What led an Israeli father to welcome the death of his own child?
Why Zionism is a suicidal death cult.
Last month on The Electronic Intifada livestream my colleague Nora Barrows-Friedman and myself discussed my latest article at the time, “Israel’s national murder-suicide pact.”
It was a detailed breakdown on the reasons as to why so many Israelis seem to be willing to sacrifice the lives of their own children if it helps their military to wipe out the Palestinians, starting with the infamous example of Thomas Hand.
You may remember Hand from the early days of the Israeli genocide on Gaza as the Irish-Israeli father who said of his own daughter’s apparent death that it would be “a blessing” compared to being held captive in Gaza.
His daughter Emily turned out to be alive and well and was soon released by Hamas in November’s prisoner exchange.
Watch the whole segment in the YouTube video above.
It's just mind-boggling how much Israelis have been conditioned to dehumanize Palestinians such that they're willing to sacrifice their own people... And it's all for a cause that is based on settler colonialism and founded on the hate Europeans had for Jewish people...
Incredible that even after Thomas Hand's daughter was returned to him unharmed, he can still believe that Palestinians do awful things to their captives (like Israel does) and that he was right to believe that her death would have been preferable to captivity