventh. There are many different
things that we should get into, and we'll probably get
into them in other episodes, so look forward to those.
But today I want to talk about why exactly this

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attack from Hamas is so different and so unprecedented for
many reasons, and why the response by Israel is also
extremely unprecedented. There has been a lot of a lot
of death, and I thought a better way to start
to learn about this might be with something really specific,

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like learning about the border fence that has been cajing
in Gaza for years, why Israel thought it was so impermeable,
and how they were wrong. So let's begin the video
and images going around on social media of a bulldozer
breaking through a portion of the fence that has long
enclosed the Gaza stript for years. This cage that surrounds

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that territory, the image of a bulldozer there's running straight
through it and Palestinians running to the other side. I
don't think you can find anything better to represent the
long history of Israeli Palestinian tensions, the decades of brutal
Israeli occupation, the recurrent Hamas bombings and rocket strikes, and

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the political deterioration on both sides than this image. No
one thought this was going to happen. Professor Clive Jones,
director of Institute for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at
Durham University, said, this is the first time since nineteen
forty eight that any Palestinian militant movement has taken territory

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in Israel proper. That symbolic victory and defeat for Israel
will resonate across the region. So on the morning of
October seventh, there was a surprise attack from Hamas against Israel.
What happened was a colossal failure of Israeli intelligence as
well as the Israeli government. I'll go into this in

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more detail in a bit, but in this surprise attack,
resistance fighters were entering in up to twenty nine different
locations outside the Gaza Strip. Most significantly, fighters tore through
the border fence, which has also been called the Iron Wall.
They knocked it aside with bulldozers, drove right through it
with jeeps and motorcycles, other hamas fighters sailed right over

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it with fan powered gliders, and others hopped on boats
to try to reach the other side by sea. A
crucial component of Israel's defense from an attack like this,
or at least it was supposed to be, was this
sophisticated border fence. I want to talk about how exactly
Israel came to build this fence, because throughout most of

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its history, the IDF did not want much to do
with defensive measures. Its traditional security concept rested on three
complimentary pillars, deterrents, early warning, and decisive battlefield victory. Guided
by this concept, the IDF built offensive power designed to
deter its enemies from attacking, and intelligence raised in order

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to detect when that deterns had eroded. If it was
unable to convince the other side that it was better
off avoiding conflict, the IDF would bring the full might
of its offensive capabilities in search of a rapid and
decisive quote unquote victory, which just means they would end
up killing a lot of people. They would fly in
cities and masker hundreds of people in order to essentially

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make the other side lose all hope and not fight back,
and if they did, to tell them never to fight
back again. This would, according to this concept, initially strengthen
the terrens. The idea of defense for Israel began sneaking
into the conversation in the nineteen sixties, as Israel considered
purchasing the Hawk surface to air missile system from the US.

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This idea had some opposition at the highest level of
the IDF Air Force. Commander Ezer Wiseman opposed the idea
on the grounds that it would give Israel's political chiefs
an excuse to avoid the bold offensive operations, in this case,
surprise air strikes that would take out entire buildings, which
he viewed as necessary to win a war. In the end,

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though five Hawk missile batteries were purchased just before the
nineteen sixty seven Six Day War for thirty million dollars,
the first makings of the present day security fence began
in nineteen ninety four after the signing of the Interim
agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip when
Israel constructed a forty mile fence along its boundary with

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Eastern Palestine. The construction was completed in nineteen ninety six,
though it didn't necessarily represent a hard border. In two
thousand and five, under former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Israel
carried out a disengagement from Gaza, which included, among other things,
pulling out its troops. This meant that the one kilometer

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buffer zone that the Israeli Defence Forces maintained after the
first fence was torn down by Gazans in two thousand
was no longer a possibility. A plan for an alternate
forty five fence a few dozen meters east of the
original fence, entirely on Israeli land, was then developed. The
present day forty mile long barricade has several sections, a

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twenty foot high smart fence, which is the over the
ground fence with a maritime section by sensors to detect
encourageents from the water, and an underground wall of classified
depth and thickness with sensors to detect any digging. The
overground barrier, which makes up eighty one percent of the
fence is supported by a complex network of cameras, radar systems,

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as well as command and control rooms. One hundred and
forty thousand tons of iron and steel were used in
the construction of the underground wall, which took three and
a half years to complete. The total cost of the
project is estimated at one point eleven billion dollars. The
project of the quote unquote smart fence was publicly announced

