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The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe

Levy, Gideon [book, 2014]




Gideon Levy 


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Gideon Levy is one of the most respected critics of Israel's apartheid policies against the Palestinian people. He is the outspoken award-winning journalist who has been writing on the conflict for decades. In The Killing of Gaza, he brings together his on-the-ground perspectives of the events leading up to the 7th October and the ensuing devastation of Gaza. His clear-eyed analysis is a vital aperture into current events but he also brings essential historical and political context to the moment. He is unafraid to speak truth to power, and his work is an urgent rebuttal to the propaganda that is distributed through the mainstream liberal press, throughout the world. Levy's words should be read by anyone who wants to get the heart of this most brutal conflict and see for themselves that silence is no longer possible in the face of such atrocity.
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"Levy is a rare voice of dissent. A humane and courageous Israeli journalist who weekly documents the moral degradation of colonisation on the Jewish state and its disastrous impact on the Palestinian people. This book represents a compelling collection of his writings at a time when his bravery is more needed than ever."
--Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory

"[The Killing of Gaza] shines an important light on a brutal conflict, without pretending to have a resolution for it."
--Kirkus Reviews

"The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe is perhaps the harshest condemnation of Israel's war on Gaza from any Israeli."
--Nathan Robinson, Current Affairs

--This text refers to the paperback edition.

About the Author
Gideon Levy is an Israeli journalist, born in Tel Aviv. He has written regularly for Haaretz. He has won a number of humanitarian awards for his work on the Israel/Palestine conflict including the Olaf Palme award in 2016 and in 2021, Israel's top award for Journalism, the Sokolov Award. He is the author of The Punishment of Gaza. --This text refers to the paperback edition.


Publication date ‏ : ‎ 1 October 2024

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Contents

Introduction: Catastrophe Report

PART I

2014

1. What Were We Thinking? July 10

2. Death to Arabs July 13

3. What Does Hamas Want? July 20

4. Go to Gaza, See for Yourself August 10

5. War, What War? September 18

2015

6. A Futile Report June 25

7. No Picnic, No Tragedy July 2

2016

8. It's Never Israel's Fault: Two Gazan Children Are Dead and Their Story

Goes Untold March 17

9. If Gazans Don't Fire, No One Listens June 1

10. Broken Families in Limbo July 8

2017

11. The Wall of Insanity August 13

12. Sacred Sovereignty November 2

2018

13. Strangling Gaza April 5

14. Bleeding in the Sand April 24

15. In the Fields of Philistia May 18

16. We Should Be Saluting the Gaza Strip July 15

2019

17. "It Would Be More Convenient If We'd Died" June 7

18. "My Future Turned Black" July 12

19. The Trial of "Inmate X" October 18

2020

20. Happy New Year, Gaza 2 January 21. Nobody Opposes the War May 16

2021

22. One Image, 2 Million People October 10

23. Congratulations: The Gaza Ghetto Now Has a Fence Around It December

2022

24. The Only Way March 31

25. The War of Change and Healing August 7

26. When Roger Waters Cried August 11

27. An Election for Whites Only October 30

2023

28. The People of Israel Will Remember Its Children April 23

29. I Was Wrong About Netanyahu May 11

30. Do You Really Want to Go On Living Like This? May 14

PART II

OCTOBER

31. Israel Can't Imprison Two Million Gazans Without Paying a Cruel Price

October 9

32. The Reckoning Must Be with Hamas, Not with All Gazans October 12

33. A Bloodcurdling Visit to Israel's South After the Hamas Attack Evokes

ISIS and Ukraine October 14

34. On Kibbutz Be'eri, Time Stood Still: Traces of the Life Before the Massacre October 19

35. It Is Forbidden to Even Empathize with Innocent Gazans October 26

36. Northern Inexposure: Former "Peace" on Lebanon Border Replaced by

Deathly Silence October 29

NOVEMBER

37. These Are the Children Extracted After the Bombardment of Gaza's

Jabalya Refugee Camp November 2

38. If We Can't See the Eyes of Gaza's Dead Children, Can We See Children at All? November 5

39. If Israel Resists Examining Its Own Failures, Another War Awaits Us

November 9

40. A Population Transfer Under the Cover of War: A Visit to the Forsaken Land of Settler Militias November 18

41. Giora Eiland's Monstrous Gaza Proposal Is Evil in Plain Sight November 23

42. Forty-Two Palestinians Killed in Seven Weeks: A Visit to a West Bank

City That Has Become a Firing Zone November 25

43. Is It Permissible to Rejoice in the Joy of Palestinians Released from

Israeli Prisons? November 26

DECEMBER

44. While War Rages in Gaza, Israeli Troops and Settlers Grow Trigger-Happy in Ramallah December 2

45. Israel Has Turned Its Back on the Hostages in Favor of Destroying Gaza

December 2

46. The Israeli Army's Incursions Are More Frequent and Violent; the Jenin Refugee Camp Is Now Little Gaza December 8

47. By Trying to Humiliate Gaza to Its Core, Israel Is the One Being Humiliated December 10

48. If Settler Violence Wasn't Enough, Israel Is Now Depriving Jordan

Valley Palestinians of Water December 16

49. Would Israel Be Any Different Without Netanyahu? December 21

50. A Disabled Palestinian Was Carrying a Bag of Lollipops When He Was

Shot by Israeli Troops December 23

51. When Israel Abuses the Hostages That It Holds December 23

52. There's No Way to "Explain" the Degree of Death and Destruction in

Gaza December 28

53. The Legitimization of Evil Will Remain with Israelis Long After the War in Gaza Ends December 31

2024

JANUARY

54. No Israeli Soldiers Have Stood Up and Refused to Participate in This

Evil War January 3

55. Someone in Israel's Army Decided to Bring This Quiet West Bank Area into the Circle of Violence January 5

56. Palestinians in Gaza Are Being Held Hostage by Israel and Hamas

January 11

57. If It Isn't a Genocide in Gaza, Then What Is It? January 14

58. The Gaza I Loved Will Never Be the Same January 24

59. Israel's Mainstream Brought Us to The Hague, Not Its Lunatic Fringes

January 28

FEBRUARY

60. Israel's Dignity Will Be Damaged, Hamas Will Be Crowned Winner, but the War Will End February 7

61. Israeli Border Police Killed a 4-Year-Old Palestinian Girl, Then Took 10

Days to Return Her Body February 10

62. An Israeli Incursion into Gaza's Rafah Will Be an Unprecedented

Humanitarian Catastrophe February 11

63. With the "Perfect" Hostage Rescue Operation, Israel's Dehumanization of Palestinians in Gaza Reached a New Low February 14

