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On 2025-05-26 11:07 PM, NefeshBarYochai wrote:
May 20, 2025
by Eric Margolis
PARIS – The UN’s Under-Secretary-General just warned that 14,000 Palestinians children risk starving to death in the coming hours due
to the total Israeli blockade of food, medicines and water. Thousands
of other adults will also die due to famine or Israeli bombing in
coming days.
No amount of running old documentaries on Auschwitz or threatening pro-Palestinian protestors will cover up what the UN calls a `war
crime.’ Nor will threatening financial hardship on those who protest Israel’s savage repression of Gaza.
So far, Israel’s extreme right-wing government led by Benyamin
Netanyahu has rejected all calls to aid the 2.2 million starving or
injured Palestinians in the hellhole of Gaza. His government will
eventually bend a little in the face of outrage from France, Canada,
the UK, Australia and other western powers.
Meanwhile, Israel has run amok, becoming what Jewish author Arthur
Koestler called ‘a nasty little Sparta.’ The slaughter in Gaza would
not be happening without the prior connivance of the Biden
administration, which fell under the control of the rabid pro-Israel
neocons in Washington, and now Israel’s cheerleader, Donald Trump.
But Palestinians will continue to starve or die from US-supplied bombs dropped on refugee camps because Washington keeps blocking real action
to halt the mass killing. Jewish hostages in Gaza have been forgotten.
Interestingly – or shockingly – the rest of the Arab League has only issued little peeps of criticism over the slaughter in Gaza, with the exception of remote, impoverished Yemen, which was heavily bombed by
the US and Israel. President Trump’s visit this week to the obedient
Gulf states showed once again how the west has re-colonialized most of
the Arab world and brought it to heel.
Meanwhile, Israel and the US keep talking about ‘transfer’ of 2.2
million Palestinians from Gaza to someplace else. For a while in the
1930’s Ethiopia and Kenya featured as key deportation centers for Germany’s Jews. When National Socialists (aka Nazis, a British
propaganda creation) spoke of moving Germany’s Jews to other remote countries, they were scourged as horrid racists by the Brits and
Americans. But today the US and UK are doing something similar with
their efforts to expel third worlders and Latinos or move them to
Albania, Zimbabwe or Libya.
Israel’s far rightists – ‘Jewish Nazis’ in the words of the late, great Israeli columnist Uri Avnery – aim to kill as many Palestinians
as possible to limit their future reproduction. They are determined to
thwart creation of a long-overdue Palestinian state, and seized lands occupied by West Bank Palestinians. These could include much ofh
Lebanon and Syria, and possibly Iraq’s oil producing regions, and even
some of Saudi Arabia’s northern territories.
Many of the one million former Soviet citizens who moved to Israel
thanks to US financial help will recall Stalin’s infamous saying, ‘no man, no problem.’ But following in the footsteps of Heinrich Himmler
and the Stalinist mass murderers in Ukraine, is ‘worse than a crime’,
to paraphrase Talleyrand, a ‘mistake.’
Many Israelis want to be rid of the Netanyahu government and end the
mass killing of Palestinians. Former Israeli prime minister Ehud
Olmert speaks for them. The western powers should ensure he returns to office.
The REAL mistake in all this was Hamas' attack on Israel on Oct 7, 2023 (preceded by an even bigger mistake: the "Palestinians" complete
rejection of the path to living in peace with Israel.) Hamas played the
game of FAFO (Fuck Around and Find Out) with Israel and is losing very
VERY badly - and deservedly so. Hamas can end the suffering of its
people at any time by laying down their arms and returning the hostages
but they want to keep fighting. The suffering is entirely their choice. Speaking of choices, it was Hamas' choice to situate rocket batteries
and other arms in civilian areas like hospitals and schools, not
Israel's. That is just another in a long list of bad choices they've made.
Israel surrendered the entire Gaza Strip to the "Palestinians" and even
vacated their settlements from there almost 20 years ago. Many millions
of dollars poured into Gaza to help it build a peaceful, prosperous
society. But that money was poured into tunnels, weapons, and training
so they could make war on Israel (or siphoned into the personal bank
accounts of the top Hamas leadership living luxurious lives in Qatar).
It didn't have to be that way. They could have built a Riviera in Gaza
if they'd wanted to and lived in peace with their neighbours but they
chose war instead. Now their bad choices are catching up with them.
Here's hoping the next leaders of Gaza make wiser choices!
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Rhino
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