Charred into oblivion
JVL Introduction
“The victims in Deir al-Balah were charred into oblivion – and with them the ‘rules-based international order’ the West helped establish to prevent a repeat of the horrors of the Second World War.”
These words from Jonathan Cook, referring to the horrific images of fire consuming displaced people in tents at a northern Gaza hospital last week, are sufficient introduction to the piece we are publishing below.
We have reached a kind of linguistic Ground Zero where language can no longer encompass our reactions to what we are witnessing – a subject explored with sensitivity in this conversation between Frank Barat and Gabor Mate.
NWI
This article was originally published by Middle East Eye on Mon 21 Oct 2024. Read the original here.
The West's support for Israel's genocide is destroying the world as we know it
The old world is dying once again, but the US-Israel axis is wrong to suggest it is slaying monsters. It is the monster.
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Nothing short of a general strike in this country is going to starve the monsters of their voracious appetite for supporting this carnage which they see as the instrument for further control of the middle east. But will the unions have the guts to take the action required? I doubt it. So, we will keep marching and keep taking the necessary steps available to us. But in the meantime Palestine and the Palestinians are paying an unimaginably hideous price.