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THE UN Under-Secretary-General has warned that 14,000 Palestinians children risk starving to death in the coming hours due to the total Israeli blockade of food, medicines and water. Thousands of other adults will also die due to famine or Israeli bombing in the coming days.
No amount of pro-Palestinian protesters will cover up what the UN calls a ‘war crime’. Nor will threatening financial hardship on those who protest Israel’s savage repression of Gaza.
So far, Israel’s extreme right-wing government led by Benyamin Netanyahu has rejected all calls to aid the 2.2 million starving or injured Palestinians in the hell-hole of Gaza. His government will eventually bend a little in the face of outrage from France, Canada, the UK, Australia and other Western powers.
Meanwhile, Israel has run amok, becoming what Jewish author Arthur Koestler called ‘a nasty little Sparta’. The slaughter in Gaza would not be happening without the prior connivance of the Biden administration, which fell under the control of the rabid pro-Israel neocons in Washington, and now Israel’s cheerleader, Donald Trump.
But Palestinians will continue to starve or die from US-supplied bombs dropped on refugee camps because Washington keeps blocking real action to halt the mass killing. Jewish hostages in Gaza have been forgotten.
Israel and the US keep talking about the ‘transfer’ of 2.2 million Palestinians from Gaza to someplace else. For a while in the 1930s Ethiopia and Kenya featured as key deportation centres for Germany’s Jews. When National Socialists spoke of moving Germany’s Jews to other remote countries, they were scourged as horrid racists by the Brits and Americans. But today the US and UK are doing something similar with their efforts to expel third worlders and Latinos or move them to Albania, Zimbabwe or Libya.
Israel’s far rightists – ‘Jewish Nazis’ in the words of the late, great Israeli columnist Uri Avnery – aim to kill as many Palestinians as possible to limit their future reproduction. They are determined to thwart creation of a long-overdue Palestinian state, and seize lands occupied by West Bank Palestinians. These could include much of Lebanon and Syria, and possibly Iraq’s oil-producing regions.
Many of the one million former Soviet citizens who moved to Israel thanks to US financial help will recall Stalin’s infamous saying, ‘no man, no problem’. But following in the footsteps of Heinrich Himmler and the Stalinist mass murderers in Ukraine, is ‘worse than a crime’, to paraphrase Talleyrand, a ‘mistake.’
Many Israelis want to be rid of the Netanyahu government and end the mass killing of Palestinians. Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert speaks for them. The western powers should ensure he returns to office.
Eric S Margolis
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