Saturday, January 31, 2009

Prinsip Keadilan

By: Prof. Dr. Achmad Mubarok MA

Keadilan adalah kata jadian dari kata adil yang terambil dari bahasa Arab ‘adala - ‘adl. Dalam bahasa Arab kata ‘adl mengandung arti “sama”, terutama dalam hal yang bersifat immateriil. Dalam kamus Bahasa Indonesia, kata adil diartikan sebagai
(a) tidak berat sebelah/tidak memihak,
(b) berpihak kepada kebenaran, dan
(c) sepatutnya/tidak sewenang-wenang.

Jadi dibalik kata adil terkandung arti memperlakukan secara sama, tidak berpihak kecuali atas dasar prinsip kebenaran dan kepatutan, atau seperti yang disebut dalam ungkapan bahasa Arab, wadl‘u assyai’ fi mahallihi, artinya menempatkan sesuatu pada tempatnya.

Kata adil mengisyaratkan adanya dua pihak atau lebih yang harus diperlakukan secara “sama”.
Dalam al Qur’an.

Keadilan disebut dengan kata al ‘adl, al qisth dan al mizan. Kata al qisth mengandung arti “bagian” yang wajar dan patut, sehingga pengertian sama tidak harus persis sama, tetapi bisa beda bentuk asal substansinya sama.

Sedangkan kata al mizan mengandung arti seimbang atau timbangan, merujuk pengertian bahwa keadilan itu mendatangkan harmoni (tidak jomplang) karena segala sesuatu diperlakukan atau ditempatkan sesuai dengan semestinya.

Alam tata surya misalnya, diciptakan Tuhan dengan mengetrapkan prinsip keseimbangan, wassama a rafa‘aha wa wadla‘a al mizan (Q/55:7). Dengan keseimbangan itu maka alam berjalan harmoni, siang, malam, kemarau, musim hujan, musim panas, musim dingin, gerhana, yang dengan itu manusia bisa menikmati keteraturan keseimbangan itu dengan menghitung jam, bulan, tahun, cuaca, arah angin dan sebagainya.

Dengan keseimbangan (mizan) alam ini , manusia kemudian menyadari tentang ozon, efek rumah kaca dan sebagainya.Demikian juga keseimbangan yang ada pada tata bumi, struktur tanah, resapan air, habitat makhluk hidup, kesemuanya diletakkan dalam sistem keadilan, yakni sistem yang menempatkan seluruh makhluk dalam satu siklus dimana kesemuanya diperlakukan secara “sama”, proporsional dan sepantasnya.

Semua makhluk hidup sampai yang sekecil-kecilnya disediakan rizkinya oleh sistem tersebut. Sistem keadilan dan harmoni itu membuat semua makhluk memiliki makna atas kehadirannya. Kotoran manusia yang oleh manusia dipandang najis, menjijikkan dan membahayakan kesehatannya, ternyata ia sangat bermakna bagi ikan gurame di kolam, yang dengan menu najis itu ikan gurame menjadi gemuk.

Kehadiran ikan gurame yang gemuk selanjutnya menjadi sangat bermakna bagi manusia, karena dibutuhkan gizinya. Allah menciptakan dan mengelola alam ini dengan keadilan sebagai sunnatullah, maka Allahpun mengetrapkan prinsip keadilan ini pada kehidupan manusia. Hukum sunnatullah itu bersifat pasti dan tidak bisa diganti, oleh karena itu siapapun yang berlaku adil maka dialah yang berhak menerima buahnya berupa kehidupan yang harmoni, sebaliknya siapapun yang menyimpang dari prinsip keadilan (zalim) ia akan memetik buahnya berupa ketidak harmonisan.

Sunnatullah berlaku pada alam, pada tubuh manusia, pada kehidupan indifidu manusia, pada kehidupan keluarga, kehidupan masyarakat, kehidupan berbangsa dan bernegara. Oleh karena itu ada perintah untuk berlaku adil meski kepada diri sendiri, berlaku adil kepada orang yang menjadi tanggung jawabnya dan ada juga keharusan menegakkan keadilan sosial.

