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If we in the West are the most propagandized people in the world; Gazans are the least propagandized. Outwardly captives, Gazans are liberated from the illiberal political propaganda that grips the West<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n WHAT has Israel been up to since March 18, 2025, which was when the \u201cgenocidal entity<\/a>\u201d formally broke the\u00a0nominal ceasefire agreement in Gaza<\/a>? Oracular insight here is unnecessary.<\/p> Israel has been trampling underfoot everything decent and good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Genocide is back. This time with President Trump in\u00a0fawning agreement<\/a>, playing procurer and pimp for the Israeli State, and subjecting ingrate Bibi Netanyahu to no more than a curt jerk of the leash:\u00a0During a press conference with the US president, on April 7<\/a>, the Israeli prime minister\u2019s face, nevertheless, grew as dark as a thundercloud on mention of possible diplomacy with Iran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Under such favorable circumstances, Israelis are louder and prouder about killing and destroying with monomaniacal diligence. Indifferently, and for the first time, Israel\u00a0openly admitted to targeting<\/a>\u00a0journalist Hussam Shabat for \u201celimination,\u201d in December of 2024, and executing the him on March 24. The sadistic serial killer stalked its prey, then pounced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The predator has so far singled out and assassinated\u00a0232 other Palestinian journalists<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Shabat thus knew, as he put it, that \u201cjournalism meant Israel would kill him<\/a>.\u201d Only 23, so full of promise, Shabat wrote his\u00a0epitaph<\/a>\u00a0in advance of his death. It\u00a0read<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIf you\u2019re reading this, it means I have been killed \u2014 most likely targeted \u2014 by the Israeli occupation forces. \u2026 For [the] past 18 months, I have dedicated every moment of my life to my people. I documented the horrors in northern Gaza minute by minute, determined to show the world the truth they tried to bury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I slept on pavements, in schools, in tents \u2014 anywhere I could. Each day was a battle for survival. I endured hunger for months, yet I never left my people\u2019s side.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n By God, I fulfilled my duty as a journalist. I risked everything to tell the truth, and now, at last, I have found rest\u2014something I have not known for the past 18 months. I did this because I believe in the Palestinian cause, in our right to this land. The greatest honor of my life was to die defending it and serving its people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I ask you now: Do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories\u2014until Palestine is free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For the last time,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Hussam Shabat, from northern Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trampling underfoot everything decent and good:\u00a0Fatma Hassona<\/a>\u00a0was to be the subject of an upcoming documentary, \u201cPut Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk,\u201d to debut at the Cannes Film Festival.\u00a0Israel could not allow that<\/a>. So, Air Force Genocide bombed the 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist, also murdering nine members of her family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After a brief, relative lull, eighteen months into the genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza, Israel has resumed its slaughter of civilians at an average rate of\u00a0103 souls<\/a>\u00a0a day, with 223 individuals dealt life-altering injuries, also daily. Since March 18, reports Ha\u2019aretz, Israel has killed 1,652 people and wounded 4,391 in strikes on Gaza. (Ha\u2019aretz \u201cIsrael News\u201d newsletter, Wednesday, 16.04.2025.) The number murdered now\u00a0approaches 2,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With\u00a062,000 Palestinians missing<\/a>, over\u00a052,000 confirmed dead<\/a>; and indirect deaths ranging from three to fifteen times the number of direct deaths, by\u00a0the\u00a0Lancet<\/em>\u2019s account<\/a>\u2014the fake, fossilized media should be obligated to report the official number of Palestinians dead by Israel as well over 100,000. That too is a vast undercount.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The mind is crowded.