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The timing of this article release in The Guardian detailing a nine-year campaign of Israeli harassment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) is very interesting indeed. I suspect it may indicate that the West has had enough of Benjamin Netanyahu.
When interpreting the actions and motives of the Western political and media class, three hard rules need to be one’s starting point.
(a) They have no morals beyond their own advancement.
(b) The only side they care about is the winning side.
(c) The West doesn’t deal with reality very well and it takes them a long time to acknowledge a losing battle (see Ukraine for details).
Part of being on the ‘winning’ side is to retain control of the public narrative.
One long cherished narrative of the Western powers is the idea that they are the defenders of justice. truth and freedom – its a bogus narrative of course, but much energy is poured into maintaining it, especially in the U.S. and the U.K.
So while it has suited the West to fold fictions about itself into similar fairy tales about Israel, there is a tipping point, beyond which the defence of the Israel project starts to terminally damage the West’s credibility as the a global police force. As one sharp commenter pointed out today, “if your enemy is a civilian population in tents…then perhaps you are the bad guy”.
The western media has worked tirelessly to hide, whitewash and reframe Israel’s genocide in Gaza while simultaneously trying to smear, bully and silence those who speak the truth about it (as anti-Semites etc) but it must now be obvious, even to the myopic Western establishment, that this is a lost cause.
Israel’s genocide is now so grotesque, so brazen and so visible, that all hope of simply ignoring it or hiding it has gone. The ongoing charges of genocide taken up by the ICJ and the ICC have fatally holed the usual HIS strategy (Hide / Ignore / Suppress) and the protests against Israel are gaining in strength.
You can be sure that The Guardian and the Western spooks knew all about Israel’s pressuring of the ICC long ago – so the real question is…why are they unpacking this story now?
I sense the tide is turning and that the West, ever slow in its hubris and myopia to adapt to reality, is slowly realising that Netanyahu’s fascists are more trouble than they are worth.
Italy issued a rare rebuke to Israel after the latest massacre in Rafah, Ireland and the EU are muttering about sanctions against Israel – an unthinkable position even a few weeks ago. Every aid agency and human rights organisation is calling out Israel for genocide.
Articles critical of Netanyahu and Israel have started to trickle into the Western press and now The Guardian, the ever faithful servant of the U.S. military industrial complex has plunged this timely knife into Bibi’s back. The Guardian is little more than an outlet for Western military intelligence agencies these days and you can be sure that the timed release of this article contains plentiful malice and forethought.
The strategy will be simple enough I suspect. The West is about to switch sides, via a very temporary rediscovery of its moral compass. They will pin what they can on Netanyahu’s government, blame Hamas for the rest and reset the project via a replacement Israeli government which will still be venally racist of course, but not quite as overtly fascist and reckless as the current cult-like administration.
Then the spooks, the politicians and the hacks will frantically re-write history so as limit the splash of blood to Gaza. If I am right, a firewall will be placed between support for Israel and supporting Bibi. Soon it will be hard to find any politician who will admit to ever backing Netanyahu – thus history will be wiped clean of western sins once again.
For our part, we must not allow the media to paint over the West’ complicity in Israel’s genocide, they are all neck deep in blood and there are many who MUST be held to account.
For Netanyahu and his fascist cronies, the clock is ticking and they know it. All their recent barbarity smacks of desperation, but if Israel isn’t stopped very soon then the death toll be in the hundreds of thousands and the cancer of fascism will spread to other nations if it hasn’t already.
Tick tock Benjamin Netanyahu – your ‘friends’ are preparing an Et Tu Brute moment…and your time is nearly up.
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