(LifeSiteNews) — A strong majority of Jewish Israelis indicate support for their government’s deliberate ongoing war crimes of ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza.
A poll released from Hebrew University in Jerusalem in early June reveals that roughly 75% of Jewish Israelis agree with the statement that “there are no innocent people in Gaza” where — at least since October 7, 2023 — there resided one million children.
A report on the poll from the Israeli publication Haaretz revealed that 64% of the nation’s overall citizenry agreed with the statement while also stipulating that among Arab Israeli respondents, 92% disagreed. Since 17.2% of Israeli citizens are Arab, the figure for Jewish Israelis equates to approximately 75%.
The poll also measured agreement with the “no innocents” phrase across the political spectrum of voters in Israel finding that 87% of those who support Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government agreed with the statement, and of those “right wing voters” who do not support his coalition, 73% nonetheless agree.
Of voters who support the centrist parties in opposition to Netanyahu, 63% agree with the statement, with even 30% of “left-wing” voters expressing approval of this assertion as well.
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These sentiments have manifested themselves in both the genocidal words and deeds of Israeli government officials since, and even before, October 7, 2023.
During Israel’s full humanitarian blockade against the two million Palestinians in Gaza, Knesset member (MK) Moshe Saada stated in late April on Israeli television that “I will starve the Gazans, yes, absolutely,” further stipulating, “It is our duty to expel the Gazans” and use starvation as a means to achieve this goal. “I want to starve Gazans completely, a full siege.”
In early May, other MKs also indicated that starving the children of Gaza was not necessarily a bad thing or was withholding painkillers from children who have had their limbs amputated due to bombing injuries from the Israeli army.
Anti-Palestinian hate and genocidal malice normative among Israeli leaders, public
In March, LifeSiteNews released a report extensively documenting the genocidal ideology fueled by the heresy of religious Zionism. The extremist teachings of these sects rationalize the expelling or direct killing of the entire Palestinian population by Jews as a supposed fulfillment of biblical prophecy.
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Having subjected most of the Palestinian population (5.4 million) to a brutal military occupation of their internationally recognized territory for over 58 years, this deadly ideology has continued to grow among Jewish Israelis until it successfully secured power as part of Netanyahu’s ruling coalition in late 2022.
Though tens of thousands of Jews and rabbis wholly reject this heresy the report mentioned above cites many Zionist rabbis approving “indiscriminate killing of civilians,” killing “men, women and children,” wiping out “all of them” (Palestinians) in order to take their land, “do not have mercy on the children. Kill all their children,” “bomb the entire area,” “exterminate the enemy,” block “supplies (and) electricity,” “this is about animals,” “dogs,” the region must be “clean of Arabs” and more.
The article goes on to quote Israeli political leaders who have made similar statements over the years, especially in response to the October 7 Hamas breakout attack on southern Israel. Legitimizing the targeting of every civilian in Gaza, including children, some affirmed the poll phrase above, there are “no innocent civilians in Gaza.” Other comments include, “bomb without distinction!” “These are animals, they have no right to exist,” “erase Gaza. Nothing else will satisfy us,” “we are fighting against animals,” and more.
Other polls show almost 70% of Israelis support the ethnic cleansing of Gaza
Naturally, such attitudes have been reflected in public opinion as well with polls revealing the broader Israeli population is in general agreement with these religious and political leaders in their desire to exterminate Gaza’s population.
Despite Israel’s horrendous bombing in the Gaza Strip, with the world being inundated with images of entire neighborhoods destroyed, men lifting the corpses of their bloodied and broken children from the rubble, and dirty frantic hospitals treating patients with missing limbs, one late October 2023 Tel Aviv University poll found that 58 percent of Israeli Jews said the army was using too little firepower in its assault on Gaza, and less than 2 percent said it was too much.
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Another poll conducted in December 2023 asked, “To what extent should Israel take into consideration the suffering of the civilian population in Gaza when planning the continuation of the fighting there?” Over 80 percent of Jewish Israelis answered, “to a very small extent” or “to a fairly small extent” (40 and 41 percent, respectively).
Additionally, in January, 2024, an Israeli Channel 12 poll found that 72% of Israelis believe humanitarian aid to the 2 million Gazan civilians, including 1 million children, “must be stopped until the Israeli prisoners are released” by Hamas.
By April, 2024, Israel had dropped over 70,000 tons of explosives on Gaza, equivalent in magnitude to almost five of the single atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. These bombings have destroyed an estimated 69 percent of structures in Gaza including at least 245,000 homes.
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Yet even as this massive destruction and astronomical death toll was compounding every day, a May 2024 Pew Research survey found comparable numbers to previous polls with 34% of Israeli respondents still saying Israel’s military response against the Palestinians in Gaza had not gone far enough, 39% saying it had been about right, and only 19% believing it had gone too far.
Finally, last February, President Donald Trump shocked the world when during a press conference he announced his plan to “permanently” ethnically cleanse two million Palestinians from their internationally recognized native territory.
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Despite the plan’s overwhelming rejection by virtually the entire rest of the world, a poll of Israeli adults conducted by the local Channel 12 found that a full 68% of respondents supported Trump’s criminal ethnic cleansing plan, and 20% opposed it with 12% saying they were unsure.
A documented genocide, conservative estimates of over 287,000 dead
As Israel continues to massacre and starve Palestinian civilians on a daily basis, reliable reports of Palestinian deaths number at least 57,418, including 17,400 children, at a confirmed minimum with at least 136,261 people injured. These dead do not include around 14,000 who are missing and presumed dead and buried under the rubble.
According to a rationale presented in a Lancet study in July 2024, one can conservatively estimate total deaths, including indirect fatalities due to causes like starvation, lack of medicine or proper medical care to include 287,090 (126,320 children).
Last December, advocacy groups Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International released extensive reports concluding Israeli authorities were deliberately seeking to bring about the destruction of the people of Gaza by various means, including the deprivation of necessities like water, food, energy and medical care, amounting to crimes of genocide.
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Additionally, in January 2024, the International Court of Justice delivered a preliminary ruling, finding the charge of genocide against Israel to be “plausible,” and last November the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and former Israeli defense chief Yoav Gallant “for crimes against humanity and war crimes,” including “starvation as a method of warfare; and the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.”
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