Two thousand reported dead and millions displaced from their homes, this is dark ages stuff from two states that have the technology, the capability, the intellect but not the mindset to be global leaders in enlightenment rather than envelop the world in the darkness of a mushroom cloud.
In a most informative article on The Pensive Quill this morning, Cam Ogie draws comparisons between pre-enlightenment rule by the Caesars and that by Trump/Netanyahu. And they have the audacity to claim that Iran and Gaza are led by obscurantists.
Mehdi Hasan cut to the chase with his acerbic observation:
Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding two Middle Eastern capitals. Beirut and Tehran, literally killing hundreds of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat. We live in Orwellian times.
The fog of the war over Iran might obscure what happens elsewhere in the region, but happen it does. In the West Bank village of Abu Falah on the night of March-7, three Palestinian residents were butchered by Israeli Nazis seeking to intimidate them out of their land so that it could be stolen in pursuit of the expansionist policy of Lebensraum. The IDF stood by and observed as the attacks took place, only entering once the Nazi settlers had departed, their work for the night done. When the Israeli SS came in the wake of the Nazi settlers it was not with ambulances and medical equipment but with jeeps, tear gas and stun grenades.
Mondoweiss, sketching the background to the triple murder, highlighted the spike in Nazi settler violence:
They weren’t the only Palestinians whose lives were taken by Israeli settlers that week. A few days earlier, another Israeli attack killed brothers Muhammad and Fahim Muammar in the village of Qaryut, east of Nablus. Another Palestinian, Ameer Shanaran, was killed by an Israeli settler in Masafer Yatta of the South Hebron Hills on the same day as the Abu Fallah killings.In total, settler pogroms had killed five Palestinians in the West Bank in less than a week, part of a broader escalation in settler violence and Israeli military restrictions on the lives of Palestinians since the start of the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
Israeli Nazi settler violence has been unrelenting: 486 attacks in January, 511 attacks in February. It is Kristallnacht every night for the residents of the West Bank. Muhammad Abu Karsh echoed a sentiment often expressed by Jews living under Nazi rule in the 1930s: "There’s a feeling of vulnerability and humiliation that you can be killed in our own town without consequences.”
A Palestinian can also be raped in custody, have it recorded only then to experience the vulnerability and humiliation that comes with finding out the five IDF rapists are not to face prosecution - again no consequences for the perpetrators of sexual violence.
In Gaza, where Israel has killed "more than 72,000 people in its genocidal war . . . the majority of them women and children, and reduced almost the entire enclave to rubble," the Israeli air force this week murdered four civilians, including two seventeen year old boys. This brings the total of murders committed by Israel in Gaza to seventeen since the start of the onslaught on Iran. So much for a ceasefire.
Yes, there is a an imperialist war on Iran which we very much oppose. But Drogheda Stands With Palestine, each Saturday holds up a candle that refuses to allow the fog of that war to turn Gaza or the West Bank into a cosmological black hole from which no light can escape. We don't have to believe in a god to observe the biblical edict of let there be light. And we who gather here each Saturday remain determined that light from the heart of darkness will reach Drogheda
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