64. Palestinian Teens Are Writing Wills, and for Good Reason February 17

65. The World Must Force Peace on Israel February 18

66. Israel Is Blaming Everyone but Itself for Its Own Disgrace February 22

67. Israel Has No Real Alternative to Netanyahu February 25

MARCH

68. Gaza's Night of Death and Hunger March 3

69. After 150 Days of Death and Destruction in Gaza, Israel Is Neither Stronger Nor Safer March 7

70. Israeli Soldiers Shot Two Brothers to Death, a Third Is Wounded and a

Fourth Is Arrested March 8

71. When Israel Becomes Like Hamas March 10

72. Israeli Leftists, Shake Off the Shock of October 7 and Open Your Eyes to Gaza March 13

73. Every Person Killed in Gaza Has a Name March 20

APRIL

74. Four Black Dots in Khan Yunis, Gaza April 7

75. In Six Months in Gaza, Israel's Worst-Ever War Achieved Nothing but

Death and Destruction April 10

76. If Iran Attacks Israel, the Blame Lies on Israel's Irresponsible Decision-

Makers 12 April

77. Israel's Right-Wing Can Never Seem to Get Enough Death and

Destruction 21 April

78. Palestinian Released from Israeli Prison Describes Beatings, Sexual Abuse and Torture 28 April

MAY

79. Let Israel's Leaders Get Arrested for War Crimes May 5

80. What About the Palestinian Hostages? 16 May 81. At Last, Justice; but Will Israelis Start Waking Up? May 23

82. Obeying the ICJ Order Is Israel's Last Opportunity to Save Itself from

Becoming a Pariah State May 26

JUNE

83. Biden Wants Peace, but Israel Wants War June 2

84. Why Did Israel Conceal Hundreds of Gazans' Deaths in "Perfect"

Hostage Rescue Operation? June 12

Afterword

Acknowledgments

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Goldilocks

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A Priceless Perspective

Reviewed in the United States on 19 March 2025
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Gideon Levy is an incredible, brave, COMPASSIONATE human. 

I’m so thankful for him in this moment in history. Gaza desperately needed such an vocal Israeli defender. And he let his humanity overcome cultural indoctrination (for the most part) and the pain of truth.

The writing style is not ideal. Moments of sarcasm leave opportunity for wildly misleading quotation. At times, the text doesn’t flow. But this is such a priceless perspective. An irreplaceable piece of journalism bravely documenting unprecedented times. No doubt at the author’s own risk.

It’s heartbreaking. I hope it breaks some hearts open.

Thank you, Gideon, from the bottom of my soul ♥️

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Brian Lait

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Gideon Levy is an Israeli correspondent with the Tel Aviv based Haaretz newspaper. I have seen him a number of times on Aljazeera on Inside Story and have admired the way he is prepared to openly criticise Israel when criticism is justified, particularly over Israel's treatment of the Palestinians.

This book is no exception, and leads us from 2014 to 2024 with copies of his regular column describing in clinical detail the many tragedies suffered by both individuals and families at the hands of the Israelis. Such treatment is nothing short of horrific.

I have now been following events in Gaza, Israel and the Occupied West Bank for quite some time, and am not, therefore, surprised by anything Levy is saying.

I have said it before, and will repeat it now: For a religion which, if Hitler had had his way, would have been wiped from the face of the earth the Israeli's treatment of the Palestinians is nothing short of repugnant.

I actually wonder about the competence of the IDF as they do not appear to have experienced real warfare. Further, there is the constant use of the word "war". Perhaps "Israeli blitz". or similar. would be more appropriate as it always seems to be very one-sided !

It is interesting that he maintains that the removal of Netanyahu and his ilk will not change the way Israel is behaving, as it appears to be fixated with having one and all as the enemy. It was also interesting to read that when he published a sympathetic column about Netanyahu, he got a lot of complaints. Somewhere within Israel there are people who realise how wrong their country is. Change, and there must be change, has to come from within, although such change would be greatly aided if the West (in particular the USA) stopped backing Israel.

Hopefully, the likes of the ICJ will help to bring about change.

Regardless, thank you Mr. Levy for a very informative, shocking and sad book.

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Gideon Levy is a journalist who is actually doing his job - he is a treasure in a country steeped in mythology, militarism and colonial atrocities. His first hand accounts are chilling but provide a real glimpse into the reality - all Americans and all Israelis should read this book!

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This is a contemporaneous and unbiased treatise of the barbarous cruelty Israel has inflicted upon Palestinians. It has to be mandatory for all who have any semblance of consciousness in their souls.

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The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe

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Reportage from the frontline of the crisis in the Middle East from a leading Israeli journalistGideon Levy is one of the most respected critics of Israel's apartheid policies against the Palestinian people. He is the outspoken award-winning journalist who has been writing on the conflict for decades.In The Killing of Gaza he brings together his on-the-ground perspectives of the events leading up to the October 7th attack and the ensuing devastation of Gaza.His clear-eyed analysis is a vital aperture into current events but he also brings essential historical and political context to the moment. He is unafraid to speak truth to power, and his work is an urgent rebuttal to the propaganda that is distributed through the mainstream press throughout the world.Levy's words should be read by anyone who wants to get the heart of this most brutal conflict and see for themselves that silence is no longer possible in the face of such atrocity.

