Netanyahu's Lesson From Killing Of Israeli Soldier In Hebron: Fortify Occupation

[Purveyor]

Just hours after an Israeli soldier was shot to death by a Palestinian sniper in Hebron Sunday, while the body was still warm, Prime Minister Netanyahu declared that settlers should inhabit more and more of the occupied West bank city. As Haaretz reported, Netanyahu said:

Anyone who tries to uproot us from the city of our patriarchs will achieve the opposite. We will continue to fight terrorism… with one hand, while strengthening the settlement with the other.

And in that one paradoxical statement lies most of the problem. How and why does Israeli leadership seek to continue strengthening the settlements – which necessarily means increasing military control and violence that further entrenches the repression of Palestinian civilians – and expect to bring safety to Israeli citizens, much less to Israeli soldiers guarding this reckless and unsustainable way of life?

Am I, or any rational citizen, supposed to feel comforted, at ease or safer by Netanyahu’s statement? Is this really the lesson that should be learned from the killing? Will this prevent the next soldier from being killed?

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[delrem]

1. No "paradox" really. Netanyahu = double-speaker with forked tongue.

We know this from how he speaks on the record and also off the record, in personal 1-on-1's with the most fanatical of zealots.

The case can easily and successfully be made that Netanyahu is both a liar and a thief who uses state power to leverage his theft. The same case proves that those who promote Netanyahu or his Zionist agenda both understand and collectively agree to the lie. That isn't "paradox", it's an existing pathological social condition.