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Eugene

(65,697 posts) Fri Jul 11, 2025, 05:13 PM Friday

Haaretz Editorial - Israel Wants to Build the Most Moral Concentration Camp in the World

Source: Haaretz

Haaretz Editorial ǀ Israel Wants to Build the Most Moral Concentration Camp in the World

Jul 10, 2025 1:44 am IDT

For President Donald Trump's attention: When the person submitting your name as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize is promoting the construction of a concentration camp – into which the entire population of the Gaza Strip will be herded, with no ability to leave unless people "choose" to emigrate – it's not clear whether he is being a sycophant or sabotaging your candidacy.

The support given by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the criminal plan being promoted by Defense Minister Yisrael Katz, involving the construction of a "humanitarian city" on the ruins of Rafah, which would incarcerate all the enclave's residents, is a moral and historic nadir for the State of Israel and the Jewish people. No matter how they try in Israel to wrap this move with laundered epithets, they are talking about a concentration camp.

It appears that in Israel they believe that it's sufficient to attach the label "humanitarian" to convert every act into a legitimate one. Just like the term "the most moral army in the world", which is no longer connected to what IDF soldiers are doing, they're now trying to present a concentration camp to be used for the transfer of population as the most moral one in the world.

An Israeli source said Wednesday that "the plan is to move all civilian Gazans southward to a large tent city in Rafah, in which they'll have hospitals and plenty of food." He added: "Just like the prime minister said, as far as I'm concerned, they can be given Ben & Jerry's ice cream." A source of blue-and-white pride: In our concentration camp they have ice cream.

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Read more: https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/editorial/2025-07-10/ty-article-opinion/israel-wants-to-build-the-most-moral-concentration-camp-in-the-world/00000197-f0b3-d963-addf-f4b7029a0000

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Haaretz Editorial - Israel Wants to Build the Most Moral Concentration Camp in the World (Original Post) Eugene Friday OP

It's called normalizing evil. AloeVera Friday #1

Not necessarily a bad idea, but it is too late Ken Dayenu Monday #2

AloeVera

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1. It's called normalizing evil.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Fri Jul 11, 2025, 06:09 PM

Friday

And it wouldn't be happening if we had not been normalizing evil for the last 21 months.

Ken Dayenu

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2. Not necessarily a bad idea, but it is too late

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Jul 14, 2025, 04:13 PM

Monday

At the beginning of the war, I advocated for moving women and children to the West Bank and men into camps in the Negev. Spare me your accusations of ethnic cleansing or genocide. I can assure you my intentions were to minimize harm to innocent victims during the war.

So I don't see the idea as fundamentally bad, however, I think it is too late to take this approach. The war has gone on too long which demonstrates that the goal of eradicating Hamas is next to impossible. Netanyahu foolishly stated this as an end goal, so ending the war before achieving it will be viewed as a victory for Hamas. I held my tongue on Netanyahu since October 7th since it was the wrong time to be a critic, but Israel has subdued its enemies, at least temporary. IMHO, Netanyahu is bad for Israel and it time to replace him.

Netanyahu branded Rabin a traitor before he was assassinated
Netanyahu was corrupt before Oct 7
Netanyahu enabled Hamas before Oct 7
Netanyahu failed to prevent the attack on Oct 7
Netanyahu set an unreasonable goal in response to Oct 7

With respect to Gaza, almost every senior Hamas leader is dead. The death and destruction inflicted upon Gaza is adequate to deliver the message that an action like October 7th is not in their best interest. Around 50 Israeli soldiers have died since the end of the previous ceasefire. This is more than double the remaining living hostages. We have reached the point of diminishing returns and futility. We are losing more than we can possibly gain.

End this. Remove the troops from Gaza and bring the hostages home. See what the Palestinians do. Learn from the failures on Oct 7. Never again.

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