Genocide – Western Support
Updated 2024-08-25
2024-06-03 The Comma That Erases Genocide Israel wants to muddy the waters — as it always does — so it can carry on with its genocide, writes Jonathan Cook. Here’s an example of how the Western media help it along. Israel’s claim that a single comma exempts it from having to respect the International Court of Justice’s order on May 24 to immediately halt its murderous attack on Rafah should be ridiculed.
Instead it is being given space to breathe by complicit media like The Guardian. The paper’s diplomatic editor offers an “analysis” that takes seriously claims by Israel and the two judges at the ICJ — one an Israeli — who dissented from the ruling approved by the other 13. They argue the following:
“The world is wrong to think that the ICJ has required Israel to halt its Rafah assault and any actions elsewhere in Gaza that are genocidal. Instead, a comma in the text qualifies the ruling to mean the court wants Israel to halt its actions in Rafah and elsewhere only if they are genocidal. Because Israel’s actions are not genocidal, the court is not, in fact, asking Israel to halt anything.” https://consortiumnews.com/2024/06/03/the-comma-that-erases-genocide/
2024-05-25 Palestine Talks | In conversation with Max Blumenthal (Part 1) In the first of this two-part interview, investigative journalist at The Grayzone and author Max Blumenthal discusses the “genocidal” nature of the Democratic Party, in relation to its support for Israel’s campaign of violence against Palestine. While citing several concrete examples he also illuminates troublesome connections between American mainstream media, government and Israel, including how they work in tandem to vilify Palestinians and mislead the public. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g53T-x1o4OU&list=PLUW304lJeu3Vg_nM0WQfWDZTDyu6h6PlD&index=1&t=584s
2023-10-30 Biden Is a Genocide Denier and the “Enabler in Chief” for Israel’s Ongoing War Crimes For three weeks, President Biden has played a key role in backing Israel’s war crimes while touting himself as a compassionate advocate of restraint. That pretense is lethal nonsense as Israel persists with mass killing of civilians in Gaza. The same crucial standards that fully condemned Hamas’s murders of Israeli civilians on Oct. 7 should apply to Israel’s ongoing murders that have already taken the lives of at least several times as many Palestinian civilians. And Israel is just getting started.
“We need an immediate ceasefire,” Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib wrote in an email Saturday evening, “but the White House and Congress continue to unconditionally support the Israeli government’s genocidal actions.” That unconditional support makes Biden and the vast majority of Congress directly complicit with mass murder and genocide, defined as “the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group.” The definition clearly fits the words and deeds of Israel’s leaders.https://rootsaction.org/news-a-views/3226-biden-is-a-genocide-denier-and-the-enabler-in-chief-for-israels-ongoing-war-crimes
2023-10-30 Israel-Palestine war: Will the West choose genocide or peace? I used to believe in the West as a part of the world that valued human rights, unlike countries such as China and Russia. I was wrong. This war has shown the true face of the West: pure racism. How can the West express shock over the terrorism that unfolded in Israel’s south, while in the same breath encouraging Israel to continue killing Palestinians in Gaza? Killing cannot be justified as a response to killing. Generations to come will no longer rely on the West to deliver justice for them. Western countries have turned their backs on the Gaza prison camp for more than 16 years. But without a just political solution, this conflict will not disappear.
Twenty days into Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, thousands of people have been killed, with the death toll climbing each hour – and still, the West remains silent. Over the course of my career, I have covered Israel’s repeated massacres in Gaza, its violent occupation of the West Bank, and the introduction of racist laws targeting Palestinian citizens of Israel. But I have never witnessed a war like this. Despite the fear, trauma and shock of the 7 October Hamas attack, Israel has crossed many red lines in its disproportionate response. The country has entered a genocidal state of mind – and it will be hard to go back.
In a recent interview with Al Jazeera, former Knesset member Moshe Feiglin said the only solution is the “complete destruction of Gaza … destruction like in Dresden and Hiroshima, without a nuclear weapon”. Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has likened Palestinians to “human animals”, imposing collective punishment on millions of civilians, and vowed to “wipe this thing called Hamas, ISIS-Gaza, off the face of the earth”. He has made these threats to a population of 2.3 million people in Gaza who have been under a crippling siege for 16 years, with the UN warning the territory would already be considered uninhabitable by 2020. Researcher Eliyahu Yossian, who has been dubbed “the new star of this war”, has made some of the most savage comments, asserting: “You have to enter Gaza at the height of brutality, with the aim of revenge, zero morality, maximum corpses.” It is a call to finish off Gaza – to leave no one alive. https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-war-will-west-choose-genocide-or-peace
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