Letter
Netanyahu didn't 'do' Gaza. Israel did.
It is important to remember that Benjamin Netanyahu did not come from nowhere. He is a born and bred Israeli, a sabra, and is merely the latest in a long line of ethnic cleansers who have been running Palestine since its partition in 1947. The history of Israel is one of continuous dispossession and murder.
“Something has to change so everything can go on as before.” This quote, from Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s novel The Leopard, is exactly what this article is warning against.
Netanyahu might make an easy target for change. He is proudly visible, unrepentant and boastful. But the whitewash is fading. The monopoly on the narrative is slipping. The truth is available to anyone curious enough to look. Netanyahu didn’t “do” Gaza. Israel did.
— Hal Duell from Alice Springs