The Jewish Roots of the Gaza Rampage
Mike Whitney Interview with Ron Unz RON UNZ AND MIKE WHITNEY The Body of a Palestinian Prisoner, Crushed Flat While Alive by an Israeli Tank Question 1: Israel’s Motives What is driving Israel’s war on Gaza? (Land, Hamas, ideology or something else?) Ron Unz —I think that a complex mixture of all those different factors is responsible, each being uppermost for different individuals. But obviously the triggering event was the extremely successful Hamas raid on October 7th and the total shock and horror it inflicted upon a very complacent Israeli society. As I wrote in December: For years, many thousands of Palestinians had been held without trial as prisoners in Israel, often under brutal conditions, and these captives included large numbers of women and children. So Hamas hoped to seize some Israelis who could be traded for their freedom, and they succeeded beyond their wildest dreams, carrying around 240 prisoners back to Gaza. In later interviews with Israeli and foreign medi