Tabaja says his parents were trying to leave their home in southern Lebanon and were stuck in heavy traffic when they were hit by an air strike. Family members had been trying to reach them for hours, and Tabaja says eventually their burnt out BMW was found in a ditch.
He says his parents’ bodies were badly burned but his mother’s watch was found inside the vehicle.
“They bombarded the roads,” he says of the IDF. “Bombarded people who have nothing to do with this conflict.”
Backed by arms shipments from the US and their own production, I’m confident that Israel has the capability of achieving some of their military goals.
However, the world’s trust that the Israel government and military command has lost for their people will be much harder to recover. Unless there’s eventually a trial on the scale of Nuremberg charging Netanyahu, the ruling party, responsible government officials, domestic and foreign military contractors, settlers and soldiers for crimes against humanity, I cannot trust that Israel means peace when it speaks it, or that any goods and services coming from Israel aren’t rigged with bombs and malware.
I have nothing against Jewish people, but the atrocities committed by the Israeli government tarnish the reputation of Isreal’s people and businesses. And as a Canadian, I bear some responsibility for not pressuring my government strongly enough to condemn the terrible conduct over the past year either.
I really dont know what kind of path they are seeing in front of them. Its not there, there is no path, they are commiting long term suicide political and maybe literal. I really hope they figure something out because at this rate millions will die sooner than later. They are surrounded by people that (rightfully or not) hate them and the more they push, the bigger the inevitable pushback and collapse will be.
Or not?