10-10-2023, 07:18 AM
SOMEONE HAS TO SET AN ALARM AND SIRENS TO WARN THE UMMAH OF THE ONSET OF A DAJJALIC WAR. THE HAMAS ATTACK ON ZIONIST ISRAEL NOT ONLY SEEMS TO BE THE ISRAELI 9/11 BUT WAS INDEED A REAL 9/11. INFORMATION HAS LANDED ON OUR DESK CONFIRMING THAT THE ZIONISTS WERE ALERTED BY EGYPT VIA FM SISI OF A MAJOR ASSAULT FROM GAZA. BUT THEY TOOK NO ACTION. EERY PARALLELS WITH THE 9/11 ATTACKS IN THE USA. THEY HAD FOREWARNING BUT LET IT HAPPEN. SO WAS THIS TO TRAP HAMAS INITIALLY BUT ALSO TO TRIGGER A REGIONAL OR WIDER WAR?
WE NEED TO TYPE OUT A DISCLAIMER IN TERMS OF WHAT WE MEAN BY 9/11. THE MSM NARRATIVE IS TO LABEL AND BLAME ALL THE EVENTS ON 9/11 ONTO FOREIGN MUSLIM ENEMY FORCES AS THE CAUSE. THIS WAS TO DEHUMANISE ARABS, MUSLIMS AND ISLAM WITH TERRORISM AND HAVE A CASUS BELLUM FOR THE GWOT. LIKEWISE THE ZIONIST ISRAELI ROGUE STATE IS MANIPULATING THE HAMAS ATTACKS TO WAGE A BRUTAL AND CRUEL WAR ON GAZA WHICH MAY TRANSFORM INTO A REGIONAL IF NOT WORLD WAR.
SOMEONE HAS TO SET AN ALARM AND SIRENS TO WARN THE UMMAH OF THE ONSET OF A DAJJALIC WAR. THE HAMAS ATTACK ON ZIONIST ISRAEL NOT ONLY SEEMS TO BE THE ISRAELI 9/11 BUT WAS INDEED A REAL 9/11. INFORMATION HAS LANDED ON OUR DESK CONFIRMING THAT THE ZIONISTS WERE ALERTED BY EGYPT VIA FM SISI OF A MAJOR ASSAULT FROM GAZA. BUT THEY TOOK NO ACTION. EERY PARALLELS WITH THE 9/11 ATTACKS IN THE USA. THEY HAD FOREWARNING BUT LET IT HAPPEN. SO WAS THIS TO TRAP HAMAS INITIALLY BUT ALSO TO TRIGGER A REGIONAL OR WIDER WAR?
WE NEED TO TYPE OUT A DISCLAIMER IN TERMS OF WHAT WE MEAN BY 9/11. THE MSM NARRATIVE IS TO LABEL AND BLAME ALL THE EVENTS ON 9/11 ONTO FOREIGN MUSLIM ENEMY FORCES AS THE CAUSE. THIS WAS TO DEHUMANISE ARABS, MUSLIMS AND ISLAM WITH TERRORISM AND HAVE A CASUS BELLI FOR THE GWOT. LIKEWISE THE ZIONIST ISRAELI ROGUE STATE IS MANIPULATING THE HAMAS ATTACKS TO WAGE A BRUTAL AND CRUEL WAR ON GAZA WHICH MAY TRANSFORM INTO A REGIONAL IF NOT WORLD WAR.
WE MUST STOP THE GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS BY THE CRUEL EVIL DAJALLIC ZIONIST GLOBALISTS. WE MUST END THE DIABOLIC DESTRUCTION OF THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST WHICH IS THE CRADLE OF CIVILISATIONS AND THE WORLD BY STOPPING WORLD WAR 3. THE BATTLE TO SAVE HUMANITY AND CIVILISATION HAS STEPPED UP DRAMATICALLY. YOU NEED TO DECIDE WHOSE SIDE YOU ARE ON?
