OCTOBER 14 ― Nobody saw it coming, they said. October 7, 2023 happened to be the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah wrapping up one week of Sukkot celebrations. People did their groceries, went to synagogue, or took their daily walks. Families picnicked together in parks. Partygoers in their twenties and thirties danced it out at a trance festival in the southern Israeli desert.Then the music stopped, and the air raid sirens blared.
The Netanyahu government ought to know full well that this is the logical outcome of keeping two million human beings under blockade for more than seventeen years. Two million souls, sardined within 365 square kilometres of largely inarable land, with very limited access to basic necessities, and heavily reliant on humanitarian food baskets for their day-to-day existence.Surely Israel’s much-vaunted security services would have picked up on the signals.
The Israeli government has warned Gaza residents to leave in anticipation of an all-out bombardment of the enclave. But where are they to go when Gaza has essentially been transformed into the world’s largest outdoor prison? In an area less than half the size of Singapore, with a population density comparable to Hong Kong’s, it is a grim, foregone conclusion that collateral damage will be extensive and civilian casualties will be extremely high.
For all the boy-scout pretensions to peace, equality, and justice, the overarching dictum of Mideast Realpolitik is that might invariably equals right. In this game, the odds have never been in Palestine’s favour.
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