I’ve not yet posted anything about the recent “mowing the lawn” that the state of Israel is waging presently (and is always cycling through since 1947 and 1967) against the oppressed citizens of the still presently unrecognized state of Palestine. This since the very beginning, I’ve kept up to the minute and have viewed some of the most horrific scenes since and still every day after the previous. Entire families exterminated, every member of a family save but for a few. Horrific scenes of inhuman carnage and the murdered and maimed children. Recall that the Palestinians forced into the enclosed, open air prison of the densely populated 'city' that is the Gaza Strip, with their three different 'passports', are accorded no rights, not even the rights of prisoners. Gaza's population of children is approximately half of the entire population. According to the best measures of UNICEF, of the entire population 45% are children, and 44% are refugees.
I’m not sure that I’ve seen anything quite like visiting the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at around six-years-old or so, an experience that will not leave me until I die. The Shoah (The Holocaust) occurred decades and decades before I was alive, and the remnants of it haunt me when I remember it, such as now. What we’re witnessing right now every day is the Israeli state’s (the most racist and fascist since I’ve been alive and followed it) colonial genocide waged against the most oppressed human beings alive right now. Where's our Tikkun olam? The Palestinians have been being murdered since The Balfour Declaration and the ethnic cleansing and colonial extermination of the indigenous Palestinians which culminated in the Nakba of 1948. This grotesque and inhuman genocide is to this very day proceeding with no objection by the so-called United States (but rather, is actually in full support and quietly arming and escalating the genocidal assault) is the only nation state in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), and a permanent one, that could condemn and even allow for the ICC, (of which, the so-called United States has always voted against its recognition, for the obvious and transparent For Reasons of State) to prosecute the perpetrators functioning within the ever more fascistic Israeli state, of which the former Israeli State’s Foreign Minister, Schlomo Ben-Ami, would himself condemn. Yet the so-called United States is the only UN member that could alter the genocide by ceasing to reject the positions voted in favor of by essentially the entire General Assembly and the other permanent members of the Security Council, being one of the permanent members of the UNSC.
I’ve recently been uplifted by witnessing the mass opposition to the so-called United States’ unconditional and inhuman support of the state of Israel’s ongoing colonial genocide, perhaps the historical residues of the original genocidal campaign of the colonial Europeans waged against the Indigenous of the Americas. The masses of people who take to the streets in protest all across the world, are the only force alive that has the possible, essential, and necessary force to alter the course of the so-called United States' executive, legislative and judicial branches, more towards the actually ethical and human.
Shall I mention the fact that the so-called United States has not and still refuses to publicly acknowledge the state of Israel’s large thermonuclear arsenal. Given that under U.S. Code (law) itself declares that it is illegal to support a nuclear state in providing aid (military aid more specifically). Let’s not for now get in-depth into the United Nations and the most heinous international crimes, Apartheid and colonial genocide, with the staunchest support from the so-called United States, perhaps the historical residues of the European colonial and genocidal occupation of the Americas.
Bibliography
Chomsky, Noam, Pappe, Illan, (2015). On Palestine. Haymarket Books.
Finkelstein, Norman, (2018). Gaza: An Inquest Into Its Martyrdom. University of California Press.
Khalidi, Rashid, (2020). The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine. Metropolitan Books.
There
are myriad more, but these three are essential.
One ought to read Edward Said as well, among so many others, such as Tariq Ali, Arundhati Roy, the Israeli journalists Amira Hass and Gideon Levy at least.