EGYPT ISSUED ADVANCE WARNING TO ISRAEL 10 DAYS PRIOR TO ONGING SITUATION
US AIRCRAFT CARRIER AND JETS DEPLOYED TO SUPPORT ISRAEL
ISRAEL CALLS UP 300,000 RESERVISTS TO JOIN FORCES IMMEDIATELY
ISRAEL ADOPTS DIFFERENT APPROACHES IN CRAFTING NEXT STRATEGY AND PLAN
ISRAEL CONTEMPLATES UTILITY CUTS
RAMZAN KADYROV TO DISPATCH HIS TRAINED TEAM TO ISRAEL
UK DEPLOYS TWO WARSHIPS TO THE MIDDLE EAST IN SUPPORT OF ISRAEL
SITUATIONAL SHIFT IN ISRAEL FOLLOWING US AND UK SUPPORT
GAZA FIGHTS BACK: AL AQSA FLOOD SHAKES THE WORLD
IS THE HAMAS ATTACK ON ISRAEL ANOTHER PEARL HARBOUR TYPE PSY OP TO START WW3?
https://www.truth11.com/is-the-attack-on...-start-ww3
Henry Makow
The globalists need a world war to cover up their COVID-19 [vaccine] genocide and to prevent Trump from winning in 2024.
"The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of the Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other." Albert Pike's 1871 letter to Giuseppe Mazzini
The claim that the attack was a surprise is the biggest tell that this war was contrived by Israel. Indeed Netanyahu called it a "Pearl Harbor moment" referring to another false flag used to justify the US entry into World War Two. Is this war designed to touch off WW3?
Veterans of Israeli intelligence say there is no way this attack was a surprise. The Israelis have informers in Gaza. They monitor it electronically. They must have known this was coming and decided to sacrifice hundreds of Israelis for political ends. They did the same thing in 1973.
It's a cliche that politicians start wars to effect change. Netanyahu needed a war to unite a nation badly divided by his judicial reforms. The WEF/Rothschilds/Communists need a war to evade responsibility for the creeping COVID-19 genocide and to stop Trump in 2024. They also need a distraction from the fact that the banking system is bankrupt and broken, and the Ukraine war has been a debacle.
The worst-case scenario is that Israelis will overreact and arouse the anger of the Muslim world who would then intervene, and fulfill Albert Pike's prophecy.
IS ISRAELI SUFFERING A CAUSE TO REJOICE?
We should distinguish between the policies of the right-wing Israeli government and the beliefs of individual Israelis who have no more control over their government than we do.
We have been fed a daily diet of Israeli abuse of the Palestinians - settlers burning olive orchards, snipers shooting children. An Israeli mob just overran the Al Aqsa mosque.
I think most Israelis would adopt a two-state solution given the chance.
Israelis are being victimized again by their own government. Jews had to be tricked into invading Palestine by the Zionists who sponsored anti-Semitism and Hitler.
Source: https://www.news24.com/news24/albert-pike-the-3-world-wars-20130628
Original Article: https://henrymakow.com/2023/10/oct-8--is-gaza-a-psy-op-to-sta.html
THE WEST’s HYPOCRISY TOWARDS GAZA’s BREAKOUT IS STOMACH TURNING
Jonathan Cook
There will be little sympathy in the West as, yet again, besieged Palestinians are bombed by Israel, the immense suffering justified by the term ‘Israeli retaliation’
Palestinian civilians in wait as rescue efforts continue among the rubble of the Ebu Dakka building, destroyed by Israeli fighter jets in Khan Younis, Gaza, on 7 October 2023 (Reuters)
The current outpouring of sympathy for Israel should make anyone with half a heart wretch.
Not because it is not awful that Israeli civilians are dying and suffering in such large numbers.
But because Palestinian civilians in Gaza have faced repeated rampages from Israel decade after decade, producing far more suffering, but have never elicited a fraction of the concern currently being expressed by western politicians or publics.
The West’s hypocrisy over Palestinian fighters killing and wounding hundreds of Israelis and holding dozens more hostage in communities surrounding and inside besieged Gaza is stark indeed.
This is the first time Palestinians, caged in the coastal enclave, have managed to inflict a significant strike against Israel vaguely comparable to the savagery Palestinians in Gaza have faced repeatedly since they were entombed in a cage more than 15 years ago, when Israel began its blockade by land, sea and air in 2007.