Steps to Happiness




Everybody Knows,
You can't be all things to all people.
You can't do all things at once. You can't do all things equally well.
You can't do all things better than everyone else.
Your humanity is showing just like everyone else's.

So, You have to find out who you are, and be that.
You have to decide what comes first, and do that.
You have to discover your strengths, and use them.
You have to learn not to compete with others,
because no one else is in the contest of "being you".

Then, You will have learned to accept your own uniqueness.
You will have learned to set priorities and make decisions.
You will have learned to live with your limitations.
You will have learned to give yourself the respect that is due.
And you'll be a most vital mortal.

Believe,
That you are a wonderful, unique person.
That you are a once-in all history event.
That it's more than a right, it's your duty, to be who you are.
That life is not a problem to solve, but a gift to cherish.
And you'll be able to stay one up on what used to get you down.

Friday, January 30, 2009

Bagaimana Kedudukan Anda Semasa Tidur?zzzzz
















Melahirkan Pejuang Palestine








Aida al-Qaddumi, 22 tahun, anak Palestin berkahwin minggu ini selepas beberapa minggu Gaza diserang tentera Yahudi. Tiada keraian, tiada majlis resepsi, tiada tajaan astro untuk perkahwinannya."Saya kehilangan abang dan beberapa sepupu. Kebanyakan keluarga kehilangan anak," Katanya.


Perkahwinan beliau adalah semata-mata untuk menambahkan bilangan 'pejuang' dan hanya mahukan beliau mati sebagai seorang 'syahid' di Israel.Tiga minggu serangan maut Israel terhadap Semenanjung Gaza memaksa perkahwinan beliau yang sepatutnya berlangsung 7 Januari lalu ditangguhkan, tetapi tidak sedikitpun mengubah keinginan itu.
Pengantin perempuan itu, sebaliknya tetap ke sebuah salun kecantikan di daerah tengah bandar, Rimal untuk dandanan rambut dan solekan sempena hari bersejarahnya Khamis lalu.
Manakala, pengantin lelaki, Fadel al-Ghul, yang juga adik Menteri Kehakiman Hamas menjemput beliau beberapa jam selepas itu.
Kedua mereka bersetuju sebagai menghormati kematian lebih 1,300 penduduk Palestin di Gaza untuk tidak mengadakan sebarang acara keraian mengikut tradisi mereka sempena perkahwinan kedua pasangan itu.

