It doesn’t take a rocket scientist
to figure out that Israel has just suffered a historic defeat.
One only had to watch the
international news coverage.
BBC persisted in its typically
awful reportage on the Israel-Palestine conflict during Israel’s latest
rampage.
But tonight it had to acknowledge
that the people of Gaza were out in the streets celebrating.
It desperately sought some
“balance” by positing that “some people in Israel are probably also
celebrating.”
Fat chance.
CNN aired Christine Amanpour’s “exclusive”
interview with Khaled Meshal.
Despite, or perhaps because of,
her silly histrionics (“What do you want?” she tearfully pleaded), Meshal came
across as remarkably articulate.
It could not have failed to
register even on the terrifyingly stupid Abu Abbas that the PA Comedy Hour will
soon be cancelled.
Meshal also explicitly endorsed a
settlement on the June 1967 border, which won’t please the BDS/One-State
cultists.
CNN then televised the Israeli
news conference of Netanyahu, Lieberman and Barak.
They looked like three
sixth-graders called down to the Principal’s Office, counting the minutes until
the humiliation was over.
Israel suffered a double defeat.
Its announced goal when it went
into Gaza was to restore its “deterrence capacity.”
But at the end of the day its
deterrence capacity had been drastically reduced:
The once mighty Israeli army that
caused the whole Arab/Muslim world to tremble could not even defeat the
impoverished and weaponless tiny enclave of Gaza.
Israel demanded an unconditional
and unilateral secession of Hamas “rocket” attacks.
But Israel had to accept a mutual ceasefire.
It also had to make promises regarding the siege of Gaza.
It is highly improbable that
anything will come of these Israeli promises, but still, Israel could not
unilaterally impose its will.
Let it, finally, be said:
In praise of the ever-martyred but
ever-heroic and ever-renascent people of Gaza.
May they live to see the full
brightness of dawn.
–
Norman
Finkelstein
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