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Politicide in Gaza:
How Israel's Far Right Won the War
Max Blumenthal
At
the end of the fifty-day Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, neither
Israel nor Hamas had achieved their stated goals there: the armed
resistance was still standing (despite the massive damage the territory
and its people sustained) and the crippling Israeli siege was not
lifted. Rather, this essay argues, it was Israel’s far right that
emerged the victor. Not only did religious nationalists and secular
extremists outflank the right-wing establishment, they justified the
brutality of their actions in the military battle zone with messianic
pronouncements, and fanned the flames of genocide in the public arena.
The far right’s wartime success represented the culmination of a
strategy Israeli sociologist Baruch Kimmerling has called “politicide,” a
coinage denoting the partial or total destruction of a community of
people with a view to denying them self-determination.http://palestine-studies.org/jps/fulltext/186669
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