HAMAS ATTACK ON ISRAEL/THE RIGHT TO RISE UP AGAINST THE
ISRAELI OCCUPATION
INTRODUCTION:
Dear Readers,
As a consequence of the 7 october 2023 Hamas attack on Southern
Israel [1], the following Western hysterical ”we stand by Israel”
reactions, complete with the hanging of Israeli flags from government
buildings [with Scotland as a good exception!] [2] and the subsequent
Israeli hungerblockade of Gaza [3] [a nazi method and NO I don’t regret saying this!], I wrote a Dutch Letter to the Editor [4]
It would highly surprise me, if a newspaper Editor really would have the
courage to publish it!
But the World is far greater than the Netherlands!
So I translated the article and sent it to several European countries AND
over the world [5], among else not only to countries like South
Africa and China [6], but also to Israel itself! [7]
Hereby my English Letter to the Editor, o Readers!
It’s titled:
”HAMAS ATTACK ON ISRAEL/THE RIGHT TO RISE UP AGAINST
THE ISRAELI OCCUPATION”
Enjoy your reading and See the article right under the notes!
FREE PALESTINE!
ASTRID ESSED
NOTES AT THE INTRODUCTION ABOVE
NOTES 1 T/M 7
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
TITLED:
HAMAS ATTACK ON ISRAEL/THE RIGHT TO RISE UP AGAINST THE
ISRAELI OCCUPATION
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor
The 7 october 2023 surprise attack of Hamas on the South of Israel
with thousands of rockets codenamed ”Al-Aqsa Flood”, suprised me,
like doubtless many others, but I was not completely taken aback.
It was a bloody attack in which a great number of Israeli civilians
were killed [according to Israeli autorities at least 1200] or abducted and
at least 260 people were killed by the Hamas attack on a
Festival near kibbutz Re”im.
Of course this deserves strong condemnation, since targetting
civilians is not only inhumane, but prohibited by International
Humanitarian Law, declaring clear distinction between combatants
[soldiers and fighters, who are legitimate targets] and non-combatants [civilians,
who must be protected]
So I understand the common [especially Western] sympathy with the Israeli
victims, because I share the feeling.
But there my understanding ends.
Because the almost hysterical ”we stand with Israel” reactions, especially from
the Western World [USA,EU], completely with Israeli flags hanging from their
official buildings [luckily not in Scotland!] is not only hypocrite.
It is disgusting!
Disgusting, because it implies support to Israel as a State and that is, to say
it mildly, controversial.
Because the bloody 7 october Hamas attack and subsequent abduction-operation devert the attention of the important fact, that since 1967 Israel
is the occupying power in the West Bank, Eastern Jerusalem and Gaza [still
occupied according to International Law since Israel controls the Gaza borders, airspace and territorial waters]
Not only Israel refuses to withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories
despite UN Security Resolution 242 [1967], there is a decennialong brutal
oppression, Israel is guilty of torture of prisoners, administrative detention,
bloody military attacks in Gaza and the West Bank, with as macabre result thousands and thousands civilian victims, the building [since end of the sixties]
of illegal settlements on occupied Palestinian territory [land theft!], extrajudicial
execution, apartheid, etc, etc
En despite this brutal occupation the EU never took any sanction against
the State of Israel, which made them complicit in the Israeli occupation
and oppression.
According to International Law every people has the right to rise up against
an occupation, which includes armed resistance.
So Hamas, as any other Palestinian organisation, is in his right
in this regard, but of course according International Humanitarian Law
Hamas must refrain from attacks on civilians.
By the way, I wonder whether the EU will also condemn Israel, which right
now launches a bloody military action in Gaza by bombing
Gaza a whole week, as denying the Gazan population water, medicines,
fuel and food supplies, the same strong terms as it condemned Hamas.
Astrid Essed
Amsterdam
The Netherlands
THIS IS THE END OF THE LETTER TO THE EDITOR