The Zionist Challenge and the West
Since the beginning of the war against Hamas over the macabre attack of 7 October, I had refused to express an opinion. I had intended to remain aloof from any consideration of a conflict that always takes us back to square one, that is, the occupation of Palestine. But, in view of what I have seen, it has been impossible to be insensitive to the impressions of what is happening in Gaza.
And to those who remain silent and put their faith in Zionism, as the Western "democracies" do, I simply ask them, do they not see that this is not about Hamas or the release of hostages, but about the extermination of a people, its expulsion and the total annexation of Palestine?
Security experts do not see the Hamas attack as a surprise, and wonder why Israel could not have prevented it when the area was mined with detectors and radars on land, air and sea. Others claim that Israel was aware of the operation Hamas called the "Deluge of al-Aqsa" to avenge Israel's continued desecration of the Holy Mosque.
Genocide in Gaza
On the other hand, this genocide in Gaza is nothing short of cowardice on the part of an army that claims to be the best in the world, when it is easy to bring up the rear with Biden's sixth fleet to bombard children and women with pleasure. I commend the courage of UN Secretary General Guterres and Pedro Sanchez in denouncing it to Netanyahu while Europe remained silent. How can one remain silent in the face of this atrocious infanticide that Pope Francis called terrorism?
Israel's global defiance, backed by the West, ignores with impunity more than 140 UN resolutions condemning its settlement policy and the crimes committed against the Palestinian civilian population. The State of Israel has been illegal since 1948; continuously ruled by Zionist, Torah fundamentalists, whose aim was and is the formation of a home on Palestinian land, then colonised by the United Kingdom. Which, by the way, was achieved after the terror terrorist attack perpetrated by Zionist fanatics, leaving nearly 100 dead in 1946 at the David Hotel where the British had their headquarters.
Since then, Zionism has been applying the basic rules of occupation. That is, the expansion into Palestinian territories, the West Bank and Jerusalem, with about one million armed settlers in a blatant illegality or Apartheid and the check-points which, for decades, have prevented the movement of Palestinians into occupied territories in order to block their political, economic and social development. A concrete wall of some 765 km and fences several metres high surround and occupy the territory of the West Bank, which the International Court of Justice had described as illegal.
Moreover, it is the only state that prosecutes and convicts children in military courts for throwing stones at tanks. It imprisons them and, when not, kills them with impunity, which is yet another violation of children's rights. It also intentionally violates the right to information by killing more than 110 journalists so far in its offensive in Gaza.
Zionism is carrying out textbook ethnic cleansing in order to undermine the demographic development of the Palestinian population. It is bombing civilians, children and women, who are then being killed in ambulances at the gates of hospitals, as well as hospital centres, mosques and even cemeteries that explode and scatter human remains. Not even the UN institutions and their representatives escape this macabre slaughter (more than 100 staff members dead).
But so much defiance of the international community is also a symptom of the desperation of a Netanyahu with no political future and no public support. Impeached for corruption and burdened by political instability and his failed control of Parliament with a totalitarian law, recently overturned by the Supreme Court, he had decided, months earlier, to flee forward with the only prospect of political gain by occupying the whole of Palestine.
However, Netanyahu's Zionist plans, as with his predecessors, always ran up against the stumbling block of the last Palestinian stronghold, the Gaza Strip, to complete the annexation. The continued desecration of the al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest site, was the ideal bait to unleash Hamas's wrath; a trap into which it fell by embarking on its macabre 'Deluge' that Hebrew Security deliberately allowed.
In fact, the release of the hostages, taken by Hamas, has not been and is not Netanyahu's priority. He has not managed to free a single hostage. Indeed, he killed three of them. And he has made it clear that he will not exchange the 132 hostages still held by Hamas. And, needless to say, Hamas was created and financed by the Hebrew state itself, not only to weaken Mahmoud Abbas's PLO, but above all to use it as an excuse for the gradual extermination of Palestinians after it was declared a terrorist group.
Netanyahu hoped that "normalisation", before solving the Palestinian problem, would allow him to take steps towards a total occupation at no cost, despite the fact that none of the Arab countries that signed the Abraham Accords had renounced Palestine's historic rights. For these countries, the al-Aqsa Mosque is inalienable. And the Gaza Strip is an integral part of the State of Palestine, along with the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The world is today witnessing a Western-sponsored genocide that the International Court of Justice is deliberating at the request of South Africa with many international backers. Neither the US nor Europe have, during these 75 years of violent occupation, defended the civil rights of the Palestinians. They only recognise Israel's right to defend itself, thus legitimising crime and injustice. But this "follower" Europe, lacking in political personality (Real Politik) is no surprise to us; it committed and allowed the Jewish holocaust that it now wants to correct with this other one.
The anger of the Arab countries with the US first, for not having set any red line for the Israeli response, and then with Netanyahu for having crossed the unimaginable, is such that they refuse to rebuild Gaza if there is no real roadmap towards the creation of the State of Palestine. That Antony Blinken, a Jew, first proposes reform of the Palestinian Authority as a condition is not only a joke, but also a sign that the conflict will continue.
The annexation of Gaza will sow even more hatred and bring the Jewish state into international disrepute. It will jeopardise the Abraham Accords and could even create an Arab-Islamic front against the State of Israel, the United States and Europe. And an oil and gas crisis similar to that of 1973 is not ruled out.
The inhuman cruelty demonstrated by Zionism has become the pragmatism of a West, supposedly civilised, which only strives to contain angry Arab countries. A standard practice that synchronises with Blinken after every Israeli massacre, but without any condemnation.
How long will Zionist defiance of the international community continue? And how long will the West's shameful support for these humanitarian crimes continue?