Some of our usual stalwarts may not be present on this occasion as they plan making the bigger rally in Dublin. Immediately after the West Street vigil others in attendance will make the journey to Navan to take part in a similar gathering.
Whether in Drogheda, Dublin, or Navan, ordinary people from different walks of life and of varying political persuasions will unite to speak that one word to power that presidential candidate Catherine Connolly verbalises so forcefully and uncompromisingly on her campaign trail. It is an easy word to pronounce but not always easy to announce in an increasingly authoritarian western soundproof culture, where writers like Sally Rooney are to be hanged from the cancel tree for assuming a stance on Gaza, the ethics of which the dominant bloc within the Western political and cultural elite would rather not be reminded of.
Sally Rooney, like Catherine Connolly and the women who weekly rendezvous in Drogheda town centre while inhabiting the same moral universe as Francesca Albanese, are a world removed from that traversed by the German politicians Annalena Baerbock or Ursula von der Leyen. Having not learned the lesson of history German politicians are to be found rowing in behind a second genocide, while their police beat an Irish woman into the ground for opposing it.
Sally Rooney, like Catherine Connolly and the women who weekly rendezvous in Drogheda town centre while inhabiting the same moral universe as Francesca Albanese, are a world removed from that traversed by the German politicians Annalena Baerbock or Ursula von der Leyen. Having not learned the lesson of history German politicians are to be found rowing in behind a second genocide, while their police beat an Irish woman into the ground for opposing it.
Meanwhile, the Left in the European parliament is preparing a second motion of no-confidence in Ursula von der Leyen's presidency of the European Commission. Throughout the genocide she has sided with the genocidaires, while as Commissioner she happily chatted on the phone to the Jewish Hitler despite an international arrest warrant having being issued for him. On that call she was hardly asking him to hand himself in.
Recently the European Commission's executive vice president, Teresa Ribera, speaking at a French university made it abundantly clear that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. Immediately von der Leyen's Commission moved to distance itself from her statements.
Gaza can expect no let up in the genocidal campaign while politicians like the 'two Magda's' sympathies very much lie with those behind the genocide. One good reason while Ireland needs a woman president like Catherine Connolly to stand up to them.
We can clearly see what is happening in front of our eyes, yet powerful people continue to resile from calling it by its name. This underscores the necessity of the vigils and rallies taking place in Drogheda, Dublin, Navan and elsewhere today.
Just as Holocaust deniers have plagued political and ethical discourse Gazacide deniers do the same. What is happening in Gaza is clearly genocide, prosecuted with Nazi-like fervour and cruelty. Recently prominent Irish reactionary and Zionist apologist Eoghan Harris, sharing the same stable as Baerbock and von der Leyen, criticised the writer Jim Duffy, asking him:
Just as Holocaust deniers have plagued political and ethical discourse Gazacide deniers do the same. What is happening in Gaza is clearly genocide, prosecuted with Nazi-like fervour and cruelty. Recently prominent Irish reactionary and Zionist apologist Eoghan Harris, sharing the same stable as Baerbock and von der Leyen, criticised the writer Jim Duffy, asking him:
Are you seriously suggesting that Israel's campaign against Hamas amounts to genocide? Common sense should tell you that if Israel wanted to commit genocide, it would do such as efficiently as it does everything else and there would be nobody living in Gaza.
Duffy can hardly be accused of being a radical leftist given his political history in Fine Gael. His response to Harris was as concise as it was damning.
It matches the Genocide definition and all the rulings of the ICC and Nuremburg trials perfectly. International genocide law experts, including Israel's top genocide law expert who represented Israel in international courts, a series of former Israeli Attorneys General, and former Israeli presidents and prime ministers, and legal advisors to the IDF, have all said it meets the clear long defined international law definition of genocide. It in particular matches (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide Approved and proposed for signature and ratification or accession by General Assembly resolution 260 A (III) of 9 December 1948 Entry into force: 12 January 1951, in accordance with article XIII.
It is entirely irrelevant how efficient or otherwise the method used is, and whether the action succeeded in total or in part.
There is unanimity among all the experts who have prosecuted genocide cases in the ICC and international tribunals that the actions of the Israeli government meet the legal criteria in both conventions and in all rulings of all courts and tribunals since the 1940s. Every single one.
Jim Duffy has nailed it. Genocide, Gazacide, it is real, unlike Von der Leyen and Baerbock's imaginary Israel only defending itself perspective. Each time I hear their names, a 1976 ELO song meanders its pathway through my mind: Evil Woman.
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Thanks for nothing Anthony, I had almost forgotten about that repugnant weasel Eoghan Harris.
ReplyDeleteHalf an hour ago I read comments below an article on The Telegraph online, full of hate and vitriol cheerleading the genocide. Less articulate than Harris but just as weasel-like. How people can be so ruthless is a puzzle to me. There are some things you wouldn't wish on your worst enemy yet these balloons on the Telegraph want all the Palestinians slaughtered and by whatever means.
Some people worship the false god of genocide, love the collective punishment, the famine, the rapes, the torture, the mutilations, the ethnic cleansing. Hamas shouldn't have targeted civilians but some cretins cheerleading Genocide blame an entire nation including babies for these acts. Baffling.
The proportion of combatants killed by Hamas compared to civilians was much, much higher than combatants killed by Israel compared with civilians. It doesn't excuse the killing of civilians by Hamas but indicates the targeting of an entire people by Israel.
The Nazis hid what they were doing as they knew what was going on in the gas chambers wasn't acceptable. The Israelis flaunt their war crimes as they know they're acceptable. Acceptable to the West and a substantial number of the people who live comfortable lives compared to the Global South and they don't give a damn about anybody else just their next Temu or Shein delivery.