by Amnon Lord
Translated from Hebrew by Sally Zahav
Breaking the Silence ignores the slaughter in the al-Yarmouk Refugee
Camp and al-Sisi’s war in Gaza. The true goal of the organization is to
exacerbate the conflict and not concern for Palestinian lives
Breaking the
Silence is an especially abhorrent body. It makes use of the mouse trap of the Israeli
conscience in order to pull young soldiers in, and their testimonies join
ultimately to a propaganda document that aids in the terror of jihadi
organizations, which preach and act to promote genocide.
In Breaking
the Silence’s propaganda they pose the question: Is the IDF the most moral army in the world?
There is a clear answer to this. An army that fights the Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah
and all the rest of the terror organizations with one single goal – to defend
the citizens of its state, is a moral army. An army that continually gives warnings
and cautions the terrorists, thus losing the element of surprise is indeed the most moral in the world, and so
much so that in losing the advantage it has gained by Intelligence, it becomes
immoral. This is because its policies allow master terrorists to escape.
And on the other
hand, an organization that creates propaganda documents to support the terror organizations for the
next war – is certainly not moral. Moreover, at some time in the future those
who compose reports for Breaking the Silence and Betselem, knowing well how
they have ignited hatred toward Israel, may even be considered collaborators
with terror operatives in the course of action leading toward genocide. Everyone
understands these organizations’ atrocious propaganda is intended to create
another layer of human shields for terror.
It is not
difficult to prove that Breaking the Silence deals with propaganda and
psychological warfare instead of matters of ethical conscience. About one month
ago, similar things were written in the British Guardian, and broadcast on the Al-Jazeera
network regarding the siege that has been imposed and the slaughter that the
various forces are carrying out in the area of Damascus in the al-Yarmouk camp,
populated by Palestinians: “Let’s by straight with ourselves, How differently
this would have been handled, how noisy and passionate our coverage would have
been if the people carrying out the
siege on al-Yarmouk had been wearing an IDF uniform”, said Mehdi Hasan, an Al-Jazeera
writer. A Palestinian humanitarian activist said: “I am furious and outraged
about this frightful silence”.
Okay, it’s
hard to expect Breaking the Silence, Betselem or other local Arabs of
conscience to speak on the subject of the slaughter in al-Yarmouk. That’s far
away. Some 60 kilometers. But what about Palestinians that are residents of
Gaza? Those people who are suffering from the Egyptian fighting against Hamas
terror in Egyptian Rafah and the rest of the Palestinian settlements, that are
suffering badly from operations to destroy tunnels that General al-Sisi is
waging? These are the same human beings. There is killing going on here too,
and the threat to evacuate all of the residents from Egyptian Rafah gets a cold
shoulder and a very thin response, since the soldiers that are carrying out this
work are not wearing IDF uniforms, to
say nothing of the fact that they are Muslims, and not Jews like most of “the people”
who wear the IDF uniform. For the thunderous and frightening silence of
Breaking the Silence in the case of Gaza-Egypt there can be only one interpretation:
the suffering of Palestinians does not interest them. For them the Palestinians
are cannon fodder in the repulsive anti-Zionist propaganda. They are partners
only in ethical counter-attacks when Israel is involved. If their suffering
serves no purpose in this propaganda, their existence has no value.
The Young
Conscientious Objectors Caught in the Mousetrap
If we use the thought pattern of David Zonshein, who serves
today as the head of the management of Betselem, we could claim that this is
the intended policy. “In the West Bank and Gaza, there have been many years of
war that is not the continuation of the policy by other means, but the policy
itself”, he wrote about a week and a half ago in his article for Haaretz. For
anyone who doesn’t understand, continuous war against the Palestinians – is Israeli
policy, according to Zonshein’s accusation. According to the way he describes
reality, the conflict escalates from year to year in the battlefield between
Israel and Hamas and the rest of the jihadi organizations, and, in a
superficial sense, he is correct. But if you judge according to results, then the
ones who led to this result are David Zonshein and his comrades on the Left and
the various human rights organizations. Many years before anyone raised the idea
of F-16s and helicopters bombing Gaza, they were urging the establishment of a
Palestinian state after negotiations with the PLO. In Gaza specifically, they got
two withdrawals that were not obligatory according to principle, law or
agreements, but the predecessors of the Breaking the Silence organization
supported the disengagement which will mark its tenth anniversary this year.
The disengagement was intended to improve conditions for the residents of Gaza,
who would no longer see Jews in the area, and on the ruins of the communities
multi-story towers were to have been built foreign investors would come, and
Gaza would be an island of economic pride on the order of Hong Kong. The
result, as Zonshein, the spokesman for these organizations wrote, is “war that
is not the continuation of a policy…it is the policy itself”. A policy of jihad
and Palestinian revolution until victory, until the destruction of Israel.
Lately the question has been raised that perhaps this is
also the policy of Breaking the Silence. Because this is the result: the
Palestinians today hold an arsenal of missiles that cover most of the territory
of the state. After every round of fighting, each one worse than the one before,
the organization’s people get to work, creating another barrage of reports,
that will be used to support the legal, political agents in the fight against
Israel, and if possible, to deter the IDF from carrying out a destructive war
when the next round comes.
But why do we see Breaking the Silence as an especially
repulsive organization? Because of their connection to the international battle
the basis of which is anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. The journalists and the Palestinian themselves have already
said all that there is to say, about the “frightful silence” regarding Yarmouk.
The reason for the silence is that there is no anti-Semitic/anti-Zionist motivation
in reporting on al-Yarmouk. When this fatal obsession exists, when it is the
IDF that is fighting, then the “conscience-stricken” youths who have been
caught in Breaking the Silence’s guilt trap
are enlisted to give testimony.
The basic laws of anti-Semitism states that any [negative
things] said about Jews are immediately accepted as absolute truth. This is axiomatic
in the attacks of anti-Semitism throughout the generations. It is borne out in
the dark chapters of the previous century, and it was proven again during the
second intifada with cases such as Muhammad al-Dura and the battle of Jenin.
When there is a Jew from the State of Israel who expresses positions that validate
and grant confirmation to that external anti-Semitic and hateful propaganda from
within, it has twice the dangerous power that an external attack has. Actually,
the entire anti-Zionist campaign that today threatens Israel’s existence relies
on internal Israeli sources – in the press, in reports and in political
declarations.
Zonshein and his cronies will try to say that they are
Zionists and that Israel is strong and has great military power, therefore
anti-Zionist forces in the world do not present a real threat. I would say that
this is a mistake, if I thought that their approach was truly an ethical position
based on moral principles. It is a mistake to consider them naifs
who have simply made a mistake; they project onto others their own flaws.
The things that they accuse Israel of
reflect their own policy: the obsession of the two-state solution, the partition
between Jews and Arabs, and afterward, the acceleration of internal rifts among
the Jews themselves, is their policy, this itself is the policy. Exacerbation
of the conflict is the policy. Using Palestinians and their suffering as international
anti-Zionist cannon fodder – this is the result and this is their intention.
Amnon Lord
Source: Makor Rishon, Yoman section, issue no. 927, pg. 4, 15-20-15
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