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TO THE HEART OF IT: Gaza has been a free kill zone and a “concentration camp” (to quote Israel’s National Security Director Giora Eiland in 2004), long before October 7.
In light of this, the most radical position comes directly from the simplest question: are Palestinians human beings? If your answer is emphatically yes, unambiguously and without reservations, then you are a lost cause to Zionism. Because if Palestinians are human beings, then their self-defense is legitimate, and the defense of their continued existence is necessary.
Israeli soldiers are burning Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip on direct orders of their commanders, to prevent people from returning to live in them, according to an investigation carried by Israel’s Haaretz newspaper and published on its frontpage on Thursday. The newspaper said the Israeli soldiers deployed in Gaza have also taken to social media to show themselves taking part in the burning of homes in Gaza.