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December 29, 2008
What, Exactly, is Israel's Mission?
By NEVE GORDON
The first bombardment took three minutes and forty seconds. Sixty Israeli F-16
fighter jets bombed fifty sites in Gaza, killing over two hundred Palestinians,
and wounding close to a thousand more.
A few hours after the deadly strike, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
convened a press conference in Tel-Aviv. With Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni
sitting on his right and Defense Minister Ehud Barak on his left, he declared:
It may take time, and each and every one of us must be patient so we can
complete the mission.
But what exactly, one might ask, is Israels mission?
Although Olmert did not say as much, the mission includes four distinct
objectives.
The first is the destruction of Hamas, a totally unrealistic goal. Even though
the loss of hundreds of cadres and some key leaders will no doubt hurt the
organization, Hamas is a robust political movement with widespread grassroots
support, and it is unlikely to surrender or capitulate to Israeli demands
following a military assault. Ironically, Israels attempt to destroy Hamas
using military force has always ended up strengthening the organization, thus
corroborating the notion that power produces its own vulnerability.
The second objective has to do with Israels upcoming elections. The assault on
Gaza is also being carried out to help Kadima and Labor defeat Likud and its
leader Benjamin Netanyhu, who is currently ahead in the polls. It is not
coincidental that Netanyahus two main competitors, Livni and Barak, were
invited to the press conference since, after the assault, it will be more
difficult for Netanyahu to characterize them as soft on the Palestinians.
Whether or not the devastation in Gaza will help Livni defeat Netanyhu or help
Barak gain votes in the February elections is difficult to say, but the
strategy of competing with a warmonger like Netanyhu by beating the drums of
war says a great deal about all three major contenders.
The third objective involves the Israeli military. After its notable
humiliation in Lebanon during the summer of 2006, the IDF has been looking for
opportunities to reestablish its global standing. Last Spring it used Syria as
its laboratory and now it has decided to focus on Gaza. Emphasizing the mere
three minutes and forty seconds it took to bomb fifty sites is just one the
ways the Israeli military aims to restore its international reputation.
Finally, Hamas and Fatah have not yet reached an agreement regarding how to
proceed when Mahmoud Abbas ends his official term as President of the
Palestinian National Authority on January 9th, 2009. One of the outcomes of
this assault is that Abbas will remain in power for a while longer since Hamas
will be unable to mobilize its supporters in order to force him to resign.
What is clearly missing from this list of Israeli objectives is the attempt to
halt the firing of Qassam rockets into Israels southern towns. Unlike the
objectives I mentioned, which are not discussed by government officials, this
one is presented by the government as the operations primary objective. Yet,
the government is actively misleading the public, since Israel could have put
an end to the rockets a long time ago. Indeed, there was relative quiet during
the six-months truce with Hamas, a quiet that was broken most often as a
reaction to Israeli violence: that is, following the extra-judicial execution
of a militant or the imposition of a total blockade which prevented basic
goods, like food stuff and medicine, from entering the Gaza Strip. Rather than
continuing the truce, the Israeli government has once again chosen to adopt
strategies of violence that are tragically akin to the ones deployed by Hamas,
only the Israeli ones are much more
lethal.
If the Israeli government really cared about its citizens and the countrys
long term ability to sustain itself in the Middle East, it would abandon the
use of violence and talk with its enemies.
Neve Gordon is the chair of the Department of Politics and Government,
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and is the author of Israels
Occupation, University of California Press, 2008. His website is
www.israelsoccupati on.info
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