The LOBBY is in full action along with its donees and donors does anyone imagine Palestinians can generate that kind of organized power and influence? Israel pretends to be merely the tip of the iceberg when it’s the full-blown bottom.
Israel is mounting a full-court press to prevent an ICJ finding that it’s committing genocide in Gaza. On January 4, the Israeli Foreign Ministry instructed its embassies to pressure politicians and diplomats in their host countries to make statements opposing South Africa’s case at the ICJ.
Source: Israel Is Terrified the World Court Will Decide It’s Committing Genocide | The Smirking Chimp
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Upon learning of 10/7 I realized that the vicious attack [perhaps something like 9/11 and the Cheney-Bush administration’s devastating response immediately afterwards] would politically enable the Israeli-Netanyahu government to justify extreme emergency war measures then force through his/its ‘democratic reforms’ — and do who-knows-what-more to Palestine, including having more of their traditional territory annexed.
It seems a bit convenient for Israeli power interests; notably, western world governments and especially our mainstream news-media basically all fell into line. …
Also, it’s an obvious atrocity that so many Palestinian non-combatants have been prevented from crossing borders to safety since Israel began unrelentingly bombarding Gaza and its citizens, sometimes even as they fled their homes upon Israeli insistence.
Not surprising, U.S. Republicans went into their ‘Christian’ mode, admitting that humanitarian aid for the Palestinians was not their concern. … Jesus must be spinning in heaven.
The general western corporate news-media’s ‘coverage’ of the Israel-Palestinian conflict has long been very wanting. This includes their reporting on the current and past violence but especially their non-reporting on the consequential anti-Palestinian social injustices that continue in between every military flare up over decades of Israeli occupation.
Palestinian suffering and deaths in their entirety have not been justly represented. Their great suffering and deaths may somehow seem less worthy of our actionable concern as otherwise relatively civilized nations. …
Apparently, while some identifiable groups have been brutally victimized throughout history a disproportionately large number of times, the victims of one place and time can and sometimes do become the victimizers of another place and time. People should avoid believing, let alone claiming, that they/we are not capable of committing an atrocity, even if relentlessly pushed.
Contrary to what is claimed or felt by many of us, deep down there’s a tyrant in each of us that, under the just-right circumstances, can be unleashed; and maybe even more so when convinced that God is on our side.
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