There are no shades of grey here. Israel is a terrorist state. It is being run by a powerful cabal of ultra-Zionists who have little respect for the rule of law and are happy to flout it, again and again, to achieve their ends.
Their ends being what exactly? An Israeli island state floating in an ocean clogged with the debris of countless human corpses and grand civilisations razed to rubble? The extermination of every last person of a colour and cultural disposition that might link them not just to Iran and its allies, but to Persia in general? This is an old ancient enmity between two great monotheistic civilisations, being played out writ large and with enormous attendant human suffering, in the modern era.
Yesterday I drove to Mullumbimby as the sun was coming up, to the happy news that a ceasefire had been proffered and accepted between the warring parties i.e. the attackers (Israel and the US) and the attacked, in this instance, Iran. Several yesterdays ago it was Lebanon, or the West Bank or heaven forbid, what was that little place called that the media and so many commentators seemed already to have forgotten about, Gaza?
Gaza being the world’s most recent example of genocide, with ongoing fallout and suffering for those that have so far survived the ravages of that long and disgraceful war.
Yet before the government of Israel had even finished reducing Gaza to a pile of dust, it sought to expand the war into the West Bank, southern Lebanon and even Syria, at a pace and with a ferocity that has left many of breathless. And why? Why the savage retaliation against threats whether real or unrealised? This is not diplomacy. This is not the rules-based order to which so many nations signed up after WWII. This is butchery.
It seems that every time this particular rogue nation gets a mosquito bite, they respond with Agent Orange. Benjamin Netanyahu is already a war criminal, several times over, and an ethically ambiguous politician over whom the pall of a major corruption scandal has not yet dissipated. But while Europeans and the UN Secretary-General often see fit to call him or his regime out for human rights abuses, genocide and consistently breaking ceasefire accords, we in the American hemisphere of influence could be arrested for so doing. I for one will nail my colours to the mast here. Denouncing a rogue nation and its barbaric conduct is not antisemitic, it is anti-barbaric.
An hour after driving into Mullumbimby yesterday morning to that happy news of a ceasefire, I drove home to the news that Israel had already broken it. Barely 24 hours after the agreement was signed, the nation that cannot be named/called out/condemned had launched a vicious bombing campaign upon Lebanon.
I rest my case.
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