{"id":251231,"date":"2023-12-25T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T12:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=251231"},"modified":"2023-12-25T06:47:35","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T06:47:35","slug":"israel-killed-thousands-of-children-in-gaza-how-can-so-many-israelis-remain-indifferent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/12\/israel-killed-thousands-of-children-in-gaza-how-can-so-many-israelis-remain-indifferent\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Killed Thousands of Children in Gaza\u2014How Can So Many Israelis Remain Indifferent?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gaza Nov 2023 – Photo: Hoy Palestina<\/p><\/div>\n

Fall 2023<\/em> – T<\/span>he Gaza Strip is gradually being erased, along with its families, its people, its children, their smiles and laughter. What enables the majority of Jewish Israelis to support this systematic and mass erasure?<\/p>\n

What enables them to see it as the only suitable response to\u00a0the massacre that Hamas and its accomplices perpetrated<\/a>, to the military humiliation of Israel and to the indescribable suffering of the hostages, the wounded, the survivors, their families and the families of the hundreds killed?<\/p>\n

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Israel\u2019s military is erasing the streets of Gaza\u2019s cities and the alleys of its refugee camps.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Israel\u2019s military is erasing the streets of Gaza\u2019s cities and the alleys of its refugee camps. It\u2019s erasing Gaza\u2019s beach promenades, villages and its unexpected yet existing agricultural areas. It\u2019s erasing its cultural institutions, universities and archaeological sites.<\/p>\n

Hamas\u2019 military infrastructure is being destroyed<\/a> and may be destroyed entirely. Thousands of its armed men are being killed and will be killed. But the organization will be rebuilt; it and its leaders will flourish in every community and place where the erasure of Gaza continues.<\/p>\n

What enables the majority of Jewish Israelis to remain unshocked by the fact that in about two months\u00a0we\u2019ve killed around 7,000 children<\/a>\u00a0(a provisional figure) with the help of America\u2019s improved bombs?<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve chosen not to look at the unbearable pictures of trembling Palestinian children, faces gray with dust, being rescued from between bombed concrete walls.<\/b><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What enables most of the Jews not to gasp in horror at the crowding of 1.8 million or 1.9 million people into about 120 square kilometers (46 square miles), a \u201csafe area\u201d that\u2019s constantly being bombed? What\u2019s preventing those Jewish Israelis from screaming when they hear about the thirst and hunger of 2.2 million Palestinian civilians and\u00a0the diseases spreading<\/a>\u00a0due to the crowding, the water shortage and the out-of-action hospitals?<\/p>\n

What enables this erasure and the slaying of children with both our active and passive participation? Here are some answers:<\/b><\/p>\n