The catastrophe that you and I are seeing in Gaza is a genocide in the terrible making.
It is not an “attack”. It is not an “intrusion”. It is not even a “war”. It is a genocide.
The apocalyptic scenes and sounds in Gaza are evidence that a harsh, inhabiting army is intent on accomplishing its overarching objective: the annihilation of what stays of a currently shattered piece of land and the indiscriminate killing of defenseless, tired kids, females and males.
Over years, a succession of immune Israeli federal governments and their beneficial proxies, the rampaging inhabitant militias, have actually waged incremental genocide, bit by bit, with the specific approval, approval, and support of Western federal governments– who, in a foreseeable program of performative uniformity with a callous ally– have actually bathed their traveler destinations in blue and white or the Star of David.
Proceed, you craven enablers, reveal the world your real and rank colours. We will keep in mind.
Make no error: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu– together with his racist gang of brutish (by nature, personality, and vernacular) cabinet ministers– have actually been hurting, for a long, discouraging time, to desert the let’s-teach-Palestinians-a-lethal-lesson convulsions of violence in favour of the far more rewarding wholesale damage of the Gaza Strip.
The monstrous strategy is as plain as Netanyahu’s sorrowful character: Be finished with Gaza by removing Gaza.
Anybody, anywhere, in any online forum who rejects this reality is either a phony, blind– or willfully, gladly, and conveniently both.
This is not “exemplary” repayment or revenge. It is– I duplicate, for the legion of complicit hacks and stenographers who, incredibly, have actually never ever discovered, not to mention provided a damn, about the continuous suffering and injury of Palestinians– a genocide.
If my blunt indictment stings, I challenge any of the traditionally illiterate writers and American television news celebs who have actually hurried to Israel to burnish their qualifications as “foreign reporters”– with their hair stylists, makeup artists and authors in tow– to disabuse me, and far more significantly, the Palestinian diaspora and their allies, of our belief that a homicidal genocide is unfolding because besieged enclave.
These unbearable hypocrites are once again tarring Palestinians as “wicked predators” while applauding Israelis as “solicitous saints” for alerting grateful Palestinians in Gaza that they’re going to eliminate them en masse.
These fawning Israel patriots have most likely not as soon as stepped inside the barbed-wired walls and fences that surround Gaza or talked to any of the countless humans who, for generations, have actually sustained the loss, theft, deprivations, indignities, embarrassments, and, obviously, deadly ferocity devoted by an apartheid state.
It is a familiar, surreal minstrel reveal that minimizes an old, complicated story into a pat, easy-to-digest clash in between black and white for many similarly callow, geography-allergic Americans who are persuaded that bring a passport is “woke”.
The white hats– the Israelis– are constantly the innocent victims. The black hats– the Palestinians– are constantly the guilty criminals.
The cavalier neglect for the nearly incomprehensible human repercussions of Israel’s outright annulment of that, by now, silly, anachronistic term: worldwide law.
Stop the things of life– food and water– from entering captive Gaza. Fine.
Stop fuel and electrical energy from being provided to homes and medical facilities. Fine.
Bomb United Nations schools safeguarding desperate Palestinian households from the perpetual carpet battle. Fine.
Attack ambulances to disallow them from transporting mangled kids to dark medical facilities where they need immediate care. Fine.
Release white phosphorous to burn Palestinians to the bone. Fine.
Ignore the canard of “accuracy strikes” to avoid “civilian casualties” and revel, rather, in turning Gaza into Fallujah, circa 2005. Fine.
Seal the jail that is Gaza tighter to make escape and hope difficult. Fine.
Need that 1.1 million individuals move to no place within hours or face, in all probability, a particular death. Fine.
On dreadful hint, the typical gallery of preening presidents and prime ministers has actually deplored the atrocities dedicated by the black hats– while praising, as a needed and invited defense, the atrocities devoted by the white hats.
Please, would fantasists stop urging the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague to do something, anything, to hold “both celebrations”, consisting of, Israel, to account?
It has actually not occurred and will not take place since the ever-compliant ICC understands that it should not upset, and will not upset, the powers that remain in Washington, DC who run the entire deceptive farce.
Netanyahu– who, simply a couple of weeks earlier, was excoriated for being a prosecuted scoundrel dealing with a corruption trial on a multitude of scams, bribery, and breach of trust charges as well as having an authoritarian’s DNA– has actually been restored by United States President Joe Biden and obsequious business as the Middle East’s shining avatar of willpower, strength and morality.
Such is the unhealthy “ethical” compass of Biden and his pedestrian confederates in London, Paris, Berlin, Brussels, Canberra and Ottawa.
Still, it’s barely unexpected that feral colonial powers– provided their horrible record of killing and disfiguring numerous innocents, in a lot of scarred locations– would use their blanket recommendation to another colonial power accountable for eliminating and damaging many innocent Palestinians in Gaza and beyond the other day, today and tomorrow.
Understand this: Biden et al do not speak for millions of residents who they claim to represent, however who will continue to stand unfaltering with unbowed Palestinians and their just and gentle cause.
Regardless of all the rubbish and posturing by the “worldwide neighborhood” about “fixing the crisis through diplomacy”, this dystopian-like scary has actually been the “end video game” the whole time: pulverise every square inch of Gaza and its individuals into dust and memory.
The risible “two-state” option is an ill impression promoted by slick, Ivy-league-educated diplomats like United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the other Israeli war-crime apologists who preceded him– merged, as they were and are, to their “partners” in Tel Aviv like adjoined twins.
Blinken has actually taken a trip to Israel at the wish of his manager to “greenlight” genocide. We will keep in mind that, too.
A deadly program, inspired by a dangerous mix of ultra-nationalism and fanaticism, understands that its ominous objective remains in enticing sight.
There will be more scaries to come. Palestinians will not be broken. They will stand firm and dominate. It will be tough and take some time, however they will reconstruct.
The views revealed in this post are the author’s own and do not always show Al Jazeera’s editorial position.