The skeptics stay quiet in the face of a propaganda barrage. From Gideon Levy at Haaretz at archive.is:
Palestinians at a refugee camp in Rafah, on Tuesday.Credit: Mohammed Salem / Reuters
We’ve never before had a war like this, a war of complete consensus, a war of total silence, a war of blind support; a war without objection, without protest, without refusal to serve, without opposition, neither in the beginning or in the middle. A unanimous war, with wall-to-wall approval – excluding the Arab citizens of the state, who have been prohibited from objecting – and without question marks or even any doubts.
Is a war that has already killed nearly 20,000 people, the vast majority of them innocent civilians, and destroyed nearly all the homes and the lives of the residents of the Gaza Strip, the most just war in the history of Israel? Is a war that causes so much horrific suffering to more than 2 million people the most moral of Israel’s wars? And if not, how is it that there is no voice calling to stop the bloodbath? Even the increasing bloodshed among Israelis has not yet called forth the questions “until when?” and “how many more?”
Most of Israel’s wars were wars of choice. Almost everyone supported them at first, but soon after, when the terrible price together with the futility became clear, resistance began. By the time these wars ended, many were against them. In hindsight, countless Israelis were against them.
This was the case in both the foolish Lebanon wars and in all the attacks on the Gaza Strip and on the West Bank. Each was shorter than the current war, whose end no one can foresee. And this time, everyone is in favor and no one is asking any questions.
