(Recent Headlines: 50,100 killed in Gaza, 113,274 wounded.)
By George Wilson, contributing columnist
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga. | Most of us in the West, and especially the United States, should feel deeply ashamed that governments are facilitating this genocide, either by selling arms to Israel or by refusing to apply sanctions to this grasping, destructive, genocidal, apartheid nation.
The West applied sanctions to apartheid South Africa, but appeared to be too corrupted by the Zionist lobbies to do the right thing for the Palestinian people.
The Arab nations that have sat on their hands while this horror is enacted will regret not acting, because if they think that Israel will stop its ruthless, violent acquisition of Arab lands and resources, they are delusional.
Israel has become a threat to humanity, and world peace.
On a behavioral, social and ethical basis, I have struggled to make sense of Israel’s barbarism towards the Palestinians; perhaps it’s a religious, cultural or spiritual thing or simply seizing land? If so, where does it end?
I try to talk to others about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and I’m met with retorts such as “…well, Israel has the right to defend itself…” Then I grab onto myself so as not to fall deeper into the rabbit hole with them. “Have you considered that this might be overkill?” I ask…..but then it seems that Israel deems to consider the “value” of one Israeli citizen to be at least 50 times greater than the life of a single Palestinian.
What we are witnessing dwarfs all the historical past actions against the Palestinians. Israel’s demented genocidal dream — a Palestinian nightmare — is about to be achieved. It will forever shatter the myth that we, or any Western nation, respect the rule of law or are the protectors of human rights, democracy and the so-called “virtues” of Western civilization. Israel’s barbarity is our own. We may not understand this, but many around the globe do.
The ultimate goal of the right-wing government of Israel is to take over the disputed land in the west bank where currently about 400,000 Israelis have set up illegal settlements and attack Palestinians every day. Palestine and the extermination of the Palestinian people is the end game of Netanyahu’s ruling coalition, to permanently destroy the idea of a State of Palestine to be accomplished through acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
We can cite the withholding of food, water, medicine, and the bombing of hospitals during the war, as examples of such acts. Israel, with the rise to power of the ultranationalist Jewish-supremacist far-right, is evidence of Israel having developed into a fully fascist, hate-filled, Jewish apartheid state, and will continue to pursue its transformation into an ethno-religiously pure state with the expulsion of all Palestinians.
Finally, it also boils down to Netanyahu trying to stay out of prison for corruption charges by remaining in office and achieving the goal stated above.
Sounds familiar? Our president would be in jail if he hadn’t been reelected. Another psychopath, Vladimir Putin, would also be in the gulag, because he has been looting Russia for years.
But that’s another story.
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