You can't imprison two million people without it exacting a cruel price.
Behind all this is Israeli arrogance; Our thought is that we are allowed to do anything, and that we will never pay and be punished for it. We will continue without interruption. We will arrest, kill, abuse, dispossess, protect the settlers of the pogroms, go up to Joseph's tomb, Atniel's tomb, Joshua's altar, all in the Palestinian territories, and of course to the Temple Mount - more than 5,000 Jews in Sukkot alone - we will shoot innocent people, gouge out eyes and smash faces, drive out, We will expropriate, rob, kidnap from beds, ethnically cleanse and of course we will continue the unbelievable siege on Gaza - and everything will be fine.
A formidable barrier will be built around the strip, the underground wall of which alone cost three billion shekels, and we will be safe. We will rely on the geniuses of 8200 and the Shin Bet agents who know everything, and they will warn us in time. We will move half an army from Gaza to Havara only to secure the crazy shenanigans of Zvi Sukkot and the settlers, and everything will be fine, both in Havara and in Erez. It turns out that the sophisticated obstacle And the most expensive thing in the world, a simple, smoking bulldozer can break through relatively easily, when there is great motivation to do so. Here, you can cross this arrogant obstacle with bicycles and scooters, despite all the billions poured into it, and all the famous experts and contractors getting rich.
We thought that we would continue to harass Gaza, throw at it here and there crumbs of kindness in the form of a few thousand work permits in Israel - a drop in the ocean, and they are also always conditional on proper behavior - and still keep it as a prison. We will make peace with Saudi Arabia and the Emirates - and the Palestinians will be forgotten from the heart, until they are erased, as quite a few Israelis would like. We will continue to hold thousands of Palestinian prisoners, including prisoners without trial, most of them political prisoners, and we will not agree to discuss their release even after decades in prison. We will tell them that only by force will their prisoners see freedom. We thought that we would continue to arrogantly repel any attempt at a political solution, just because it is not appropriate for us to engage in it, and everything will surely continue like this forever.
Once again it has been proven that this is not the case. Several hundred Palestinian militants broke through the fence and invaded Israel in a way that no Israeli imagined possible. A few hundred Palestinian militants proved that it is impossible to imprison two million people forever, without it exacting a cruel price. Just as the smoking and outdated Palestinian bulldozer yesterday tore down the fence, the wisest of all fences, so it also tore through Israel's mantle of arrogance and complacency. And he also tore up the idea that it is enough to attack and dismantle Gaza with suicide drones, and sell them to half the world, in order to maintain security.
Yesterday, Israel saw images it had never seen before: Palestinian military cars patrolling the city, Gazan cyclists entering its gates. These pictures must tear away the veil of arrogance. The Palestinians of Gaza have decided that they are willing to pay anything for a glimpse of freedom. Does this have any potential? No. Will Israel learn the lesson? No.
Yesterday they were already talking about erasing entire neighborhoods in Gaza, about occupying the Gaza Strip and punishing Gaza "as it has never been punished before". But Gaza has not stopped being punished by Israel since 1948, even for a single moment. 75 years of abuse, and the worst is waiting for her again. The threats to "flatten Gaza" prove only one thing: we have learned nothing. The arrogance is here to stay, even after Israel once again paid a heavy price.
Benjamin Netanyahu bears a very heavy responsibility for what happened, and he must pay the price, but it did not start with him and will not end after he is gone. We must now cry bitterly for the Israeli victims; But we also have to cry over Gaza. Gaza, most of whose residents are refugees created by Israel; Gaza, which has never known a single day of freedom.
The question in Russian is who is to blame for the attack on Israel. And most votes is Moscow.