Western media are calling the jailbreak and attack by Palestinians from Gaza “unprecedented” – and the most dismal intelligence failing by Israel since it was caught off-guard during the Yom Kippur War exactly 50 years ago.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Hamas, which nominally runs the open-air prison of Gaza, of starting “a cruel and evil war”. But the truth is that the Palestinians have “started” nothing. They have managed, after so much struggle, to find a way to hurt their tormentor.
Inevitably for the Palestinians, as Netanyahu also observed, “the price will be heavy” – especially for civilians. Israel will inflict on the prisoners the severest punishment for their impudence.
Watch how little sympathy and concern there will be from the West for the many Palestinian men, women and children who are killed once again by Israel. Their immense suffering will be obscured, and justified, by the term “Israeli retaliation”.
The real lessons
All the current analysis focusing on Israel’s intelligence “blunders” distracts from the real lesson of these rapidly evolving events. No one really cared while Gaza’s Palestinans were subjected to a blockade imposed by Israel that denied them the essentials of life. The few dozen Israelis being held hostage by Hamas fighters pale in comparison with the two million Palestinians held hostage by Israel in an open-air prison for nearly two decades.
No one really cared when it emerged that Gaza’s Palestinians had been put on a “starvation diet” by Israel – only limited food was allowed in, calculated to keep the population barely fed.
No one really cared when Israel bombed the coastal enclave every few years, killing many hundreds of Palestinian civilians each time. Israel simply called it “mowing the lawn”. The destruction of vast areas of Gaza, what Israeli generals boasted of as returning the enclave to the Stone Age, was formalised as a military strategy known as the “Dahiya doctrine“.
No one really cared when Israeli snipers targeted nurses, youngsters and people in wheelchairs who came out to protest against their imprisonment by Israel. Many thousands were left as amputees after those snipers received orders to shoot the protesters indiscriminately in the legs or ankles.
Western concern at the deaths of Israeli civilians at the hands of Palestinian fighters is hard to stomach. Have not many hundreds of Palestinian children died over the past 15 years in Israel’s repeated bombing campaigns on Gaza? Did their lives not count as much as Israeli lives – and if not, why not?
After so much indifference for so long, it is difficult to hear the sudden horror from western governments and media because Palestinians have finally found a way – mirroring Israel’s inhumane, decades-long policy – to fight back effectively.
This moment rips off the mask and lays bare the undisguised racism that masquerades as moral concern in western capitals.
Hypocrisy distilled
Distilling that hypocrisy is Volodymr Zelenskiy, Ukraine‘s president. At the weekend, he issued a lengthy tweet condemning Palestinians as “terrorists” and offering Israel his unwavering support.
He averred that “Israel’s right to self-defense is unquestionable”, adding: “The world must stand united and in solidarity so that terror does not attempt to break or subjugate life anywhere and at any moment.”
The inversion of reality is breath-taking. The Palestinians cannot “subjugate life” in Israel. They have no such power, even if a few briefly managed to break out of their cage. It is Israel that has been subjugating Palestinian life for decades.
Not all forms of “terrorism”, it seems, are equal in the eyes of Zelenskiy, or his patrons in western capitals. Certainly, not the state terrorism of Israel that has made Palestinian lives a misery for decades.
How does Israel have an “unquestionable right” to “defend itself” from the Palestinians whose territory it occupies and controls? Israel, the much stronger, belligerent party, is now laying waste to Gaza “in retaliation”, as the BBC puts it, for the latest Palestinian attack.
So on what grounds will Zelenskiy or his officials be able to condemn Moscow when it fires missiles “in retaliation” for Ukraine’s strikes on Russian territory? How, if Palestinian resistance to Israel’s occupation of Gaza is terrorism, as Zelenskiy asserts, is Ukrainain resistance to Russian occupation not equally terrorism?
No hiding place
By indulging Israel in its deceptions, Israel’s allies have allowed it to perpetrate ever more outrageous lies. At the weekend, Netanyahu warned Palestinians in Gaza to “leave now” because Israeli forces were preparing to “act with all force”.
But Netanyahu knows, as do his western enablers, that Gaza’s population has nowhere to flee. There is no hiding place. Palestinians have been sealed into Gaza since Israel besieged it by land, sea and air.
The only Palestinians able to “leave Gaza” are the armed factions who broke out of their Israeli-imposed jail and are being denounced as “terrorists” by western politicians and media.
