Naivety about Gaza
By Charles Pinwill, February, 2024
I have been told before today that I am a cynic. If this is so, then I can offer the insight of one.
A gathering plethora of bodies have proclaimed the immorality of killing 30,000 civilians, including 10,000 children, and are suggesting means of at least lessening it.. Israel simply says “No”. So what then do such as the United Nations, South Africa, the International Court and myriad other complainants do then. They tell us again that Israel is genocidal and ask for it to stop. In response another “no”, and shortly after, yet another.
Apparently some find it difficult to believe that there are children, who when told that they are naughty, will not automatically moderate their activity. When the children say “no”, in impotence they are told again, and respond again in like manner.
This process of moral accusation and resolute denial has now been going on long enough to become tiresome. In fact it has every aspect of a charade. Let us reassure the world that there is serious concern and action to end genocide. A verbal admonition is contrived and put abroad. Hopes rise without any justifiable basis, but still they rise. The certainty of the continuance of genocide is abated by the hope that it will not, and all involved are reassured that “We did our best”.
The simple facts are that the child needs a smack. Outside of resorting to war, only one party can, at least theoretically, admonish Israel. Israel is wholly dependent upon its milch cow, the USA, for its continuing existence both militarily and in all else.
One thing which is being borne out is that US policy on Israel is not the preserve of the US Government. The one determinant is what Israel wants. The Zionist lobby has long “snookered” US Governments through their influence in the media and finance primarily, but no area of lobbying is left unworked.
Yes, the US Secretary of State will say that the casualties amongst Palestinian civilians is unacceptable. But of course the whole time that is exactly what the US is doing; accepting the casualties. If the United States Government told Israel that there will be no more military or other aid until the genocide stops, it would stop. On pain of extinction, the genocide would stop. This is the easy part.
The difficult part is to tell the United States citizens that their policy has been captured, and this, without a media which will allow any such thing to be mentioned.
Rousing on Israel is infantile until the USA’s culpability for its, in effect, abject submission to the Israeli lobby is fully acknowledged and put abroad. A real cynic might say that the anti-genocide parties might as well congratulate Israel as condemn her, if they will not address who has effective sanctions over Israel, and why they won’t use them.