\u00a0Palestinians murdered<\/a>\u00a0melt into a montage of faces. Yet remember we must men like\u00a0Rifaat Radwan<\/a>. Radwan was among fifteen medical and humanitarian workers who were summarily executed pointblank, on March 23, by the Israeli regime in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The underworld that is the IDF (Israel Defense Forces)\u2014the world criminals and lawbreakers inhabit\u2014is premised upon lies. By now you know The Liar\u2019s lines, as he drops American \u201cearthquake<\/a> <\/a>bombs<\/a>\u201d on kids at\u00a0community kitchens<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHamas. Terrorism. If Palestinians die; they needed killing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n But Satan\u2019s non sequiturs can\u2019t conceal the truth\u2014or silence the deeply felt devotionals of the righteous. As the\u00a0SS IDF<\/a>\u00a0stood above him, riddling his colleagues and himself with thousands of bullets, Radwan, Palestinian Red Crescent Society medic, did not beg the agents of his demise. Instead, he\u00a0recorded their crime<\/a>\u00a0for posterity while righteously reciting his last prayers. These are achingly beautiful:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOh Lord, accept us. Oh Lord, accept me as a martyr. Mother, forgive me. This is the path I chose \u2026 that I help people. \u2026 .\u201d Until he expired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As Monday of April 7 dawned, a Wi-Fi rigged world watched a funeral pyre of Palestinians, except that the people Israel lit up were alive. The IDF incinerated \u201ca tent housing Palestinian journalists in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Late last year, when teenager\u00a0Shaban al-Dalou<\/a>\u00a0smoldered alive, the\u00a0presstitutes<\/a>\u00a0did what they always do: Fudge the English language in the service of Israel. To shore up this oppressive foreign regime, media deploy euphemisms and the passive voice; syntactic devices that mask the excruciating death of a boy kind,\u00a0beautiful<\/a>\u00a0and bright, who was\u00a0driven by devotion<\/a>\u00a0to kin and community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cKilled in a fire,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0media said about Shaban\u2019s murder. The same fate has now befallen Helmi Al-Faqaawi, \u201ca correspondent for Palestine Today News Agency, and Youssef Al-Khazandar, a civilian assisting the group of journalists.\u201d Photojournalist Ahmed Mansour, seen in\u00a0images engulfed in flames<\/a>, is fighting for his life in Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Does Mansour have a fighting chance, what with the last barely functional hospital in the Strip having been\u00a0obliterated<\/a>\u00a0by Israel? On the morning of Palm Sunday, IDF fiends flattened the Al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital, which had\u00a0stood since 1882<\/a>. \u201cBurning a journalist alive in Gaza,\u00a0exclaimed Lima Bu<\/a>s<\/a>tami<\/a>, Euro-Med Monitor\u2019s legal department director, \u201cis not aimed at silencing the truth. Israel already relies on a far greater force: the world\u2019s indifference to the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n With a world of indifference as backdrop, Israel\u00a0set ablaze<\/a>\u00a0yet more civilians in tents on April 17. (And still more again on\u00a0April 21<\/a>.) Seventeen Palestinian civilians, including nine children, were dispatched, apparently, dead by \u201cwaves of [some sort].\u201d Yes, even Al Jazeera has caught the botched-English bug, writing that, on April 18, \u201ca wave of Israeli air strikes<\/a>\u201d killed them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another trope of the malpracticing media is to qualify the daily carnage in Gaza with the clause, \u201cmostly women and children.\u201d Or, \u201cIncluding many women and children.