Western governments so horrified by the Palestinian attack on Israel are also the governments that are remaining silent as Israel turns off the electricity to the prison that is Gaza – again in supposed “retaliation”.
The collective punishment of two million Palestinians in Gaza, dependent on Israel for power because Israel surrounds and controls every aspect of their lives in the enclave, is a war crime.
Strangely, western officials understand it is a war crime when Russia bombs power stations in Ukraine, turning off the lights. They scream for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be dragged to the International Criminal Court in the Hague. So why is it so difficult for them to understand the parallels of what Israel is doing to Gaza?
Daring escape
There are two immediate, and contrasting, lessons to be learnt from what has happened this weekend. The first is that the human spirit cannot be caged indefinitely. Palestinians in Gaza have been constantly devising new ways to break free from their chains.
They have built a network of tunnels, most of which Israel has located and destroyed. They have fired rockets that are invariably shot down by ever more sophisticated interception systems. They have protested en masse at the heavily fortified fences, topped by guntowers, Israel surrounded them with – only to be shot by snipers.
Now they have staged a daring escape. Israel will batter the enclave back into submission with massive bombardments, but only “in retaliation”, of course. The Palestinians’ craving for freedom and dignity will not be diminished. Another form of resistance, doubtless more brutal still, will emerge.
And the parties most responsible for that brutality will be Israel and the West that supports it so lavishly, because Israel refuses to stop brutalising the Palestinians it forces to live under its rule.
nullA Palestinian child takes shelter with his family at a school affiliated with the United Nations due to Israeli bombardments in Gaza City on 8 October 2023 (Reuters)
The second lesson is that Israel, endlessly indulged by its western patrons, still has no incentive to internalise the fundamental truth above. The rhetoric of its current government of facists and Jewish supremacists may be particularly ugly, but there is a broad consensus among Israelis of all political stripes that the Palestinians must continue to be oppressed.
Which is why the so-called opposition will not hesitate to support the military pounding of the long besieged enclave of Gaza, killing yet more Palestinian civilians to “teach them a lesson”, a lesson no one in Israel can articulate beyond asserting that Palestinians must accept their permanent inferiority and imprisonment.
Already, the “good Israelis” – opposition leaders Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz – are in discussions with Neyanyahu to join him in an “emergency unity government”.
What “emergency”? The emergency of Palestinians demanding the right not to live as prisoners in their own homeland.
Israelis and westerners can continue their mental gymnastics to justify the Palestinians’ oppression and refuse them any right to resist. But their hypocrisy and self-deceptions stand exposed for the rest of the world to see.
WE NEED TO TYPE OUT A DISCLAIMER IN TERMS OF WHAT WE MEAN BY 9/11. THE MSM NARRATIVE IS TO LABEL AND BLAME ALL THE EVENTS ON 9/11 ONTO FOREIGN MUSLIM ENEMY FORCES AS THE CAUSE. THIS WAS TO DEHUMANISE ARABS, MUSLIMS AND ISLAM WITH TERRORISM AND HAVE A CASUS BELLUM FOR THE GWOT. LIKEWISE THE ZIONIST ISRAELI ROGUE STATE IS MANIPULATING THE HAMAS ATTACKS TO WAGE A BRUTAL AND CRUEL WAR ON GAZA WHICH MAY TRANSFORM INTO A REGIONAL IF NOT WORLD WAR.
SOMEONE HAS TO SET AN ALARM AND SIRENS TO WARN THE UMMAH OF THE ONSET OF A DAJJALIC WAR. THE HAMAS ATTACK ON ZIONIST ISRAEL NOT ONLY SEEMS TO BE THE ISRAELI 9/11 BUT WAS INDEED A REAL 9/11. INFORMATION HAS LANDED ON OUR DESK CONFIRMING THAT THE ZIONISTS WERE ALERTED BY EGYPT VIA FM SISI OF A MAJOR ASSAULT FROM GAZA. BUT THEY TOOK NO ACTION. EERY PARALLELS WITH THE 9/11 ATTACKS IN THE USA. THEY HAD FOREWARNING BUT LET IT HAPPEN. SO WAS THIS TO TRAP HAMAS INITIALLY BUT ALSO TO TRIGGER A REGIONAL OR WIDER WAR?
