‘Jewish Jihad’ Has Seized Control of Israel
world-outlook.com
This was the lead article in the Israeli daily Haaretz on August 7, 2025. In an expansive interview reported in this essay, Assaf David provides a glimpse of the destructive impact on Israeli society from Israel’s ongoing slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. Through the accounts of many Gazans he is in direct contact with, David describes the Israeli-caused starvation epidemic in Gaza and calls for an immediate end to Israel's onslaught. His account is more compelling given David's biography. He grew up in a religious Zionist home in the urban settlement of Kiryat Arba, abutting Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, later served in the Israeli army for 11 years, was seriously wounded in one of Hamas’ first suicide attacks, and for years was an adviser for the Israeli prime minister’s office.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34601111

reprinted with an introduction by World-Outlook
August 11, 2025

“I read and translate testimonies of people who walk 7 kilometers each way in order lug a sack of flour weighing 30 kilos in this horrific heat. How can we even imagine that? The extreme heat is also playing a part.

“It’s terribly frightening because every time, you feel as if you’ve crossed another threshold from which it’s already impossible to return. For example, the erasure of #Gaza — there is no way back from that. What that means is, that even if the last soldier returns to Israel today and the Gaza Strip is opened to the world, we’re in a situation in which there is no way to exist in Gaza.”

  • bhyoram@todon.eu
    3·
    1 month ago

    @pete_link
    Jihad means many things, a religious war is not the first of them. Why should a genocide that is done by colonialist state, against Palestinians of any religion, be called Jihad ? if you want a term for religious war against other religions you can use crusade, Hindutva, evangelism… the only reason to use the term “Jihad” is to turn the discussion back into Islamophobia.

    • Peter Link@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      1 month ago

      That was not my headline, it was the publication’s headline, which was quoting from the Israeli officer. Yes, I didn’t like it either, so I just removed it from the main headline and replaced it with the one from Haaretz. I can’t fix the subheadline.

      • bhyoram@todon.eu
        2·
        1 month ago

        @pete_link The criticism was about the headline, not about a person. unfortunately it’s a common practice in Israeli media, to demonstrate hoe bad is something by making it Arab/Muslim.