\u201d As though Palestinian men were fare game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This genocide exclusionary clause is pronounced among the vanishingly small number of conservative influencers who have registered their objection to Israel\u2019s crimes. Out of Christian charity, these influencers allow that the murdered are \u201cwomen and children,\u201d for the most. Or, that among the murdered are Christians. This from creedal conservatives who otherwise champion the centrality of men and manliness in society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This from the same conservatives who must surely know that Jesus Christ stood not for sectarian favoritism, but for the universal value of all human beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cMeet the Palestinian men the media don\u2019t want you to know exist<\/a>,\u201d narrates Lara Elborno, a Palestinian daughter, human-rights attorney and activist. This\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0is a woman who can\u00a0speak<\/a>\u00a0both poignantly and with authority about Palestinian men. By now, so can we. And it is the men of Palestine whom we\u2019ve watched on our screens first to the scenes of slaughter. They dig, carry, evacuate, comfort,\u00a0perform religious rites of burial<\/a>, and cry when lulls allow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The contrast between Palestinian men and the IDF stares at you like blood on a\u00a0Kaffan<\/a>, the traditional Palestinian shroud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At bottom, the most cowardly army known in military history doesn\u2019t engage in battles. The IDF is an air force: It strafes civilians from above. Since it broke the ceasefire, Israel has conducted daily massacres by airstrikes, shelling, and drone strikes,\u00a0reports Jon Elmer<\/a>, military analyst for the Electronic Intifada. Well over 1000 such airstrikes\u2014fifty a day\u2014have seen\u00a0nearly 600 children and babies<\/a>\u00a0blown to bits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With every avenue of ingress and egress sealed off by the Israelis\u00a0for the last six week<\/a>s, fuel to power earth-moving machinery is unavailable. So when, on\u00a0April 10<\/a>, thirty-five civilians were murdered and fifty injured by warplanes strafing a \u201cdensely populated residential block,\u201d in a Shuja\u2019iyya neighborhood\u2014civil defense teams, Palestinians, were on the scene. They always are. How they do it nobody knows. They currently use trawls, spades, finger nails and faith to get at the trapped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ugly and evil seeks to eradicate its opposites. Reflexively do the West\u2019s brash, technocratic, atomistic and irreligious societies aim to eradicate communities unlike their own. Decadently woke and cruelly impersonal Gaza is not. Gaza,\u00a0attests<\/a>\u00a0Zahad Rahman, an American nurse who volunteers in what remains of the enclave, is a community-centered, gracious society. Rahman is not a Palestinian. Israel has murdered more than 1,000 individuals like him\u2014\u201dmembers of the medical, defense and aid teams in Gaza,\u201d\u00a0confirms<\/a>\u00a0B\u2019Tselem (an Israeli human rights organization). Despite the risk, like so many medical volunteers who go to Gaza, Rahman has found himself drawn back to people who will give you their shirt in zero weather.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the Ramadan tradition of \u201ccultivating empathy<\/a>,\u201d in\u00a0the ruins<\/a>, Gazans thus\u00a0laid tables to celebrate<\/a>.\u00a0Eid al-Fitr<\/em>, in particular, explains\u00a0Imam Dr. Omar Suleiman<\/a>, a scholar and theologian, \u201cis meant to continue that empathy into our celebrations. On the morning of\u00a0Eid<\/em>, every Muslim is required to pay\u00a0Zakat al-Fitr<\/em>\u2014a form of charity designed to ensure that no one is left out of the feast. It is a beautiful practice: a way of saying that joy is only complete when shared, that our celebration is meaningless if others are starving.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Inescapably,\u00a0Eid al-Fitr<\/em>\u00a0spirituality was shattered by Israeli barbarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On April 3,\u00a0Israel murdered 92 worshippers<\/a>. A volunteer doctor from\u00a0Gaza Medic Voices<\/a>\u00a0spent\u00a0Eid<\/em>, which marks the conclusion of Ramadan,\u00a0cutting away party clothes from the bodies of kids<\/a>\u00a0dressed to the nines for\u00a0Eid<\/em>. By day\u2019s end, the number of human beings murdered had swelled. Little girls festively dressed were, instead, transported to the morgue, jewelry and finery\u00a0shrouded<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0garments of death<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While 100 Palestinian kids are now \u201ckilled or injured in Gaza every day<\/a>,\u201d since [genocide] resumed,\u201d Israelis have gone and slapped a disability classification on \u201cover 20,000\u201d of their own safe and sated offspring.