WE NEED TO TYPE OUT A DISCLAIMER IN TERMS OF WHAT WE MEAN BY 9/11. THE MSM NARRATIVE IS TO LABEL AND BLAME ALL THE EVENTS ON 9/11 ONTO FOREIGN MUSLIM ENEMY FORCES AS THE CAUSE. THIS WAS TO DEHUMANISE ARABS, MUSLIMS AND ISLAM WITH TERRORISM AND HAVE A CASUS BELLI FOR THE GWOT. LIKEWISE THE ZIONIST ISRAELI ROGUE STATE IS MANIPULATING THE HAMAS ATTACKS TO WAGE A BRUTAL AND CRUEL WAR ON GAZA WHICH MAY TRANSFORM INTO A REGIONAL IF NOT WORLD WAR.
WE MUST STOP THE GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS BY THE CRUEL EVIL DAJALLIC ZIONIST GLOBALISTS. WE MUST END THE DIABOLIC DESTRUCTION OF THE GREATER MIDDLE EAST WHICH IS THE CRADLE OF CIVILISATIONS AND THE WORLD BY STOPPING WORLD WAR 3. THE BATTLE TO SAVE HUMANITY AND CIVILISATION HAS STEPPED UP DRAMATICALLY. YOU NEED TO DECIDE WHOSE SIDE YOU ARE ON?
EGYPT ISSUED ADVANCE WARNING TO ISRAEL 10 DAYS PRIOR TO ONGING SITUATION
US AIRCRAFT CARRIER AND JETS DEPLOYED TO SUPPORT ISRAEL
ISRAEL CALLS UP 300,000 RESERVISTS TO JOIN FORCES IMMEDIATELY
ISRAEL ADOPTS DIFFERENT APPROACHES IN CRAFTING NEXT STRATEGY AND PLAN
ISRAEL CONTEMPLATES UTILITY CUTS
RAMZAN KADYROV TO DISPATCH HIS TRAINED TEAM TO ISRAEL
UK DEPLOYS TWO WARSHIPS TO THE MIDDLE EAST IN SUPPORT OF ISRAEL
SITUATIONAL SHIFT IN ISRAEL FOLLOWING US AND UK SUPPORT
GAZA FIGHTS BACK: AL AQSA FLOOD SHAKES THE WORLD
IS THE HAMAS ATTACK ON ISRAEL ANOTHER PEARL HARBOUR TYPE PSY OP TO START WW3?
https://www.truth11.com/is-the-attack-on...-start-ww3
Henry Makow
The globalists need a world war to cover up their COVID-19 [vaccine] genocide and to prevent Trump from winning in 2024.
"The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by "agentur" of the "Illuminati" between the political Zionists and the leaders of the Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other." Albert Pike's 1871 letter to Giuseppe Mazzini
The claim that the attack was a surprise is the biggest tell that this war was contrived by Israel. Indeed Netanyahu called it a "Pearl Harbor moment" referring to another false flag used to justify the US entry into World War Two. Is this war designed to touch off WW3?
Veterans of Israeli intelligence say there is no way this attack was a surprise. The Israelis have informers in Gaza. They monitor it electronically. They must have known this was coming and decided to sacrifice hundreds of Israelis for political ends. They did the same thing in 1973.
It's a cliche that politicians start wars to effect change. Netanyahu needed a war to unite a nation badly divided by his judicial reforms. The WEF/Rothschilds/Communists need a war to evade responsibility for the creeping COVID-19 genocide and to stop Trump in 2024. They also need a distraction from the fact that the banking system is bankrupt and broken, and the Ukraine war has been a debacle.
The worst-case scenario is that Israelis will overreact and arouse the anger of the Muslim world who would then intervene, and fulfill Albert Pike's prophecy.
IS ISRAELI SUFFERING A CAUSE TO REJOICE?
We should distinguish between the policies of the right-wing Israeli government and the beliefs of individual Israelis who have no more control over their government than we do.
We have been fed a daily diet of Israeli abuse of the Palestinians - settlers burning olive orchards, snipers shooting children. An Israeli mob just overran the Al Aqsa mosque.
I think most Israelis would adopt a two-state solution given the chance.
Israelis are being victimized again by their own government. Jews had to be tricked into invading Palestine by the Zionists who sponsored anti-Semitism and Hitler.
