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.