by achrilock
history
Forget all that schoolbook nonsense for a sec. I been watching this thing work in real time since Gulf War I. It’s stupid to call it democracy. The oligarchs pick a couple people, cut from the same neoliberal cloth. One’s an asshole, one’s a secret asshole. Red votes asshole, blue votes secret asshole. Then, in every single administration, like three guys sit in the White House and circle jerk history into rubble. Every time. There’s no ‘us.’ We didn’t shit all over international law. They did.
Unfortunately, many people in the west are still running cover for Israel, or trying to give them an out minus consequences. The situation is very simple. The ICJ issued a legal order for Israel to cease military operations in Rafah to avoid civilian harm. Israel arrogantly and demonstrably ignored the order. Civilians were harmed and killed. Anyone within the Israeli government who was involved, including its leadership, should be taken into custody immediately and tried for war crimes.
Because the overt goal of Israel’s historic enterprise, and in particular its present campaign, is the removal or eradication of the Palestinian people, both from Gaza and from the West Bank. The Israel they demand, the Zionist ethnostate, cannot exist without ethnic cleansing, therefore they are engaged in ethnic cleansing. And the US, and its leadership, is attempting to profit in various ways from this endeavor while cynically pretending at overtures of peace and reconciliation.
And the press needs to stop characterizing ‘far right’ political factions around the world as anything other than fascism. There is no vast ideological divide between ‘far right’ and fascism. They exist to create and spread fascism, wherever in the world they may reside. The softening language is a throwback from the post-war world that allowed neoliberalism to avoid actually fighting fascists again. Call it out for what it is, or stop muddying the waters and doing their dirty work for them.
And, I mean, they’re really pissed at all of us saying this is a mistake, for sure. Cops beating the shit out of college students, DHS all up everybody’s ass, weird shit going down on socials, the whole thing. Europe’s just as bad, I hear. The truth is, though, that you all can pour all the tax dollars you want into the cult of Zionism and its project of ethnic cleansing, and you’ll get the same shit result as Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, or the War on Terror. Colonizer always loses. Look it up 🙂