Source: https://www.news24.com/news24/albert-pike-the-3-world-wars-20130628
Original Article: https://henrymakow.com/2023/10/oct-8--is-gaza-a-psy-op-to-sta.html
THE WEST’s HYPOCRISY TOWARDS GAZA’s BREAKOUT IS STOMACH TURNING
Jonathan Cook
There will be little sympathy in the West as, yet again, besieged Palestinians are bombed by Israel, the immense suffering justified by the term ‘Israeli retaliation’
Palestinian civilians in wait as rescue efforts continue among the rubble of the Ebu Dakka building, destroyed by Israeli fighter jets in Khan Younis, Gaza, on 7 October 2023 (Reuters)
The current outpouring of sympathy for Israel should make anyone with half a heart wretch.
Not because it is not awful that Israeli civilians are dying and suffering in such large numbers.
But because Palestinian civilians in Gaza have faced repeated rampages from Israel decade after decade, producing far more suffering, but have never elicited a fraction of the concern currently being expressed by western politicians or publics.
The West’s hypocrisy over Palestinian fighters killing and wounding hundreds of Israelis and holding dozens more hostage in communities surrounding and inside besieged Gaza is stark indeed.
This is the first time Palestinians, caged in the coastal enclave, have managed to inflict a significant strike against Israel vaguely comparable to the savagery Palestinians in Gaza have faced repeatedly since they were entombed in a cage more than 15 years ago, when Israel began its blockade by land, sea and air in 2007.
Western media are calling the jailbreak and attack by Palestinians from Gaza “unprecedented” – and the most dismal intelligence failing by Israel since it was caught off-guard during the Yom Kippur War exactly 50 years ago.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Hamas, which nominally runs the open-air prison of Gaza, of starting “a cruel and evil war”. But the truth is that the Palestinians have “started” nothing. They have managed, after so much struggle, to find a way to hurt their tormentor.
Inevitably for the Palestinians, as Netanyahu also observed, “the price will be heavy” – especially for civilians. Israel will inflict on the prisoners the severest punishment for their impudence.
Watch how little sympathy and concern there will be from the West for the many Palestinian men, women and children who are killed once again by Israel. Their immense suffering will be obscured, and justified, by the term “Israeli retaliation”.
The real lessons
All the current analysis focusing on Israel’s intelligence “blunders” distracts from the real lesson of these rapidly evolving events. No one really cared while Gaza’s Palestinans were subjected to a blockade imposed by Israel that denied them the essentials of life. The few dozen Israelis being held hostage by Hamas fighters pale in comparison with the two million Palestinians held hostage by Israel in an open-air prison for nearly two decades.
No one really cared when it emerged that Gaza’s Palestinians had been put on a “starvation diet” by Israel – only limited food was allowed in, calculated to keep the population barely fed.
No one really cared when Israel bombed the coastal enclave every few years, killing many hundreds of Palestinian civilians each time. Israel simply called it “mowing the lawn”. The destruction of vast areas of Gaza, what Israeli generals boasted of as returning the enclave to the Stone Age, was formalised as a military strategy known as the “Dahiya doctrine“.
No one really cared when Israeli snipers targeted nurses, youngsters and people in wheelchairs who came out to protest against their imprisonment by Israel. Many thousands were left as amputees after those snipers received orders to shoot the protesters indiscriminately in the legs or ankles.
Western concern at the deaths of Israeli civilians at the hands of Palestinian fighters is hard to stomach. Have not many hundreds of Palestinian children died over the past 15 years in Israel’s repeated bombing campaigns on Gaza? Did their lives not count as much as Israeli lives – and if not, why not?
After so much indifference for so long, it is difficult to hear the sudden horror from western governments and media because Palestinians have finally found a way – mirroring Israel’s inhumane, decades-long policy – to fight back effectively.
This moment rips off the mask and lays bare the undisguised racism that masquerades as moral concern in western capitals.
Hypocrisy distilled
Distilling that hypocrisy is Volodymr Zelenskiy, Ukraine‘s president. At the weekend, he issued a lengthy tweet condemning Palestinians as “terrorists” and offering Israel his unwavering support.
He averred that “Israel’s right to self-defense is unquestionable”, adding: “The world must stand united and in solidarity so that terror does not attempt to break or subjugate life anywhere and at any moment.”
