Hamas committed its atrocities in Israel with one goal in mind. In its haste to fight back, Israel is unwittingly obliging. “A crime against humanity isn’t just about killing humans.
It is about destroying our trust in humanity,” the Israeli historian Yuval Harari said last week.
“Are you a mother?” Ms Hotovely replied, addressing Sky News host Kay Burley, her voice shaking with emotion. The particularly sickening nature of Hamas’s crimes – the beheadings, the burnt bodies, the murdered babies – were terrorism 101: they were designed to provoke. To horrify and enrage Israel so much that it would act rashly.
But you must keep the end goal in mind, and work towards it. And what is the end goal here? It has to be peace. ItMr Netanyahu has never seemed particularly interested in a lasting, sustainable peace. He thought he could keep the Palestinians in their cage, and maintain the status quo indefinitely, safely behind the shield of the Iron Dome and the IDF. He fell victim to hubris.
Not a great idea, it transpires. What Israel should have done, and should try to do in the longer term now, is demonstrate that it’s serious about working with Palestinians who choose diplomacy over bloodshed. These people are among those whose homes are being destroyed, whose children and spouses and friends are dying under Israeli bombardment.
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