When children are explicitly framed as “not innocent,” all-out genocidal warfare is possible.
Injured Palestinian children sit in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital following Israeli airstrikes in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, on October 18, 2023.It really is hard to imagine a more malicious statement than “the children of Gaza have brought this upon themselves” when children in Gaza are now being massacred by the hundreds. But this was actually said in a recent Knesset session.
These words have not gotten much attention, as far as I can see. It is enough to reflect upon what would happen if a Palestinian leader said Israeli children brought it upon themselves. Can we even imagine the outcry and condemnation, the cries of antisemitism and Holocaust tropes? It would be deafening. But this passes quietly. And it wasn’t a slip of the tongue.
“We are working, operating militarily in terms according to rules of international law, period. Unequivocally.It’s not true this rhetoric about civilians not aware, not involved. It’s absolutely not true. They could have risen up, they could have fought against that evil regime which took over Gaza in a coup ‘d état.”
Children have often been a marker for whether one has gone too far. Once children were explicitly framed as “not innocent,” you know that all-out genocidal warfare is possible. It is not for nothing that Netanyahu cited Haim Nachman Bialik’s poem from 1904, saying, “Revenge for the blood of a little child has yet been devised by Satan” when he vowed to “destroy ” and “forcefully avenge this dark day.” That poem, called “”, is often cited in Israeli culture and often by Netanyahu.
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