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Alon Mizrahi comments
on the June 7th article by Yaniv
Kubovich in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz Alon Mizrahi is on X, formerly
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Alon Mizrahi
Israel 7-7-24
1. It has been my
suspicion for a long time that Israel killed a great number of its own
casualties on October 7. We know about dozens who died at IDF hands for certain
already, but the scale of the use of Hannibal Directive is only gradually
coming out.
Today
in Haaretz, Yaniv Kubovich, one of Israel's finest journalists, provides a
peek into how extensive the use of that directive was on the day.
For long hours of October 7, 'No vehicle is going back into Gaza' was the
standing order, Kubovich reveals. IDF forces were ordered to make the area
between Israel and Gaza a death zone for everyone and anything.
2. What does it even mean that a military has an order to eliminate its own
soldiers and civilians if there's a suspicion they are being kidnapped? Has any
military in history given such an order to its troops? What does it mean about
the psychology of Israeli soldiers, who may be required to kill their comrades
at any given moment? How can actual camaraderie develop under such conditions?
Has anybody given serious thought to this lunatic policy and its devastating meaning?
Or was it done, in standard Israeli fashion, as a brain fart improvisation that
stuck?
3. Rules always expand and encroach, and so, inevitably, the Hanibal Directive
is applied more frequently for more situations that may have been considered
gray areas under the former, softer insanity. But think about the mentality of
high-ranking Israeli officers, who are basically given sweeping permission to
eliminate their subordinates when a kidnapping is suspected. Can they see
they're soldiers as important human beings that matter under such conditions?
Of course not.
4. Palestinians are said to be the religious crazies who don't value life, but
we've never seen Hamas members shoot at their own to prevent them from falling
into Israeli hands - even as they know what awaits them in captivity:
unimaginable torture and humiliation potentially to death.
Israel is always (and quite comically, at this stage) presented as a normal and
life-loving vibrant democracy, but what does it say about its mental health
such an order exists? Z
5. Can you imagine what would happen if it was discovered that American or
British soldiers killed dozens or hundreds of their own service men and women,
and civilians, 'to prevent them from being kidnapped'? Could you imagine the
complete and devastating outrage? In Israel, it is not even news. It doesn't
matter. It's a smallish side issue we don't talk about.
6. The Hannibal Directive lets us see the breathtaking derangement of Zionism:
it creates people who would rather kill their own than have to deal with an
enemy as a human equal. Once an Israeli becomes a hostage, their existence is
perceived as a threat to collective pride, which is more important than life,
making them an unbearable burden. I'd say there is a more pressing need to kill
potential hostages than the people who took them, as they embody leverage that
can potentially diminish Israel's sense of absolute human superiority.
And this is so insane, so extreme, so bizarre and uncanny that no establishment
can even recognize it and its meaning, so everyone acts as if this utterly
clinical show of deadly exceptionalism does not even exist
1 comment:
I imagine most people don’t know this, but American Military Police received orders during the Korean War to set up 50 caliber water, cool machine guns behind American lines, and to shoot Americans Who ran away under attack. I do think you are going overboard. With such views that Israel, soldiers, are in human monsters.
War gives soldiers permission to kill. As for commanders issuing in human orders, what was the impact of Truman order to drop the atomic bombs in Japan for just one example? How do I know this because I have two cousins who were MPs in Korea, that’s how.
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