Israel’s New Government Plans War on Palestinians And Working Class
- Israel’s New Government Plans War on Palestinians And Working Class
by Jean Shaoul, https://www.wsws.org/
The new National Emergency Government, headed by an indicted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his deputy Benny Gantz, has taken office amid a political crisis unprecedented in the country’s 72-year history.
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The new government was formed after 18 months of political stalemate and three inconclusive elections. Following weeks of wrangling, Netanyahu reached a deal with his main rival, the former army chief Gantz, who as leader of the opposition Blue and White party had pledged never to serve under Netanyahu.
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Netanyahu’s trial for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust in three separate cases began on Sunday. He has accused police and prosecutors of inventing “baseless cases” against him, saying probes “were corrupted and fabricated from the start” and part of a left-wing plot to unseat him. The whipping up of his fascistic supporters against the judiciary is reminiscent of incitement against the “treachery” of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin for signing and implementing the 1993 Oslo Accords with the Palestinians that led to his assassination in 1995.
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Gantz’s U-turn has shored up Netanyahu’s position and led to the disintegration of his own party, leaving him with just 15 members, less than half the original list. Netanyahu has pledged to “restore the economy”—by which he means shore up the position of Israel’s financial and corporate oligarchy—and to annex Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank.
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He said his priority was ending the economic crisis precipitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. He had already eased lockdown restrictions, ordered businesses and schools to reopen and allowed houses of worship to reopen for prayers, even as new cases bring the total number in Israel to nearly 17,000 and deaths to 280. This week, restaurants, bars, clubs, swimming pools and hotels will open, which will lead to a resurgence of the virus.
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In the Palestinian Territories, for which Israel is responsible under international law, the number of confirmed cases has risen to 554 in the West Bank/East Jerusalem and 55 in Gaza, while there have been 55 deaths in the West Bank/East Jerusalem and one death in Gaza, a woman who had recently returned from Egypt where the disease is raging.
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With totally inadequate healthcare facilities due to Israel’s occupation, its punitive and repeated withholding of taxation and utility revenues to the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and the 13-year long blockade of Gaza, the lockdown has taken a heavy toll on people’s livelihoods and brought many families to the brink of starvation.
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Netanyahu emphasised the importance of achieving sovereignty for biblical sites such as “Shilo, Bethel, Hebron” and others, saying, “This is a historical mission which will be achieved together.”
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It will lead to a tsunami of dispossessions and expulsions as Palestinian land is expropriated to make way for new or expanded settlements, with Palestinians transferred to the nearest big city, as happened with the Bedouins in the Negev and East Jerusalemites who found themselves in areas cut off from the rest of the city.
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Leading the drive for annexation have been fascistic settlers who, notwithstanding Israel’s social-distancing measures and lockdown, have ramped up their attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank to drive them off their land. They have used clubs, axes, electroshock weapons, stones, and assault dogs, in some cases causing severe injury, as soldiers have looked on. They have attacked homes, torched cars, vandalized and uprooted olive trees and other crops, and stolen livestock.
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According to the human rights group B’Tselem, Israeli security forces raided 100 homes in the West Bank and arrested 217 Palestinians, 16 of them minors, between March 1 and April 3. It documented night raids on 12 homes, of which 8 belonged to members of one extended family.
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Tens of thousands of Palestinian laborers continued to work in Israel and the settlements. Some of the country’s least protected workers, they were not allowed to commute across the border, but had to agree to remain in Israel so as not to spread the disease. At the mercy of their employers, some have had to sleep in construction sites in atrocious conditions. Those who returned home received no compensation and many lost their jobs.
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- Ready for Execution: The Former Israeli General and his Quest for a New Gaza War
by https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/
Benny Gantz, the leader of Israel’s newly-founded Kahol Lavan – the Blue and White Party – is the rising star of Israeli politics. The fact that he has the opportunity to finally oust long-serving Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, speaks volumes about the appeal of his political message, his charisma, and his growing credibility among many social sectors in Israel.
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Gantz’s rival, Netanyahu, is a polarizing character in Israel, as well as in the United States.
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‘Bibi’s’ special relationship with the American President, Donald Trump, made him either loved or hated by most Americans. According to a February 2017 Gallup poll, 65% of all Republicans view Netanyahu favorably, while only 18% of Democrats share that view.
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But Netanyahu is not just the archetypical, devious and self-serving politician, he is able to inflict immense damage as well. He has launched major wars on Gaza and used military force, and blockades on civilian populations to serve his own limited political agenda and to simply garner votes. While avowedly racist, Netanyahu’s racism often flares during election seasons to galvanize his ardent far-right supporters.
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However, enthusiasm to see the end of the sinister Netanyahu legacy may blind some from understanding that a Gantz-led government does not necessarily signal a shift in Israeli politics, neither in Gaza nor anywhere else.
