An honourable way out of complicity in genocide does not exist. Certainly, governments may be able to rely on the fact that Israel has, so far, failed to provide credible evidence to justify its allegations that UNRWA staff members were involved in the 7 October incursion into Israel. But genocide is a war crime, and starvation as a weapon of genocide is not only dishonourable, but intentional.
Source: Gaza Aid and the West: An Honorable Way out of Complicity in Genocide Does not Exist
Israel has been the beneficiary of American taxpayer military and economic support for 75 years . There has never been a better time for the mutinous tail to wag the dog. It’s the 2024 election year GOP, Trump, and Biden are all ready to support Israel but are a divided right who needs donations for the battle. Israel is aware their importance in the Middle East is diminishing as fast as the importance of fossil fuels is. Even the surrounding arab states are refocusing their future economic interests and like Israel, they are testing new directions.
Never has Israel been so politically divided 4 elections in 2 years. Nor has the extreme-right Zionist land grabbers had the opportunity they have now at American taxpayer expense. “Money for nothing and land for free” is not a Dire Strait tune but a Zionist one. Given the political divide in America and the changes in politics of the global rest. It’s now or never if fossil fuels are to displaced for renewables. The world is on the edge of change. An Israel in control of Greater Palestine has never seen as many opportunities to leave Real Judaism in its wake and give rebirth to a revision something entirely different. Gaza has the gas and Greater Palestine has the Ben Gurion trench
Equally a boon to Israel is the fact that leading western states have so quickly pinned their colours to the mast. The funding freeze cements their fates to Israel’s. It sends a message that they will stand with Israel against the World Court, whatever it decides. Their war on UNRWA is intended as an act of collective intimidation directed towards the court. It is a sign that the West refuses to accept that international law applies to it, or its client state. It is a reminder that western states refuse any restraint on their freedom of action – and that it is Israel and its sponsors who are the true rogue states.
Israel’s latest bombing campaign shows absolutely no signs of letting up anytime soon, they’ve firmly rebuked diplomatic efforts to impose a ceasefire and with every passing day it only looks more and more likely that the Israeli military will soon begin a full-scale ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.
Source: Young people in the West stand in solidarity for a Gaza ceasefire
While Israel has the right to strike back at the Hamas organization in the wake of the latter’s hideous October 7 attack on Israel, it doesn’t have the right to do so in a way that recklessly endangers civilian lives. Beyond that issue, Israel is recognized by the United Nations at the occupying power of Gaza, and therefore has responsibilities under the 4th Geneva Convention of 1949 to preserve the lives and well-being of the occupied population. Finally, according to the Rome Statute that underpins the International Criminal Court, targeting a group such as “the Palestinians of Gaza” for death is a form of genocide, regardless of the number killed.
Facts about the Israel/Palestine conflict have always been hard to come by. Some Israeli leaders are now telling more lies than many of their citizens, and former friends of Israel, can swallow. Yet Western governments still do.
Israeli leaders have practice in being selective with the truth. Some friends of Israel who gave them the benefit of the doubt, don’t now.
There’s a great gulf between what American and Israeli leaders and their allies say has happened, and what people in the Arab world understand to be the facts. The same gulf is perpetuated in much of the Western media, where the record of US lies beginning with, say, Pearl Harbour, and continuing through Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, is well known but rarely mentioned.
Israel may be the latest of the US lies, but it will spill just as much innocent blood.
Source: Collective punishment, selective truth, and slow genocide – Pearls and Irritations
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China it seems, is nowhere near as isolated or feared by the “international community” as Western mainstream media would have us believe.
Source: The West’s “international community” consists of only 10 countries – Pearls and Irritations
The West has been manipulating global information and spreading disinformation for decades. It is time for the world to also listen to the voices of China and other developing nations, many of which were once brutally colonised by the West.
Source: West can no longer twist information or disseminate disinformation – Pearls and Irritations
Today, Pakistan, the world’s fifth-most-populous country, is fighting for its survival. This summer, erratic monsoon rains battered the country from north to south – Sindh, the southernmost province, received 464% more rain over the last few weeks than the 30-year average for the period.
The CSFR was handed over to Hitler pre WW2. Is Ukraine ready to be donated to Putin by the West. It appears all dictators know they can get away with it. It’s this behaviour that allowed Trump to constantly avoid the consequences of his actions too along with Nth Korea, Saudi Arabia, Israel and even the US while the world watches.
“They have moved to a new stage of terror in which they are trying to physically eliminate representatives of legitimate local Ukrainian authorities,” said the Ukrainian president.
Source: ‘A Crime Against Democracy Itself’: Zelenskyy Condemns Russia for Abducting Mayor
Two-faced Dutton and Morrison are in rapture over Putin’s gift to their political chances but will it stick and are they doing a Rumpelstiltskin dance behind closed doors that will see their undoing ?
In Australia, Defence Minister Dutton and Prime Minister Scott Morrison are madly wagging the dog trying to repeat John Howard’s rise from the ashes on the back of a burning refugee boat in 2001. There is no doubt that if the US and UK did go to war with Russia, Dutton and Morrison would do what Australian governments have always done: follow blindly.
Source: The West has three options in response to Ukraine. None are good
Australia without shame or any embarrassment of its hypocrisy is one of the loudest. While it records the existence of the most incarcerated indigenous population in the world who are 3% of the country’s population. If compared on any social metric health, education, housing, jobs Australia’s Aborigines suffer the worlds worst conditions while living in a first world nation something we don’t hear said about China’s Uighurs.
More than 40 mainly Western countries have criticised China at the United Nations over the reported torture and repression of the mostly Muslim Uighurs and other religious and ethnic minorities in Xinjiang, keeping a spotlight on a region where foreign governments and researchers say one million people or more have been confined in camps.
More countries criticise China at UN for repression of Uighurs | Uighur News | Al Jazeera
We were always told what to think; what is correct and what is wrong. By the white dudes living in or coming from Europe and North America. They knew everything. They were the most qualified.
The West should sit on its backside, shut up, and listen to “the others”
Personally, I’m not too worried about Chinese soft power. If Westerners look bad in comparison, that is only because of their own incompetence rather than the nefariousness of the Chinese. The Chinese State wants to make deals. The globalists want something much dearer: they want to bribe you into losing your national soul, your traditional values, your fighting spirit.
This crisis may come to be seen as the moment in which a declining and incoherent liberal-globalist West was geopolitically overtaken by an confident and organized national-authoritarian China. If so, we can also expect other countries may be tempted to change their political models.
via We Are All Totalitarians Now, by Guillaume Durocher – The Unz Review
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