🇮🇱🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — On social media, Israeli activists, as the deadlock over the list of hostages to be exchanged loom, are calling for mass reprisals if the mother & children of Bibas family - Kfir and Ariel Bibas, and their mother, Shiri Bibas - taken as Hostages during Hamas-led October 7 attack from Kibbutz Nir Oz (which was entirely destroyed during the attack) are pronounced dead
One activst on Twitter/X can be seen saying:
If the Bibas children are dead, the Palestinians must finally be given the “Nakba” they claim to have already experienced.
They will deserve a true “catastrophe.”
If those boys are dead, Gaza must be evacuated into Sinai and then every inch of it must be bombed.
No forgiveness.
“But that is collective punishment.”
Indeed, it is.
That is the point.
If those boys are dead, then I no longer care about stupid conceptions of so-called “international humanitarian law” governing the effects of armed conflict on so-called civilian populations.
If those boys are dead, Israel should become the country it has always been wrongly accused of being.
➡️ One should note that amid the pacifist desires of the Israeli left and international factions for a ceasefire in Gaza, the decision by the outgoing Biden and incoming Trump administrations to impose a ceasefire almost unilaterally has only cemented Kahanist rhetoric in the more conservative wings of Israeli society.