Israel: Crimes against Humanity

 

Opinion

In the 2018-19 'Great March of Return,' countless Palestinian men, women and children were murdered or maimed, including journalists, picked off by IDF snipers shooting from high on the Gaza fence. From many eyewitness reports, these killings were indiscriminate and Israeli soldiers could be seen laughing and joking while committing murder against the unarmed Palestinians.

The single murder that raised awareness of these crimes was the killing of medic, Rouzan al-Najjar, (see image above) shot down by an IDF sniper while running to aid a wounded protester close to the fence. Rouzan's killing created an international outcry, particularly on social media, forcing a UN investigation into the IDF's behavior during the protests. For many, Rouzan al-Najjar has become another symbol of Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people.

Israeli crimes against the people of Palestine go back a long way. Israel has occupied the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since the 6-day war in 1967. Although the UN and international community do not support the Israeli occupation, the force has maintained control over the territory. It has “officially” absorbed and proclaimed the whole of Jerusalem as its capital.

In the 1948-1949 Palestine War, known as the NAKBA (catastrophe), over 750.000 Palestinians were displaced from their homes. This land-grab and advancing “settlement” by Israelis into indigenous territories continue to this day. In a word, the people are kicked out of their homes, and in some cases, these Palestinian homes go back hundreds of years.

It has been over 50 years that Israel has occupied the Palestinian territories. In the last 10 years, blockades have been put in place, preventing medical supplies, basic foodstuffs, and freshwater from entering Gaza. Palestinians are prevented from fishing in the seas, blocked by military forces, threatened, and murdered for disobeying.

There are 1.9 million people living inside the GAZA STRIP. It is now known as the world's largest open-air prison. The Israeli government is intentionally starving the Palestinians out of existence. This begs the question: Why is no one doing anything about this blatant ethnic cleansing?

Well there are many reasons.

The US of Corporation requires Israel to exist to maintain an economic and military stranglehold on the Middle East. To know one's surprise, the US gives Israel somewhere in the vicinity of $3.8 billion per year for weapons and whatever else they choose to spend it on. Israel has medicare for all, and the US does not. Go figure.

Israel is the US's client state; that is, by order of the State Dept. causes as much havoc in the area as possible to maintain dominance. Israel is a key player in the machinations of imperialism and Empire. To maintain a semblance of righteousness, the US and Israeli propaganda is thick, rampant, and getting stale. “Israel must protect itself from “terrorists.”” They must “protect” themselves from the low-life Arabs to merely exist. This tactic is to name anyone criticizing Israel for their crimes against humanity as antisemitic. This worked for a while but has been overused and currently is losing meaning.

When we see what the Israel right-wing government has and is doing to the Palestinians for the last 50 years, antisemitism (though it exists) is an excuse for their own racism, obvious crimes, and ethnic cleansing.

The current situation in Israel was bound to happen. When you oppress a people to this extent, there is no other choice but to fight back.

Let's hope these right-wing ass-holes don't do something stupid like 2014; bombing everything and anything, bombing schools, laying waste to a people who have been occupied and oppressed for too long.