Selain angka kematian yang dahsyat itu, dewan perkahwinan yang sepatutnya disewa untuk majlis keraian pula musnah akibat bedilan bom Israel. Di salun, Aida ditemani rakannya yang bertudung litup dari kepada hingga hujung kaki yang hanya duduk di satu sudut. Pengantin perempuan mengenakan gaun labuh dihiasi labuci perak dengan wajahnya ditutup.
Dengan suara perlahan, Aida menyatakan rasa gembira untuk berkahwin, tetapi sedih dengan kehancuran dan kematian yang berlaku. Kuarters Shujaiya yang menjadi tempat tinggal beliau adalah kubu kuat Hamas yang menjadi sasaran utama serangan tentera Israel.
Berpuluh-puluh penduduk kebanyakannya adalah orang awam terbunuh, manakala puluhan rumah musnah. Mengikut adat tempatan, pasangan baru itu akan tinggal di rumah keluarga suami di daerah Nasser. "Ketika serangan, beberapa bangunan di sekeliling kami dibom.
Syukur kepada Tuhan, rumah kami tidak kena bom. Kami tinggal dalam ketakutan setiap hari," kata Aida. Ketika ditanya impian kehidupan beliau, Aida hanya berkata: "Kehidupan saya di tangan Tuhan." Bagaimanapun setiap kali menyebut Israel, wanita itu meninggikan suaranya. "Mereka adalah pembohong. Tiada senjata di masjid atau sekolah, tetapi mereka masih mengebom di sana. Mereka membunuh kanak-kanak.
Seluruh dunia melihat gambar, tetapi langsung tidak berbuat apa-apa," katanya. Israel mendakwa, pejuang Hamas bersembunyi di kalangan penduduk awam untuk melancarkan roket dan menyimpan senjata di masjid. Aida berkata, anak beliau akan dibesarkan untuk menghormati Islam dan diajar dengan cara berkenaan supaya dapat memasuki syurga dengan mudah. "Saya mahukan anak saya menjadi pejuang di jalan Allah.
Jika saya diberi peluang, saya akan mati ketika satu operasi di Israel," katanya. Fadel, 35, tiba tidak lama selepas itu memakai sepasang sut gelap. Beliau bekerja selama beberapa tahun dengan sebuah pertubuhan kebajikan utama yang ditubuhkan oleh pengasas Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin pada 1970-an.
Menentang Israel adalah satu tugas, kata Fadel. "Kami tinggal di tanah kami, tanah yang dipenuhi pejuang.
Mereka mahu membunuh kami tetapi kami akan bunuh mereka terlebih dulu. "Ketika operasi mereka akan memusnahkan bangunan, masjid dan rumah tetapi mereka tidak akan dapat memusnahkan kumpulan yang membawa penentangan.
Hikmahnya :
1. Tujuan perkahwinan yang cukup berbeza di antara penduduk Palestin dan penduduk Malysia.
2. Perkahwinan yang diberkati ialah yang murah dan mudah, bukannya penuh pembaziran yang digemari syaitan.
3. Wanita Palestin lahirkan pejuang. Wanita Melayu lahirkan anak luar nikah sahaja.
4. Suasana sekeliling membentuk jiwa kental seorang wanita Palestin, berbanding suasana mewah dan penuh hiburan di Malaysia membentuk jiwa kantoi wanita Melayu.
5. Jihad di bumi Palestin tak akan padam sehingga Nabi Isa turun membunuh Dajjal (Yahudi menjadi pengikutnya paling ramai)
6. Ribuan yang dibunuh, ribuan pula akan lahir insyaAllah meneruskan jihad.
7. Cukup teruja ketika membaca artikel ini. Seakan membaca kisah para sahabat lampau di zaman Rasulullah saw."

Renungan Pagi Jumaat

"Sabda Nabi SAW,"Jika kamu semua melihat Panji-panji Hitam datang dari arah Khurasan, maka sambutlah ia walaupun kamu terpaksa merangkak di atas salji. Sesungguhnya di tengah-tengah panji-panji itu ada Khalifah Allah yang mendapat petunjuk." Maksudnya ialah al-Mahdi. (Ibnu Majah, Abu Nuaim & al-Hakim)