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March 13, 2025

October 10, 2021: "How do we sleep at night with all this? This misery is on our hands. And please don't start with Hamas and the rockets. Gaza is occupied territory. Israel is responsible for its fate. Gaza is Israel's trash can, and Egypt's to a lesser degree. Gaza is the land of refugees who fled or were expelled from the land because of Israel. Israel bears a heavy responsibility for their fate." (p. 100)

October 9, 2023: "After 75 years of abuse, the worst possible scenario awaits it once again. The threats of "flattening Gaza" prove only one thing: We haven't learned a thing. The arrogance is here to stay, even though Israel is paying a high price once again... Gaza, most of whose residents are refugees created by Israel. Gaza, which has never known a single day of freedom." (p. 127)

December 28, 2023: "The evil can no longer be hidden by any propaganda. Even the winning Israeli combo of victimhood, Yiddishkei, chosen people, and Holocaust can no longer blur the picture. The horrifying October 7 events have not been forgotten by anyone, but they cannot justify the spectacles in Gaza. The propagandist who could explain killing 162 infants in one day---a figure reported by social media this week---is yet to be born, not to mention killing some 10,000 children in two months." (p.197)

April 10, 2024: "Set aside all the stories about antisemitism abroad; only some are true. Anyone who sees what Israel is doing in Gaza could be expected to hate and despise it. But never mind the world; look at what has happened to us: We were always indifferent to the Palestinians' suffering, but now we have set new monstrous records for this indifference. " (p.262)

May 23, 2024: "If Hamas committed war crimes---and there seems no argument about this---then its criminals must be brought to justice. And if Israel committed war crimes--- and there seems no argument about this in the world, except in suicidal, self-deceiving Israel---those responsible for them must also be brought to justice. Bundling them does not imply moral symmetry or legal equivalency." (p. 279)

What Israel has done since the tragic day of October 7, 2023 (Israel's 9/11) is nothing short of a genocidal campaign against Palestinians. The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) has bombarded sections of Gaza without regard to the fact that most of the inhabitants are women and children. Very few protests or voices of opposition are heard by Israeli soldiers and citizens.

Gideon Levy, a journalist for Haaretz (the longest-running newspaper in Israel), is a lone voice of opposition in Israeli media. He is hated by the government and by many Israeli citizens for having the gall to not only criticize but condemn the actions and policies of the Israeli government.

"The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe", a collection of his articles and opinion pieces starting in 2014 to the first six months of 2024, is an eye-opening documentation of what is truly going on in Gaza, rather than the propaganda that Israeli media wants the world to see.

Sadly, the re-election of trump may result in a setback to any achievements that the current cease-fire may have accrued.

The above quotes basically set the tone for Levy's worldview. The following articles and reports provide some up-to-date data.

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July 26, 2024

Spanning a decade of Gideon Levy’s journalistic writings on Gaza, these articles flow with stunning prescience into the current situation. In fact, if it weren’t for the division into Part I, which opens with the July 2014 article ‘What Were We Thinking?’ and closes with the May 2023 article ‘Do You Really Want to Go On Living Like This?’, and Part II which takes us on from October 2023, one may have found it hard to realise the shock which accompanied the attacks.

Abandoning the rather startling initial impression that October 7th presented a break similar to the fall of the Berlin wall, Levy’s first piece following the attacks draws attention to the brutal conditions from which it was borne: “Israel Can’t imprison 2 Million Gazans Without Paying a Cruel Price”. Despite having condemned Hamas for many years, not least for the lack of provision offered to their own people, Levy here addresses himself to fellow Israelis who see “only their own suffering over and over”. It is this plea to a seemingly increasingly less receptive public which makes these articles so poignant. Though there is a censor, Levy reminds us that many have relinquished their objectivity voluntarily, that the supposed gulf between left and right is easily closed when an attack causes the “left” to “wise up”.

So, when touching, for instance, on the genocidal language of Giora Eiland, one of the IDF’s “thinking officers”, Levy not only criticises the initial realisation that epidemics in Gaza benefit Israel but asks why such a proposal was not met with outrage. “Dear friends and former friends:”, the final article of the collection opens, “It’s time to sober up from the sobering up.”

Given this and the unprecedented scale of Gaza’s “punishment”, it is incredible that Levy manages to retain an essential sense of individuality in his subjects. Whether it is the fear expressed in children writing wills in which they urge their parents not to mourn, or in the higher rates of bed wetting, Levy challenges us to see the implications of this genocide on an unbearably human level.

This discomfort restores more than one side’s humanity. As Levy concludes his article on Eiland’s contagion proposal: “International law is for the weak, morality for the philosophizers, humanism for the bleeding hearts. And really, what's wrong with a plague in Gaza? Only one thing: It could infect Israel, too. In fact, it already has.”

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It’s hard to claim one is a pro humanitarian but trying to be neutral with illegal occupation and the armed movement that comes as a result of 70-ish years of self defense and people resistance.

I was expecting a more fact-finding investigative journalism like the Middle East Eye or the Slow Factory or Al-Jazeera. Esp. In explaining to layman the failure of Fatah and PA’s governance and why the author didn’t mention that Hamas won the election over Fatah in 2016 and not dig deeper on the 2007 armed conflict between Hamas and Fatah.

The author keeps on telling that Hamas is the one who’s responsible the reckoning and that is a terrorist organization. But he highlighted several double standards statements like “One day people will learn to appreciate the determination and courage of those who managrf to establish such a resistance firce while inside a cage, even if we continue to scream and scream ‘murderous organizations’ (p. 121)”

Thia type of inconsistency honestly questions the independency of the author in seeing the case, whether he sees it as a land conflict or an illegal occupation conflict.

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Living in Gaza for Gazans since 2005 has been like being “thrown into a cage for the rest of their lives.” “In a cage there’s nowhere to run.” “They haven’t been free for a single day in their lives. Nor is there any hope they will be.” Zionists can yammer on about Hamas but note “in the West Bank, there’s a more moderate government, and Israel is doing nothing to end the occupation there. “Israel hasn’t stopped punishing Gaza since 1948, not for a moment.” “The arrogance is here to stay.” The two-state solution was killed by 700,000 Jewish settlers shoving themselves into the West Bank and Jerusalem. The only option left is the single state. What? Jews, Christians and Muslims living together in peace and harmony in one place like they did for hundreds of years? Funny how if you suggest that all peoples should live together in Israel democratically today, you will be called a Jew hater and anti-Semitic. Nothing increases perceived anti-Semitism more today, than Israel’s illegal actions and over-the-top entitlement.

October 7th: “Israel prefers to strike Hamas without mercy and with no other purpose than revenge.” “Most of the people who revile and who destroy the Gaza Strip have never been there, certainly not as civilians.” Israeli media since October 7th shows nothing about what is going on in Gaza. It conceals the occupation and whitewashes its crimes; it acts as though such deception is what its readers want to hear. “There is no more effective and tried means to keep alive an occupation so brutal and cruel as dehumanization via the media.” “Israelis are being fed an exclusive diet of stories of soldiers’ heroism and about their fall on the fields of battle.” “There’s almost no coverage of Gaza, except in the pages of Haaretz and on some dissident websites.” Is this courage: “the IDF doesn’t wage wars against armies, and its major target is civilians.” “Israel prefers to shut its ears to the demands of the other side, even when those demands are right and conform to Israel’s own interests in the log run.” “The bitter truth is when Gaza is not firing rockets at Israel, nobody cares about it.” “Only force works.” “When the rockets return to Israel’s skies – and they will return if the blockade isn’t lifted – Israel will again pretend to be surprised, offended and angry.” How dare the occupied use their legal right under international law to resist? “When do we hear in Israel about Gaza? Only when Gaza is shooting.” “Israel does not let Gazan residents visit the West Bank or be united with family members there.”

