Netanyahu is a despot

One year later, the toll in Gaza continues to register innocent victims; more than 45,000 dead, including 15,000 children, more than 20,000 missing, 90,000 wounded, more than 300 aid workers killed along with 150 journalists, 95% of schools, hospitals and camps destroyed, 80% of buildings reduced to rubble and 2 million displaced persons confirm this extermination, recognised by the International Criminal Court and with an arrest warrant for Netanyahu. 

Not satisfied, he decides to change tack, without leaving Gaza, to target Lebanon with the same fury and the same consequences, leaving 2,000 dead and a hundred children dead so far, in defiance of the global order and international law in accordance with the UN Charter and other treaties and conventions. 

Let us remember that the international community is the political reality on which the world order is projected. Although some define it as a union of countries to act jointly in specific cases, more and more analysts consider it to be non-existent. 

According to Chomsky, this institution is used outside the UN to refer to the United States, its allies and client states, including the media. The most blatant case was the invasion of Iraq without a UN mandate, with support from nations influenced by alliances that the US establishes throughout the geographical space of the world map, such as NATO in Europe, whose members follow US policy beyond the Pact. 

By now no one doubts that the US cares neither for democracy, nor for oppressed peoples, nor for human rights, but for its own supreme interests, America First. Biden said in 1986: ‘If Israel did not exist, we would have invented it’, because he understood that the Zionist state was the best protector of its interests in the Middle East, where more than 60% of oil reserves are concentrated, thus assuming Zionism as its armed wing. A cover that gives free rein to a rampaging Netanyahu, who questions the legitimacy of international institutions, more specifically the UN Human Rights Council, which accuses him of indiscriminate violations against the Palestinian people. 

A world disorder that will not make us forget the basic problem, that is, the existence of Palestine as a state with its capital in Al-Quds (Jerusalem) with the peaceful Palestinian Authority, far from Hamas, which was an Israeli creation, and Hezbollah, an Iranian creation. If there is one thing that unites Arab countries, it is Palestine; land that Netanyahu occupies illegally while demanding security so that he can continue to occupy it, with settlers, undisturbed. 

We have already said that this was not about Hamas or Hezbollah, but about a total occupation of Palestine, the annihilation of its population and its definitive expulsion, guaranteeing a wide security belt around Israel, at the cost of occupying Lebanese and Syrian land, without ruling out Jordanian territory. 

There was a time when peace was possible. Yitzhak Rabin came close to achieving it, until he was eliminated by the Zionists, with Netanyahu leading the opposition in the Knesset. Since then, successive Zionist governments have decided to bury peace for good, pursuing a policy of apartheid and terror against the suffering Palestinian civilian population, defying all UN resolutions calling for an end to the occupation and blockade of Gaza. Incidentally, there was no Hamas then. Nor did Hezbollah exist when Israel invaded Lebanon in 1978. 

Israel never wanted peace, because that meant accepting the two-state solution and renouncing its expansionist pretensions. Instead, it has preferred to go down in history as a genocidal state, disregarding human and humanitarian rights, bombing, ramming and gassing UN headquarters in Gaza and now in Lebanon, flouting the fundamental principles of international law and the rules of war established by the Geneva Convention. 

Make no mistake, this is a colonial conflict, and all the rest are excuses. And it is the duty of the UN to carry the banner of the international community to impose its resolutions despite the imposture of the West. We have already seen how 90% of the audience of the General Assembly left the hall, with the exception of the European countries, the political arm of the USA, while the alleged war criminal Netanyahu took the podium threateningly. 

Israel has opened so many fronts and so many wounds that will never heal, will remain in the historical memory of humanity; it will fuel more hatred, perpetuate violence and bury any possibility of peace and security in the Middle East with the risk of extending the war further. 

However, the ultimate responsibility lies with the US for its double umbrella, diplomatic (in the Security Council) and military (its arms supplier), and also with Europe for its silence. A complicit silence that reminds us of the silence that allowed the Holocaust to happen by denouncing and handing over its fellow Jews to the Nazis. Here I would like to digress to celebrate the refusal of Sultan Mohammed V (grandfather of the current monarch Mohammed VI) to deport his Jewish subjects. 

Today the West is giving its support to a deified Netanyahu, who places himself above international law and the international community that represents them with impunity, and who allows himself the licence to order Guterres to withdraw the UN peacekeeping force, UNIFIL, accusing it of collaborating with Hezbollah, when in fact he is trying to eliminate witnesses. 

Netanyahu continues to defy the world by destroying, expelling and illegally occupying territory. He no longer speaks of the right to defend himself, but justifies himself with the argument that he is fighting in defence of ‘civilisation’, thus covering up his genocide, while seeking the support of the European right and far-right and, meanwhile, accusing the rest of the world of anti-Semitism. It should be stressed that the Semites were, among others, the Arameans, Nabataeans, Canaanites, Phoenicians, Arabs and Jews without exception. 

History, from the time of the Pharaohs through Hitler to the present day, has shown us that sooner or later tyrants and their empires fall like a house of cards under the weight of their own excesses. 

Is the US raising a crow?