Opinion | The birth of a country of cruelty, and the death of the global 'rule-based' order
By Philip Yeung, university teacher
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Not since Hitler's Germany has a country so blatantly crossed every red line and flouted every norm of human decency. World-wide protests have failed to curtail Israel's genocidal savagery. Nurses, doctors, and journalists are indiscriminately killed and UN aid workers are deliberately harassed, beaten and murdered. Hospitals, schools and mosques in Gaza are reduced to rubble. In the teeth of Israeli guns and bombs, the UN is utterly impotent, with Netanyahu thumbing his nose at the Security Council's resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Peeved at the UN's sympathies for poor Palestinians, Israel sees it as a hostile agency, singling out aid workers for reprisal. Seven of them were murdered by three precision-guided missiles in a World Central Kitchen desperately trying to stave off a man-made famine. As we speak, 1.7 million people are on the brink of starvation. Hitlerized Gaza is now just a name on the map. Netanyahu ranks with the Nazi leader for the efficiency of his killing machine.
Netanyahu is widening the war by bombing the Iranian embassy in Syria, killing several of its military leaders. This is an act of war. An embassy is a nation's sovereign territory and Netanyahu knows that. But for this butcher, rules are for weaklings. He chooses to let bombs and bullets do the talking.
This is in-your-face defiance of America's hoity-toity pretense of upholding the global rule-based order has wrong-footed Biden. The State Department spokesman has been left trying to wriggle out of his self-contradictory statements.
So far, 33,000 Palestinians have been murdered, mostly women and children. The surprise Hamas attack had snuffed out 1200 Israeli lives. Israel's revenge killings are now approaching a 30- to-1 ratio. The murder of innocent Palestinians won't stop until the death toll reaches a horrendous threshold that satisfies Israel's thirst for revenge. In taking out schools and universities, Israel is hell-bent on destroying Palestine's future and its next generation. In bombing its mosques and churches, it is destroying its soul. No place is safe or sacred in Gaza. As long as Netanyahu remains in power, the two-state solution is out of the question, and the US is unable or unwilling to stop this murderous rampage.
Israel plays by its own rules, emboldened by the certainty that it will never be abandoned by America with its never-ending supply of deadly weapons. America itself is disoriented by cognitive dissonance. In one breath, it is calling for a ceasefire, in the next, it is sending Netanyahu more shipments of lethal weapons for more killings.
The millions of Arab minorities and moderates in America may be a decisive factor in the upcoming election, sickened by the two-faced Biden who is trailing Trump in six crucial swing states. His waffling may hand Trump the victory in November.
The Gaza genocide has also deep-sixed America's fabricated case against China's alleged human rights violations in Xinjiang. The cold-blooded killings and the intentional use of famine as a weapon can't be compared to China's tame response to the outbreaks of domestic terrorism. US lectures on "forced labor" in Xinjiang ring hollow and hypocritical when Israel is ruthlessly decimating and dispossessing Palestinians.
America is dislodged as a human rights defender, crippled by its double standards.
Israel's military gains on the ground are outweighed by its loss of status as a civilized nation, with the stigma of a pariah state that is hard to shake off. Hitler's former victim is now acting Nazi-like, exterminating innocent civilians without mercy.
America's entanglements in Gaza and Ukraine have, ironically, given China a breathing space. America's misadventures in other theatres hinge on China's peace and stability. This is the insanity of living in a world with America as the overlord.
The Gaza conflict is a mirror that reflects with great clarity America's moral ambiguity and Israel's amorality. Next to the warmongers, China is an angel in the international arena, as America and Israel stink in humanity's nostrils.
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