A biblical hatred rounded both sides of the Gaza conflict – and blinded them to reason | Jonathan Hated

A biblical hatred rounded both sides of the Gaza conflict – and blinded them to reason | Jonathan Hated

I This week was sitting with Hussein Agha, a man who gave his life working in the search for the Israelites and Palestinian, who negotiated from the Palestinian table. He was darkened than I saw that he was, Ahiant that peace between two sides would never come. Because, Agha explained, this conflict is not part of the lines of a map or forms of words, things in which diplomats are trading. It’s about emotions, and hate specific. Hate it, he feared, killed. “This is the Bible,” he said.

What he had in his mind was the cruelty of Hamas who had spent 1,200 Israel’s sleep on Saturday morning to be used by the Government of the Netanyahu and bombed Gaza since the past, The killing of more than 50,000According to the oppression of Hamas health, and, in the last 80 days, Restrict food to those who are left. He was afraid that the hatred that stimulates these events, and that they burned, growing much more toxic until nothing left. The whole earth will be destroyed and made to leave.

A biblical rage is the one who devours all the reasons. It separates. It prevents the injured it from seeing anything but their own side. It prevents the two opposing thoughts of their thoughts, even if both are true. Remove, as an example, two statements we can do about the events of this week.

The use of Israel of hunger as a weapon of war, helped man’s help from Gaza for 11 weeks, a bad moral work with, properly, madly in the world. Partial blockade lift gives the largest part of what is needed and represents, self-possession of netanyahu, the “Minimal” amount he will get to maintain political support. That’s a fact.

Palestinians gathered outside a charity kitchen in Gaza City to receive limited food rations, 18 May 2025. Photo: Haitham Imad / EPA

The fatal attack on the capital museum of Washington DC on Wednesday night is an uncontrollable work left Two young people have died. The pair is the Embassy Employee of Israel, but all evidence suggests that they are beaten. Even if he heard a “free palestine” or “I did this for Gaza“, Gunman’s target is a Jewish institution filled with the Jews. That makes it an antistantic act. That is also a fact.

And yet, people struggle to make two facts at one time. They are afraid that by identifying one, even in any way weakening the force of another. Others were seized by Washington killings to lower Gaza killings; some do the reverse.

In the first category it used the death of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrate to argue that even talking about the suffering of Gaza in Israel’s troubled terrorism. That is the step by netanyahu itself, a person will not slowly take advantage of Jewish suffering for his own narrow political purpose. Earlier in the week, France, Canada and UK are united in criticize Israel’s progress in Israel In Gaza and especially the policy of hunger, defined in March by Israeli minister as one of the country “Primary pressure levers“Against Hamas. DC shooting gives Netanyahu an opening to hit.

“I told President Macron, Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Starmer, if mass killers, brethren, kidnappers thank,” Israel PM said,, Before deploying a phrase that is preferred to the left: “You’re in the wrong side of history.”

The mourners attended a vigil outside the White House to honor the Israeli staff of the land Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrin, 22 May 2025. Photo: Leigh Vogel / Upi / Shutterstock

His argument is worth claiming, often made, which those who regard the consequences of Israeli policy are guilty of “delegitimating” Israel. It does not occur in Netanyahu or his allies that can weaken Israeli legitimacy in the eyes of a world that is not the actions of Israel, or reports themselves.

Again, two statements, obviously stressful, can be real at the same time. Reporters who This week is asking That Israel and Egypt make Gaza available to international news organizations that are right to do so: facts should be recognized. Those facts, who used to know, can drive people in a state of rage – even murderous rage – that’s why they should handle the care of love.

And therefore, the UN Humanarian Chief, Tom Fletcher, is right to be clear and full of his demands for Israel Allow food and medicine to GazaBut wrong with suggesting that 14,000 children in Gaza die within 48 hours – a statement that later need to be correctedBecause that warning applies to what happens when the siege condition is kept not for another 48 hours, but in a whole year. Enough enough, but not the same. The deep and deadly hatreds are at work here; People can be motivated by violence very quickly. There is a small room to become casual.

I will say the same as Yair Golan, a former General and now leads the opposition to Israel’s opposition to Israel. He deserves honor for asking for Israelites to deal with and looks greater what doesn’t want to see. This week he warned, “Israel is on the way to becoming a pariah state, like South Africa was, if we don’t return to acting like a sane country,” adding that “a sane countryst civilians, do not give itself the aim of expelling populations.” That reference to child kills, using the word “hobby”, His critics are allowed By saying that he lived the antisemolic blood libel which holds the Jews as ritual killers of Christians.

This whole land is dangerous and need to be navigated with good care, if from conflict or no, which means that two things can be true once. Yes, it is true that anti-zionism is not always antisemolic. But that doesn’t mean never antisemitic. Gary Linerker thinks he posted a anti-zionist video. He failed to see it Antisemitic egree includedin the form of a mouse, a favorite Nazi shorthand for the Jew.

That stage is a reminder that, as we want these categories can be smooth and hermetically sealed – “Zionism” in here and fair game for attack; “Jews” there and protected by anti-racism – the border between them broken and porous. A man in Washington was angry with Israel and it was a Jewish museum who ended under deadly fire.

There are many differences like that; complex, apparently contradictory statements to keep in mind all the time. But it is impossible to see them if blinded by a rage and hatred that cannot be stopped, if blinded to one another in the Bible proportions. Agha no longer likes to speak in terms of peace or resolving conflict, but more than rough “arrangements” that can keep these furies. Either way, one way or another, it should end.

  • Jonathan Bleteland is a columnist in Guardian

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