The growing campaign, which accuses the government of perpetuating the war for political reasons and failing to bring home the remaining hostages, has laid bare the deep division and disillusionment over Israel’s fighting in Gaza.
By spilling over into the military, it has threatened national unity and raised questions about the army’s ability to continue fighting at full force. It also resembles the bitter divisions that erupted in early 2023 over the government’s attempts to overhaul Israel’s legal system, which many say weakened the country and encouraged Hamas’ attack later that year that triggered the war.
“It’s crystal clear that the renewal of the war is for political reasons and not for security reasons,” Guy Poran, a retired pilot who was one of the initiators of the air force letter, told The Associated Press.
The rift is over how to commit genocide, not whether to commit genocide.
Anyone remember how Israeli extremists engaged in domestic terrorism a year ago? Storming their own military bases, demanding the release of soldiers charged with raping POW’s (so horrifically they required hospitalisation due to torn intestines)?
Israel ended up releasing those war criminals. Now, it takes a criminally insane person to commit such a thing, but what kind of government — what kind of population — would not only condone these actions, not just release the war criminals, but not even charge the extremists who storm their own bases to DEFEND THE WAR CRIMES?
That should have been the moment the world turned their backs on Israel; decided that Israels majority is fascist, and as mentally ill as nazi Germany.
I dunno about you, but I would expect to be shot if I ever stormed my local military base. Not protesting outside; forcefully breaking into the base!
That was a year ago. Netanyahu’s party supported this domestic terrorism. Israel is still our “ally”, and we still defend their genocide.
All our governments, that have supported Israel since then, deserve to be tried in the Hague and imprisoned for life, as far as I am concerned. Unfortunately, that is almost every government, including the government that oversees the Hague, and I am the one considered to be an extremist for believing that international law — the rule of law — should not be conditional.
Almost all of the hostages have been freed through negotiated agreements. Netanyahu pretending that renewed military pressure will solve this is a betrayal of the hostages’ lives. Bring them home now!