Sabda Nabi SAW,"Panji-panji Hitam akan keluar dari arah Khurasan(Afghanista n), dan sementara itu kawan-kawan al-Mahdi (pula) keluar menuju ke Baitulmaqdis. "
Sabda Nabi SAW,"Apabila kamu melihat Panji-panji Hitam telah diterima di sebelah wilayah Khurasan, maka datangilah dia sekalipun terpaksa merangkak di atas salji kerana padanya itu ada Khalifah Allah yaitu al-Mahdi."(Abu Nuaim)
Sabda Nabi SAW,"Akan datang Panji-panji Hitam dari Timur, seolah-olah hati mereka adalah kepingan-kepingan besi. Sesiapa yang mendengar tentang mereka, hendaklah datang kepada mereka dan berbaiatlah kepada mereka, sekalipun terpaksa merangkak di atas salji." (Al-Hafiz Abu Nuaim)
Sabda Nabi SAW,"Orang ramai daripada Timur (Ikhwan itu benar-benar) akan muncul, kemudian menyerahkan kekuasaannya kepada al-Mahdi.""Akan datang Panji-panji Hitam dari Timur, seolah-olah hati mereka adalah kepingan-kepingan besi. Sesiapa yang mendengar tentang mereka, hendaklah datang kepada mereka dan berbaiatlah kepada mereka, sekalipun terpaksa merangkak di atas salji."
Sabda Nabi SAW,"Al-Mahdi akan datang setelah munculnya Panji-panji Hitam dari sebelah Timur yang mana pasukan itu selalu tidak pernah kalah dengan pasukan mana pun."
Sabda Nabi SAW "Sentiasa ada satu golongan daripada umatku, (mereka) memperjuangkan kebenaran, selalu memperoleh kemenangan sampailah ke hari kiamat. Maka turunlah Nabi Isa bin Maryam AS (kepada mereka). Maka berkatalah pembesar mereka (Imam Mahdi) kepadanya, "Marilah ke hadapan, imamkan sembahyang kami." Jawabnya, "Tidak. Sesungguhnya sebahagian kamu menjadi umarak bagi yang lain." Inilah suatu penghormatan daripada Allah untuk umat ini." HR Muslim
abda Nabi SAW "Sentiasa ada satu golongan daripada umatku, (mereka) memperjuangkan kebenaran, selalu memperoleh kemenangan sampailah ke hari kiamat. Maka turunlah Nabi Isa bin Maryam AS (kepada mereka). Maka berkatalah pembesar mereka (Imam Mahdi) kepadanya, "Marilah ke hadapan, imamkan sembahyang kami." Jawabnya, "Tidak. Sesungguhnya sebahagian kamu menjadi umarak bagi yang lain." Inilah suatu penghormatan daripada Allah untuk umat ini." HR Muslim
Abdullah bin Syuraikh berkata,"Bersama-sama munculnya Al-Mahdi adalah panji-panji Rasulullah SAW, lengkap dengan cap-capnya sekali."
”Berangkatlah kamu dalam keadaan merasa ringgan ataupun ataupun merasa berat, dan berjihadlah dengan harta dan dirimu di jalan Allah, yang demikian itu adalah lebih baik bagimu jika kamu mengetahui.” (At-Taubah :41).

Sesungguhnya Allah telah membeli dari orang-orang yang beriman akan jiwa mereka dan harta benda mereka dengan (balasan) bahawa mereka akan beroleh Syurga, (disebabkan) mereka berjuang pada jalan Allah maka (di antara) mereka ada yang membunuh dan terbunuh. (Balasan Syurga yang demikian ialah) sebagai janji yang benar yang ditetapkan oleh Allah di dalam (Kitab-kitab) Taurat dan Injil serta Al-Quran; dan siapakah lagi yang lebih menyempurnakan janjinya daripada Allah? Oleh itu, bergembiralah dengan jualan yang kamu jalankan jual-belinya itu, dan (ketahuilah bahawa) jual-beli (yang seperti itu) ialah kemenangan yang besar. [At-Taubah :111]

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Kuih Tradisional- Seri Muka








KUIH SERIMUKA sumber: Ramzam Yusof

Lapisan Bawah
: 2 cawan pulut 2 1/2 cawan santan cair + sikit garam

Cara 1. Basuhkan pulut dan rendamkan beberapa jam sebelum dimasak.
2. Kukuskan sehingga masak.
3. Lapikkan pelastik dalam loyang bulat atau 4 segi berukuran 8 inic.
4. Tekankan pulut yang telah masak tadi supaya mampat dan cantik.
5. Kukuskan semula dan tuangkan adunan bahagian atas.

Lapisan Atas:

2 cawan santan pekat ? cawan jus pandan + warna hijau 1/2 cawan gula 3 s/b tepung gandum 3 s/b tepung kastad 1 biji telur 1 s/t garam

Cara 1. Masukkan semua bahan dalam mngkuk dan kacau rata. Tapiskan.
2. Tuangkan perlahan-lahan atas pulut tadi.
3. Kukuskan lebih kurang 30 minit.
4. Sejukkan dahulu baru potong dengan pisau pelastik.

