The black pill we must swallow over Palestine.
Palestinians are going to be eradicated from Palestine.
I knew that this was Israel’s intention though I didn’t think they’d get away with it. However, as Chris Hedges writes, it won’t be long now.
‘You cannot decimate a people, carry out saturation bombing over 20 months to obliterate their homes, villages and cities, massacre tens of thousands of innocent people, set up a siege to ensure mass starvation, drive them from land where they have lived for centuries and not expect blowback. The genocide will end. The response to the reign of state terror will begin.
What message has this genocide imparted not only to Palestinians, but to all in the Global South?
It is unequivocal. You do not matter. Humanitarian law does not apply to you. We do not care about your suffering, the murder of your children. You are vermin. You are worthless. You deserve to be killed, starved and dispossessed. You should be erased from the face of the earth.’
No one is coming to Palestine’s rescue, not Iran, Hezbollah, Ansah Allah, the UN, China nor Russia. Not protesting in UK. The Palestinians will be murdered or become a people without a homeland.
Then we will have to deal with the fall out and anger, from the majority of the UK population not just Palestinians, at the politicians and high profile Jewish people in the media who actively supported it; Hadley Freeman in the Times, Howard Jacobsen in the Observer and Simon Schaema at the BBC. And those like JK Rowling who were completely silent. And at ourselves who let it happen.
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I knew immediately after 7 Oct what Israel was going to do; painfully obvious. That the rest of the world not only condones this behavior, but actively supports it, is an indictment of conscience that should trouble and scare us all. As you say, TPTB couldn't care less about us; we are cattle to them, and we will be treated as cattle unless/until we can find them (not easy) and take their power away (very difficult).
We all matter.
When those who control everything show themselves to be the genocidal maniacs that they are, when they show that because they think they're so superior to the rest of us that they can like, cheat, steal, commit coups, organize colour revolutions and assassinations and commit genocide. they're the ones that don't matter. They're not fit to rule, and they aren't entitled to the power they wield.