The US-imposed ceasefire of October 10 has not stopped Israel\u2019s regular attacks on the Gaza Strip. Nor has it threatened to hold a parliament and society that largely cheered on the war, which has been deemed genocidal by multiple international bodies, accountable for their actions.<\/p>\n
Instead, fuelled by what analysts from within Israel have described as an absolute sense of impunity, anti-Palestinian violence has intensified across the country and the occupied West Bank while much of the world continues to look away, convinced that the work of the ceasefire is done.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n In the parliament, or Knesset, a senior lawmaker and member of the governing party openly defended convicted ultranationalist Meir Kahane, long considered beyond the pale even by members of Israel\u2019s right wing and whose Kach movement has been banned as a \u201cterrorist organisation\u201d. At the same time, the parliament is debating reintroducing the death penalty, as well as expanding the terms of the offences for which it might apply \u2013 both unambiguously targeting Palestinians.<\/p>\n Under the legislation, proposed by ultranationalist National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir \u2013 who himself has past \u201cterrorism\u201d-related convictions for his outspoken support of Kahane \u2013\u00a0 anyone found guilty of killing Israelis because of \u201cracist\u201d motives and \u201cwith the aim of harming the State of Israel and the revival of the Jewish people in its land\u201d would face execution.<\/p>\n That bill passed its first reading this week.<\/p>\n \u201cThe absence of any attempt to assert accountability from the outside, from Israel\u2019s allies, echoes into Israel\u2019s own Knesset,\u201d analyst and former Israeli peace negotiator Daniel Levy said. \u201cThere\u2019s no sense that Israel has done anything wrong or that anyone should be held to account.\u201d<\/p>\n Even Israel\u2019s media, traditionally cheerleaders of the country\u2019s war on Gaza, has not proven exempt from the hardening of attitudes. Legislation is already under way to close Army Radio because it had been broadcasting what Defence Minister Israel Katz described as political content that could undermine the army, as well as extend what lawmakers have referred to as the so-called \u201cAl Jazeera law\u201d, allowing them to shutter any foreign media perceived as a threat to Israel\u2019s national security.<\/p>\n \u201cIsrael has built up this energy through two years of genocide,\u201d Orly Noy, editor of the Hebrew-language Local Call, told Al Jazeera. \u201cThat hasn\u2019t gone anywhere.<\/p>\n \u201cJust because there\u2019s a ceasefire and the hostages are back, the racism, the supremacy and the unmasked violence didn\u2019t just disappear. We\u2019re seeing daily pogroms by soldiers and settlers in the West Bank. There are daily attacks on Palestinian bus drivers. It\u2019s become dangerous to speak Arabic, not just within the \u201848, but anywhere,\u201d she said, referring to Israel\u2019s initial borders of 1948.<\/p>\n In the West Bank, Israeli violence against Palestinians has reached unprecedented proportions. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), there were 264 attacks against Palestinians in the month the ceasefire was announced: the equivalent of eight attacks per day, the highest number since the agency first started tracking attacks in 2006.<\/p>\n Israel\u2019s interior appears no less secure from the mob. On Tuesday, a meeting at a private house in Pardes Hanna near Haifa, hosted by Ayman Odeh, a Palestinian member of the Knesset, was surrounded and attacked by a mob of right-wing protesters. As police reportedly stood nearby, Israeli protesters surrounded the house, chanting \u201cTerrorist! Terrorist!\u201d and singing \u201cMay your village burn\u201d in an attempt to interrupt the meeting, which was billed as a chance to build \u201cpartnership and peace\u201d after \u201ctwo years characterised mainly by pain and hostility\u201d.<\/p>\n And in the Israeli Supreme Court on Monday, two of the soldiers accused of the brutal gang rape of a Palestinian prisoner at Sde Teiman prison last year were met, not by condemnation, but applause and chants of \u201cWe are all Unit 100\u201d, referring to the military unit accused of raping the Palestinian man.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re not cheering rapists, they\u2019re cheering this idea that nothing matters any more,\u201d Ori Goldberg, a political scientist based near Tel Aviv, said. \u201cGenocide devalues everything. Once you\u2019ve carried out a genocide, nothing matters any more. Not the lives of those you\u2019ve killed and, by extension, not your own. Nothing carries any consequence. Not your actions, nothing. We\u2019ve become hollow.\u201d<\/p>\n Seeming to prove Goldberg\u2019s point in the Knesset on Wednesday was Nissim Vaturi, the body\u2019s deputy speaker and a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s governing Likud party. Vaturi crossed one of Israel\u2019s few political rubicons and directly referenced Kahane, whose name has become a rallying cry for settlers and ultranationalist groups across Israel.<\/p>\n Asked if he was in favour of \u201cJewish terror\u201d, Vaturi replied \u201cI support it. Believe me, Kahane was right in many ways where we were wrong, where the people of Israel were wrong,\u201d he said, referencing the former lawmaker convicted of \u201cterrorism\u201d offences in both Israel and the US and whose party, Kach, remains a proscribed \u201cterrorist group\u201d across much of the world.<\/p>\n \u201cOnce you\u2019ve manufactured consent for genocide, you need to be proactive in dialling the cruelty levels down, which is something we\u2019re not seeing,\u201d Levy said. \u201cIf anything, we\u2019re just seeing it continue. They have dialled the cruelty levels up to 11 \u2026\u00a0 and they\u2019re leaving them there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The US-imposed ceasefire of October 10 has not stopped Israel\u2019s regular attacks on the Gaza Strip. Nor has it threatened to hold a parliament and society that largely cheered on the war, which has been deemed genocidal by multiple international bodies, accountable for their actions. 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