“Israel is continuing (in 2020) to pursue the policies of 1948 in a different way: a cage instead of expulsion, jail instead of ethnic cleansing, siege instead of dispossession.” “The only way to deal with the threat from Gaza is to give Gaza its freedom.” Israel complains about Gaza tunnels infringing on its sovereignty, which is laughable when the world sees Israel treating “Lebanon’s skies as its own”, freely invading the West Bank, or shelling Gazan fisherman fishing in the sea, or shooting Gazan farmers wanting to reach their fields. Think of the dozens of journalists shot by Israel while wearing vests with PRESS clearly written on them. “97% of Gaza’s water supply is unfit for consumption.” “100,000 cubic meters of sewage a day flows into the Mediterranean.” Listen to this Gazan named Ziada: “We are all cripples in Gaza. You close the sky to us, close the sea to us, close the land. What do you want from us? You are making us hate all Israelis. We don’t want that.” Instead of using Gazan workers, Israel “imports laborers all the way from China. About half a million workers entered Israel from Gaza every month until 2000.” “70% of Gazans rely on humanitarian aid.”

Gaza as Concentration Camp: “Only in Israel do they celebrate the building of a concentration camp.” “Two million people have been imprisoned (in Gaza) continuously for 15 years – there has never been another concentration camp like it.” The only way Palestinians can fight for their future is terror; if they silently grin and bear it, Israel and US/Britian/Germany ignores them. “They have no other way. Israel has taught them this.” “Only through terrorism will they be remembered, only through terrorism will they possibly obtain something. If they put down their weapons, they are doomed.” “Gaza didn’t change on October 7th. It was one of the most miserable places on the planet before October 7th and became more miserable after it.”

Israeli Arrogance: Imagine being so deluded that you honestly believe that only YOUR suffering matters. “The idea that we can do whatever we like, that we’ll never pay the price and be punished for it.” “We will fire at innocent people, take out people’s eyes and smash their faces, confiscate, rob, grab people from their beds, carry out ethnic cleansing …and everything will be alright.” The underground wall around Gaza alone cost $675 million. Just one component of the price of controlling other people (in obvious violation of international law). On October 7th, “a few hundred people proved that it’s impossible to imprison 2 million people forever w/o paying a price.” October 7th “tore away at Israel’s arrogance and complacency.” After all, “Israel hasn’t stopped punishing Gaza since 1948, not for a moment.” “Since the hasty withdrawal from Sinai in 1956, Israel has never acceded to the will of the international community.”

On October 7th the mighty IDF couldn’t even “save a kibbutz that had been conquered for 12 whole hours.” Yep, the mighty Israel on October 7th couldn’t find its own ass with both hands and a flashlight. Every one of Israel’s operations in Gaza have done no one any good “except for the lords of war.” When historically did the Nazis act “with self-control and restraint”? And historically has anyone seen Israel “acting with self-control and restraint”? To today’s “Sabra” such empathy and consideration is “for the weak”. “You can’t abuse people for so long, if you believe they are human.” “Will Israel’s brutality in the war and in its jails do anything to advance its goals? Will Hamas release its hostages faster if Israel abuses the Palestinians it is holding hostage?” Israel wants the world to look away because there is no propagandist who can successfully explain away killing 10,000 children in two months or 162 infants in a day. Israel’s official guests will now be directed to Kibbutz Be’eri, but if they look at Gaza afterward, they may be “labeled antisemitic.” “Not telling its sequel is a despicable act.” “The Israeli attack that fully satisfies its lust has not yet been born. You will never hear the right say: ‘Enough. We killed and destroyed enough’.”

Israel won’t be able to defeat Hamas even with it being so lopsided a conflict. An over-equipped army can’t handle a few men with primitive weapons - who knew the obvious lesson from Vietnam is STILL lost on arrogant military types? Since Israel’s genocide began, support for Hamas has only gotten stronger. Why is Israel rushing to become a pariah state? “The longer the war continues, the greater the damage to Israel.” “What does Israel stand to gain from this war? What exactly can it hope for?” If you aren’t going to defeat Hamas, “it is a war w/o purpose of benefit” – unless the purpose is completing flat-out genocide while the US, Britian, and Germany continue to fondle Israel’s ball sack. “The children of the summer of 1995 are now Hamas fighters. What other possibilities did they have in life? They were born into an occupation and grew up under the blockade, with no chance of anything.” To compensate for all the negative publicity, Noa Tishby is now seen wearing two Stars of David, a Chai necklace AND a from-the-river-to-the-sea map, all in gold. What, no gold Genocide R Us grill?

Zionist Friends: When your Zionist friends blather on only about the hostages (ignoring that their idol Netanyahu is doing NOTHING to safely get them back), remind them that “the residents of the Gaza Strip are also hostages.” Perhaps if all Palestinians looked like Bella Hadid or were dead ringers for ex-IDF Gal Gadot, maybe Zionists might take the 30 seconds needed to empathetically understand. Imagine being so blind you only see 136 hostages and can’t see 2.3 million people also trapped and held hostage in Gaza, simply because you don’t think THEY too were personally chosen by your God who you think is apparently fine with genocide of innocent civilians. The Zionist argument is that “Hamas alone is to blame for the conditions in Gaza” – that’s like saying only those who resisted Nazi-occupied Poland or occupied Vichy France were to blame, and not the occupying Nazis.

Israeli prisons: Abu Halil “was unable to change his clothes” for 192 days. His cell was meant to hold 5 inmates but instead held 20 (p. 270). A metal detector “was also used to deliver blows to their testicles.” The walls were “covered in inmate’s blood.” When he was there guards demanded they kiss an Israeli flag and shout “Am Yisrael chai” (The people of Israel live) and they had to curse the prophet Mohammed, and calls to prayer weren’t allowed. Anyway, you don’t have to worry about Abu Halil, after this book was written he was beaten to death by Israeli forces (the most moral army in the world) in Hebron (see 7/10/24 article in aa.com.tr).