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As a former chief of general staff of the Israeli army, Gantz orchestrated the destructive war on the besieged Gaza Strip in 2014. Despite the heavy death toll, he showed no remorse. Instead, in a campaign video clip in January 2019, he boasted about sending “parts of Gaza back to the Stone Age”.
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Indeed, Gantz oversaw the systematic annihilation of the besieged Gaza region, which resulted in the deaths of over 2,200 Palestinians and the destruction of 18,000 housing units.
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Despite his violent pledge, Gantz failed to achieve the needed votes to form a government in the April 2019 elections. That was followed by Netanyahu’s failure to unify the ranks of his rightwing coalition which ultimately led to holding yet another general election in September.
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To bolster his image as a strong Israeli leader, worthy of the people’s trust, Gantz promised in August that the next round of war against Gaza will be the “final round”.
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“We do not intend to let deterrence continue to be eroded; we do not intend to allow this model of another round and another round and another kite and another missile and another thing to continue,” Gantz said during a visit to the fence separating besieged Gaza from Israel. “The next time something happens here, we will make sure that it’s the final round,” he said.
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The Israeli daily, Haaretz, reported that “Gantz further said that if another conflict erupts while he is prime minister, the military would move to kill all of Hamas’ leadership”. Judging by his constant references to the subject, Gantz appears genuinely obsessed with killing and destroying, with Gaza featuring constantly and prominently in his violent language.
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Now that Gantz is in the throes of government formation, he is desperate to win the support of as many Israeli members of the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) as possible. Expectedly, Gantz unleashed his political venom on Gaza, yet again.
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“A government led by me will not bear a threat against the residents in the south and will not accept undermining Israel’s sovereignty,” he wrote on Twitter on November 2. “We will return deterrence with any cost, even if we are obliged to kill those who lead the escalations.”
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It could be argued that Gantz’s violent attitude towards Palestinians is simply equal to that of Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders. However, one important difference makes Gantz even more dangerous. If the former general becomes Israel’s prime minister, he would take office with so much to prove, a reputation to garner and uphold, and numerous violent promises to fulfill.
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9 … I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a [a]synagogue of Satan.
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“In 2001, Dr. Ariella Oppenheim, of Hebrew University, a biologist, published the first extensive study of DNA and the origin of the Jews. Her research found that virtually all the Jews came from Khazar blood. Not only that but Oppenheim discovered that the Palestinians—the very people whom the Jews had been persecuting and ejecting from Israel’s land since 1948—had more Israelite blood than did the Jews. In sum, the vast majority of the Jews were not Jews; some of the Palestinians were. Some of the Palestinians even had a DNA chromosome which established that they were “Cohens”—workers at the ancient Temple and synagogues of the Jews.” – Quote
- Mr. Benjamin Freedman, a Jewish industrialist born in New York, wrote in the Economic Council Letter published there of October 15 1947: “These Eastern European Jews have neither a racial nor a historic connection with Palestine. Their ancestors were not inhabitants of the Promised Land. They are the direct descendants of the people of the Khazar Kingdom. The Khazars were a non-Semitic, Turko-Mongolian tribe.” Mr. Freedman was challenged, unwisely, by a Zionist objector; he invited his challenger to go with him to the Jewish room of the New York Public Library. There they could together examine the Jewish Encyclopedia volume I pp. 1-12, and the published works of Graetz, Dubnow, Friedlander, Raisin and many other noted Jewish historians, which, as well as other non-Jewish authorities, “establish the fact beyond all possible doubt”.’
~ Somewhere South of Suez (1950) pp349-350.”
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The “Jews” Are Not The Seed of Abraham! How The Racial Hoax of The “Jews” Was Finally Exposed !
Zionist Claim to Israel Unfounded ! Ashkenazi Jews are NOT Descendents of Israel !
New DNA Research Confirms That Modern Khazarian “Jews” Are Not the Descendants of Ancient Isrealites or The Seed of Abraham!
The End of The LIE ! 90+% of Modern Jewry are Non Semitic Ashkenazi Khazars! Not Real Jews! Not Descendents of 12 Tribes of Israel !
New Genome Study Destroys Zionist Claims to Palestine! Koestler’s Khazar History Vindicated ! Zionists Design Myth of Jewish Genome to Usurp Palestine!
Debate on European Jews’ Origin Settled? Koestler’s Khazarian Theory Vindicated !
Ashkenazis ‘Self Styled’ Jews Are NOT the Descendants of the Ancient Israelites!
Benjamin Freedman: Ashkenazi Khazars Self Style “Jews” Are Not Semitic And Not The Biological Descendents of The 12 Tribes of Israel !
The 13th Tribe of Khazaria! Ashkenazi Khazars Are Not The Jews of The Bible!
Modern Ashkenazi Jews are not the Jews of the Bible!
New Genetic Research Confirms Koestler’s “Khazar” Theory! Ashkenazi Jews Are Not The Jews of The Bible !
Ashkenazi Jews are Turkic Khazars! They Are Not The Israelites of The Bible! Not The Biological Descendants of The 12 Tribes of Israel !

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