NOTA: untuk memasak pulut untuk serimuka ni..masukkan pulut dalam loyang bersama santan
dan garam..

pastu letakkan loyang tersebut dalam periuk kukusan dan tutup. kukuskan sehingga 30 minit. Keluarkan dan kacau rata..

pastu tekan pulut dalma loyang yg mahu digunakan untuk kueh serimuka supaya mampat dan kemas..then baru masuk kan lapisan

Orkid- tumbuhan unik pemberian Dari Yang Maha Esa
























Keindahan Kepulauan Bora-Bora & Polynesian







Monday, January 26, 2009

Labu Airport- TDM Point Of View

Written By: Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohammad


1. Air Asia has done well to explain the justification for the so-called KLIA-East in Labu.

2. Not having the facilities and personnel I can only give my very unprofessional view on the justification:
a) Passenger CapacityI must congratulate Air Asia on its very remarkable success. By 2014 it will handle 26 million passengers. Present terminal at KLIA is handling about 25 million passengers.KLIA is planned to handle 125 million passengers. It has 25,000 acres of land to build another terminal and four satellites.

It can even duplicate these terminals and satellites. But Air Asia wants low-cost terminals with no aero-bridge, no luxury interiors. This is not a problem for KLIA.There is enough space in the 25,000 acres of reserved land to build the low-cost terminal to accommodate the 60 million Air Asia passengers in the distant future. MAHB (Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad) can do this.

(Incidentally Putrajaya has only 10,000 acres of land). However, by 2014 the total number of Air Asia passengers would only be 27 million. Accommodating this number should be no big deal for MAHB.

b) Runway capacityBy 2014 Air Asia will have 77 aircrafts. LCCT capacity will still be for 33 aircrafts. Does Air Asia expect all its aircrafts to be on the ground in LCCT all the time?Usually some would be in the air and many would be at other airports. Expanding the parking area would not be too difficult. There would still be enough land at KLIA.As for the runways Times Online reports that Heathrow will now build its third runway to be completed in 2020. Presently Heathrow has only two runways and it still handles almost 70 million passengers.As stated above, KLIA can build another three runways to handle 125 million passengers. If passengers and aircrafts increase to more than presently handled by Heathrow, a third runway can quickly be built.If KLIA LCCT is not connected by rail and bus, the thing to do is to provide all these.

Extension to the Express Rail Link line can be built. Terrain is no problem. We have sliced through higher hills to build roads.If the waiting time for taxis has increased due to the huge airport layout (I don't understand this), whatever solution for this problem is proposed for Labu, the same solution can also be applied to KLIA LCCT.

c) Number of GatesSince Air Asia will not be using the main terminal why should the small number of gates there be of concern to Air Asia?If Air Asia will be putting more than 55 Gates at Labu to cater for its large number of aircrafts and movements, why cannot LCCT at KLIA be expanded to have maybe 100 Gates to avoid any shortages? Will Labu be provided with 100 Gates? If so, when? Again, why be bothered about KLIA Terminal being equipped with aero-bridges etc when Air Asia does not want to use it?

3. The comparison with Dubai and Jackson Atlanta International Airport is misleading.

4. The picture shows four runways (no indication which airport). Multiple runways is common but they are operated by one airport with one control tower. The picture and the layout does not suggest separate towers for different runways. You cannot have multiple runways close to each other but controlled by different towers.

5. Perhaps Air Asia can show documents that separations between different airport runways of 2km are permissible. Is there any example of two major airports operating separately but located 2km from each other? I don't know. Please enlighten me.

