By Gideon Levy
WCK released pictures of the victims
The army behaved just as it was expected to behave. That is exactly what is required of it. The chorus of international hypocrisy and self-righteousness that has arisen now after the killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers is doing an injustice to the Israel Defense Forces, and an even greater injustice to its thousands of other victims. What’s the difference between one day and the next? What’s the difference between one person who is killed and the next? What changed on Monday night with the attack on the seven aid workers?
Even Israel’s promises of a thorough investigation are utterly ridiculous: What’s there to investigate here – who gave the order? What difference does it make who gave that order – haven’t there been innumerable orders like it during the war? Tens of thousands of orders to open fire to kill journalists, medical teams, people carrying white flags, people who have been uprooted and have nothing, and especially children and women.
Have you heard about the fields of death and destruction revealed in Haaretz by Yaniv Kubovich, the only military correspondent in Israel who has also revealed the details of the attack on the aid workers? This is the spirit of the IDF in this war, the only one. What’s there to investigate?
There is no difference, none at all, between the attack on al-Shifa Hospital – which went on for two weeks and left hundreds of corpses in the dust and a hospital without one stone left standing on another – and the killing of the seven aid workers in their vehicle. In both cases the army knew it was going to harm innocent people, in both cases the justification was the Hamas members hiding, in both cases it was the humanitarian targets that are forbidden to be hit.
We will never know how many were killed at Shifa and how many of them really were terrorists, but it is perfectly clear that many of those who were killed were patients and people taking shelter in the hospital. Israel cheered this, and the world kept mum. What an excellent surgical operation, amid the piles of rubble of what had been a major medical center, the only one in the whole of the Gaza Strip.
Everyone also knows that the attack on the aid workers was unintentional, by mistake, an error – after all the IDF isn’t like that, our soldiers aren’t like that. Even when it is absolutely clear that there was no mistake here, nor any deviation from orders and procedures.
What the soldiers learned at Shifa, they also carried out at Deir al-Balah. Those who kept their mouths shut about Shifa would do well to keep their mouths shut about the World Central Kitchen. Even the ratios are similar: killing seven to obtain the head of one terrorist, whose identity and crime no one knows for sure. In any case, he was not in the car, neither he nor Yahya Sinwar.
Credit: IDF via AP
The term “terrorist” is the most flexible one in Israel’s lexicon. In the kill zones, it means any individual. Thus self-righteousness has come to Israel too. The prime minister has regretted the killing of the aid workers – why is he suddenly regretful, and about what exactly? The IDF chief of staff says that an error occurred – what error, with the firing of three rockets at three fully identified cars? And the IDF has investigated with the speed of light.
Topping them all was, oddly enough, food critic Ruti Rousso. Opinionated and very active in this war, giving aid to dislocated Israelis and the families of the hostages, Rousso had worked with the World Central Kitchen people who also operated in the Gaza border communities. “I am crushed,” she wrote on X, and that of course is heartbreaking.
But the crushed Rousso is the very same person who wrote exactly three years ago on Twitter: “They are all Hamas. No one is uninvolved (apart from the animals there).”
What more can we say? If no one in Gaza is uninvolved, apart from the animals, it’s good the IDF also killed Rousso’s friends from the WCK. Or maybe their foreign blood is thicker than the thin, inferior blood of the Palestinians, and their race is superior?
Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist and author. Levy writes opinion pieces and a weekly column for the newspaper Haaretz that often focus on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. Levy has won prizes for his articles on human rights in the Israeli-occupied territories.
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15 responses to “For Israel, Foreign Aid Workers’ Blood Is Thicker Than Palestinians’”
The Israeli Government is lying, saying that they are fighting Hamas. The objective of the government is to exterminate the great majority of the Palestinians..read the TALMUD OF THE JEWISH RELIGION, 63 BOOKS OF ONLY HATRED, HATRED, ONLY HATRED FOR ANYTHING THAT IS NOT JEWISH. NETANIAHOU GOAL IS THE GREATER ISRAEL. HIS GOVERNMENT ARE MAINLY MOTIVATED BY FANATISME, AND HATRED.
The script of October 7 was written way before October 7. Israel manipulated and aided the “Hamas invasion” with the intent of mass murdering its own citizens so that “revenge is justified” would be the motto of the day! The music festival was OBVIOUSLY attacked with weapons Hamas doesn’t have. Israeli gunships obliterated all those cars and the lies of “beheaded babies and rape” have already been exposed, by ISRAELIS! In other words, the killing THOUSANDS of defenseless innocent Gazans is all based on a lie. The world has been conditioned through these lies to always see Israel as a “victim”, but a closer look into things, beyond all the propaganda, reveals that Israel has once again snookered the world while it casually smashes the life out of Gaza! If Hitler and the Nazis were wrong with what they did (they were), then why is Israel not treated as being in the same war-mongering elite?
Excellent.
Israeli leaders have often stated that journalists and Aid workers are legitimate targets. Israel have been killing Aid workers and journalists since October 2023. According to UNRWA report, 176 Aid workers have been killed by the Jews since the Israel aggression against the Palestinians in Gaza. In addition, 140 journalists (no Assange among them) have been murdered. By killing Aid workers and journalists, Israel is able to cover up mass murder of Palestinian children and women, and use starvation as weapons to compliment its Jews’ only psychopathic barbarism. After the Aid workers refused to leave Gaza, Israel murdered them to continue its barbarism of starving the Palestinians. Next you will hear and read Israeli leaders excuses to wash Palestinian blood from Jewish hands. Israeli are dirty barbaric entity who have distorted and blackened humanity.