This was another great book by Gideon. I’m super glad I read it. Kudos to Gideon. Also, you should read his great, “The Punishment of Gaza” book which I’ve also reviewed on Goodreads.

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October 16, 2024

It says a lot about our world that the first thing I did before writing this review was google Mr. Levy to see if he was, in fact, still alive. Props also to Verso for publishing this, because if nothing else it helps to have a primary source as Palestine is systemically destroyed. Collects reporting leading up to 10/23, and up to about May 2024 because of publishing deadlines. There is probably more, but if nothing else you hope that someone else besides you is reading this because holy shit.

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Gideon Levy is a Jew and an Israeli who stands against the government of Israel in their massive killing in Gaza. He is a man who has had extended friendships with many Arabs and Palestinians and have a great deal of concern for their pain, which he sees as being only appropriate. He is also a good example of the fact that being anti-Israeli government is NOT anti-Semetic. It is, in fact, being a human being.

He is unstunted in his assertion that Israel has lost any conscious it ever had. All that concern them now is their Jewish identity and the belief that whatever they do, however horrific is ok because they have been so mistreated. He asserts that whatever pain has been inflicted, they have returned in full measure and have lost their way. In refusing to truly hear and accept the Hague and the courts that have ruled them guilty of genocede, they have chosen to be a rouge country that is selfishly choosing to kill hundred or thousands of innocent people in Gaza because of some 1200 that were injured or killed during the Oct 7th attack.

He agrees that Hamas committed war crimes, but so, he insists has Israel. And one of the several war crimes committed by Hama was in not working to make Gazan life safer, and letting the locals take the blunt of the savagery as they have. Netanyanhu, on the hand, is simply a war criminal who deserves the arrest the Hague is directing his way. He feels and says, without hesitation that the current Israeli government is without any moral or humane underpinning and must be replaced or the country will be in disgrace for years.

So, when Jews, even those living there feel that way, it is impossible to say with the certainity that some do that all Westerners who are angry about the war that Israel is waging are simply anti-semetic. 1200 people is the highest estimate that has been revealed about Oct 7th, and in return Israel has condemned all 2.3 million people in Gaza to death or extreme poverty including starvation. To many, like Mr. Levy that "punishment" is misplaced and beyond any measure of fair or humane.

I recommend this book to anyone who wants to know and understand what true opposition within Israel thinks about this horrible war.

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May 14, 2025

While the political and war aspects were very interesting, the human stories were what really made this book. It’s insane how these inhumane, unthinkable crimes against humanity are still being enacted after all these years. Definitely a good read for anyone who wants to learn more about this war beyond just the historical facts.

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January 4, 2025

يتناول الكتاب كارثة غزة من خلال سلسلة من المقالات والتقارير التي كتبها الصحفي الإسرائيلي جدعون ليفي على مدار سنوات، وينشرها في صحيفة هآرتس. يركز العمل على توثيق المعاناة الإنسانية الناتجة عن الحروب والحصار على القطاع، مع تحليل نقدي لسياسات الاحتلال الإسرائيلي وآثارها على الفلسطينيين. يتميز الكتاب بجرأته في انتقاد الرواية الرسمية الإسرائيلية، ما يجعله عملًا مثيرًا للجدل ومؤلمًا في آنٍ واحد.

ينقسم الكتاب إلى مقالات مرتبة حسب السنوات من 2014 وحتى 2024، تقدم كل منها مشهدًا مختلفًا من المأساة المستمرة.

جزء أول: يغطي حرب غزة 2014 وما تبعها من انتهاكات لحقوق الإنسان. يناقش ليفي "خرائط الألم" والسياسات العسكرية الإسرائيلية التي تركز على استهداف المدنيين.

جزء ثانٍ: يتناول آثار الاحتلال من الناحية الإنسانية، مع التركيز على قصص شخصية مثل الأطفال الذين فقدوا حياتهم والناجين من القصف.

جزء ثالث: يتناول اللامبالاة العالمية وتواطؤ المجتمع الدولي مع الاحتلال، ويطرح تساؤلات أخلاقية حول المستقبل السياسي للمنطقة.

الكتاب هو تفاصيل مروعة عن الجرائم التي ارتكبها الإسرائيليون في غزة، مستندًا إلى شهادات مباشرة من الضحايا والناجين، في حادثة وثقها ليفي عام 2014، كان أربعة أطفال يلعبون كرة القدم على شاطئ غزة. فجأة، استهدفتهم قذيفة أطلقتها البحرية الإسرائيلية، وحولتهم إلى أشلاء أمام أعين المارة.

يقول شاهد عيان: "كانوا يضحكون ويلعبون مثل أي أطفال آخرين. لم يكن هناك أي شيء مريب حولهم. رأيت القذيفة الأولى تسقط بينهم، ثم الثانية. لم أفهم لماذا قد يستهدفون أطفالًا يلعبون على الشاطئ".

إذا كنت تعتقد أن حال غزة قبل طوفان الأقصى كان ورديًا، فأنت لا تعرف أي شيء عن الحصار حول غزة، الذي يحرم المرضى من العلاج. يروي ليفي قصة الطفلة إسراء، التي كانت تعاني من سرطان الدم، ولم تتمكن من مغادرة غزة لتلقي العلاج بسبب القيود الإسرائيلية.

يقول والدها: "كنت أرى المرض يقتلها يومًا بعد يوم. عندما وافقوا أخيرًا على خروجنا، كان الأوان قد فات. ماتت ابنتي بين يدي، وأنا أعجز عن فعل أي شيء لإنقاذها".

من خلال هذه القصص، يظهر الكتاب أن المعاناة في غزة ليست فقط نتيجة الحرب، بل هي نتيجة نظام كامل من الحصار والاحتلال والتمييز. الشهادات الحية التي ينقلها ليفي تعكس الألم المستمر لشعب محاصر، يواجه الموت بصمت.

يوثق حرب 2014 على غزة، والتي أطلق عليها الإسرائيليون اسم "الجرف الصامد". يركز على الهجمات التي استهدفت المدنيين، بما في ذلك قصف المنازل والمدارس والمستشفيات. الكتاب يصف الاحتلال الإسرائيلي بأنه نظام فصل عنصري يعزز الهيمنة العرقية ويستمر في انتهاك حقوق الإنسان. يصف ليفي استهداف المدنيين في غزة بأنه جريمة حرب، مشيرًا إلى أن الجيش يتبنى سياسة "الموت للعرب" كجزء من استراتيجيته. ومن هنا يقول "غزة ليست مجرد مكان جغرافي، بل هي رمز للمعاناة الإنسانية ولعجز العالم عن تحقيق العدالة".

