About the manifestations of the legitimacy of killing all Gazans

The Israeli media, for the most part, have a large role in increasing the uncertainty and obscurity more than contributing to revelation, exposure, and clarification, and some of them have gone beyond that to justifying the excessive force that the Israeli killing and aggression machine has used and continues to use, not to mention justifying the war itself.

The current Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, which is approaching the end of its first month, has highlighted what is described as “new Israeli heroes” and has coined terms that are being circulated for the first time. It seems that all of this will remain part of the general scene and prevailing discourse in subsequent times, which makes this a project that is constantly open to more questions related to what Israel has become, as a society and its leadership.

At the forefront of these “heroes” is security affairs researcher Eliyahu (Behrouz) Yossian, a Jew of Iranian origin, from the staff of the Misgav Institute for National Security and Zionist Strategy, affiliated with the New Israeli Right, and a specialist in Iranian affairs. His heroism, according to what one of Haaretz's regular columnists, Rogel Alpher, acknowledges, is his repeated call to kill the Gazan population completely. The refrain that Yossian repeats in all Israeli television studios is the following: If Israel wants to survive, it must brutally invade Gaza for the purpose of revenge, with zero morals, and in order to accumulate as many dead bodies as possible. When he repeats this, no one objects or even has reservations about what he says, which leads to the legitimization of the call to kill all the residents of Gaza.

On the official level, the Minister of Agriculture and member of the Israeli Cabinet, Avi Dichter, a former head of the General Security Agency (Shin Bet), said on the third day of the war, during radio and television interviews, that the era of the presence of innocents in Gaza had ended irrevocably. The current war is not another round, but a real battle to turn things around.

Dichter's conclusion was supported by a position paper issued by the Misgav Institute mentioned above, indicating that 60% of the population of the Gaza Strip support the Hamas movement from a political standpoint, and support its armed struggle against Israel. Accordingly, what is required is the necessity of overturning any ideological or political separation between most of the population in the Gaza Strip and Hamas. One of the Israeli right-wing media outlets titled its report on the contents of that paper with the following phrases: “Innocents? Not in the Gaza Strip...”

Israeli leaders used to claim that “our enemy is Hamas, not the residents of Gaza,” but, at the same time, they were keen to add to that by saying that “the residents of Gaza are guilty because they elected Hamas.” The goal they most insisted on establishing in the minds of the world, in addition to appearing as the eternal victim, was to exclude any comparison between Israel and Hamas. In this regard, former Justice Minister Tzipi Livni outdid everyone by saying that there is no comparison between Israel and Hamas, as the latter deliberately kills civilians while its state kills civilians unintentionally. She added emphatically that this is the difference between murder and premeditated murder. It was supposed, as a legal and not just a political one, to know with certainty that even those accused of manslaughter would also be punished with long imprisonment.

The Israeli media, for the most part, have a large role in increasing the uncertainty and obscurity more than contributing to revelation, exposure, and clarification, and some of them have gone beyond that to justify the excessive force that the Israeli killing and aggression machine has used and continues to use, not to mention justifying the war itself. The media, with rare exceptions, treats Israeli society's overt and latent ability to accept the killing of children, some with understanding, some with approval, and some even with extreme enthusiasm, with disgusting indifference.

There is no doubt that what enables this brutal world to survive and continue is that it is not confronted with the facts and facts bleeding from Gaza, and it is not confronted with them given that the public arm entrusted with conveying the facts (the Israeli media) is failing to carry out its mission, which has led academics to assert that if There was a prime example of “treason in wartime,” and that was treason.