Monday, October 14: Dancing With Devils
Over a year into the obvious and unabashedly genocidal plan of the apartheid state and western news outlets are still finding ways to avoid calling a spade a spade. They’ll gladly run headlines saying that Israeli Prime Minister Benny Netanyahu is “examining a plan to seal off humanitarian aid to northern Gaza…a plan that could trap hundreds of thousands of Palestinians without food or water.” Yet somehow it remains too difficult to simply refer to this obvious case of ethnic cleansing as just that. It remains curiously impossible for western outlets and journalists to simply repeat what so many Israeli politicians have proudly stated: that their goal is the complete and utter destruction of Gaza and Palestine as a whole.
Over the weekend, an Israeli airstrike was conducted on tents housing displaced Palestinians inside Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah city. The so-called “most moral army” dropped bombs on tents housing the sick and injured…again. Of course, the apartheid state trotted out the same ridiculous story to justify their war crimes, claiming that Hamas was somehow using this area as a “command and control” center. But nobody ever asks the IDF spokespeople how these "command and control centers" even work. How is Hamas managing armed fighters from a group of tightly-packed tents in a hospital courtyard? How exactly are they headquartered inside a slammed hospital?
Western outlets are bold enough to feature stories about zionists feeling unsafe on college campuses right next to a story about a young Palestinian baby named Ali, born on October 7, 2023, and the innumerable horrors he’s already witnessed in his young life, as if these two stories could somehow provide a balanced view of the conflict. But asking a follow-up question about Israel’s endlessly absurd claims seems to be a task too difficult for their journalistic talents. It’s interesting how the cries of antisemitism always grow loudest just when the screams of the slaughtered are beginning to be heard.
A recent UN inquiry found that the apartheid state implemented a specific policy targeting and destroying Gaza’s healthcare system, an obvious and undeniable war crime along with qualifying as a crime against humanity by extermination. But it’s nothing but silence and complicity from so many American outlets and journalists.
It would be bad enough for the US to remain silent while its main ally in the region speedruns committing as many war crimes as possible, but now they’re really committing to the bit and putting boots on the ground. The US openly announced it’s sending a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery over to the apartheid state, along with American troops to operate the anti-missile system and continue the decades-long US legacy of fighting unwinnable battles in the Middle East. What that says to me is that the perpetrators of apartheid are currently planning something so heinous and outrageous that it’ll lead to a retaliation they know their own weapons systems are unable to handle. In case you were hoping for some peace and quiet to see out the end of the calendar year.
The beneficiaries of apartheid and hardcore settlers set on remaining in Israel do nothing but complain about the endless sirens sounding across the country. They seem to have overlooked or perhaps forgotten the simple fact that when you bomb churches and mosques and hospitals and schools and roads and bridges and anything resembling a safe shelter or landmark, you often lose the sympathy of much of the wider world.
Our current presidential administration is casually funding, defending and supporting the most meticulously documented and widely broadcast genocide in the modern era while also trying to win public favor by appearing on talk shows and influencer podcasts. When your “lesser of two evils” candidate is being endorsed by innovators of death and terror like Dick Cheney it might be time to admit there was never a lesser of two evils, it’s always just been the same big evil. But I’ve said it before and it’s possible I’ll repeat it again once or twice before election day, a vote for officer Kamala is a vote for the continuation of genocide.
Folks can whine and cry about how much Trump will upset them or even possibly affect them, but I figure if your people aren’t the ones currently being genocided in the tens of thousands and bombed into oblivion and violated by dogs in concentration camps, I reckon I don't really care. These war crimes were never even really crimes in the eyes of so many. When people say, “It will be worse under Trump,” I wonder if they meant worse than burning people alive in their hospital beds.