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in twenty sixteen, and in twenty twenty one, Israel announced
the completion of the smart fence, which included an underground
concrete barrier. This addition, which I feel like is important
to mention, was because Hamas used underground tunnels to blind
side Israeli forces in twenty fourteen, Access near the fence
on the Gaza side was limited to farmers who were

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on foot. On the Israeli side, observation towers and sand
dunes were put in place to monitor threats and slow intruders.
With the announcement of its completion in twenty twenty one,
the then Defence Minister Benny Gantz said the barrier placed
a quote iron wall between Hamas and Southern Israel. But

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on October seventh, as we saw the wall failed massively,
and a surprise series of coordinated efforts enabled Tamas to
get past the wall. The fence was breached at twenty
nine points, according to the IDF. There were also Israeli
guard towers positioned at every five hundred feet along the
perimeter of the wall at some certain points, and the

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Hamas fighters there appeared to encounter very little resistance. It
soon became apparent that the border was minimally staffed, with
much of Israel's military diverted to focus on the unrest
in the West Bank. Matthew Levitt is the director of
the counter Terrorism Program at the Washington Institute for Near
East Policy. He said the most compelling parts of the

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system were the ones that provided indicators and warnings. But
you don't see in advance that someone is masked at
the fence. It's still just a fence, a big fence,
but just a fence still, he says. The idea of
a bulldozer getting that close to the fence at all
just boggles the mind. The attack has been documented as

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the following. To put it very simply, using commercial drones,
Hamas bombed Israeli observation towers, communications infrastructure, and weapons systems
along the border. Israel said Hamas fired more than three
thousand rockets into its territory, with some reaching as far
as Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Militants also use explosives to

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blow up sections of the barrier, and men and motorbikes
drove through the gaps and then the bulldozers did the
rest and this allowed for enough space for their larger
view to drive through. Experts said an attack of this
magnitude with all of these elements would have required weeks
at least of preparation and subterfuge. But maybe you're asking, well,

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why now, why did Hamas now decide to launch an
attack of this magnitude. There are some clues in the
name that Hamas gave the attack. They named it Operation
of Axa Flood. Just days before the attack, hundreds of
Israeli settlers, with the protection of the Israeli forces, stormed
at Alexa Mosque and occupied East Jerusalem. I've talked about

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this before, but this compound is a very important and
contested religious site, and it's often very often a target
by Israeli settlers and the IDF, and Hamas said it
launched its attack in response to the desecration of Aluxa. Muhammad'ef,
the Rassam Brigade's commander, said, we have decided that the

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time has come to draw the line for the the
enemy to understand their time is up and they can't
keep going without consequences. But again, experts said this plan
would have taken weeks to plan. I'm sure the attacks
on Aleximosque played a role in the attack, but it
was probably being worked on for quite some time before that.

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And Hamas also said the attack was a response to
decades of Israeli violence and occupation. The daily impact of
that occupation on the lives of Palestinians in Gaza and
other occupied territories like the West Bank is a huge
part of this story. Let's take our first break before
I forget no clever segue here, Just listen to these

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ads and we're back. Analysts and experts have been warning
for months that the reality on the ground in Palestine
in Israel was leading up to this. Nor Udin, a

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political analyst and former Palestinian Authority spokeswoman, said the record
number of Palestinians killed, dispossessed, injured and traumatized by Israeli
forces and settlers across the occupied West Bank, the continued
siege on Gaza, the relentless attacks on El Samosque, they
were all pushing the situation towards this moment. I don't

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think anybody imagined the particulars of this moment, but I
think everybody with a sense of what was going on
knew that this quote unquote calm was deceiving and that
something was going to happen, something big. And it did happen.
The wall came down. But for the two point three
million Palestinians who have been virtually trapped for fifteen years,

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as well as the Palestinians on the West Bank, who
have been constantly surveilled, having their movement restricted, and have
experienced growing military violence, bulldozing through this fence means something else.
While the Israeli response was fed by the failure of
this system, making the future of all Palestinians even more precarious.

