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and a quick note that since the Gaza conflict is ongoing, some of the numbers mentioned will be out of date.

As of this recording, according to the New York Times, the conflict in Gaza has resulted in 1,023 Palestinian deaths and 51 Israeli deaths.

I want to read part of a Facebook post that was posted by Yvall Diskin.

He is the former head of Shinbet, which is Israel's, I don't want to say FBI because it has actually, I think, a broader mandate, but it's almost Israel's FBI CIA, but internal.

Yes, maybe closer to MI5. And he was the head of Shinbet from 2005 to 2011.

There is some talk that he may run for office, but I don't think this in any way diminishes what he is obviously willing to say publicly.

I'm going to read part of it. It starts dear friends. Don't be confused for a moment. This is the result of the policy conducted by the current government, whose essence is, let's write in the public over everything that's happening around us in the Middle East.

Let's prove that there's no Palestinian partner. Let's build more and more settlements and create a reality that cannot be changed.

Let's continue not dealing with the severe problems of the Arab sector in Israel. Let's continue not solving the severe social gaps in Israeli society.

This illusion worked wonderfully as long as the security establishment was able to provide impressive calm on the security front over the last few years as a result of the high quality dedicated work of the people of the Shinbet.

The IDF and the Israel police as well as the Palestinians who significant contribution to the relative calm in the West Bank should not be taken lightly.

However, the rapid deterioration we're experiencing in the security situation did not come because of the vile murder of Naftali, Yal and Gil Ad.

May their memories be blessed. The deterioration is first and foremost the result of the illusion that the government's in action on every front can actually freeze the situation in place.

The illusion that price tag is simply a few sologons on the wall and not pure racism.

The illusion that everything can be solved with a little more force. The illusion that the Palestinians will accept everything that's done in the West Bank and won't respond despite the rage and fraud.

The illusion that the international community won't impose sanctions on us, that the Arab citizens of Israel won't take to the streets at the end of the day because of the lack of care for their problems.

And that the Israeli public will continue submissivally to accept the government's helplessness in dealing with the social gaps that its policies have created and are worsening while corruption continues to poison everything good and so on and so on.

I hope that the images of this 15-year-old boy from Florida who is of Palestinian descent getting beaten to a pulp by Israeli police force will be killed.

This discant post captures the illusion that the at least a large percentage of Israelis seem to be operating under which is that the status quo of continued repression of Palestinians is sustainable.

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