Israel: A mad country with murderous policies
This is the situation in Gaza. Scary fighter jets circle there at these very minutes, every single one of their supersonic boom crushes dozens more children and destroys their lives
By Ram Cohen* • Translated by Sol Salbe
You go to sleep at night and wake up with a war.
All this gobbledygook about the elimination of senior officials in Gaza has already exhausted itself. Every operation in Gaza is designed to achieve something else, not a solution to the problem in Gaza but a solution to a problem in Israel.
The government is under pressure with international scrutiny, with cuckoo ministers who each run a thuggish policy, ministers with a voracious appetite for terrorism and who are drunk on power with a prime minister who is afraid of them and does as they wish.
They say in Yiddish that the one who wants to lie stretches away their testament. And that’s what’s happening tonight. We have invented more enemies. This one is the commander of the Lower North West Gaza Sector, the next one is Jabari’s second-in-charge [there is always some Jabari], the third is responsible for armaments in the Western Mediterranean Sea sector. All to get away from the reality.
Since they killed Sheikh Yassin in his wheelchair while he was leaving the mosque, since they brought down a residential building with a one-tonne bomb [and by-the-by killed 18 innocent family members whose entire crime was to live in the same building] and swore that they killed the most, the utmost, the absolutely most senior commander in Gaza. And I then saw that nothing has really changed, in fact it got worse. I no longer believe in all these operations, and I no longer know who the terrorists are here — us or them.
We went to sleep for a few hours, fearing the prospect of a judicial coup to the point of palpitations. And they, for their pleasure and to erase away their lies, started a war, to draw the fire away from them and create a state of emergency. Because there is nothing like a state of emergency to close the gaps in the poll numbers.
So here, for those who forgot, this is the situation in Gaza. Scary fighter jets circle there at these very minutes, every single one of their supersonic boom crushes dozens more children and destroys their lives.
- Ram Cohen is a school principal from Tel Aviv
