The Prison Break that will live in Infamy

 

The Prison Break that will live in Infamy

Gaza had often been described as one of the the largest, if not the largest, open air prison in the world. Their jail guards, of course, were and are, the Israelis. This prison had been opened and gradually growing since the granting of Jerusalem land to the Israelis after the second world war. After time the Israeli settlers were granted permission by the Israeli government to chase out the original owners of other parts of Palestinian land that was allotted to them by the after war agreements. The rest of the world murmured in protest but did nothing about the land grabs. The state of Israel had openly become an apartheid state as the prison walls around the Palestinians shrank with ever passing year. Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers ignored warnings of the dangles of over crowing into the increasing small places for such a large population, with food and clean water and medicines shortages always looming. The Israelis blamed the over crowding on the Palestinians for having so many children. Half of the population in Gaza is under the age of 18.

The world remains silent when the Israelis, firm in their religious beliefs that they were and are, a superior breed of human, boldly moved more Israeli settlers into more Palestinian lands. Any protests, however mild, were silenced by the Israelis reminding everyone of the memory of the holocaust. But prisons can only get so full, jailers become so demanding and brutal, using live fire when they felt it needed, so many check points, so many bobbed wires and gates. It was inevitable that some of the men would get together and decide that it would be better to risk instant death for themselves and their families than to die slowly piece by piece of flesh, drip by drip of blood, all the while choking on bits of their backbones they had to swallow every day from the contempt and hatred emitting from their guards. They began to plan a jail break.

But there was something very odd about the Israeli response to this jail break. There stood Netanyahu with the most advanced intelligence in the world reporting to him, and with other countries who also had advanced intelligence, warning him that an attack by Hamas was imminent. The man did nothing. He didn’t order his soldiers to rank up, or to warn the border towns that an attack was planned and they should prepare. Friendly countries who also had advanced intelligence also warned Netanyahu that Hamas was planning an an immediate attack. Still, Netanyahu did nothing. Why not? Especially since he knew well in advance the attack was coming.

I believe that Netanyahu wanted this. I believe that he and his ministers felt that it would take a 9/11 incident like this that would bring all of Israel together to finish up the Palestinians and retain the sympathy of the world. He and his others were willing to kill many of their own in order to bring about the great excuse they needed to literally wipe out the Palestinians from Gaza. Netanyahu considers the Palestinians animals, doesn’t understand them, thus he fears them. He wants them gone. He prefers them all dead, if not, at least chased out of the Palestine lands altogether. And he means to have what he wants. The world still watches. And waits. While a new human slaughter is playing out before before our very eyes.

Nov 20, 2023

Betty Krawczyk