Israel & the Myth of ‘Self Defence’

Israeli Zionists are thugs and killers in suits and have NEVER had any intention of treating Palestinians as human beings. This hateful attitude is not solely reserved for Palestinians, ANYONE who questions the legitimacy of the apartheid terrorist State, will be subjected to the same savage anger and retribution. Our MSM and some major politicians are complicit in the mass slaughter of Palestinians taking place at the moment by Israel.

I fear the intent of individual Israeli government ministers, parts of the IDF, many settler groups and some of Israeli society is genocide. Nothing else will deliver the “benefits” they seek – and they must surely know that. What they’ve already said they’ll do is chilling and very much in line with their past behaviours.

The courageous voices within Israel standing up for human decency and the lives of the hostages need whatever support we can give them. Sadly, those voices alone won’t be able to stop the genocide unless the world beyond Israel buttresses them and also stands between the IDF and their victims.

It’s clutching at straws, I know, but I took some comfort from a report that US Democrats as a party have come out strongly against taking Israel’s side.

The party’s support for Biden has nose-dived since 7 October, apparently due to Democrats rating Biden as too pro-Israel. Biden can’t afford to upset Democrat voters at this stage in the election cycle; and Netanyahu will be similarly reluctant to upset Israel’s most important ally.

Having seen the Guardian article: “UK’s chief rabbi speaks of ‘indescribable heartbreak’ over Hamas hostages” including the photo of 220 empty chairs set at tables to represent the hostages taken and still held by Hamas, I wonder if there is a room in the UK big enough to assemble the number of empty chairs needed to be set at tables to represent the Gazans, men, women and children and babies (said to be 7,000+), shot by Israeli snipers, bombed and shelled to death, bombs from aircraft, drones, shells from ships, tanks and heavy artillery? But then, are Palestinian/Gazan lives/deaths as important as Israeli/Jewish lives/deaths?
Added to these are the number of West Bank Palestinians being hounded out of their villages, beaten-up, shot at and killed by illegal settlers and the IDF. It would have to be somewhat bigger than the site adequate for this UK Jewish tableau of grief published in the G, where the Palestinian/Gazan losses were ignored totally. Probably the Chief Rabbi is amongst those suffering ‘indescribable heartbreak’ over Hamas hostages but is putting on a brave face. Everything written about this tragic ‘war’ invariably and rightly acknowledges the brutal attack by Hamas on Oct 7th, as do I, but not too many pro-Jewish comments include regret let alone criticism of Israel for the heartless massacre of so many Gazans and West Bank dwellers, over so many years. The killing on both sides has to stop and the Palestinians must gain control over their lives, otherwise the killing carousel will keep a’turning. As Bob Dylan put it: ” Yes, and how many times must the cannonballs fly Before they’re forever banned? The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind The answer is blowin’ in the wind.