The secret of apartheid | Israel

Meet the new occupier, just like the old occupier.

The Palestinians understand that replacing one evangelical extremist with another evangelical extremist as the prime minister of Israel will not change Israel’s methodical behavior and implement apartheid in occupied Palestine day after day.

If there is any doubt about this predictable score, the re-bombing of Gaza in the past week provides further evidence. The newcomer reminds the world as quickly as the predecessors that he will use the same deadly device to injure, mutilate and kill as many Palestine as Israel wants, for whatever reason, whenever Israel wants. People, because as long as Israel is willing, no prime minister or president will do or say too much about it except Little Ireland.

Nevertheless, Israel had to-as a stupid and perfunctory public relations activity-launch a series of familiar “provocations” to prove that it wanted to harm, mutilate and kill as much Palestine as possible at any time and in any way. Man is reasonable it wants and as long as it wants.

This time, Israel’s US$110 million attack aircraft destroyed more of the Gaza Strip in a few days, as the Palestinians briefly ignited patches of dry, barren land with so-called helium-filled “burning” balloons. . The “militants” use the rope.

“Provocation” is a tired, innocent pantomime.

Whether it’s balloons, slingshots, burning tires, kites, rocks, or beautified metal firecrackers, Israel knows that it has a license to be exempt from The Hague and can harm, mutilate, and kill as many Palestinians as possible, no matter when and where. At this time, no matter how, and for whatever reason, as long as it wishes, no prime minister or president outside of Ireland will say anything about it.

Therefore, no matter what the name of the Israeli prime minister is, which racist, rude party he is leading, or how he and his accomplices can use so-called Machiavellian techniques to piece together a precarious plan, it’s all. It doesn’t matter. The league finally got rid of the previous guy. An indelible constant still exists: the apartheid regime continues in occupied Palestine day after day, as it has been since the middle of the last century.

This is another constant: just like the zealous old Israeli prime minister, the zealous new Israeli prime minister knows that most TV and newspaper editors in Western institutions will only briefly focus on Israel’s impact on the occupied Palestinian territory under the following circumstances What the Palestinians did and are doing Israel decided to bomb the Palestinians in Occupied Palestine.

This means that every few years or so, after the “boom” flares—this is the jargon of journalists when the tool of war “booms”—the normally invisible Palestinians suddenly appear on the Western cable news network and the opinions of the West. Page. The newspaper talked about or wrote about how and will continue to be deprived of their homes and land, imprisoned, tortured, traumatized, mutilated and killed, a series of pretentious thugs in suits and uniforms.

So far, this is another trite pantomime.

Provide Palestinians with a little time and space to record or condemn Israeli crimes, and provide a convenient cover for Western TV and newspaper editors who please Israel to congratulate them for their composure and boast: “Look, Palestinians also have a say.”

These TV and newspaper editors have always refused to admit that Israel has been found guilty of apartheid by human rights organizations-this is defined by international law, not double hockey-and has been exercising discretionary power since its design. Not only can they steal Palestinian houses and land, but they can also imprison, torture, injure, mutilate, and kill Palestinians with impunity.

Regardless of whether they are privately disturbed by the violence and illegal methods used by Israel to systematically steal Palestinian houses and land, or how many Palestinians there are in Israeli prisons, torture, trauma, mutilation, and killing, most Western TV and newspaper editors have always defended Israel openly. The “rights” to do all of the above-yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Challenge Israel to protect itself from the existential threats posed by balloons, slingshots, burning tires, kites, rocks or glorified metal firecrackers would be an act of profanity by geopolitical heretics.

This authoritative editorial support for Israel almost verbatim reflects the same pleading attitude of most Western prime ministers and presidents towards Israel. Whenever their allies and friends choose to launch a reform against the already severely injured Palestinians in Occupied Palestine. When there are more “pops”.

Mark Garno, the Canadian astronaut-born Foreign Minister, not only refused—just like TV and newspaper editors who claimed to be held accountable—any discovery from any quarter that Israel is an apartheid country, and hysterically alluding to the “label” “Is an anti-Semitic metaphor.

