AT the time that I am writing these lines on 7 October, it is exact one year since the Israeli aggression began on this date a year ago. Euro-Med Monitor, a Geneva based Human Right Organization, has released a report marking one year of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza. The report, “De-Gaza: A Year of Israel’s Genocide and the Collapse of World Order, documents the tragedies during the year. 50,292 Palestinians killed— of them, one third women and one fifth children; 365 families (one every day) lost more than ten members (just imagine their plight); 100,000 injured, and; 10 % of Gaza’s entire population killed, injured, missing or detained. The report highlights Israel Army’s starvation tactics, deliberate killing of prisoners, targeting humanitarian workers.

On the other hand, inside Israel, Netanyahu’s right wing coalition is commemorating the 7 October Hamas offensive, trying to justify to its own people and the world, its policy of putting ‘weapons above diplomacy’. This policy, they say, is needed to rebuild Israel’s image of its invincibility that had been shattered by the Hamas 7 October attacks. They say, Israel is located in a hostile environment – the colloquial villa in the jungle, and hence its invincibility is sine qua non for its existence. Netanyahu has been struggling to sell the argument to many inside Israel. Imperative of prolonging and expanding the war has been........

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