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The impact of Saturday's attack for Palestinians is hugely significant
psychologically and symbolically. It shatters the idea of Israel's military superiority.
It's a physical symbol of breaking out of the open
air prison they've been held captive in letting them step
onto the land that they've been forced out of, some
of them for their entire lives. Most of the Palestinians

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and Gaza are children, and they have only ever known
life within the confines of that fence. So bulldozing a
hole right through this fence to the other side will
obviously have ripples in more ways than one. I want
to mention something here that I've been thinking about is
that Gaza is often referred to as the world's biggest

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open air prison, which is true, but I was thinking
about it, and prison implies that they did a crime.
They did not do a crime. The Palestinians are innocent.
They're stuck in a cage against their will, and they
have no way out. I think a better way to
describe Gaza might be an open air concentration camp, the

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biggest open air concentration camp period. This is just something
I've been thinking about because I feel like open air
prison implies they're all criminals and they're not, so just
something to think about when it comes to semantics and
the power of words, I suppose, even if it's subconscious.
Gaza has been under a land, sea and air blockade

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since two thousand and seven. More than two point three
million Palestinians live there, all crammed in and they cannot
leave without Israeli permission, which very few people get. Hamas
is a political and armed group that took control of
two thousand and six, and there hasn't been an election since.
It's part of a regional alliance which also includes Iran

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and the armed group has Bela and Lebanon. Hamas has
been designated a terrorist organization by Israel, the US, and
the EU, among many others. We'll be doing a history
more in depth about Hamas soon, but it's important to
note that Israel basically helped create it. More details will
be in that episode, obviously, but just to summarize very briefly,

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Israel bolstered Hamas's creation and funded its expansion because it
wanted to divide the Palestinians amongst themselves, and they viewed
the leftist PLO, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, which was the
governing party at the time, as a threat, and so
they encouraged Hamas to flourish and thrive, which leads us

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to now again, that'll be a separate episode. There is
so much to cover, and I can do it all today.
Although the PLO used to be the dominant party decades ago,
in recent years, the PLO and the secular FATA party
which the PLO is centered around, is often criticized for
being ineffective, and so many Palestinians see Hamas as the

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most active group when it comes to resistance against the
violent Israeli occupation. Palestinians have lived in violent occupation for
seventy six years and the world has largely done nothing.
Palestinians have no outside support whatsoever, and no one is
coming to their aid or rescue. They unfortunately only have

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this militant group because of this, and also just a
reminder that Palestine has actually tried everything and that violence
is not their first resort. Many Palestinians don't even support Hamas.
Let's not forget about BDS, which is a Palestinian nonviolent
movement which calls for boycott, divestment and sanctions for Israel.

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BDS is now deemed illegal. In twenty twenty one, thirty
five states passed anti BDS laws, so even boycott Israeli
products is suddenly illegal. So that was BDS. People are
obviously still engaged in BDS and I encourage everyone to
read more about it, because divestment and sanctions work. It

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worked in South Africa, but here we are. And then
in twenty eighteen, Palestinians in Gaza mounted the Great March
of Return to show the world their plight. Day after
day they walked unarmed to Israeli's military fences around Gaza.
How did Israel respond to this non violent protest. They

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shot eight thousand Palestinians with live ammunition, killed two hundred
and twenty people and wounded thirty six thousand, one hundred
and forty three. Palestinians are getting killed regardless of the
existence of Hamas, because Israel bombing Gaza isn't actually about
Hamas but occupation and ethnic cleansing. Israel and Hamas have

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fought many on and off quote unquote wars. I say,
quote unquote because it's not a war if only one
side has an army, and I personally really hate when
it's referred to as a war because it's falsely portraying
an occupation as an equal fight when there's actually an
oppressor and an oppressed. But regardless, the last big war

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Israel had had with Hamas was in twenty twenty one.
In the past, it's usually been an exchange of fire
across the Gaza border. Hamas launches rockets into Israel, Israel
drops more bombs on Gaza. Hamas launches rockets into Israel,
Israel drops more bombs on Gaza, and so on. Usually
this results in a huge civilian death toll in Gaza,

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with Israel bombing entire residential buildings and killing entire families
and hundreds of children. And just a reminder here that
Gaza does not have an iron dome to defend itself.
When Israel bombs Gaza, it does so knowing it is
very densely populated and filled with hundreds of innocent people

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that have nothing to do with Hamas. They drop bombs
on buildings, hospitals, schools, nothing is off limits. I don't
have to remind you, or maybe I do that They've
also killed members of the press, clearly wearing press vests,
but I guess that's another topic for another day. What
happened this time around with the attack that Hamas launched

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on October seventh, was very different, though it's repeatedly been
called unprecedented, and this is true for a few reasons.
One because of the scale of the attack that Hamas launched,
and two because nobody really saw it coming. As of
this recording, more than one thousand and two hundred Israelis

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and foreign nationals, the majority of whom were civilians, were
killed and more than three thousand were wounded. Hamas also
said that it captured more than one hundred Israelis, including
some senior military officers. Nothing like this, especially at this magnitude,
has happened since two thousand and six, when Hamas captured

