Please Don’t Call the Conflict in Gaza a “War” — It Is Not.
What’s happening in Gaza is a campaign of genocide perpetrated by an Occupying Power who is using a people’s legitimate resistance to justify mass murder.
Many writers here on Medium and elsewhere have bought into the false precept that what is happening in Gaza is a “war”.
It is not.
These people — even well-meaning ones — have simply fallen prey to the Zionist narrative that Israelis want all Westerners to believe — namely, that Israel is “at war” and “fighting for its life”.
This is a ridiculously false framing of the situation, but it is one that serves Israeli interests, permitting the wholesale slaughter of Palestinians whilst portraying Israel itself as the plucky, defiant “David” fighting yet another unspeakably evil “Goliath”.
Israel portrays itself is the perennial victim, even as it drops 2500-pound bombs on refugee tents.
The nature of Israel’s wars
To undserstand this framing, and why it is so effective, we should look at Israel’s previous “wars”.
