Themselves Alone

Anthony McIntyre ☠ With Israel's genocidal onslaught on the civilian population of Gaza having resumed for more than a week now, its chief sponsor, the United States, in the UN chose splendid isolation over international solidarity with those on the receiving end of Judeo-Nazi butchery.

US expressions of solidarity with beleaguered Ukraine now sound like nothing other than pious moralising, the criticism of Putin, self-serving bombast. Countless more children have been murdered in the two months of Gazacide than Russia has managed in its entire war of aggression.

In the UN the US alone stood with the Kapos, using its power of veto to prevent a ceasefire, which had it come into being, would have called time on the Israeli genocide. The gratitude expressed by Israel's corrupt leader, Baby Killer Netanyahu was effusive. Baby Killer knows the value of US support and military hardware. It is what makes the genocide possible. Without it, the Judeo-Nazis would be compelled to halt.

If we express surprise at the US action we would be fooling no one other than ourselves. Only last week it lauded one of the world's most notorious war criminals who died having reached the age of one hundred. Literally thousands of those Kissinger murdered never saw their first birthday. Antony Blinken, after Genocide Joe the leading cheerleader for the Israeli war on children, eulogised the mass murderer:

It was Henry’s enduring capacity to bring his strategic acumen and intellect to bear on the emerging challenges of each passing decade that led presidents, secretaries of state, national security advisers, and other leaders from both parties to seek his counsel, including me.

Not a word about Henry's enduring capacity to massacre millions, his enduring passion for murder. The fawning over Kissinger at least demonstrates the type of counsel Blinken is still eager to take in. Henry would not have batted an eyelid at genocide. If Blinken is blinking it is not in disbelief at what has been unfolding in front of his eyes.

Many apologists and genocide deniers pretend that the real abomination is to accuse Israel of genocide rather than the genocide that Israel is committing. Take this cringeworthy evasion by Howard Jacobson: Charging Jews with genocide is to declare them guilty of precisely what was done to them. And your point is Mr Jacobson? That being a victim of some heinous barbarism arms you with immunity from becoming barbaric? That has all the persuasiveness of a belief that some magic potion can make a warrior invisible in battle.

The Jewish musician and outspoken critic of Israeli policy in the occupied territories, Jonathan Ofir, did not hold back: 'it is clear that we are really in Nazi times, and it really does bring associations of the Holocaust.'

Many years ago I read a striking book - Germany's Willing Executioners by Daniel Goldhagen. Its central point was that the Nazis alone did not bear responsibility for the Holocaust - the entire German people did.

Soldiers of the Infant Destruction Force currently exterminating their way through Gaza proclaimed in song for the camera their genocidal intent:

Everyone knows our slogan

There are no uninvolved

Echoing Goldhagen, Ofir opined:

These are not just the chants of some kids on the hills. They are soldiers in Gaza — the same soldiers perpetrating this horrific genocide right in front of our eyes. Those cheerleading them in explicitly genocidal terms are not just far-right fanatics either; this spirit is everywhere.

Thursday's vote in the UN is ample proof that in the Whitehouse Biden & Blinken are rendering the chorus.

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