The current Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been going on for 19 months. Unable to defeat Hamas, the Zionist regime has resorted to targeting and killing civilians, razing schools, hospitals and homes.
They have blocked all forms of aid – food, medicine, water and clothing. Nowhere in Gaza is safe. Designated safe areas have also been bombed on the pretext that they harbour Hamas fighters.
Babies, women, children and the elderly – all of whom pose no threat to Israeli soldiers except for being Palestinian – are being killed indiscriminately.
Israeli soldiers have committed war crimes, having breached all wartime protocols on the protection of civilians, aid and medical workers, and journalists. They have not only killed, but also desecrated the dignity of their victims before executing them without any moral or ethical compunction. Aid workers have been killed and buried in attempts to cover up these atrocities.
More than 200 journalists have also been killed, with no regard for their protected status.
This massacre is being carried out by Zionist Israel with the collusion of countries supplying the military hardware and munitions that make the genocide possible. The absurdity lies in these countries remaining silent, turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to the ongoing atrocities. They are therefore as guilty as the US and Israel in the massacre of the Palestinians.
The crime against humanity in Gaza has become a theatrical absurdity in the rhetoric of the United Nations and European Union. These bodies hypocritically call for restraint, urge ceasefires, and send humanitarian aid – all while Israel continues using starvation as a weapon of genocide. But nothing concrete is being done to stop this scourge.
The US speaks with a forked tongue. While proclaiming itself the defender of democracy, human rights and justice, it continues to condone and encourage Israel’s killing of Palestinians and abuse of their rights. It preaches peace while waging war, fuelling conflict around the world to serve its hegemonic agenda.
It flexes military might against smaller countries that cannot retaliate, while using proxies against nations that can, such as China, Russia, North Korea and Iran.
However, the US is no longer the sole superpower. China now poses an economic and military challenge to its hegemonic dominance. The tariff and trade wars, and shifting positions in conflicts such as India-Pakistan, reflect this changing global power structure.
This is further evidenced by the Trump administration’s direct contact with Hamas – a group previously branded as terrorist and with whom the US vowed never to negotiate. Yet it was announced that the Trump administration negotiated the release of Edan Alexander, an American–Israeli soldier, to coincide with Donald Trump’s visit to the Middle East.
Hamas hopes this gesture will pave the way for a ceasefire and end the massacre by the Zionist regime.
However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was excluded from the negotiation, vowed to continue the bombing and killing of Palestinians despite Alexander’s unconditional release.
Despite their seemingly confrontational posturing, these two war criminals are on the same page. Trump attempts to portray himself as a man of peace, as he declared during his inauguration. The brief ceasefire during his speech was a red herring – a theatrical move to justify his claim of seeking peace. Netanyahu breached the ceasefire and resumed the massacre with Trump’s tacit approval.
Trump was merely given space by Netanyahu to posture himself as being in control of the Middle East situation, while fully subscribing to Israel’s genocidal agenda and the establishment of a Greater Israel.
Their differences are a ruse. Both Trump and Netanyahu are working toward the same goal – the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and its transformation into a beachfront real estate haven. Israel has already moved in to occupy a third of Gaza.
If Trump truly wanted to portray himself as a man of peace, he could have halted arms shipments to Israel and instructed Netanyahu to cease all military operations. The US could have drafted and supported a ceasefire resolution at the United Nations Security Council.
To add insult to injury, Arab states are colluding with the US and Israel, limiting their responses to hollow rhetoric and meaningless mediation. These efforts have become ritualistic, yielding no solutions. Countries like Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia are not interested in the plight of Palestinians – their focus lies solely on self-interest and strategic gains.
The US and Israel have been spinning lies and deceptions since the illegal land grab that led to the establishment of Israel by American and British powers. They have branded Palestinians as terrorists and immigrants, while declaring Zionists as the indigenous people – the chosen ones.
Across the globe, cries of a humanitarian crisis, starvation and the killing of innocent children, women and men have filled the air – in the halls of the International Court of Justice, public squares, parliaments, the United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council, as well as in European seats of power. But the genocidal campaign continues unabated.
As always, the United Nations is all talk. It has called for ceasefires countless times, to no avail.
Even the five joint members of the Security Council – France, Britain, Slovenia, Greece and Denmark – who are allies of the US and Israel, issued a hypocritical statement condemning the genocide and use of starvation as a weapon of war. Yet, the French and British continue supplying weapons for this human carnage.
They could stop these arms deals and exert real pressure on Israel, but instead, they offer only empty words.
US Secretary of State Mark Rubio made an absurd statement expressing that he was “troubled” by the humanitarian situation in Gaza – yet failed to advise Trump to stop supplying weapons or tell Netanyahu to halt the killing. His next sentence exposed the hypocrisy: that the US shares Netanyahu’s desire to eliminate Hamas – through collective punishment of innocent civilians.
Could there be anything more cruel and absurd?
Trump, meanwhile, could only muster the inane statement that “a lot of people are starving” and that he is “looking at Gaza and going to take care of it.” All the while, military shipments continue and no pressure is applied on Netanyahu to stop the bombings or lift the blockade on humanitarian aid.
While these meaningless statements are made, Israel simply ignores them. It has America’s carte blanche to continue the killings – an orgy of daily massacres.
Trump is deceiving Palestinians with false hope, while courting selfish Arab states with promises of arms deals and peace initiatives. One thing is certain – he does not care about the massacre of Palestinians. He supports Netanyahu’s goal of a Greater Israel, achievable only through the annihilation or expulsion of the Palestinian people from their homeland.
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