Another “unintentional” massacre, just like all the rest. And I hear an echo of the U.S.Liberty, also ”unintentional.” And to this day, no one in Israel, no Jew, no Zionist has ever paid the price of the intentional killing of anyone or anything in their way. Where are the sanctions on the Jews, where are the voices of the International Community as all this is going on? All we get are words, words, and more words. Investigations all over the globe, but no punishment??? When in the Hell is Israel, the Jews, the Zionists in this world going to pay for the bloodlust they were born with? As long as we allow this unforgivable pattern to continue, there will be no peace in this world. Live long Palestine.
Remember, the Jews are God’s chosen ones, you’re not allowed to touch them, but they’re allowed to touch you!
Yes, they do not respond to others who point out their wrongdoing, but they will never let us forget the wrongdoing others have done to them. And they use such historical incidents to justify the same kind of wrongdoing that was done to their ancestors. As if the wrong done to their ancestors was done to them just yesterday.
If you REALLY care about the Jews, then you should see Nutty Yahoo’s murderous response as something that is VERY BAD for Jews! Those i charge of Israel’s war responses could care less about Jews!
Israel is doing everything that was expected of a savage regime, therefore despite the great price paid by everybody involved in the resistance movement, this is good news.
According to the latest reports from the field of battle and more than ever, the Zionist Entity like its mentor and protector the Evil Empire are unable to turn the tide in their favor. America’s crocodile tears and manifestations of indignation concerning the latest carnage are to be considered mere window dressing. Several times in the past just Hezbollah alone defeated Israel on several occasions without possessing the armory of late model weapons available to them. Hamas also remains as strong or stronger than ever despite Gaza’s destruction. The Houtis and other members of the coalition are also achieving success in the field from all quarters with ever increasing help from their Iranian brothers. In its desperation Israel is trying to provoke Iran to react dragging America into the frail but they know better and are waiting for the best time to finish the job in the future. “All’s well that ends well” so said the Bard and so it will be.
There is no guarantee this is going to end well, the “Evil Empire” and its minions may very well take the rest of the world down with them!
Alfonso, like everything else in life, “well” is a relative concept only to be accepted within the general perspective. England the center of Zionist power in the world, has a revolt in parliament given the blind support for Israel by the Sunak regime, in view of the assassination of 3 Britons, other western people and even a Jewish supporter trying to feed people dying of hunger. Can you imagine how the whole world felt and suffer during the WWII Nazi onslaught? However after tenths of millions dead ended in total defeat of Hitler’s regime. Unfortunately as you well know, the movement didn’t die but was supported by the same people that gave it birth, the pro Nazi financial world in America as well as Europe that protected the survivors exported to the US, Canada, Latin America and everywhere else after the war. Today with other name or definitions, the Nazi ideology is coming back in force, so I declared years ago in these pages. As the saying goes “I’m closer to a harp than to a guitar” given my advanced years, however we must think about our children and young generation’s future. Palestine is not fighting Israel, or Zionism but the monster itself for us. Can you see it? They must win or die or so in time we will.
If Israel is defeated Zionism will not stop its quest for domination, but will suffer a great symbolic loss and momentum. We must support war instead of peace, is the only way.
Brother, I admire your optimism, and I sincerely hope your faith in a positive outcome for the world is rewarded! However, my outlook these days is a bit gloomier, because I realize “the monster” is a globe-straddling entity that is fed from many, often hidden, sources, with a lot of momentum and almost limitless wealth behind it. It is akin to a seven-headed hydra with a dozen different tentacles all working in unison to swindle, deceive, and destroy anything that gets in its way! The Empire and its minions will not go down easily or willingly, and to break its ugly grip on the world, will require nothing less than a major global upheaval (WWIII, which has already started), that might send us back to the stone age, if we survive at all. If we are to build a new, sane world worth living in, I agree that the battle must be fought, no matter what the cost, and it is inevitable that it will; it is also inevitable that the cost in blood for this new world will be extremely high! This global conflict that is already underway, is like a complex equation with many variables, therefore, many different outcomes are possible, not all of them good. I surely don’t have a crystal ball and I don’t think anyone else does either…only time will tell how this epic battle for the world will unfold!
Killers investigating their own killing. You can’t make this shit up
LONG LIVE RESISTANCE
LONG LIVE PALESTINE
I truly feel sorry for ANY FOREIGN worker in israel…discriminated against from the moment of arrival. Jews are racists with their noses always up in the air.
Israel is eager to goad Iran into a wider regional war which no doubt the US will be expected to fight with/for them. Will the the deck be reshuffled and the US become the proxy of Israel? I can hear the speeches in Congress now from impassioned Zionists proclaiming Israel is an ally and cannot be abandoned. Billions more squandered on a “this time we will get it right” promotional war plan. Iraq 3 all over again, this time with Iran and the greater Middle East. This vortex of criminal political religious violence seems to be based on instinctive behavior to downsize and cull future human populations.