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Israel is right now preparing the final acts of its campaign of ethic cleansing and genocide against Palestinians, acts which have roots over a century old.
Gaza is already a prison, a death trap and Israel has already committed heinous atrocities there – but if Benjamin Netanyahu is to be believed this is just the beginning.
What does the U.S. and the west imagine is going to happen next? Whatever horrors await the people of Gaza, the west seems happy to give Israel not merely complete licence but fulsome support. The moral bankruptcy of the western political class is laid bare – as is the artful airbrushing by the western news factories of Israeli atrocities and intentions.
Perhaps the U.S. in particular imagines that by extending its own sense of moral superiority, military invulnerability and capacity for narrative management to Israel, that Israel is as beyond reproach as it imagines itself to be. Perhaps The White House surmises that Israel can now simply be left to do as it pleases – a handy attack dog in a strategic area.
Certainly Israel believes this is the case, for it is no longer disguising its genocidal intentions but boasting of them. Netanyahu says that Israel will win for the ‘shared values’ it has with the west. One shudders to reflect on what those shared values might be, given Netanyahu’s long love affair with Europe’s far right and his war crimes thus far.
Just as the west seems to have no plan in Ukraine, no reverse gear, no statecraft, no logic and damn sure no morals – it seems to have no capacity to understand the dangers of what it is unleashing in the Middle East.
Perhaps the west’s fantasy (and their fantasies are increasingly sick and disconnected from reality) is that the Palestinians can be quietly slaughtered in Gaza and then with some adroit media management it will all just go away.
Israel has been attempting to destroy Palestinian resistance for decades – the impending ground invasion of Gaza being the FIFTH brutal Israeli assault on civilians in 15 years. As Israeli savagery against the Palestinians has increased, so the resistance movements savagery has mirrored it.
Hamas hatred was created by Israeli hatred and onlookers while rightly appalled, should not be surprised by it. Hamas revenge now begets Israeli revenge and the current Israeli revenge may invoke a cycle of violence that nobody in the west or anywhere else will be able to control.
A singular arena of hatred and death can swiftly become a regional conflagration and onwards into a world war. The west in licensing and supporting Israeli genocide is potentially opening a Pandora’s Box.
Those minded to look away from the horrors of Gaza and remain silent need to think very carefully, for lies of omission are still a lie.
“Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth and sooner or later that debt is paid” – don’t imagine that we can predict where the debts of Gaza will be paid or by whom.
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