Haaretz Editorial |
Israel Wants to Build the Most Moral Concentration Camp in the World
For President Donald Trump's attention: When the person submitting your name as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize is promoting the construction of a concentration camp – into which the entire population of the Gaza Strip will be herded, with no ability to leave unless people "choose" to emigrate – it's not clear whether he is being a sycophant or sabotaging your candidacy.
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Ely
00:15 11.07.2025
In the meanwhile, they didn't lose time. Their dear American ally has already sent dozens of Caterpillar bulldozers (they've been arriving since this morning at Haifa Port). I'm afraid that the 60 days ceasefire is the perfect pretext to build the "humanitarian" island and then resume the war.
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Godfrey Lipton
21:50 10.07.2025
The proverbial elephant in the room that none of the posters can deal with, is the contradiction between defining the vast majority of Gazans and refugees, and the virulent opposition to any attempt to resettle them outside Gaza. The Palestinian refugee problem is a vestige of the post WW2 era in wich there were 40 million! (not a typo) displaced persons. 25 Million of which were ultimately resettled in places different from where they had lived. The Palestinians in Gaza could have built for themselves meaningful lives there. Unlike the WB, there were no settlements, and there was full self-government under Hamas. Even just prior to Oct 7, Israel was still willing to allow 50K gazans to work in Israel, despite the rockets, mortars and fundamentalist drive to destroy Israel.
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Mina
21:15 10.07.2025Thank you very much, Haaretz, for speaking up and out. Most of the mainstream media too often fail to use candid words. Haaretz in general and Haaretz Editorial in this specific are in my view one of the last bastions of decency and courage in international journalism. Almost everything has been reduced to an apparent absolute normality when IOF's or the PM Office's propaganda and hasbara are concerned. Isn't that what Hannah Arendt also ment when she spoke about "Die Banalität des Bösen"? Harmless, law-abiding and innocent on the outside. Cynical, murderous, hateful, vengeful, mean and vile in the inside - the real face of Netanyahu & Co.
When will more Israelis understand and EU Leaders call a spade a spade?
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Davidovitch
21:05 10.07.2025
I am a great supporter of Israel. I am a Zionist. But Netanyahu and his government are killing Israel's human and democratic values. Netanyahu is promoting the expulsion of the Gazans which is a huge war crime, probably a crime against humanity. It's crazy how much Netanyahu will have destroyed everything Israelis have built for decades, from democratic values to sane political society. This man was unable to be a PM. He began with incitement against Rabin and ended with a huge war Crime against Gazans...
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Misi bácsi
20:34 10.07.2025
A sad commentary; however, thanks for publishing. If this "camp" is set up, we Jews and Israelis will be confronted with ethical bankruptcy the likes of which we have never seen in our long history. Netanyahu and his immoral cabinet are leading us all over the cliff of ethical failure.
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Davidovitch
21:06 10.07.2025Misi bácsi
This is exactly what I think. Netanyahu is leading Israel and the Jewish people to a moral abyss.
And all who happily served in ...
16:49 11.07.2025Misi bácsi
... and supported the most depraved army went awkwardly sadistically along...!
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The Other israel
18:43 10.07.2025
@Smadar: Who are you talking about, Moshe Dayan? The one who said "better to have Sharm el Sheik without peace, than peace without Sharm el Sheik" ?
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Smadar
21:11 10.07.2025The Other israel
Actually, I'm talking about the Moshe Dayan who was in my father's Hebrew University in Jerusalem foreign relations class in the 1950s and who also became a genuine peace advocate with the Arab nations within the Middle East. Aside from being a military leader Dayan understood Israel's requirement to concede territories for peace. Dayan pressured PM Begin to sign the peace agreement with Egypt or he would resign from his government. I believe he did not have the right approach about the Palestinians in 1979 with regards to sovereignty but if he were alive today he would have supported two states like his daughter did as a Labour MK, Yael Dayan.
Davidovitch
21:14 10.07.2025The Other israel
Moshe Dayan never said "better to have Sharm-el-Sheikh with a criminal soul than anything without Sharm-el-Sheikh". Moral abyss can kill nations : they are still there, with people and borders, but their soul, patriotism and values are gone.
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The Other israel
18:39 10.07.2025
Where is Amira Hass?
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Smadar
14:49 10.07.2025
Of course what the current Israeli DM Yisrael Katz proposes with this reprehensible Gaza concentration camp called a "humanitarian city" is reminiscent of the Holocaust. Why the Israeli judicial system has not intervened in this clear proposed violation of international law really discredits its gatekeeper status and makes all of Israel complicit in this immoral goal. It is not doing its job by remaining silent given our history. Can you imagine what former DM Moshe Dayan would think of Yisrael Katz's goals given the fact that all these territories in 1967 were conquered under DM Moshe Dayan and offered under UNSCR 242 in exchange for peace and to be returned to its inhabitants? And Moshe Dayan believed in coexistence and peacemaking with the Palestinians. What a nightmare this has become, a total nightmare. We can only thank Netanyahu. No one else.
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Elizabeth
14:49 11.07.2025Smadar
When Hamas attacked Israel everyone in Gaza cheered as the hostages got dragged around the streets of Gaza.The release of the hostages in January was humiliating that the Hamas had the upper hand in releasing them.They have had thousands of is Palestinians returned for the hostages.They only hold them to keep israel held to ransom to stop them being overthrown.There is no place in the world for terrorism.What they done on 07/10 was disgusting.Have people forgotten what Hamas and the occupants of gaza did do.The reason why IDF are being attacked over the last week is hopefully because the Hamas have no where to run to escape them.You can't leave the Hamas to ride wat again in 2 or 3 yrs time.There was a ceasefire in 2021 and if the time had have been spent in destroying Hamas then the atrocity of 07/10 would never happen.Netanyhu has said never again.Let it be never again.Let Boulder also be never again or anywhere a attack on Jews be never again.
Elizabeth
14:52 11.07.2025Smadar
Am not aJew I don't know any Jews but I never want to see that ever again on my television on what israel suffered on the day of the attack and the humiliation it has suffered because of Gaza.It wasn't started by Israel the War but it should t end without Hamas being extinct as when as any other terrorist group that wants israel extinct.
Racist ignorant much?
16:53 11.07.2025Smadar
...or simply indefinitely dumb?
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Ellen
14:41 10.07.2025
Does Theresienstadt come to mind?
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And...
19:23 10.07.2025Ellen
Gazauschwitz?
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Liz
14:03 10.07.2025
You are (at least one of) the most moral newspapers in the world, Haaretz, needed more than ever.
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Ellen
14:38 10.07.2025Liz
And the mayor of Arad is trying to outlaw its sale.