يوجّه جدعون ليفي انتقادات لاذعة للإعلام الإسرائيلي، الذي يصفه بأنه أحد العوامل الرئيسة في تبرير الاحتلال وقمع الفلسطينيين. يشير ليفي إلى أن الإعلام الإسرائيلي لا يقوم بدوره الأساسي كسلطة رابعة، بل يعمل كذراع دعائي للدولة والجيش. فهو يتخلى عن الموضوعية ويكرّس جهوده لتعزيز الرواية الرسمية. وكما يقول "الإعلام الإسرائيلي ارتدى الزي العسكري، ووقف في طابور واحد مع الجيش والحكومة، مُروّجًا للحرب بدلًا من نقدها".

يتهم ليفي الإعلام الإسرائيلي بالتعتيم المتعمد على الجرائم والانتهاكات ضد الفلسطينيين. ويشير إلى أن الجمهور الإسرائيلي يعرف أقل عن غزة مقارنة بالجمهور الدولي. كما يُصور الإعلام الفلسطينيين دائمًا كإرهابيين أو تهديدات أمنية، مما يرسّخ صورة نمطية تجعل من السهل تبرير العنف ضدهم. من جهة أخرى يلعب الإعلام دورًا مركزيًا في نزع الإنسانية عن الفلسطينيين من خلال سرديات مضللة، مما يجعل الجمهور غير مبالٍ بالمأساة في غزة.

ليفي لم يدافع عن حماس بشكل مباشر، لكنه دعا إلى فهم أعمق لدوافعها وسياستها في ظل الاحتلال وإن نقدها لعدم توفير ملاجيء للفلسطينيين. أشار إلى أن العنف الذي تمارسه حماس هو رد فعل على عنف الاحتلال الإسرائيلي المستمر منذ عقود، فكما يقول "حماس ليست المشكلة، بل هي النتيجة. الاحتلال والحصار هما السبب الحقيقي لكل ما يحدث في غزة".

تناول ليفي حماس بموضوعية نسبية، حيث لم ينحز إليها ولم يدنها بالكامل. ركز على دورها في الصراع وعلى كيفية استغلال إسرائيل وجودها لتبرير سياساتها العدوانية، مع التأكيد على أن إنهاء الاحتلال والحصار هو السبيل الوحيد لإنهاء العنف المتبادل.

عامة الكتاب مؤلم، شأن كل كتاب يتم كتابته عن غزة، وهو شهادة من الطرف الآخر، من شخص عنده ضمير، في ظل عالم افتقد للضمير واستباح كل شيء يقف أمام مصالحه.

The book addresses the Gaza catastrophe through a series of articles and reports written by Israeli journalist Gideon Levy over the years, published in Haaretz. The work focuses on documenting the human suffering resulting from the wars and blockade on the Strip, along with a critical analysis of the Israeli occupation's policies and their impact on the Palestinians. The book is distinguished by its bold criticism of the official Israeli narrative, making it both controversial and painful.

The book is divided into articles arranged by year, from 2014 to 2024, each presenting a different perspective on the ongoing tragedy.

Part One covers the 2014 Gaza war and the human rights violations that followed. Levy discusses "cartographs of pain" and Israeli military policies that focus on targeting civilians.

Part Two examines the humanitarian consequences of the occupation, focusing on personal stories such as those of children who lost their lives and survivors of bombing.

Part Three examines global indifference and the international community's complicity with the occupation, raising ethical questions about the political future of the region.

The book provides horrific details of the crimes committed by the Israelis in Gaza, based on firsthand testimonies from victims and survivors. In an incident documented by Levy in 2014, four children were playing soccer on a Gaza beach. Suddenly, an Israeli naval shell targeted them, turning them into pieces in front of bystanders.

An eyewitness says, "They were laughing and playing like any other children. There was nothing suspicious about them. I saw the first shell fall among them, then the second. I didn't understand why they would target children playing on the beach."

If you thought Gaza was rosy before the Al-Aqsa Intifada, you don't know anything about the blockade surrounding Gaza, which deprives patients of treatment. Levy tells the story of Israa, a little girl suffering from leukemia who was unable to leave Gaza for treatment due to Israeli restrictions.

"I saw the disease killing her day after day," her father says. "When they finally agreed to our exit, it was too late. My daughter died in my arms, and I was powerless to do anything to save her."

Through these stories, the book demonstrates that the suffering in Gaza is not just the result of war, but rather the product of an entire system of blockade, occupation, and discrimination. The vivid testimonies Levy relays reflect the ongoing pain of a besieged people, silently facing death.

It documents the 2014 war on Gaza, which the Israelis dubbed "Operation Protective Edge." It focuses on attacks targeting civilians, including the bombing of homes, schools, and hospitals. The book describes the Israeli occupation as an apartheid regime that reinforces racial domination and continues to violate human rights. Levy describes the targeting of civilians in Gaza as a war crime, noting that the army adopts a policy of "death to Arabs" as part of its strategy. He argues, "Gaza is not just a geographical place; it is a symbol of human suffering and the world's inability to achieve justice."

Gideon Levy harshly criticizes the Israeli media, which he describes as a key factor in justifying the occupation and oppression of Palestinians. Levy notes that the Israeli media fails to fulfill its essential role as a fourth estate, but rather serves as a propaganda arm of the state and the military. He abandons objectivity and devotes his efforts to promoting the official narrative. As he says, "The Israeli media has put on its uniform and sided with the army and the government, promoting the war rather than criticizing it."

Levy accuses the Israeli media of deliberately obscuring crimes and violations against Palestinians. He notes that the Israeli public knows less about Gaza than the international community. The media also consistently portrays Palestinians as terrorists or security threats, perpetuating a stereotype that makes it easy to justify violence against them. Furthermore, the media plays a central role in dehumanizing Palestinians through misleading narratives, rendering the public indifferent to the tragedy in Gaza.

Levy did not directly defend Hamas, but he called for a deeper understanding of its motivations and policies under the occupation, and criticized its failure to provide shelter for Palestinians. He pointed out that Hamas's violence is a reaction to the decades-long Israeli occupation. As he puts it, "Hamas is not the problem, it is the result. The occupation and the blockade are the real cause of everything happening in Gaza."

