By Philip Yeung
Netanyahu, the evil incarnate
His eyes are evil. He smiles daggers. Netanyahu, the mass murderer of the 21st century, is nastier than the Nazis. He is evil incarnate. A former US secretary of state once said that when he looked Putin in the eye, he saw "KGB, KGB, KGB." Now, when one locks eyes with Netanyahu, one sees "mass murderer, serial murderer". He is without doubt the world's public enemy number one.
Israel as an American-sponsored terrorist state
Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, proudly declares that America stands with Israel as it commits one genocidal crime after another. The global moral landscape is utterly reshaped with Israel as an America-sponsored terrorist state. Netanyahu uses Hamas to justify his indiscriminate killing of Palestinian women and children, medical and aid workers, the bombing of churches, schools, universities, and hospitals. The US has just vetoed a UN Security Council resolution supported 14-1 for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in defiance of international norms it often trumpets.
Deaf to universal condemnation, Israel is emboldened and enabled by America. Netanyahu knows that he can thumb his nose at the world, as he renders Gaza uninhabitable by saturation and indiscriminate bombing.
China, now the global good guy
While other countries pay lip service to Palestinian suffering, only China has stepped forward to defy the Israeli air blockade with airdrops of food and medicine to the starving Palestinians. The so-called Xinjiang cotton tainted by the alleged use of forced labor is imaginary child's play next to a Gaza reduced to rubble and dripping with the blood of children.
Ironically, America's complicity in the Gaza atrocities has painted China as the global good guy.
Famine as a weapon of war
The reign of terror in Gaza is revolting not just for the wanton killing of babies, women, medical workers, and doctors, and the bombing of aid convoys, but also for the weaponization of water and food as the ultimate cruelty. The wholesale destruction of Gaza is deliberate, making 70% of it uninhabitable as a prelude to Israeli annexation. Repeated displacements and the killing of 50,000 Palestinian children have rapidly depopulated Gaza. For a ten-week period, Israeli soldiers allowed no food aid into Gaza. It is subjugation by starvation. Homeless Palestinians fighting for food are shot in the head and the chest, with 31 of them killed in cold blood by Israeli soldiers. A female doctor devoted to saving the lives of the wounded and the dying finds to her horror that nine of her ten children have been killed by Israeli bombs. This is diabolical. To Netanyahu and his goons, Palestinian lives are worthless. He needs them dead or driven out to dispossess their land. If these are not war crimes, what are?
Double standards and no standards
Netanyahu knows that, however horrible the atrocities, US politicians would never dare to disown him. The umbilical cord of financial and political sponsorship to Jewish oligarchs ties them. American double standards and depravity have turned the world into chaos with no standards.
It is now blindingly obvious that Netanyahu has only one goal in mind—the extermination of Gazans and the annexation of their land by force. Hamas is a convenient excuse to justify its indiscriminate bombing in Gaza. But what about atrocities in the Hamas-free West Bank, where violent Jewish settlers are creating 20 illegal settlements by driving out Palestinians from their homeland?
Sympathy for Palestinians is labeled antisemitic. Critics are silenced by sanctions, incarceration, and deportation. Israel is a stain on our species. We now live in a value-free, topsy-turvy world created by the evil twin Netanyahu-Trump. The old order is no more. Hyenas now roam the land. God is dead.
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