The inversion of reality is breath-taking. The Palestinians cannot “subjugate life” in Israel. They have no such power, even if a few briefly managed to break out of their cage. It is Israel that has been subjugating Palestinian life for decades.
Not all forms of “terrorism”, it seems, are equal in the eyes of Zelenskiy, or his patrons in western capitals. Certainly, not the state terrorism of Israel that has made Palestinian lives a misery for decades.
How does Israel have an “unquestionable right” to “defend itself” from the Palestinians whose territory it occupies and controls? Israel, the much stronger, belligerent party, is now laying waste to Gaza “in retaliation”, as the BBC puts it, for the latest Palestinian attack.
So on what grounds will Zelenskiy or his officials be able to condemn Moscow when it fires missiles “in retaliation” for Ukraine’s strikes on Russian territory? How, if Palestinian resistance to Israel’s occupation of Gaza is terrorism, as Zelenskiy asserts, is Ukrainain resistance to Russian occupation not equally terrorism?
No hiding place
By indulging Israel in its deceptions, Israel’s allies have allowed it to perpetrate ever more outrageous lies. At the weekend, Netanyahu warned Palestinians in Gaza to “leave now” because Israeli forces were preparing to “act with all force”.
But Netanyahu knows, as do his western enablers, that Gaza’s population has nowhere to flee. There is no hiding place. Palestinians have been sealed into Gaza since Israel besieged it by land, sea and air.
The only Palestinians able to “leave Gaza” are the armed factions who broke out of their Israeli-imposed jail and are being denounced as “terrorists” by western politicians and media.
Western governments so horrified by the Palestinian attack on Israel are also the governments that are remaining silent as Israel turns off the electricity to the prison that is Gaza – again in supposed “retaliation”.
The collective punishment of two million Palestinians in Gaza, dependent on Israel for power because Israel surrounds and controls every aspect of their lives in the enclave, is a war crime.
Strangely, western officials understand it is a war crime when Russia bombs power stations in Ukraine, turning off the lights. They scream for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be dragged to the International Criminal Court in the Hague. So why is it so difficult for them to understand the parallels of what Israel is doing to Gaza?
Daring escape
There are two immediate, and contrasting, lessons to be learnt from what has happened this weekend. The first is that the human spirit cannot be caged indefinitely. Palestinians in Gaza have been constantly devising new ways to break free from their chains.
They have built a network of tunnels, most of which Israel has located and destroyed. They have fired rockets that are invariably shot down by ever more sophisticated interception systems. They have protested en masse at the heavily fortified fences, topped by guntowers, Israel surrounded them with – only to be shot by snipers.
Now they have staged a daring escape. Israel will batter the enclave back into submission with massive bombardments, but only “in retaliation”, of course. The Palestinians’ craving for freedom and dignity will not be diminished. Another form of resistance, doubtless more brutal still, will emerge.
And the parties most responsible for that brutality will be Israel and the West that supports it so lavishly, because Israel refuses to stop brutalising the Palestinians it forces to live under its rule.
nullA Palestinian child takes shelter with his family at a school affiliated with the United Nations due to Israeli bombardments in Gaza City on 8 October 2023 (Reuters)
The second lesson is that Israel, endlessly indulged by its western patrons, still has no incentive to internalise the fundamental truth above. The rhetoric of its current government of facists and Jewish supremacists may be particularly ugly, but there is a broad consensus among Israelis of all political stripes that the Palestinians must continue to be oppressed.
Which is why the so-called opposition will not hesitate to support the military pounding of the long besieged enclave of Gaza, killing yet more Palestinian civilians to “teach them a lesson”, a lesson no one in Israel can articulate beyond asserting that Palestinians must accept their permanent inferiority and imprisonment.
Already, the “good Israelis” – opposition leaders Yair Lapid and Benny Gantz – are in discussions with Neyanyahu to join him in an “emergency unity government”.
What “emergency”? The emergency of Palestinians demanding the right not to live as prisoners in their own homeland.
Israelis and westerners can continue their mental gymnastics to justify the Palestinians’ oppression and refuse them any right to resist. But their hypocrisy and self-deceptions stand exposed for the rest of the world to see.
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