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one Israeli soldier, Galatchilit and held him in Gaza for
five years. And three days after Hamas launched this attack
on October seventh, there were still gun battles going on
between Hamas fighters and Israeli forces in the three main
areas in southern Israel. And despite verified footage and reporting

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from Gaza that indisputably shows countless Palestinian children who Israel
has killed so far, Israel's murder of Palestinian children is
receiving little to no media attention in the US or globally.
But they create the worst possible enemy, so the world
supports the destruction of an entire people, and as an Arab,

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I want to mention that it's really hard to see
all of this play out, and if you have any
Arab friends, I'm sure they're going through it too, especially
if they're Palestinian, because it's almost like dejah of what
happened after nine to eleven, and what happened after nine
to eleven didn't really stop. To be honest, it's not
like a somophobia took a break and then came back.

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It's always been there, but now it's very shameless and disgusting,
and it makes no attempt to cover itself because it's
not only ignored, but encouraged in order to validate the
actions of the US military in the Israeli military. Another
reason for this all being so unprecedented is Israel's failure

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to stop it from happening. The Israeli Army is one
of the world's most sophisticated military and intelligence organizations, as
well as one of the most powerful armies in the world.
Because of the United States support and billions of dollars
in funding, any kind of communication going in and out
of Gaza, at least in theory, would be listened to
by Israel's intelligence units. And again, the offense is heavily militarized,

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but still it collapsed. I think another significant result of this,
which I kind of touched on earlier, is that the
success full attack from Hamas completely undermines the never endingly
talked about power of Israel and the power of their
army and military, especially their capability in the region. It
kind of disrupts their entire image in a way. I

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also want to quickly mention that the claim that Hamas's
attack was unprovoked is ignoring the years of brutal occupation
and exactly why they attacked in the first place. It
was a surprise, yes, but I would never say it
was unprovoked, because you can't keep someone in captivity their
entire lifetime and expect them to hug it out. And

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maybe what I'm saying sounds radical to you, especially by
the standards of American media. But here is this award
winning Israeli journalist and writer Gideon Levy. He wrote an
incredible piece about what's happening right now. He writes opinion
pieces in a weekly column for Herots, and he focuses

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particularly on the Israeli occupation of Palestine, and he has
won awards for his articles on human rights. He wrote
an incredibly moving, powerful piece called Israel can't imprison two
million Gozzens without paying a cruel price. I want to
read excerpts from this because he is speaking as inn Israeli,

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and I think it's extremely important to hear what he
has to say. Behind all this lies Israeli arrogance, the
idea that we can do whatever we like that will
never pay the price and never be punished for it.
Will carry on undisturbed. We'll arrest, kill, harass, dispossess, and
protect the settlers busy with their programs, will fire at

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innocent people, take out people's eyes and smash their faces, expel, confiscate,
rob grab people from their beds heads, 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 and will be safe. Will
rely on the geniuses of the Army's eighty two hundred

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cyber intelligence unit and on the Shinbet Security Service agents
who know everything. They'll warn us in time. 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

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all the famous experts and fat cat contractors. 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 Emirates, and the Palestinians will be forgotten until

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they're erased. Quite a few Israelis would like we'll keep
holding thousands of Palestinian prisoners, some 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.

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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 will 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 imagine possible. A

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few hundred people proved that it's impossible to imprison two
million people forever without paying a cruel price. Just as
the smoky old Palestinian bulldozer tore through the world's smartest barrier,
it tore away at Israel's arrogance and complacency. And that's
also how it tore away at the idea that it's

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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 gets cities, bike riders entering through the Gaza gates.
These pictures tear away at that arrogance the Gaza Palestinians

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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 quote as it has
never been punished before. But Israel hasn't stopped punishing Gaza

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since nineteen forty eight, not for a moment. After seventy
five years of abuse, the worst 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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Prime Minister Benjamin Nyaho bears a very great responsibility for
what happened, and he must pay that price. But it
didn't start with him, and it won't end after he goes.
We now have to cry bitterly for the Israeli victims,
but we should also cry for Gaza. Gaza, most of
whose residents are refugees created by Israel, Gaza, which has

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never known a single day of freedom. I just think
that piece is very powerful, and I know I read
a good chunk of it, but I think it's important
to hear, especially from an Israeli. As he mentioned, Israel,
because of this has responded to the attack with extreme force.
Prime Minister a little Bitchna NYAHUO said the enemy will

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pay an unprecedented price. Israel has bombed Gaza for days,
hitting Gaza with air strikes, targeting hospitals, mosques, entire residential buildings,
and calling Palestinians animals to the media, Israeli Defense Minister
Joav Galant said, we are fighting animals and acting accordingly.

