Fra artikkel i The Guardian om tortur i israelske fengsler:
Israel’s response to recent New York Times reporting detailing the horrific sexual violence inflicted on detainees seeks to silence those who assert the basic fact of Palestinian humanity
Guardian.-artikkelen brukt i debattinnlegg i Aftenposten 22. mai 2026_
Jan Marton Jensen
for noen sekunder siden
Reaksjonene etter NY Times-artikkelen av Kristof om vold og tortur viser hvordan Israels ledelse ser på denne tilstanden:
"Israel’s response to recent New York Times reporting detailing the horrific sexual violence inflicted on detainees seeks to silence those who assert the basic fact of Palestinian humanity"
NY Times og Kristof står i dag opp for artikkelen, etter voldsomme angrep fra Netanyahu:
"'When You Have Rape Survivors, You Can't Look Away': NYT, Kristoff Defend Column on Sexual Assault of Palestinians
The response comes after Israel accused the NYT of spreading 'one of the worst blood libels' in modern media history and was part of an 'orchestrated anti-Israel campaign'"
Her følger 3 ferske meninger nå under og etter Gazakrigen 2021.
Kristof, Scheindlin og Burston er kjente kommentator med skarpe observasjoner.
Og en tydelig mening om siyuasjonen i Israel/Palestina under Netanyahu:
Nicholas Kristof i NY Times 19. mai 2021 "The ‘Unshakable’ Bonds of Friendship With Israel Are Shaking"
Dahlia Scheindlin i NY Times 20. mai 2021 "Israel Is Falling Apart, Because the Conflict Controls Us" "Our politics are stalled. Our democracy is in tatters. Blame it on the occupation."
Bradley Burston i Haaretz 20. mai 2021: "Netanyahu and Hamas Are Working Together to Destroy My Israel"
Hele innlegget til Bradley Burston i Haaretz 20. mai 2021 her:
Netanyahu and Hamas Are Working Together to Destroy My Israel
Bradley BurstonMay 20, 2021
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaking to the press in Tel Aviv earlier today.Hadas Parush
How are things here, you ask. Things here are past insane.
Over the border in Gaza,
families are farming out their children, separately, to other families,
so that if one of our highly explosive “smart” bombs demolishes a house
they happen to be in, not all of their children will be killed.
On our side of the border, where Hamas has rained rockets on communities Benjamin Netanyahu
cannot be bothered to care about, and hasn’t cared about for the
eternity in which he has held office, some families have begun doing the
same thing.
The whole nation of Israel knew we’d lost the war the night it started. When the rockets reached Tel Aviv, something very powerful shattered to shards. It was Israel itself.
Everyone knew it at once. Some Israelis hated the idea, others saw it
as a blessing in disguise. After all, even if Israel had already lost
the war, even if parallel lynch mobs of Israeli Arabs
and Israeli Jews were out for rival blood; even if in Israel synagogues
were torched and a Muslim cemetery desecrated and sacred texts
firebombed to ash, Netanyahu’s death grip on power had been rescued. By
Hamas. And by the Jewish scumbag fascist supporters of terror whom
Netanyahu had spent recent months coddling and courting and campaigning
for.
A Palestinian family fleeing their home in Gaza City yesterday.Hatem Moussa/AP
And not for the first time.
After all, it was the toxic cocktail of Jewish terror and Hamas
violence that first brought Netanyahu to power more than a quarter of a
century ago. The fervently right-wing Israeli who gunned down Yitzhak Rabin,
followed by a shocking spate of Hamas suicide bombings of public buses
in major Israeli cities, paved Bibi’s come-from-far-behind electoral
path to Balfour Street.
That’s how Netanyahu likes his public. Shattered. Furious. Fearful. Paralyzed.
I don’t want to live one more day in Netanyahu’s Israel.
He just came on television, standing there with his campaign smirk
and his smug, self-adoring bellow, a warplane furnishing his background
prop. “They’ve sustained blows they did not expect,” he crowed. “And I
have no doubt that we’ve sent them backward a good many years!”
The Big Fool says to push on.
For years and years and years, all that Netanyahu wanted us to hear was Iran, Iran, Iran.
Now we know why.
The only thing he was really good at was taking Israel apart from the
inside. It wasn’t just starving the health care system, the schools,
the social nets. It wasn’t just acquiescing to every whim of his
vital-vote ultra-Orthodox supporters, even to the point of calling off the police and turning a blind eye to abjectly dangerous actions that resulted in Haredi deaths.
He had other plans, more pressing concerns. He was grooming us, all
of us – including those of us who hate him – to keep him in charge.
Along the way, he’s been terrifying and privatizing and molding
Israel’s news media into submission, into exactly what he needs. So that
people here wouldn’t, couldn’t, see what he’s actually gotten away
with. Any more than people here can see what we’re actually doing in
Gaza. To Gaza. To human beings. To children.
A
Palestinian father checking on his daughter at al-Shifa hospital in
Gaza City today, after his wife and other children were killed in an
Israeli airstrike.MAHMUD HAMS - AFP
What we do know is that he’s done to the shaky, defective constructs of democracy in Israel precisely what he has done, yet again, to Gaza. He knocked on the roof with a brief warning, then he brought it all down.
The minority that votes for him – at this point a minority is all he
needs to stay in power forever – sees all this as a good thing.
He raises up vicious, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, Kahanist gang
leaders to the status of partners in government? Grants them immunity
from the law? Sure, why not. Israel loses, but what counts is that Bibi
wins.
Denigrate and delegitimize non-Jewish Israelis and treat them as
steerage-class citizens? Undermine all nonviolent Palestinian activism
in the West Bank, while finding inventive ways to shore up and bribe the
Hamas regime in Gaza? Promise security but leave millions of Israelis
without access to bomb shelters? All in a day’s work.
Pulverize a building housing foreign media outlets?
A masterstroke. A Bibist fantasy realized. Bibi has groomed us well.
The media is the enemy, treacherous, leftist, anti-Zionist. Bring it all
down.
One more thing. Turn Likud
into an increasingly dictatorial political force, in some ways a
version and, yes, a partner of Hamas? I don’t want one more day of it.
Not it and not him.
Those first days of this war, when I saw the images of children
killed in this war that Netanyahu could have avoided altogether, I had
no words. But now I do. Five.
