From a young age, I learned that you should not release your neighbor. Benjamin Netanyahu will review this tradition well.
Palestinians, fighting hunger, form a line to get hot dishes in the Al-Tetun Gaza neighborhood on July 31, 2025.
(Abdalham Abu Rio / Anadol via Getty Images)
For most of the last 21 months, I sparring with friends and colleagues who called Israel’s response to the October 7 attack as “genocidal”. I wrote in Nation And elsewhere, about my problems with some tests on the left. In my internal monologue as much as in conversation with others, I claimed that while Israel was doing the military, it was cruel, and in many cases it committed crimes against humanity, in the end it was not genocide.
In recent weeks, however as images mass hunger came out of gas as hundreds of desperate The gazana was abandoned In the centers of food distribution, it is always accompanied by the cacophony of insincerity of the abandonment of the extreme right-wing bandits that manage the Israeli government-all more difficult to come to any other conclusion, but Israel’s leaders have accepted a full destruction policy. Having destroyed the physical infrastructure of the gas, Benjamin Netanyahu and its government seems to now intention to make life completely impossible for the rest of the residents. At that moment, it would be ill -advised otherwise.
If, in fact, Israel had some exit strategy or a plan to finally stop his war on gas, he will need to recognize human opponents and recognize their need to survive. At the most basic level, one should see the world from their point of view, with everything that entails. For empathy stipulates that in such circumstances understands that even those who are fighting in the war, love our children as we love ours, that they mourn when we mourn that they suffer when we suffer, that their stomach is striving when hungry, like ours.
Instead, almost two years after Hamas’s vile attacks on October 7, Israeli public opinion, manipulated by the non -vigils and his completely unscrupulous office, it seems equally capable of making these figurative jumps. However, most Jewish Israelis are distrustful of Netanyahu and think he has to do more to bring home hostages. But this does not mean the desire to find a true path to long -term peace with neighbors. Really, a Poll Poll research Center Since the beginning of this year, it has been shown that only 16 percent of adult Jews in Israel believe that peaceful coexistence with the Palestinian state may be possible. A later survey showed that more than four five The Jewish Israelis supported the violent expulsion of the Palestinians from Gaza and in half -committed Palestinian expulsions from Israel.
This lasts to explain why there were no massive protests and actions of civil resistance in Israel as its leaders in the last couple of months have adopted a flexible strategy of wholesale starvation and the shepherds of the Palestinians on the smaller, more vulnerable enclaves within the lazy lane. That is why most Israelis remained silent in the face of Israeli Defense Minister Kats, who sailed the idea to force 2 million gas residents to ONT “Humanitarian City” with the “humanitarian city” on the ruins of Rafa. Therefore, when the former Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert warned that such a city would become a “concentration camp”, the statement does not serve to force the Day of Moral Pay within Israel – a country founding after that, as a result of industrial slaughter, in death camps, in Europe. That is why there were no massive protests after that Minister of Heritage Amya Eliach Publicly stated that the government’s intention was “destroying” gas and replace the population with Jewish settlers. And so in the last six months, Israelis generally support Trump’s criminal idea is expelled by all the Palestinians from Gaza and create a resort for wealthy Western and tourists instead of the “Riviera”.
Of course, an increasing number scientists and Israeli human rights groups It is warned that Israel is making genocide in gas. But to date, their allegations were widely abolished by the Israeli public, so injured in horrors on October 7 that it seems ready to give their Cartes Blanche to their leaders to chase their war with Hamas in any necessary ways, regardless of the scale.
This silence is becoming increasingly impossible. Especially given the history of Jewish history and beliefs, there is something uniquely horrible in the intentional hunger for millions of civilians. Yes, deprivation is both a degumanization, and inhuman everything on its own. But it also goes against Jewish traditions like a mandate for feeding a stranger. It is impossible for me that this tradition is so outrageously violated by Israel’s leaders – and that those leaders dare to say that those who oppose the cruelty hunger somehow attract an anti -Semitic project.
Among the many Jewish beliefs and traditions that should make this weapon of food in the gazeta, the idea Tikun Ola The fact that a person has a duty to repair or heal the world. I witnessed this concept in practice, watching my grandparents open their home for friends, relatives, strangers-and always demonstrate their hospitality, providing their guests with plates with a cooked home. For my grandmother Mimi, food was not only her love language; It was the main thing for her being. If someone was hungry – or even if they were gone, you fed them. When someone was worn the worries of the world, you raised some of these worries by feeding them. If someone was looking for a good company and a good conversation, you provided both … and you fed them.
You fed them, even if you did not have much to regret it.
My grandparents welcomed people in their home in North London on the Dark Days of World War II and the brutal years of normalization that followed the war. Always, somehow, they found enough to go. This main understanding of the importance of food not only for survival, but also for culture and society, continued throughout life.
When I grew up, in the 1980s, I could bring a whole group of friends after school, and, in the shortest possible time, my grandmother raised food for all of us. As I wrote in my book about my grandparents, House twenty thousand books– The book about people, ideas and conversations that filled my grandparents’ house for more than half a century – literally thousands of people located around the world, who remained in my grandparents at one time or another, or at least fed and entertained them.
It goes without saying that it does not cure the world, allowing children to die because you denied them food. The world is not cured, shooting the crowd of desperate people, trying to secure a few calories of sacrificed food to return to their families. Does not cure the world with mass murder of doctors and nurses, educators, humanitarian workers, journalists, farmers, or, above all, about new mothers and their babies Only starting with their life travel.
Israel’s attempt to destroy gas is not war; At that moment, this is a collective punishment on a truly disgusting scale. This is also disturbed with collective moral standards as any other great atrocities of the last century. And while Netanyahu and his colleagues promote this murder as necessary to protect world Jewishness, in fact it is just a grotesque inversion of Jewish traditions of hospitality, generosity, empathy and moral duty, so that a person does not let his neighbor, a person engaged in man.
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