Gaza

First, you put them in a cage. Then, poke them with a stick by taking ever more of their land, making life difficult, and things like that. When they get mad, label them terrorists. Seventy-five plus years now.

There has never been a doubt what Israel wanted; it wanted it all. Not publicly. Let Moshe, Benji, … and the Likud do it; while protesting not too much. This time, a killing spree. It was not the first. Forty to one? Your entitle? No! It was a war crime.

Putting Palestinians in a cage was a crime. Poking them with a stick was a crime. The settlements were a crime. This latest killing spree was a crime. All these you abetted by your acquiescence. All Israelis are complicit. You didn’t even try to stop the abuse, the carnage.

You lost Israel to Rome because you followed a king who was a religious nut. It was given back by a guilt-ridden world that didn’t own it. Your claims (not admissible in a court of law) are no better than those of the Palestinians; if even. Sharing should have been a pre-condition.

This time, there was no need to watch the coverage. After seventy-five years, most of us had seen it all before. Poke, poke, then boom. Hard to miss the destruction, the rising death toll, the brutality, the suffering, … There was never a doubt: Netanyahu, Israel’s far-right, saw an opportunity to take Gaza. Even if there was the faintest, it was erased by the vision of the attachment on the rear of the armored bulldozers being used to rip up the streets.

From the invasion, the wanton killing of non-combatants especially women and children, and the wanton destruction of infrastructure, was a war crime. Somewhere along the way, (ten thousand?), (twenty thousand?) it became genocide. It was always deliberate. No Benji, lies are not admissible as evidence. In your case, they are evidence of guilt.

The United States is guilty of a war crime for furnishing Israel with weapons for this killing and destruction. Joe Biden, America, blew this one terribly. We the people acquiesced; we the people are complicit because we did. We did, in large part because of a far too powerful pro-Israel lobby; in part because of religion. And, in part for having too many sorry-assed politicians. No excuse. The United States committed a war crime.

Today, the despicable one read a script calling for the removal of Palestinians from Gaza and its development into a resort area. Three guesses and the first two don’t count. How low can the United States go?