[News] Internationally consented, endless genocide

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Internationally consented, endless genocide
Atilio A. Boron - October 25, 2023
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There is an outrageous parallel between the courageous resistance of the
Jews in the Warsaw ghetto and that of the Palestinians in Gaza. Only the
name of the lord of death changes: Hitler before, Netanyahu now.
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   - Israeli occupation committing genocide in Gaza as the entire world
   turns a blind eye (Illustrated by Arwa Makki, Al Mayadeen English)

Humanity is facing one of its darkest nights, where nightmares illuminate
the tormented conscience of the living with faint gleams of light. Not all
of us suffer from this affliction, but I dare to say it affects most of us.
For the past two weeks, we have returned to the horrors of genocide. It is
true that, in an imperialist system such as the one we live in, this is a
recurrent practice. But very rarely does it occur on the massive scale we
are seeing these days, bombing Gaza, the third city on the planet with the
highest population density per square kilometer, behind Singapore and Hong
Kong.

The number of Palestinians killed in these attacks has already surpassed
6,000 persons in Gaza, the majority of which are children, elderly
individuals, and women, to which must be added over 100 Palestinians killed
in the West Bank. But this figure certainly underestimates the number of
casualties still lying under the rubble - impossible to remove for lack of
adequate equipment and fuel - of numerous buildings of all kinds: homes,
schools, temples, UN shelters, and hospitals attacked by the neo-Nazi
Israeli regime.

In the Washington-hegemonized West, the prevalent opinion is that this
brutal attack ordered by Netanyahu is the "justified response" to the
"indiscriminate murder" of civilians committed by Hamas when it infiltrated
occupied Palestinian territories. But this narrative completely overlooks
that this action, however repudiatory it may have been, was a response to
decades of continuous atrocities and human rights violations perpetrated,
without interruption, by all Israeli governments and by an entity, which,
by violating many UN Security Council resolutions, has become what is
legally called "rogue"; an entity whose policies, as the remarkable Israeli
journalist Gideon Levy recalled, led to the inhuman imprisonment of two
million people for almost twenty years, overcrowded and deprived of regular
supplies of water, food, electricity, medicines and the most elementary
inputs required for a civilized life. Nothing good could come from such
cruelty
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The history of this criminal ethnic cleansing goes back a long way. Let us
recall that from the very establishment of “Israel”, its government
destroyed a minimum of 500 Palestinian villages, provoking the beginning of
an endless torrent of refugees - 800,000 in the first months - whose homes
were demolished, their crops destroyed, and their lands stolen, and who
were forced to abandon the land of their ancestors. As time went by, "Tel
Aviv", with the undisguised backing of the United States and most of the
unworthy European governments, steadily pursued its policy of conquest and
territorial theft. Some 700,000 settlers settled on lands belonging to
Palestinian families with the full backing of the misnamed "Israeli Defense
Forces," which, in reality, are a brutal army of aggression and occupation
of parts of neighboring countries. These settlers have nothing to do with
the bucolic image spread by the corrupt press of the West, and it's no less
corrupt politicians and rulers. They are invaders, and groups that have
permanent military training who are in possession of weapons of war, and
permanently attack, mistreat, torture, and even kill Palestinians who dare
to resist their dispossession under the complacent gaze of the Israeli
authorities and security forces. This happens in an environment such as the
occupied territories where almost 7 million Palestinians live, to which
must be added almost 6 million more in the diaspora scattered around the
world.

The United States, Great Britain, and France vetoed the Security Council's
proposal to declare a ceasefire in Gaza. This proposal had been submitted
by Russia. The same happened with another proposal put forward the next day
by Brazil. Clearly, "Israel" is embarked on a course that is very similar
to the "final solution" proposed by Adolf Hitler to solve "the German
problem", namely, to exterminate all Jews. By a quirk of history, it is now
the supposed representative of the Jewish people, "Israel", which takes the
place of the Nazi regime and adopts its criminal genocidal policy as its
own. There is an outrageous parallel between the courageous resistance of
the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto and that of the Palestinians in Gaza. Only
the name of the lord of death changes: Hitler before, Netanyahu now.

A final note on the hypocrisy of the "Western democracies", which criticize
Hamas "terrorism" but beatifically close their eyes to the much more
serious Israeli "state terrorism". Not only that: these are the same
governments, starting with that of the United States, that recruited the
jihadist terrorists of Afghanistan, the Taliban; those of Al Qaeda and the
Islamic State (ISIS) to try to destabilize or overthrow governments that
were not to their liking in various parts of the world, primarily in Syria,
Iraq and Libya. In other words, when these groups play for the empire and
its minions, something amazing happens, and "terrorists" become virtuous
“freedom fighters”. And those who have the audacity to oppose imperial
oppression become ipso facto "terrorists", even if their only weapon is
words, as in the case of Heba Abu Nada, the Palestinian poetess, killed a
couple of days ago in one of the recent bombings on Gaza, and whose poetry
goes like this.

"The night in the city is dark, except for the glare of the missiles;

silent, except for the sound of bombing;

terrifying, except for the reassuring promise of prayer;

black, except for the light of the martyrs.

Good night."
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