'No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound That Is Palestine: PE

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"If you read the Pentagon Papers and other documents on US war aims in
Vietnam, you can enjoy some lively unflinching discussions about how to
commit genocide – is it better to kill people outright or to starve them
slowly? Which would look better? The problem that the compassionate
mandarins in the Pentagon faced was that, unlike Americans, who,
according to them, want ‘life, happiness, wealth, power’, Asians
‘stoically accept…the destruction of wealth and the loss of lives’ – and
force America to carry their ‘strategic logic to its conclusion, which
is genocide.’ A terrible burden to be borne unflinchingly.
And here we are, all these years later, more than a year into yet
another genocide. The US and Israel’s unflinching and ongoing televised
genocide in Gaza and now Lebanon in defence of a colonial occupation and
an Apartheid state. The death toll so far, is officially 42,000, a
majority of them women and children. This does not include those who
died screaming under the rubble of buildings, neighbourhoods, whole
cities, and those whose bodies have not yet been recovered. A recent
study by Oxfam says that more children have been killed by Israel in
Gaza than in the equivalent period of any other war in the last twenty
years.
To assuage their collective guilt for their early years of indifference
towards one genocide – the Nazi extermination of millions of European
Jews – the United States and Europe have prepared the grounds for
another.
Prime Minister Menachem Begin called Palestinians ‘two-legged beasts’,
Yitzhak Rabin called them ‘grasshoppers’ who ‘could be crushed’ and
Golda Meir said ‘There was no such thing as Palestinians’. Winston
Churchill, that famous warrior against fascism, said, ‘I do not admit
that the dog in the manger has the final right to the manger, even
though he may have lain there for a very long time’ and then went on to
declare that a ‘higher race’ had the final right to the manger. Once
those two-legged beasts, grasshoppers, dogs and non-existent people were
murdered, ethnically cleansed, and ghettoised, a new country was born.
It was celebrated as a ‘land without people for people without a land’.
The nuclear-armed state of Israel was to serve as a military outpost and
gateway to the natural wealth and resources of the Middle East for US
and Europe. A lovely coincidence of aims and objectives.
The new state was supported unhesitatingly and unflinchingly, armed and
bankrolled, coddled and applauded, no matter what crimes it committed.
It grew up like a protected child in a wealthy home whose parents smile
proudly as it commits atrocity upon atrocity. No wonder today it feels
free to boast openly about committing genocide.
What can possibly justify what Israel is doing?
The answer, according to Israel and its allies, as well as the Western
media, is the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7th last year. The
killing of Israeli civilians and the taking of Israeli hostages.
According to them, history only began a year ago.
…
Israel is not fighting a war of self-defence. It is fighting a war of
aggression. A war to occupy more territory, to strengthen its Apartheid
apparatus and tighten its control on Palestinian people and the region.
…
Not all the power and money, not all the weapons and propaganda on earth
can any longer hide the wound that is Palestine. The wound through which
the whole world, including Israel, bleeds.”