Levy addressed Hamas with relative objectivity, neither siding with it nor condemning it outright. He focused on its role in the conflict and how Israel exploits its presence to justify its aggressive policies, emphasizing that ending the occupation and the blockade is the only way to end the reciprocal violence.

Overall, the book is painful, like every book written about Gaza. It is a testimony from the other side, from someone with a conscience, in a world that has lost its conscience and has violated everything that stands in the way of its interests.

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July 23, 2025

Levy is a leftist journalist for Israeli newspaper Haaretz, and he is horrified and appalled by the direction his country has taken. He thinks it both a crime and a mistake. It's a crime in that he documents Israel committed actual war crimes. It's a mistake because it creates a short-lived "got them back" dopamine hit without actually achieving anything tangeable except creating more ill-will and anger towards resentment around the world.

The book is a series of articles and columns collected together. The first forty percent of the book covers various incursions Israel made into the Gaza Strip from 2014 until prior to Oct. 7, 2023. The rest of the book is how Israel has gone all-in on its violent approach.

He notes how dozens of prisoners have died in Israeli jails, often beaten to death. Some are with Hamas, others just randomly picked up. One was a key hospital employ. Israel doesn't care and concerns itself only with the Israelis taken prisoner on Oct. 7. Near the end of the book he notes Israel celebrating a mission that freed four hostages, and not even noting the 250+ Palestinians killed in the same operation. He notes how one security expert talking head pontificates about sending a disease into the Gaza strip to reduce numbers, and how there was no push back. One liberal politician flatly stated to Gaza that starving them to death is an option. It's all "us vs. them" dehumanization, so the 30,000+ deaths (at the time of the book's publication) in Gaza are a matter of no concern. Liberals and former peace camp-ers instead say that they've seen the light. Statements by the security state are allowed to stand with no pushback. The days of a massacre of a few hundred Palestinians by an Israeli-aligned militia causing huge demonstrations are over. He notes how there were IDF members refusing to serve pre-Oct. 7 (as many as 10,000, I believe he says) in a backlash over Netanyahu power grab, but since Oct. 7 not a single one has refused to serve. Palestinians in the West Bank are subject to arbitratary attacks and shootings by security forces of even just from settlers. Palestinian citizens in Israel are living in a state of constant tension, often afraid to leave their homes at all. A vote to remove all Arab lawmakers from the national assembly failed by just four votes. He bashes the media for being so compliant. He bashes Netanyahu for doing. He bashes the nation for giving into it. Levy notes at one point for all the criticism of Netanyahu, if someone else was in charge, you really can't see the policies actually changing.

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July 12, 2024

You can also see this review, along with others I have written, at my blog, Mr. Book's Book Reviews.

Thank you Verso Books for providing this book for review consideration via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.

Mr. Book just finished The Killing Of Gaza: Reports On A Catastrophe, by Gideon Levy.

This is a collection of columns written by an Israeli journalist who is ashamed of how his country has acted towards Gaza. The author sums up the situation: “Since the first Lebanon war, more than 30 years ago, the killing of Arabs has become Israel’s primary strategic instrument. The IDF doesn’t wage war against armies, and its main target is civilian populations. Arabs are born only to kill and to be killed, as everyone knows. They have no other goal in life, and Israel kills them.”

Unlike in the United States, which tolerates no criticism of Israel by its politicians, media or other public figures, in Israel, you can criticize the government’s policies. You can criticize the atrocities. You can attack the man I used to refer as George W. Netanyahu before he stuck out long enough become Benjamin Trump. You can do all of that without the ridiculous accusations of anti-semitism. You can accept that “right to exist” means nothing other than Israel claiming for itself, with the assistance of the United States, to do whatever it is they want with impunity.

This book is an excellent series of articles calling out Israel’s actions in Gaza for what they are: acts of unjustified aggression and genocide against a civilian population.

I give this book an A. Goodreads and NetGalley require grades on a 1-5 star system. In my personal conversion system, an A equates to 5 stars. (A or A+: 5 stars, B+: 4 stars, B: 3 stars, C: 2 stars, D or F: 1 star).

This review has been posted at NetGalley, Goodreads and my blog, Mr. Book’s Book Reviews

Mr. Book originally finished reading this on July 12, 2024.

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고객님, 기드온 레비(Gideon Levy)의 저서, <The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe>에 대한 요약 및 평론을 요청하신 1,000단어 분량으로 작성하여 드립니다. 

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<요약: 가자 파괴의 증언과 이스라엘의 도덕적 몰락>

기드온 레비는 이스라엘의 유력 일간지 <하레츠(Haaretz)>의 기자이자 칼럼니스트로, 이스라엘 내에서 가장 목소리가 큰 반체제 인사이자 비판적인 양심으로 통합니다. 2014년에 출간된 그의 저서 <The Killing of Gaza: Reports on a Catastrophe>는 이스라엘의 가자 지구에 대한 포위 및 군사 작전의 참혹한 실상을 현장 보고서와 분석 칼럼의 형태로 엮은 모음집입니다. 이 책은 이스라엘의 정책으로 인해 파생된 팔레스타인 주민들의 일상적인 비참함과 더 나아가 이스라엘 사회의 도덕적 타락을 냉철하게 고발합니다.

1. 가자: 근원적인 죄악과 포위된 감옥

레비는 가자 지구를 1948년 이스라엘 건국 당시 팔레스타인 주민들이 대거 추방되었던 **<근원적인 죄악(original sin)>**의 현장으로 규정합니다. 1967년 제3차 중동 전쟁 이후 이스라엘이 점령하고, 2007년 이후에는 봉쇄(Siege) 정책을 통해 가자 지구를 외부 세계로부터 완전히 고립시켰습니다.

• 집단적 징벌: 레비는 이스라엘의 봉쇄 정책이 가자 주민들을 <지붕 없는 감옥(a roofless prison)> 또는 **<세계에서 가장 큰 가축 우리(biggest cattle pen)>**에 가두는 행위와 같다고 강력히 비판합니다. 이로 인해 가자 주민들은 오염된 물, 하수도의 바다 방류, 제한된 전기 공급 등 인간으로서의 기본적 생존 조건마저 박탈당하고 있습니다.

