Shameless complicity in genocide and invasion
The US has agreed a massive new US$8.7 billion military aid package with Israel. The aid includes $3.5bn that can be spent on direct military procurement – and therefore be spent on weapons for use on the people of Gaza and Lebanon – along with another $5.2bn for air defence.
Israel admitted in July that it is suffering a shortage of tanks and ammunition because of its war on Gaza and the successes of resistance groups. Benjamin Netanyahu’s war crimes and terrorism have already killed as many as 200,000 people in Gaza and maimed far more, while killing and maiming thousands – reportedly mostly civilians including at least fifty children – in Lebanon so far. Instead of being censured and sanctioned, he is being protected, rewarded and re-equipped by the US to kill more people and create a region-wide war that threatens the world.
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What, in God’s name, gives Israel the stranglehold on Western “democracies?” It seems perfectly obvious that they are the aggressors here, and one that could be stopped in its tracks especially by the USA. Instead they get encouraged in their genocide!
I think it’s called Holocaust Guilt and in an age where virtue-signalling is so endemic, that guilt is the gift that keeps on giving, Israel makes no secret of the fact that they exploit it with limitless cynicism.
Spot on.
The holocaust only happened to jews.
That’s why successive governments have shat on the disabled – who were the nazi’s first victims of wholesale slaughter.
And this current shower o’shite seem to be hell-bent on continuing in the similar vein of persecution AKA financial euthanasia.
BIDEN the WARMONGER
🩸🩸🩸
a PROMPT return to back to back OPEN feeding of the MILITARY INDUSTRIAL MONSTER.
full FOUR years of overt SLAUGHTER ending the first four years in our lifetimes, without such horrendous bloodshed.
Even at this very minute Sir Starmer will be BEGGING Harris to keep up the Biden bloodshed, and pleading with Trump to follow the Bush s, Clinton and Obama’s Status Quo abominations
In their perversions, not even the lives of other people’s children of zero worth, when feeding the insatiable appetite for arms sales, oil, other natural resources and control of geopolitical regions like Palestine.
All that we can do (MUST DO !!) is to continue to expose and publicise the outrage that is taking place in real time, in full view of the world’s media.
On Saturday, I shall again be joining the march and rally for Gaza.
To look on and do nothing is complicity in this war crime.
This does not even make political sense now – apart
from the immorality of it. There are now many US citizens
with Palestinian sympathies who are horrified at the slaughter
and will wonder whether it is worth voting Democrat.
A friend who is a US citizen was convinced the policy of taking Israels side –
right or wrong – was about to change or at least be severely modified ,,
You can’t be a firewarden if you keep supplying an arsonist with matches
Yes the USA arms companies who donate to the Democrats & Republicans must be fed.
Israel & the USA, as well as promoting arms sales, want Palestine’s land, gas, oil & to build a new canal in The Levant (& Europe wants its share).
So tragically Palestinians are being slaughtered for profits.
If the West kept it’s nose out & didn’t use violence to achieve its ends a Free One Multi-Ethnic Democratic State of Palestine from the rivers to the sea, with the Right of Palestinian Refugees To Return, could exploit its own resources to care for its diverse citizens & build a new canal if it wished, to benefit world trade.
Ceasefire Now.
Yours in Peace.
It is not only the US that is feeding the fascist beast that is Israel:
And the BBC’s propaganda role:
https://steelcityscribblings.uk/wp/2024/09/28/weekend-fare/
“The more Israel expands its war across the Middle East, the more the western media intensifies its war on our minds.
Establishment media outlets like the BBC are weaponising the language of their reporting against audiences no less effectively than Israel weaponised primitive pieces of technology against the people of Lebanon.
Thousands of Lebanese were maimed by exploding pagers and walkie-talkies last week. Likewise, the media coverage is mangling the ability of western publics to understand how and why Israel is dangerously stoking fires across the region.
Words like “audacious”, “escalation” and “targets” have become tools to conceal meaning, not to illuminate – and for good reason. Because Israel’s actions are so obviously criminal, so obviously horrifying, so obviously genocidal. Language becomes a weapon to hide the truth.
The media chorus goes like this: Israel is attacking Lebanon to stop Hezbollah rocket fire and allow the residents of Israel’s most northerly communities to return home. Or in the blunter, Orwellian language of Israeli officials framing this horror show: Israel must “escalate to de-escalate”.
Lebanese civilians are paying the heaviest price: some 550 of them were killed in the first day of Israel’s bombing campaign alone. Many tens of thousands have been driven – ethnically cleansed – from the territory of south Lebanon.
Why? Because, says Israel, Hezbollah has hidden its cache of rockets in their homes. Those homes must therefore be destroyed. Strangely, Hezbollah seems to have forgotten that it has extensive rocky terrain across south Lebanon where it could more safely and wisely hide its arsenal.
If this story sounds familiar, that’s because it is …It is the same script used to justify the slaughter in Gaza. Then, the media mindlessly reheated Israeli talking points about Israel destroying Gaza to “eliminate Hamas”.”