6. The problem prompting the idea of a new airport is the allegedly high charges by MAHB for the use of LCCT by Air Asia. MAHB is owned by Khazanah and it is believed Khazanah has a stake in Air Asia. Both are therefore GLCs. The Government can tell them to negotiate fair charges. Or is it the Government that wants this airport at Labu for reasons other than need?

7. Or is it that Sime Darby now wants to go into airport business?

Copy from : chedet blog

Another War, Another Defeat

Written By : John J. Mearsheimer


Professor of political science at the University of Chicago and coauthor of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.

Israelis and their American supporters claim that Israel learned its lessons well from the disastrous 2006 Lebanon war and has devised a winning strategy for the present war against Hamas.
Of course, when a ceasefire comes, Israel will declare victory. Don’t believe it. Israel has foolishly started another war it cannot win.
The campaign in Gaza is said to have two objectives: 1) to put an end to the rockets and mortars that Palestinians have been firing into southern Israel since it withdrew from Gaza in August 2005; 2) to restore Israel’s deterrent, which was said to be diminished by the Lebanon fiasco, by Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza, and by its inability to halt Iran’s nuclear program.But these are not the real goals of Operation Cast Lead.

The actual purpose is connected to Israel’s long-term vision of how it intends to live with millions of Palestinians in its midst. It is part of a broader strategic goal: the creation of a “Greater Israel.” Specifically, Israel’s leaders remain determined to control all of what used to be known as Mandate Palestine, which includes Gaza and the West Bank. The Palestinians would have limited autonomy in a handful of disconnected and economically crippled enclaves, one of which is Gaza. Israel would control the borders around them, movement between them, the air above and the water below them.

The key to achieving this is to inflict massive pain on the Palestinians so that they come to accept the fact that they are a defeated people and that Israel will be largely responsible for controlling their future. This strategy, which was first articulated by Ze’ev Jabotinsky in the 1920s and has heavily influenced Israeli policy since 1948, is commonly referred to as the “Iron Wall.”What has been happening in Gaza is fully consistent with this strategy.Let’s begin with Israel’s decision to withdraw from Gaza in 2005.

The conventional wisdom is that Israel was serious about making peace with the Palestinians and that its leaders hoped the exit from Gaza would be a major step toward creating a viable Palestinian state. According to the New York Times’ Thomas L. Friedman, Israel was giving the Palestinians an opportunity to “build a decent mini-state there—a Dubai on the Mediterranean,” and if they did so, it would “fundamentally reshape the Israeli debate about whether the Palestinians can be handed most of the West Bank.”This is pure fiction. Even before Hamas came to power, the Israelis intended to create an open-air prison for the Palestinians in Gaza and inflict great pain on them until they complied with Israel’s wishes. Dov Weisglass, Ariel Sharon’s closest adviser at the time, candidly stated that the disengagement from Gaza was aimed at halting the peace process, not encouraging it.

He described the disengagement as “formaldehyde that’s necessary so that there will not be a political process with the Palestinians.” Moreover, he emphasized that the withdrawal “places the Palestinians under tremendous pressure. It forces them into a corner where they hate to be.”Arnon Soffer, a prominent Israeli demographer who also advised Sharon, elaborated on what that pressure would look like. “When 2.5 million people live in a closed-off Gaza, it’s going to be a human catastrophe.

Those people will become even bigger animals than they are today, with the aid of an insane fundamentalist Islam. The pressure at the border will be awful. It’s going to be a terrible war. So, if we want to remain alive, we will have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day.”In January 2006, five months after the Israelis pulled their settlers out of Gaza, Hamas won a decisive victory over Fatah in the Palestinian legislative elections. This meant trouble for Israel’s strategy because Hamas was democratically elected, well organized, not corrupt like Fatah, and unwilling to accept Israel’s existence.

Israel responded by ratcheting up economic pressure on the Palestinians, but it did not work. In fact, the situation took another turn for the worse in March 2007, when Fatah and Hamas came together to form a national unity government. Hamas’s stature and political power were growing, and Israel’s divide-and-conquer strategy was unraveling.To make matters worse, the national unity government began pushing for a long-term ceasefire.

