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Israel is a worsening problem for Palestinians and the world. This festering boil in the Middle East has reached a critical stage. The inhumanity of the Netanyahu regime toward Gazans continues unabated. Israel killing Palestinian children enmasse. Starving women, men and children to death, following killing more than 60, 000 Palestinians by bombing the shit out of Gaza is beyond the pale. Hamas may have started this latest conflict but killing so many innocent people is unacceptable. What we are witnessing is the racism of the world writ large, where Arab life is considered less important than our own. America backing the Netanyahu led Israel throughout this conflict is testament to this.
The Zionist Conspiracy Against Palestinians
If you know anything about the history of Hamas, you will know that Israel secretly funded Hamas at its beginnings in an effort to undermine the influence of the PLO under Arafat back in the 1970s. There are no good guys and bad guys in this whole mess. This is not anything to do with antisemitism, either, as the Zionist lobby around the world would have us believe. Israel does not have a monopoly on being a Jew. There are plenty of Jews who oppose the behaviour of Israel. What happened in the holocaust, also, had nothing to do with Palestinians. Why these people had to lose their lands at the hands of refugees from a European genocide is head scratchingly illogical. Why not create Israel in Austria, as one historian suggested, Hitler was from there after all.
“Founded in occupied Gaza in 1987, Hamas — an acronym for Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiya (Islamic Resistance Movement) — is the armed group that holds political control over Gaza today. What you might not know is that this same group was actually created in part by Israel itself. While it may sound like a conspiracy theory, it’s actually a well-documented, open secret that Israel has helped finance and prop up Hamas for years. “
Israel & The Murder Of Tens Of Thousands Of Palestinians
Having a population with many who suffered horrendous loss does not make you free to inflict genocide on others. Being a victim doesn’t grant you the right to murder Palestinians. Israel killing Palestinian children enmasse. Settlers are the great murderers of history. This idea that creating a homeland absolves these people of their crimes is particularly galling. Israel and the Zionists reach out to new world nations on this basis looking for support. The United States, obviously, where European settlers came in and murderously stole the lands of Native Americans. Australia, likewise, where the Aboriginal people were genocidally removed from their lands by Anglo-settlers. Similar colonial histories in Canada, Central and South America, Southern Africa and wherever whites came and took by force the homelands of Indigenous peoples. Millions and millions of people died via guns and imported diseases. Slavery was the other fate available to the original inhabitants, where they were often worked to death on sugar, cotton and tobacco plantations or in mining camps. This was the free labour force that powered the great European expansion of wealth and innovation. The Israelis are, merely, following in the footsteps of the colonialists of our heritage.
Israel’s Alleged Targeting Of Media, Aid Workers & Doctors
Mass murder does not seem to be as palatable these days. Of course, back in the 15C to the 19C the world media was largely silent and uninformed about the massacres and genocidal activities of their colonists. Israel, today, is doing its best to keep out the media from its genocide in Gaza. Strict controls prevent the international press from being there or taking pictures from the air. Hundreds of local journalists have been killed and these suspiciously do not all look like accidents. Aid workers and doctors have been killed in droves and the targeting of these important folk has been alleged. The IDF has been busy. Israel killing Palestinian children enmasse. More than 17, 000 children have been murdered by the IDF.
“But this week the tone from the prime minister and foreign minister has shifted to public expressions of anger, after the air strike on the World Central Kitchen (WCK) convoy on Monday night. Seven WCK staff were killed in the strike, including Australian woman Zomi Frankcom. It’s taken the total number of aid workers killed in this conflict to 196, according to the United Nations.”
Israel & The Zionist Lobby
The Israeli Zionist lobby have, also, been busy painting the war in Gaza as a one way blame street. Hamas are the murderers and Israel is defending itself. This gets hard to do when Israel destroys an entire city of millions of inhabitants and kills more than 60, 000 women, men and children. Then starves the millions left homeless in camps by refusing aid trucks access. Unsurprisingly, initially, the racist element in the white population of places like Australia were quick to jump on the ‘blame the Arab terrorist’ trope, which has been big for decades downunder. Former opposition leader Peter Dutton went to Israel on a junket funded by Netanyahu and came back singing loudly from their song sheet. Dutton was a divisive politician and drove the right wing anti-Arab angle hard. Most Australians would not know that the Zionists in Palestine, pre-Israel, were terrorists too. They bombed and murdered the British in their bid to force the issue on the creation of Israel.
“The main terrorist groups were Irgun Zvai Leumi (National Military Organisation) – ultimately led by future Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin – and an even more militant organisation, Lohamey Heruth Israel (Fighters for the Freedom of Israel) or LHI. The British called LHI the Stern Gang after its leader, Abraham Stern, who was killed in a clash with the Palestine Police in 1942. In November 1944, LHI assassinated the British Minister for the Middle East, Lord Moyne.”
The ‘Israel Just Defending Itself’ Trope
Israel was born out of such extreme violent action and the Israelis have been pushing the envelope ever since. Obviously, not all Israelis are bad people or condone what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank. It is not, however, a question of their survival, as has, often, been used as an excuse for the antagonistic behaviour of Israel. The Zionists have been the aggressors on numerous occasions.
“As per usual, these talking points are selective with the information they share and are careful to cultivate a certain framing. For example, when they speak about the war of 1948 being a purely defensive war, they fail to mention that even before the war the Zionist militias had already ethnically cleansed over 300,000 Palestinians from their communities, and taken over the majority of territories assigned to the Jewish state per the 1947 partition plan.”
Israel’s Historical Justification To Exist
Israel does not have some God given right, based on historical presumptions, to exist, as is, often, put forward by proponents. If the ancient existence of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel, millennia ago, are justification for the forced appropriation of Palestine, then, Native Americans and Aboriginal tribes are similarly justified in taking back their ancient homelands from European-settlers in America and Australia. Otherwise, this is white supremacist tosh, which it is, of course. The ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinians is a clear illustration of the real state of world affairs, where white supremacy and European- origin hegemony sits at the core. Brown skinned people are valued as lesser by the white sons and daughters of Europeans and their new world colonisers. The narrative has, consistently, been one of the deserving nature of this hegemony based on the technological fruits of white skinned superiority. The efforts gone into downplaying and diminishing the achievements of brown skinned cultures are rarely highlighted. The enslavement and exploitation via servitude over centuries is, once again, being removed from the histories and school texts by the Trump administration. It is time that all of us faced up to this truth. Israel killing Palestinian children enmasse.
“You would not know this if you were a Fox News or Sky News Australia viewer. Similarly, if you read The Australian or Daily Telegraph or any of Murdoch’s other capital city newspapers you would be none the wiser about the extreme shift in geopolitics that we are observing. This is why it is so disappointing to follow the Australian media directed by News Corp. Even the ABC, with its upper management and chairman overly influenced by Rupert’s agenda, follows the pro-American line. The Anglo-settler ethos runs deep in the veins of the Aussie press. Israel is good Arabs are bad. White skinned folk are intrinsically superior to brown skinned people. These cultural assumptions are defaults in the News Corp world view.”
Robert Sudha Hamilton is the author of Money Matters and America Matters: Pre-apocalyptic Posts & Essays in the Shadow of Trump.
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