Israel Katz and Yoav Gallant.
In my new article on my website, Genocide and Israel’s Defense Ministers: From “Human Animals” to “Terror Nests” and Endless Vengeance, I focus on Israel’s ferociously genocidal defense minister Israel Katz, who I describe as having become “the epitome of relentless genocidal intent” since his appointment in November 2024, obsessed with describing everyone who opposes Israel as comprising “nests of terror” to be violently eliminated, and backing extreme and exterminatory violence in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, as well as hoping for the mass ethnic cleansing of the surviving Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
I compare and contrast Katz with Yoav Gallant, who he replaced as defense minister, and run through Gallant’s often significant disagreements with Netanyahu that led to his sacking.
I also examine how, although both Netanyahu and Gallant’s words and actions justified the issuing of arrest warrants by the International Criminal Court — ironically, just after Gallant was sacked by Netanyahu — Israel Katz’s words and actions confirm that the beleaguered ICC should also issue an arrest warrant for him, along with Bezalel Smotrich (who the Court is currently pursuing) and the monstrous Itamar Ben-Gvir, the master of Israel’s repugnant torture prisons, who has somehow still evaded official condemnation.
I also examine disturbing new revelations of Israel’s unending obsession with vengeance for the October 7 attacks, via a special task force set up, as I describe it, “to scrutinize every video and photo on social media, and messages on phones, to locate and eliminate anyone involved in any way with the events of October 7, including through the use of facial recognition software, and, most disturbingly, through the interrogation of Palestinians seized on the day and held in Israeli prisons under brutal conditions, including the use of torture, which would render any confessions they make fundamentally unreliable.”
Sadly, as Israel is currently using this task force — of death squads — to target and kill surviving Hamas leaders in Gaza, suggesting that they are unilaterally breaking with the demands from Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” for Hamas’ disarmament, it seems clear that Israel’s fanatical obsession with genocidal mass murder, supremacist colonial expansion and endless vengeance shows no sign of ending, and, instead, just grinds on and on and on.
Other new posts to read
I finally worked out how to add a link to “Notes” on my home page, so you can now easily keep track not only of my posts but also the Notes that I’m now posting regularly. Do check out the page here, and below are a few recent highlights.
US appeals court reinstates sanctions on Francesca Albanese
A new direct action group: Arms Embargo from Below
Photojournalist Fadi Almeghari killed in Gaza in an Israeli airstrike
“Emotional death”: the Palestinian journalist Abubaker Abed’s life after Gaza
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza on the first day of Eid al-Ahda
UN to add Israel to blacklist of countries involved in sexual violence in conflict zones
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