Israeli opinion| How can the atrocities in Gaza be “explained”?

There is no way to "explain" Israeli behavior in Gaza. The horrific scales of destruction, killing, starvation, and siege do not allow for an explanation anymore, not even through an effective propaganda machine, such as Israeli propaganda. 

The situation into which Israel has placed itself is not amenable to “propaganda interpretation,” the term coined by Israeli diplomat Yohanan Mroz.

No propaganda can cover up all this evil. Even Israel's constant combination of sacrifice, Jewish life, God's chosen people, and the Holocaust cannot obscure the image. The horrific events of October 7 have not been forgotten, but they do not justify the atrocities in Gaza. No one has yet been born who can explain the killing of 162 children in one day, the number published by social networks, without talking about the killing of about 10,000 children in two months.

Israel has created for itself an updated version of Yad Vashem [the Holocaust Memorial Museum]. Hundreds of Jewish businessmen from the United States arrive in airlifts to visit the burned-out kibbutzim in the south. Even Natan Sharansky [one of the most important advocates of Jewish immigration from the former Soviet Union to Israel, and who held ministerial positions] visited the Gaza envelope this week, to see what the “anti-Semites” had done to us. No official guest will arrive in the State of Israel without being forced to visit Kibbutz Be'eri, and if he dares to turn his gaze to the Gaza Strip, he will be accused of anti-Semitism.

Now, Israeli propaganda is an immoral tool. Anyone who is satisfied with the trauma they caused us, and ignores what we do with them since then, is a person without morals and without conscience. We cannot ignore what is happening in Gaza, and we can only begin to be shocked by what happened in the Gaza envelope. It is clear that it is our duty to show up and tell the world what Hamas did to us. But for the novel to begin and end here, without narrating its sequel, is a despicable act.

In addition to the horrific Israeli suffering, the importance of which cannot be underestimated, now, there is the much greater suffering in the Gaza Strip. Suffering of enormous proportions, which inspires despair, has no explanation, and there is no need for it. 

The reports that come out of Gaza and are broadcast around the world are sufficient, except for a small country with its eyes closed and its heart of stone.

Israeli propaganda is a deception. It tells a story that does not represent the complete truth. Propaganda work becomes disgraceful if more than half the truth is hidden. But apparently, not in Israel. Here, a ridiculous character, like Noa Chibi [an Israeli actress whose photo was published in newspapers with Benny Gantz kissing her on the cheek], turns into the heroine of the moment. The stupid attack on Benny Gantz because he attended a party at Elle Feldman's house, in honor of his daughter who was killed on October 7, while smiling, holding a glass of wine in one hand, and hugging Chibi in the other, did not understand the basic matter.

The main thing is that those who mislead have become heroes here. I'm browsing Noa Chibi's page on the X platform, and I feel like vomiting. Pictures of Nathalie Dadon [model and actress] with tears and Hollywood smiles straight from the cover. An immigrant who has just arrived in Israel says, “The Jewish people are the original people in Israel. We are from here.” Immediately upon her arrival from the airport, she rushed to the shelter and filmed herself there in order to influence the hearts of “Israel’s friends” and make them cry.

...Do you want to know what the Middle East will look like after the elimination of Hamas? Gaza is completely destroyed, and two million people are homeless in the face of an apartheid state.