The Palestinians would end all missile attacks on Israel if the Israelis would stop arresting and assassinating Palestinians and end their economic stranglehold, opening the border crossings into Gaza.Israel rejected that offer and with American backing set out to foment a civil war between Fatah and Hamas that would wreck the national unity government and put Fatah in charge. The plan backfired when Hamas drove Fatah out of Gaza, leaving Hamas in charge there and the more pliant Fatah in control of the West Bank.

Israel then tightened the screws on the blockade around Gaza, causing even greater hardship and suffering among the Palestinians living there.Hamas responded by continuing to fire rockets and mortars into Israel, while emphasizing that they still sought a long-term ceasefire, perhaps lasting ten years or more.

This was not a noble gesture on Hamas’s part: they sought a ceasefire because the balance of power heavily favored Israel. The Israelis had no interest in a ceasefire and merely intensified the economic pressure on Gaza. But in the late spring of 2008, pressure from Israelis living under the rocket attacks led the government to agree to a six-month ceasefire starting on June 19. That agreement, which formally ended on Dec. 19, immediately preceded the present war, which began on Dec. 27.

The official Israeli position blames Hamas for undermining the ceasefire. This view is widely accepted in the United States, but it is not true. Israeli leaders disliked the ceasefire from the start, and Defense Minister Ehud Barak instructed the IDF to begin preparing for the present war while the ceasefire was being negotiated in June 2008. Furthermore, Dan Gillerman, Israel’s former ambassador to the UN, reports that Jerusalem began to prepare the propaganda campaign to sell the present war months before the conflict began. For its part, Hamas drastically reduced the number of missile attacks during the first five months of the ceasefire. A total of two rockets were fired into Israel during September and October, none by Hamas.How did Israel behave during this same period? It continued arresting and assassinating Palestinians on the West Bank, and it continued the deadly blockade that was slowly strangling Gaza. Then on Nov. 4, as Americans voted for a new president, Israel attacked a tunnel inside Gaza and killed six Palestinians.

It was the first major violation of the ceasefire, and the Palestinians— who had been “careful to maintain the ceasefire,” according to Israel’s Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center—responded by resuming rocket attacks. The calm that had prevailed since June vanished as Israel ratcheted up the blockade and its attacks into Gaza and the Palestinians hurled more rockets at Israel.

It is worth noting that not a single Israeli was killed by Palestinian missiles between Nov. 4 and the launching of the war on Dec. 27.As the violence increased, Hamas made clear that it had no interest in extending the ceasefire beyond Dec. 19, which is hardly surprising, since it had not worked as intended.

In mid-December, however, Hamas informed Israel that it was still willing to negotiate a long-term ceasefire if it included an end to the arrests and assassinations as well as the lifting of the blockade. But the Israelis, having used the ceasefire to prepare for war against Hamas, rejected this overture. The bombing of Gaza commenced eight days after the failed ceasefire formally ended.If Israel wanted to stop missile attacks from Gaza, it could have done so by arranging a long-term ceasefire with Hamas.

And if Israel were genuinely interested in creating a viable Palestinian state, it could have worked with the national unity government to implement a meaningful ceasefire and change Hamas’s thinking about a two-state solution. But Israel has a different agenda: it is determined to employ the Iron Wall strategy to get the Palestinians in Gaza to accept their fate as hapless subjects of a Greater Israel.

This brutal policy is clearly reflected in Israel’s conduct of the Gaza War. Israel and its supporters claim that the IDF is going to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties, in some cases taking risks that put Israeli soldiers in jeopardy. Hardly. One reason to doubt these claims is that Israel refuses to allow reporters into the war zone: it does not want the world to see what its soldiers and bombs are doing inside Gaza. At the same time, Israel has launched a massive propaganda campaign to put a positive spin on the horror stories that do emerge.The best evidence, however, that Israel is deliberately seeking to punish the broader population in Gaza is the death and destruction the IDF has wrought on that small piece of real estate. Israel has killed over 1,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 4,000. Over half of the casualties are civilians, and many are children.

