This Mass Atrocity Is Made Possible By The Systematic Dehumanization Of Palestinians

This Mass Atrocity Is Made Possible By The Systematic Dehumanization Of Palestinians

Oct. 19, 2024

ISRAEL IMPERIALISM - FOLLOW THE MONEY

Caitlin Johnstone

It’s gotten to the point where the only advantage to sharing your coordinates with the IDF as an aid worker in Gaza is that it will allow the historical records to show that they knew exactly what they were doing when they used those coordinates to kill you.

Oxfam reports that Israeli forces killed four water engineers and workers on their way to repair water infrastructure in Gaza.

“Despite prior coordination with Israeli authorities their clearly-marked vehicle was bombed,” Oxfam says.

It’s gotten to the point where the only advantage to sharing your coordinates with the IDF as an aid worker in Gaza is that it will allow the historical records to show that they knew exactly what they were doing when they used those coordinates to kill you.

Israeli forces found and killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar by accident while they were just randomly destroying parts of Gaza, and then they methodically targeted and killed four water engineers on purpose. These two facts alone tell you everything you need to know about what Israel is really doing in Gaza.

The answer to the question “How can Israeli soldiers carry out such monstrous acts?” is the same as the answer to the question “Why do IDF troops keep filming themselves dressing in the underwear of dead or displaced Palestinian women?” The answer is because of the systematic dehumanization of Palestinians in Israel.

Because Israel is a fundamentally unjust state established on fundamentally unjust principles, it is necessary for its citizenry to be indoctrinated from birth into a fundamentally unjust worldview. In order for it to make sense for there to be a society where one group is treated one way and another group is treated another way just because of their religion and ethnicity, Israelis must be raised to see Palestinians as less than human. As less than animals. As less than vermin. They need to be hated with ferocious intensity.

It’s evil, but it’s also the only way to make Israel work.

Which is why slave owners all harbored dehumanizing beliefs about people of African descent, and taught those beliefs to their children. If you don’t believe that people with dark skin are fundamentally different from people with pale skin, then there’s no way to reconcile the fact that they’re receiving vastly different treatment in your society in a way that makes logical and moral sense. Phrenology and other pseudosciences were geared toward squaring these circles in people’s minds.

That’s all we’re looking at when we see the seething hatred that Israelis have toward Palestinians. That’s why we see Israeli soldiers playing with the toys of dead Palestinian children and dressing in the undergarments of dead Palestinian women in gleeful mockery. That’s why Israelis made TikTok videos making fun of Palestinians being slaughtered in Gaza. It’s why clicking “translate” on a social media post made in Hebrew is often like reading a page out of Mein Kampf. This is simply what it looks like when you construct a society around fundamentally unjust principles.

Reading by Tim Foley

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