Israeli Journalist Gideon Levy: Israel Should Lift Siege & Call Off Plan for Ground Invasion of Gaza
From Tel Aviv, we hear from award-winning Israeli journalist and author Gideon Levy, whose recent column for _Haaretz_ is headlined “Israel Can’t Imprison Two Million Gazans Without Paying a Cruel Price.“ Levy discusses the reaction within Israeli society toward Hamas’s unexpected attack and condemns the Netanyahu government for only mobilizing for further warfare rather than providing effective assistance to victims. “Nobody is leading Israel,“ declares Levy, who also calls for Israel to lift its blockade of Gaza and accept that its campaign of eradicating Hamas is “impossible.“ After decades of Palestinian subjugation under Israeli rule, “you can kill the current top people of Hamas, but you will not kill the ideology of Hamas,“ says Levy.
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