As another chilling example of criminal narrative building and deliberate obfuscation to prevent a global backlash, Israeli news outlets published articles justifying genocide despite having no justification in Judaism. The culprit and hate monger this time, is The Jerusalem Post, which published a piece arguing that ‘ God Gave Israel Lebanon.’
This shameless narrative invokes so-called divine protections and justifies illegal attacks against Lebanon, a sovereign member of the United Nations, and Gaza, an occupied territory. This narrative reveals that “Israel” wants to deliberately expand conflict in the Middle East debunks the so-called ‘self defence’ argument which has been employed by Netanyahu to justify its relentless killing sprees. In fact, the Netanyahu regime and its predecessors wish to carry out its nefarious designs of territorial occupation as a so-called religious command. The ground invasion of Lebanon and calls to retaliate against Iran’s ballistic missiles being fired at Tel Aviv, shows that The Jerusalem Post’s narrative is not only being instrumentalised for national gain but is also part of “Israel’s” collective consciousness.
Take “Israel’s” ground operation in South Lebanon which is followed by airstrikes against its civilian population. The harrowing attacks have targeted Arab civilians with one million of them being displaced. This comes despite “Israel’s” outlandish claims that it seeks to nullify ‘terrorism’ and is employing a so-called self-defense strategy. While officials in Netanyahu’s cabinet have stated that there is no plan for a permanent occupation of Lebanon, he himself previously and unabashedly stated that he plans on turning Beirut into another Gaza.
This clearly points to genocidal intent with the survival of the Israeli state dependent on conquest against relatively weak Arab lands and populations. Such claims of divine command date back to the creation of “Israel” in 1948. The entire concept of “Israel” was grounded in the widely promoted and misguided notion by Zionists such as Theodore Herzl, who encouraged Jewish migration to Palestine and called for the establishment of a Jewish land on Palestinian territory based on the ‘Promised Land’ narrative. The narrative states that Jews have a right to live on land ordained by God alone, and every one of them has an obligation to dwell in the “Land of Israel”. Such notions have been promoted in 2024, despite thousands of Jews living in Europe and the United States denouncing Israeli actions and standing in solidarity with Palestinians. Such views, however, were weaponized by terrorist organizations such as the Irgun, a Zionist paramilitary militia which carried out the Deir Yassin massacre of 1948.
For Zionists and the current Israeli dispensation, the same rationale also applies to Gaza and Lebanon today. This twisted narrative promoted by The Jerusalem Post shows that both sides of the Israeli political spectrum believe in capturing territory as a religious obligation. The Post, for example, was at one time a left leaning paper, but descended towards the right after 2004 despite stressing on separating religion from state matters in “Israel”. What this clearly indicates is, is that publications, voices and intellectuals in “Israel” which are purportedly more sympathetic to the Palestinian cause are actually promoters of irredentism, or a neo-Nazi policy of advocating for restoration of a country or territory formerly belonging to an ethnic or religious group.
So, this theory that there exists a left or right wing in “Israel” is a fallacy, as the entire country’s discourse is geared at cementing territorial expansion. This includes normalization of the discourse on Israeli settlements as legitimate instead of violating international law, ignoring crimes against humanity committed against Palestinians in both the West Bank and Gaza, and considering Arab casualties as necessary prerequisites for “Israel’s” survival. According to this logic, the pager attacks in Lebanon and killing of more than 1800 Lebanese citizens in broad daylight constitutes a so called ‘doctrine of necessity’ ordained by God.
The problem however, is that killing an occupied population or waging war against states and decimating their populations cannot never be ordained by God, and has no justification in Abrahamic or Indian religions such as Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism. Narratives promoted by outlets such as The Jerusalem Post are actually distortions of religion. This has been the case with other terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda, who misconstrued the verses of the Quran and carried out crimes against humanity. Zionists in “Israel” too, as a mainstream phenomenon, are justifying their murderous sprees by building on claims such as ‘God Gave Israel Lebanon’.
This is alarming, and precisely why the international community as a whole should stop distinguishing between moderates and conservatives in “Israel”. Those vouching for a ceasefire or an end to the genocide in Gaza should also understand that there will be no calls from the Netanyahu regime for cessation of hostilities. In fact, Netanyahu previously termed the legitimate Palestinian Resistance, which includes innocent Palestinian citizens, as ‘Amalek’, or an enemy nation of the Israelities as per the Hebrew Bible. As a result, Jews residing in “Israel” who subscribe to Zionism must retaliate against such forces, as such retaliation is ordained from God. The irony though, is that “Israel” as an entity does not adhere to traditional Jewish law, which means that religious injunctions, verses, and calls are deliberately being misconstrued to justify Israeli aggression.
Hence, what The Jerusalem Post wrote and cannot hide, is that “Israel’s” motives in Lebanon, Gaza, and the Middle East are based on a distorted interpretation of religion, God, and Jewish law.
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