• '가자 주민을 다이어트시키는' 정책: 그는 이스라엘 당국자가 가자 주민들을 "다이어트시키겠다"고 언급했던 2006년의 개념을 언급하며, 의도적으로 가자 지구의 경제를 질식시키고 주민들을 기아(starvation) 수준으로 몰아넣는 정책의 잔혹성을 강조합니다.

2. 이스라엘의 '선택적 망각'과 오만

이 책은 이스라엘의 군사 행동이 외부의 도발에 대한 단순한 대응이 아니라, 수십 년간의 점령과 억압이 낳은 필연적인 결과임을 주장합니다.

• 가자 사격 전에는 무관심: 레비는 대부분의 이스라엘 사람들은 **"가자에서 총격이 있을 때"**를 제외하고는 팔레스타인 사람들의 운명에 무관심하다고 지적합니다. 이스라엘 사회는 **효율적인 선전(propaganda)**과 정부의 도구 역할을 하는 주류 언론에 의해 가자에서 벌어지는 일에 대해 <알고 싶어 하지 않는 선택적 망각> 상태에 놓여있습니다.

• <보호의 칼날(Protective Edge)> 작전 비판: 2014년의 대규모 작전이었던 '보호의 칼날'에 대해 레비는 **"보호도 없고, 이점도 없다"**는 신랄한 풍자를 사용합니다. 그는 이스라엘의 군사력이 팔레스타인의 원시적이고 가련한 저항에 맞서 무제한적으로 사용되는 도덕적 상실을 고발합니다.

3. 대안 제시와 역사적 책임

레비는 이스라엘이 1948년 건국 이후 **<다른 길(a different route)>**을 선택할 수 있었다고 주장합니다. 팔레스타인 난민들에 대한 보상(Compensation), 재활, 그리고 원조를 제공하여 추방의 역사를 상쇄하는 인도적인 방향을 제시합니다.

• 정의와 민주주의의 모순: 레비는 이스라엘이 주권 수호를 자랑스럽게 여기면서도, 수백만 팔레스타인 사람들의 근본적인 자유를 박탈하는 군사 점령을 유지하는 것이 얼마나 위선적인지를 지적합니다. 이스라엘의 **"유대인을 위한 민주주의"**라는 구조적 모순을 정면으로 비판합니다.

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<평론: 고독한 진실, 침묵에 대한 긴급한 반박>

<The Killing of Gaza>는 단순히 분쟁 지역의 보고서를 넘어섭니다. 이 책은 이스라엘 사회의 깊은 병폐와 국제 사회의 방관에 대한 도덕 철학적인 고발장이자 시대의 양심을 대변하는 기록입니다.

1. 용기와 소신, 그리고 반체제적 가치

레비의 가장 큰 의의는 그가 **<흔치 않은 반대의 목소리(rare voice of dissent)>**라는 점입니다. 이스라엘 내부에서 아파르트헤이트 정책과 **집단 학살(genocide)**이라는 가혹한 단어를 서슴지 않고 사용하여 자국을 비판하는 것은 엄청난 용기를 필요로 합니다.

• 선전(Propaganda)에 대한 반박: 이 책은 주류 언론을 통해 유포되는 선전(프로파간다)에 대한 <긴급한 반박(urgent rebuttal)> 역할을 수행합니다. 그는 독자들이 이 잔혹한 분쟁의 **<심장부(heart)>**에 도달하여 <침묵이 더 이상 불가능한(silence is no longer possible)> 현실을 직시하도록 만듭니다.

• '애국적 이스라엘인'의 마지막 피난처: 레비는 자신을 **"애국적인 이스라엘인"**으로 정의하지만, 그의 애국심은 국가의 행위를 무비판적으로 지지하는 것이 아니라, 국가의 도덕적 명예를 지키는 데 있습니다. 그는 이스라엘의 행위를 바꾸는 유일한 방법은 **보이콧(Boycott)**과 경제 제재뿐이며, 이것이 **<이스라엘 애국자의 마지막 피난처(the Israeli patriot's final refuge)>**라고 주장합니다. 이는 이스라엘 정부 정책을 변화시키기 위한 도덕적 의무로서의 보이콧을 강조하는 급진적인 주장입니다.

2. 폭력의 근원에 대한 명쾌한 해부

레비의 분석은 폭력의 원인에 대한 이스라엘의 공식 내러티브를 근본적으로 뒤집습니다.

• 만들어진 폭력: 그는 가자 주민들에 대한 **<일상적인 인간성 말살(routine debasement)>**이 이 지역 폭력의 **<주요 원인(primary cause)>**이 되었다고 명시합니다. 이는 하마스의 공격을 **'억압에 대한 결과'**로 보고, **'도발의 정당화'**가 아닌 **'억압의 비극적인 결과'**로 해석하도록 유도합니다. 그는 하마스의 잔혹성을 정당화하지 않으면서도, 이스라엘 정부가 점령과 가자 조건에 대한 더 큰 책임을 지고 있다고 일관되게 주장합니다.

3. 문학적 가치와 영속성

이 책은 단순한 보도를 넘어 문학적 가치를 지닙니다. 현장 보고와 냉철한 분석, 그리고 격정적인 도덕적 분노가 결합되어 독자에게 강력한 감정적, 지적 충격을 선사합니다.

• 역사적 증언: 2014년의 비극을 기록한 이 책은, 이후의 폭력과 2023년 10월 7일 사건 이전과 이후의 상황을 이해하는 데 **<필수적인 역사적, 정치적 맥락>**을 제공합니다. 이는 레비의 비판이 시대를 관통하며 일관성 있게 옳았음을 입증하는 증거가 됩니다. 그의 비판은 이스라엘의 극우 민족주의적 복수심이 어떻게 **주류(mainstream)**가 되었는지를 보여주는 뼈아픈 기록입니다.

결론적으로, <The Killing of Gaza>는 편향된 정보의 장벽을 뚫고, 이스라엘 사회에 던지는 불편하고 고독한 진실이며, 독자들에게 인간의 존엄성과 정의에 대해 침묵하지 말 것을 촉구하는 필독서입니다. 레비의 글은 이스라엘의 도덕적 몰락을 기록함으로써 역설적으로 이스라엘의 <국가적 명예를 구하려는(saving his country's honour)> 한 언론인의 숭고한 노력을 담고 있습니다.

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기드온 레비가 이스라엘의 가자 지구 공격을 '인종 청소'라고 부르며 도덕성의 상실에 대해 논하는 영상을 통해 그의 주장을 더 생생하게 접하실 수 있습니다.

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