A YEAR OF BLOODY HORROR

Today, a year ago, a terrorist act took place in Israel that was to unleash a war in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, and later in Lebanon. The perpetrators of this massacre were not Israel or Afghanistan. The sole perpetrator was the Palestinian terrorist movement, Hamas, which for a long time was considered a liberation movement full of justice. We were wrong!

Using parachutes and well armed, Hamas entered several Jewish kibbutzim and a music festival that the Star of David were organizing in the camp. There was no mercy. The men who fell from the sky murdered 1,250 Jews: civilians, soldiers, women and children.

A massacre that, in part, is still recorded in photos and video tapes. It is possible that there were also rapes. ARABINFOCUS has a video of a well-known Jewish singer who was stripped, trampled and cruelly killed. It is possible that she was raped. We do not have that footage.

If we start from the deep desire of young Palestinians to have their independent state, we must admit and even justify the hatred towards Israel; the hatred towards the Jewish Prime Minister, Netanyahu, because he refuses to recognize this free state. It is true, there is a lot of hatred between Jews and Palestinians, and this hatred has grown more and more in this year of bad memories.

Hamas was guilty, but not the only one. Israel had the legitimate right to defend itself from this terrorist attack, to take revenge with all legitimacy. But in those days of October, Israel was governed by an ultra-right executive, with a leader called Netanyahu, a staunch supporter of a war without pause; killing and killing Palestinians. With a minister called Ben Gvir, who demands that the Palestinians be banished, and with other Hebrew ministers and settlers who claim that killing a Palestinian is not a sin.

Israel's response to Hamas was a war full of massacres, bombings, arrests, rapes; That is to say, a totally disproportionate response. Hamas killed 1,250. Netanyahu has so far caused the deaths of more than 41,000 Palestinians. He closed the borders, cut off water, electricity and power.

Hospitals were bombed; schools protected by the United Nations. Gaza is today a field of ruins; a garbage dump. More than 55 percent of the buildings and infrastructure have been destroyed.

Faced with so much horror, countries that love peace; Qatar, Egypt and the United States, formed a mediation group that throughout this year has tried to negotiate a truce to allow the release of the Jewish hostages still in the hands of Hamas; less than a hundred, it seems.

The International Red Cross also reported that, in August of this year, a truce was reached between Israel and Hamas, which allowed the release of 117 captives. This was great news and it was expected that the releases would continue. But Netanyahu closed the door and there was no other; although more than a dozen captives have died after being hit by Jewish bombings; three captives escaped but when they found a Hebrew patrol and shouted at them “we are Jews, we are Jews!” the patrol shot them dead. Nervousness? Who knows.

It is also worth highlighting the mediation and peace work undertaken from the very beginning by the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres. But Netanyahu hates him because he does not support Israel as he would like. A few days ago, Israel considered Guterres persona non grata and prohibited him from setting foot on the land of Israel. The Security Council, however, ratified its support for the Portuguese politician.

We might ask ourselves: Is the entire Jewish people supporting Netanyahu? The truth is NO, because the population does not consider the head of government a good politician, and above all accuses him of not having been able to negotiate the release of the captives.

And it would also be logical to say, in conclusion, that Israel has also been divided within itself