Even though annexation is not happening tomorrow, or even the day after, the seriousness of the “Deal of the Century” – which is suspected to be nothing more than a deal between con artists trying to escape their legal problems – must be scrutinized over a longer period of time. But even if this plan is more a noisy firecracker that a historic explosion, it is impossible to deny that the situation of the Palestinians is one of the worst they have known in their history – a milestone in its own right, because that history is strewn with disasters such as the Nakba in 1948 and the occupation in 1967.
On the margins of all the reports and commentaries on the “Deal of the Century” festival, Haaretz’s Amira Hass reported that the district court in The Hague ruled that it does not have authority to hear a lawsuit filed by a Dutch citizen of Palestinian origin against Benny Gantz and Amir Eshel. The Palestinian-Dutch man sued them over the death of his mother, three of his brothers, sister-in-law and nephew in an Israel Air Force attack on Gaza during the war in 2014, which the engineers of Israeli consciousness named Operation Protective Edge.
The judges in The Hague ruled that Gantz and Eshel, the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff and the IAF commander, respectively, during the war, have functional immunity from prosecution. The plaintiff, Ismail Ziada, was even ordered to pay 7,763 euros ($8,613) in court costs to Gantz and Eshel – half the amount the two sought in their request that the case be dismissed. The Israeli Justice Ministry funded the legal representation for Gantz and Eshel.
These days, this story is like a single frame the allows you to understand the entire film. The Palestinians, who are paying the heaviest price for the conflict and occupation, are turning to the world in despair – and the world is rejecting them with indifference or claims of “lack of authority.” In the end they are also asked to pay even more.
It is reasonable to assume that the Palestinians’ situation would have been much better if they had agreed to the various peace proposals, for example those of Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak, or had chosen to continue on to a permanent agreement within the framework of the Oslo Accords – and even before that if they had accepted the UN Partition Plan in 1947. But even the mistaken steps, the corruption in the PLO and the barbaric murderousness of Hamas cannot serve as an excuse for the lack of justice here.
This does not just involve the ease with which Palestinians are killed in large numbers in these purposeless operations, and as individuals in routine times. Not just theft of land and natural resources, which has reached its peak in the settlements that covet the frailest of their poor, prized lambs.
Mostly it is a matter of dehumanization. In the eyes of many Jewish members of society and their elected representatives, the Palestinians are nothing more than invisible mice. This approach is reflected, too, in the humiliating tone of this plan, which was concocted between American Jews and Israeli Jews, and in the joy surrounding it – which reflects more than anything the celebration of the surrender of the weak and the trampling of their dignity.
The big achievement of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was never one of the outstanding representatives of the Greater Land of Israel and Gush Emunim, came in defeating the Palestinian national movement and in mothballing the process that strived for a compromise. Now he looks unbeatable – though history tends to deceive; the landscape of the journey is always changing.
Here is a reminder of the transformation of another people with a wretched history: At the end of the 1930s, the MacDonald White Paper was published, which set fixed quotas for the aliyah of Jews to the Land of Israel and limited the sale of land to Jews, with the goal of preserving an Arab majority in British Mandatory Palestine. The Evian Conference on Jewish refugees left Europe’s Jews trapped between the Nazi jaws of death, and just a short time later the demographic hinterland of the Zionist movement – which was rather unpopular before the abyss of the Holocaust – began being murdered systematically.
The Palestinians will not be erased from their land either. Now, at the highest moment of Jewish sovereignty, which those rejoicing over the annexation are experiencing today, it would be just, wise and humane to treat the Palestinians with somewhat more generosity and dignity.
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