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Israel also said that it wants to wipe out hamasa's
military capability and end its control of Gaza, which doesn't
really make sense because they're kind of targeting anything and
now anything they can hit, including civilians, and at the
end they want control themselves. So I think a lot
of right wing Israeli politicians, which was most of them

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these days, say empty, stupid shit. And it also looks
like amidst all this that a ground invasion is likely
going to happen because the IDF has been readying tanks
and military jeeps. It sucks that I have to say
this out loud, but peace should not come at the
expense and the brutal oppression of others. There was no

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peace before this attack. The violence of the Israeli occupation
has been there since the state was established in nineteen
forty eight. Hamas is a direct result of that violence.
There has never been peace in Israel because it was
created in violence, and this clearly does not justify Hamas

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killing innocent people. That is never okay, But Israel also
can justify killing thousands of people because of that. Abby Martin,
who is the creator and host of The Empire Files.
She also made the film Gaza Fights for Freedom, which
I highly recommend. She posted this exchange on her Twitter

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between her and one of their field producers in Gaza,
and he says, I'm scared, Abby, I feel I could
die any second. Most of the people here lost power
and internet connections, so we don't know where they hit.
Entire neighborhoods are being erased. They killed twelve hundred of
us so far and destroyed massively, and yet they say

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they have not started yet. We know massacres are coming,
and we're sure they got the green light from the
US to kill us all. So that is a perspective
of someone standing in Gaza living in fear, which isn't
entirely new as far as living in fear goes, because
that's been the reality for Gazans for decades. But this

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time it's different because it's very clear that Israel's committing
a purposeful genocide. But they're in the dark with no
one to help them, and I can only imagine how
helpless and hopeless it feels. It breaks my heart. I
just want to give a update, an unfortunate update, because

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things are just fucked and people keep dying. But I'm
recording this update on the afternoon of October twelfth, like
a day after I record the original stuff, and Israel
has killed five hundred Palestinians and the Gaza strip since
this morning, five hundred in the last six hours twelve hours.

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Gaza's health ministry said that one thousand, five hundred and
thirty seven Palestinians, including five hundred children and two hundred
and seventy six women, have been killed and there are
almost seven thousand others wounded because of these Israeli airstrikes.
Loss of this magnitude is unsettling and overwhelming. And I

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also want to mention this something I just learned. Israel
has bombed the international airports of Aleppo and Damascus in Syria,
and this has forced them out of service. So not
only are they massacring the entire families in Gaza, but
they're also dropping bombs on civilian airports in Syria. And

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the Western media still wants you to think that Israel
is the victim. It bears repeating that Gaza is very
densely populated, with two point three million people trapped in
a very small space, unable to leave, with nowhere to
escape to. An example of this empty, stupid rhetoric that
Israeli politicians are saying is when Natanyahu said that civilians

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should leave and evacuate Gaza. He said that, knowing full
well that that is impossible because his government forbids it.
He said that to the media so the world can
see that he is just and not trying to attack
any civilians. It's all a fucking show, like I guess
all politics are, but it's still really infuriating and I

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hate it so much. And in Gaza, before all of this,
before the thousands that have already died, there was already
a blockade. They were trapped for fifteen years. And now
in addition to this blockade, Israel has imposed a total
siege on Gaza, inflicting collective punishment, which is illegal under

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international law. But Israel routinely commits war crimes and goes
about its business unchecked. Why would it be any different
this time. Remember that half of Gaza's population are under
eighteen hundreds of children have been murdered, and horrific videos
have been circulating of the destruction of Gaza, of bodies

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and babies and innocent people being pulled out of the rubble.
I had a break down last night because I saw
a video of a Palestinian father holding his dead child's
corpse and hugging it for the very last time. And
I'm very privileged to be sitting here recording this, and
if I have difficulty processing it, I cannot imagine what

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Palestinians are going through. Israel controls everything in Gaza. If
cut off electricity, food, water, and gas for an entire population,
Israel is massacring Palestinians in a blackout on purpose, so
they're unable to connect with anyone from the outside. No
electricity also means that hospitals have no way of the

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already limited machines they have available to them so they
can save lives. Before this, the water in Gaza was
already ninety seven percent undrinkable, and now it's completely gone.
This will lead to dehydration deaths, among many many other deaths.
Israel is starving an entire population live on your television,

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