The IDF’s opening salvo on Dec. 27 took place as children were leaving school, and one of its primary targets that day was a large group of graduating police cadets, who hardly qualified as terrorists. In what Ehud Barak called “an all-out war against Hamas,” Israel has targeted a university, schools, mosques, homes, apartment buildings, government offices, and even ambulances.

A senior Israeli military official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, explained the logic behind Israel’s expansive target set: “There are many aspects of Hamas, and we are trying to hit the whole spectrum, because everything is connected and everything supports terrorism against Israel.” In other words, everyone is a terrorist and everything is a legitimate target.Israelis tend to be blunt, and they occasionally say what they are really doing. After the IDF killed 40 Palestinian civilians in a UN school on Jan. 6, Ha’aretz reported that “senior officers admit that the IDF has been using enormous firepower.” One officer explained, “For us, being cautious means being aggressive. From the minute we entered, we’ve acted like we’re at war. That creates enormous damage on the ground … I just hope those who have fled the area of Gaza City in which we are operating will describe the shock.”One might accept that Israel is waging “a cruel, all-out war against 1.5 million Palestinian civilians,” as Ha’aretz put it in an editorial, but argue that it will eventually achieve its war aims and the rest of the world will quickly forget the horrors inflicted on the people of Gaza.

This is wishful thinking. For starters, Israel is unlikely to stop the rocket fire for any appreciable period of time unless it agrees to open Gaza’s borders and stop arresting and killing Palestinians. Israelis talk about cutting off the supply of rockets and mortars into Gaza, but weapons will continue to come in via secret tunnels and ships that sneak through Israel’s naval blockade. It will also be impossible to police all of the goods sent into Gaza through legitimate channels.Israel could try to conquer all of Gaza and lock the place down.

That would probably stop the rocket attacks if Israel deployed a large enough force. But then the IDF would be bogged down in a costly occupation against a deeply hostile population. They would eventually have to leave, and the rocket fire would resume. And if Israel fails to stop the rocket fire and keep it stopped, as seems likely, its deterrent will be diminished, not strengthened.More importantly, there is little reason to think that the Israelis can beat Hamas into submission and get the Palestinians to live quietly in a handful of Bantustans inside Greater Israel. Israel has been humiliating, torturing, and killing Palestinians in the Occupied Territories since 1967 and has not come close to cowing them.

Indeed, Hamas’s reaction to Israel’s brutality seems to lend credence to Nietzsche’s remark that what does not kill you makes you stronger.But even if the unexpected happens and the Palestinians cave, Israel would still lose because it will become an apartheid state. As Prime Minister Ehud Olmert recently said, Israel will “face a South African-style struggle” if the Palestinians do not get a viable state of their own. “As soon as that happens,” he argued, “the state of Israel is finished.” Yet Olmert has done nothing to stop settlement expansion and create a viable Palestinian state, relying instead on the Iron Wall strategy to deal with the Palestinians.

There is also little chance that people around the world who follow the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will soon forget the appalling punishment that Israel is meting out in Gaza. The destruction is just too obvious to miss, and too many people—especially in the Arab and Islamic world—care about the Palestinians’ fate. Moreover, discourse about this longstanding conflict has undergone a sea change in the West in recent years, and many of us who were once wholly sympathetic to Israel now see that the Israelis are the victimizers and the Palestinians are the victims. What is happening in Gaza will accelerate that changing picture of the conflict and long be seen as a dark stain on Israel’s reputation.

The bottom line is that no matter what happens on the battlefield, Israel cannot win its war in Gaza. In fact, it is pursuing a strategy—with lots of help from its so-called friends in the Diaspora—that is placing its long-term future at risk.

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