“The Liberal government’s position on the apartheid label is very clear,” Gano said recently. “We categorically reject…Of course, we are totally opposed to any anti-Semitism.”

When he is inevitably replaced by another pedestrian and a model who reads his card as his foreign minister, Gano is likely to become an editorial writer for any newspaper in Canada, whenever Israel harms, mutilates, and kills with its unlimited “arms.” When Palestinians, these newspapers will write their standard apologies. “Bang-bang” is provided by friendly arms dealers in Ottawa and other regions.

Of course, the inevitable result of this stubborn phenomenon is that when the large-scale continuous display of “boom” ceases, most Western TV and newspaper editors no longer invite Palestinians to talk or write about how Israel continues to steal their homes and lands, and Prisons, torture, trauma, mutilation, and killing of Palestinians are impunity in occupied Palestine.

Undoubtedly, this means that there are far fewer “live broadcasts” from TV reporters-mainly from the safety and enthusiasm of Tel Aviv-describing the latest “spasms” of decades-old “tit-for-tat conflicts.” Caused almost the same degree of death and suffering on both sides.

During the 11-day deadly turkey shooting in Gaza by Israel, lucky “voices” obtained rare time and space fragments in cable news networks and newspaper columns to broadcast Palestinian “views” because they are no longer needed The symbolic presence of the audience provides a balanced and fair luster.

In fact, Israel’s resumption of bombing of Gaza is no longer even regarded as “news” by many boring Western TV and newspaper editors, most of them-in terms of the “dilemma” of the Palestinians-have a fearful attention. . squirrel.

In any case, the “war” has not broken out again—not yet. When it happens, they will return for a short peek. Until then, it will quickly return to the business of rhetoric as usual: Israel has the “right” to defend itself and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and so on, and those “militant” Palestinians just keep demanding bloodshed.

At the same time, Palestinians can only endure trauma, insults and provocations on their own. These traumas, insults and provocations long ago became routine aspects of daily life under the suffocating Israeli military occupation.

This is segregation in secret.

Militant, flag-waving Israeli religious fanatics will attack Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem, shouting “Death to Arabs” and “May your village burn”, and TV and newspaper editors shrug.

A sibling who exposed on social media that Palestinians might be expelled from the Sheikh Jarrah community by violent force was arrested. Television and newspaper editors shrugged.

Soon after announcing a “ceasefire” to resist the merciless destruction of occupied Palestine and its people, more than 2,000 Palestinians were trapped and imprisoned like cows, and TV and newspaper editors shrugged.

Fully armed Israeli turbans-euphemistically called “security forces”-rushed into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, firing rubber-coated steel bullets, tear gas and stun grenades, wounding dozens of believers, TV and newspaper editors Shrugged.

An 11-year-old Palestinian boy, Mazen Bessam, was arrested and “detained” by the aforementioned hood-presumably to protect Israel-while his sister cried and pleaded for his release. TV and newspaper editors shrugged.

Just as the precise and convincing details recorded by Human Rights Watch and other institutions, Israel’s enforcement of apartheid has never stopped. It was aimed at Palestinians before, during, and after the melodious sound and sight of the “pop” temporarily attracted the attention of TV and newspaper editors. I suspect they would be more willing to talk about and write Donald’s crazy contemplative trump card.

“Bang Bang” is part of Israel’s ruthless continuum of state recognition and systematic persecution of Palestinians throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

Western TV and newspaper editors are deliberately reluctant to acknowledge this obvious fact and fundamentally readjust their reports of what happened to Palestinians “on the ground” in Occupied Palestine, making them a clear, decisive, destructive consequence of Israel’s continuing and destructive consequences. Inhumane and disfigured complicity. The unapologetic practice of apartheid.

Whenever Israel repeats its explosive “boom” performance, Palestinians occasionally appear on television or in print, which does not make up for this widespread and shameful blindness.

The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera’s editorial stance.