I know the things I’m
about to say in this piece will get me branded as an anti-Semite but some
things need to be said. We all know what happened on October 7 when Israel was
attacked by the forces of Hamas and like the rest of the world at the time, I
also stood in full solidarity with Israel in its dark hour. But the response of
Israel since then has caused me take a very different view of the Jewish state.
As we speak, the Israeli Defence Force acting on orders from Zionist-in-Chief
Netanyahu has been on a mission to clean out the Gaza Strip of the Palestinian
presence. The mission, ostensibly, is to get rid of Hamas once and for all. But
as the world knows by now, Hamas fighters are not the ones really being harmed.
The bulk of those killed are innocent civilians and those whose lives are not
taken, still have their livelihoods destroyed by the indiscriminate bombing of
the IDF.
Yes, you read that
correct, indiscriminate. Contrary to the lies put out by Israel, there has been
no real effort to limit civilian casualties even as the world continues to
stand by. A fact made crystal clear to all when South Africa boldly called out
Israel for genocide and took them to the International Court of Justice.
Instead of ruling decisively, the UN took the middle ground by trying to
appease everyone but they failed to address the most important point by ordering
a ceasefire, instead making the case that Israel was possibly guilty of
genocide while not saying anything definitive. This ruling while celebrated in many
quarters ultimately meant nothing because there is no point in telling Israel
to “limit casualties” without telling them to cease hostilities entirely. It is
little wonder that the utility of the United Nations is being questioned when
it is clear that they are entirely toothless, gutless and spineless displaying
cowardice in the face of this affront to humanity by the State of Israel who
continues to operate an apartheid regime.
And speaking of
Apartheid, I must question why does the “international community” stand by and
allow Israel to commit such wanton violation of international law that they would never excuse if it were any
other country? All we hear Israel’s apologists talk about is Israel’s right to
exist and Israel’s right to defend itself. But what about Palestine’s right to exist?
what about Palestine’s right to defend itself? We often hear that it is anti-Semitic”
to utter the “from the River to the Sea” chant but somehow when Benjamin Netanyahu
literally uses that very phrase to explain his plan for ethnic cleansing of
Gaza, no one bats an eyelid.
I hate to break it to
the Zionist supporters out there but the purpose of the state is to serve the
welfare of all its people and any state that only serves one class of its
citizens at the expense of others, does NOT have the right to exist. There is
no justification for the creation and perpetuation of a Jewish state in the
Holy Land when that state is based on the idea that European descended Jews
have a God-given right to the land whereas African descended Jews from Ethiopia
and Eritrea are sterilized to prevent them from procreating. A better solution
would have been the creation of secular state where Jewish Palestinians, Muslim
Palestinians and Christian Palestinians could live side by side in peace. Interestingly
enough, King Hussein of Jordan had once made that very proposal once only to be
rebuffed, perhaps it would have been wiser to listen to the late Arab monarch
but in the light of strong Zionist ambition to claim everything “from the River
to the Sea”, this was not meant to be.
The Western world,
particularly the US continues to bandy the idea about of a two-state solution
to solve the problem, but this, like the ICJ ruling is an empty gesture because
Israel has made it clear that they have no intention of allowing the
Palestinians the dignity of establishing their own sovereign state. In any
other scenario, when faced with opposition to their foreign policy goals, the
US would often resort to harsher methods of negotiation in order achieve their
objective. What has the US done in response to this defiance by Israel? Have
they tried anything to get Israel to change course as they would in any other
case? Not at all, they gave them full backing to continue assaulting Gaza, a
policy that has been supported by the majority of both Democrats and
Republicans with those opposing it being branded as either far left (Democrats)
or far right (Republicans). I would posit however that it is the anti-war
extremists in both parties and are correct while the mainstream alliance of
neo-liberal and neo-conservative war hawks that are the problem. And then to
compound this, when Houthis from Yemen proceeded to block sea lanes to prevent
Israel from being rearmed to commit more genocide, the US and its NATO allies
proceeded to bomb Yemen (a poor country with limited resources) in order to strong-arm
the Houthis to break the blockade. By doing so, the message of NATO was clear,
shipping routes matter more to them than the lives of innocents being
slaughtered by the score and all this to protect Israel’s “right” to commit
more human rights violations. It should be noted that it would not have taken
much for the US to get Israel to change course, all they would have to do is
cut both financial and military aid to Israel until they comply. After all,
since they were willing to use force to get the Houthis to break the blockade,
then they can very well use sanctions to get the Zionist to break the siege and
thus the failure of the Biden admin to do so, renders them complicit.
Israel has long hidden
behind the Holocaust as a shield to justify their crimes, but anyone paying
attention should realise that what Israel is doing is NOT self-defence, the UN
charter in Article 2iv and Chapter 7 of the United Nations Charter sets out
clear rules for which use of force can be justified and what the Zionist state
is doing has gone well beyond that. It is high time that the world treat Israel
as the pariah that it is. Israel is NOT special (bear in mind that the 1948
Zionist state is not the same as the Davidic Kingdom of the Old Testament) and
Israel is NOT above the law of nations. Every nation is obliged to abide the
rules and norms of International law such as the UN Charter and as long as the
Zionist state continues to act with impunity the world should not coddle them but
acknowledge in clear and no uncertain terms that Israel is a problem.
