Three Eloquently Cogent Antidotes to Americas Self-Defeating Support of Israel’s Slaughter in Gaza

05 August 2014

Citations

Chris Hedges, Why Israel Lies, TruthDig (03 August 2014)

Maisam Abumorr, A question from Gaza: Am I not human enough?, Al Jazeera English (03 August 2014)

Salem Nasser, On dwarfs and rabbits in diplomacy, Al Jazeera English (04 August 2014)

Chris Hedges provides an introduction to totalitarian inhumanity

In this case, by Israel toward Palestinians:

Israel engages in the kinds of jaw-dropping lies that characterize despotic and totalitarian regimes.

I saw small boys baited and killed by Israeli soldiers in the Gaza refugee camp of Khan Younis.

Such incidents, in the Israeli lexicon, become children caught in crossfire.

I was in Gaza when F-16 attack jets dropped 1,000-pound iron fragmentation bombs on overcrowded hovels in Gaza City. I saw the corpses of the victims . . . .

This became a surgical strike on a bomb-making factory.

I have watched Israel demolish homes and entire apartment blocks to create wide buffer zones between the Palestinians and the Israeli troops that ring Gaza.

The destruction becomes the demolition of the homes of terrorists.

I have stood in the remains of schools . . . as well as medical clinics and mosques.

I, along with every other reporter I know who has worked in Gaza, have never seen any evidence that Hamas uses civilians as “human shields.”

By painting a picture of an army that never attacks civilians . . . the Big Lie says Israelis are civilized and humane, and their Palestinian opponents are inhuman monsters.

And in the uncommon cases when news of atrocities penetrates to the wider public, Israel blames the destruction and casualties on Hamas.

Doublespeak camouflages the truth about Israel’s deadly oppression

Maisam Abumorr, speaking from Gaza:

[W]hat am I supposed to do/be to be qualified as a human?

[A]n occupying nation came from nowhere to claim exclusive ownership of my land on which an endless chain of my ancestors lived, and they started to ethnically cleanse my people.

My only sin is that I stood up and fought for my lost land and for everything that is dear to me.

The world accused me of terrorism just because I refused to be killed like an animal. But, even an animal will fight for its life.

I didn't realize that the modern definition of democracy is to elect a party approved by the US, not a party that the majority of voters want.

As a result, I was put under severe blockade and was subject to systematic starvation, locked in a tiny patch of land isolated from the rest of the world for years.

And from Professor Salem Nasser in Brazil:

[O]ne is sometimes at a loss to decide whether Israel is the rabbit who was able to forge a special partnership with the lion, the United States, or whether this lion has been in some way hypnotised into serving the power agenda of the little rabbit.

The mere fact that a cause is an Israeli cause makes it a just cause.

This is why, when [Israel] was the object of just criticism . . . by Brazil, [Israel] decided that it was entitled to qualify us as "diplomatic dwarfs".

Notice the arrogance . . . .

It is true that all states have, according to international law, the right to self-defence.

[B]ut to put the matter in these terms, at this moment, gives the impression that Brazil could in fact believe that all the absurd actions taken by Israel during these recent days [—] and even during the several past decades [—] have any proximity to the notion of self-defence.

It is therefore time for Brazil to reject the accusation of diplomatic irrelevance and to tell the rabbit that its thesis is false and that its cause is unjust . . . .

The moral? — Doublespeak works, until its bullets and bombs are aimed at you

As I have said before:

We enslave ourselves, when we oppress and dismember others.

Stupidity, combined with national nastiness, eventually kills its wielder.

That is why moral disease, as Henry Giroux implicitly defines it, is not something that a nation can turn its back on.

Oppressively undertaken Zionism, and America’s support of it, merely guarantees more of the violence that both nations pretend to reject. Maisam Abumorr’s point is well taken.

The cause of America’s immoral militarism is a combination wealth-insulated national cowardice (in regard to terrorism) and the Military Industrial Complex’s profit-seeking avarice.

Israel’s own disproportionate violence appears to stem from an increasingly deep foundation in racial and cultural bigotry, combined with having forgotten the moral lessons of the Jewish People’s own sad history living under oppression.

Both nations’ often murderous actions justify a cynic’s view that human beings are incapable of acting ethically and courageously over the long term. We are addicted to killing others for usually self-destructive reasons. And we love rationalizing the slaughter with self-justifying lies.

These lies are crafted by people who know perfectly well what they are doing.

War crimes.

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Three Eloquently Cogent Antidotes to Americas Self-Defeating Support of Israel’s Slaughter in Gaza