<\/a>\u00a0Victims of terror,\u00a0claim<\/a>\u00a0the Israeli State\u2019s mental-health mavens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Psychiatric Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM<\/a>) is an ever-mutating manual, now in its fifth iteration. The criteria for manufacturing illness under the DSM, or similar industry-developed manuals, are malleable. In real life, no psychiatric manual required, tens of thousands of Palestinian children are being terrorized, are\u00a0actually<\/em>\u00a0dead, mutilated, mentally scarred for life, orphaned without a soul in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Still, one can well-understand why their Israeli adversaries\u2014predators\u00a0parading as prey<\/a>\u2014would want to tar even the Palestinian toddler as an irremediable terrorist-in-the-making. Like so many of their formative figures, Palestinian children are formidable, fierce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amid the worry and wear of finding food and staying alive, a slip of a girl\u00a0compo<\/a>s<\/a>es and recites<\/a>\u00a0the poetry of resistance:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m Palestinian and proud.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m proud because I\u2019m the strong brave girl, the daughter of heroes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe daughter of Gaza, the land of the free\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n And\u00a0so she goes<\/a>\u00a0in modulated, melodic Arabic. Here\u00a0another young Palestinian girl<\/a>\u00a0stops her idol, the late Mr. Shabat, aforementioned, to tell him of her admiration. When she grows up; she wants to be a brave journalist like her hero, since martyred. These are very centered children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If we in the West are the most propagandized people in the world; Gazans are the least propagandized. Outwardly captives, Gazans are liberated from the illiberal political propaganda that grips the West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And Gabi Siboni knows this. The former IDF colonel, now an unthinking member of Israel\u2019s think-tank ranks,\u00a0reflects<\/a>\u00a0Jewish-Israeli public and political discourse. For Gazans Siboni\u00a0expresses<\/a>\u00a0genocidal contempt and intent\u2014but also a warped understanding of Gazan ferocity about liberating their ancestral homeland.\u00a0Said<\/a>\u00a0Siboni:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHamas is not the problem in Gaza. Hamas is a symptom of a bigger problem. The population in Gaza is a \u2018barbaric mob.\u2019 If we don\u2019t wish to bleed our soldiers for decades\u2014because in Gaza there will be Hamas B and C\u2014the only solution is Trump\u2019s \u2018vision.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sidoni is a lot more honest, and only a tad less subtle, than the oleaginous Bernie Sanders, an unreconstructed liberal Zionist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gaza is no more because of a concerted campaign to wipe it out; because of extermination and depopulation; not because of \u201cIsraeli self-defense,\u201d which is when one sovereign state wards off the armies of other sovereign nation-states. Yet \u201cin the year 2025<\/a>,\u201d Sanders\u2019 mass rallies are festooned with the line, \u201cIsrael has a right to defend itself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bernie Sanders\u2019 sophistry should explode the brain like an ammunition dump!<\/p>\n\n\n\n In international law, explains Philip Proudfoot, a British\u00a0political scientist<\/a>, \u201cOccupation is temporary, imposing duties, not rights, upon the occupier. The Fourth Geneva Convention explicitly demands that an occupier safeguard civilian rights. Accordingly, Israel cannot resort to anything more than police powers to \u2018defend itself.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Genocide is the acid test. Sanders\u2019 insistence, well into genocide, that \u201cIsrael has a right to defend itself can only be interpreted as blatant genocide apologia,\u201d\u00a0propounds Caitlin Johnstone<\/a>. Clearly an expert in untruths, Sanders, who oversaw\u00a0the removal from his rallies of protesters<\/a>\u00a0and their Free Palestine flag, has further exposed himself as a slick establishment operative, who seeks to capture na\u00efve, politically homeless Democrats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Back to the malodorous cauldron of death and decadence that is the Israel Defense Forces. (Or perhaps the Israel Defense Feces?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n A new load of grief came, in March, to residents of the al-Faraa refugee camp in the foothills of the Jordan Valley, in the northern occupied West Bank. Slatternly IDF soldiers\u00a0have a familiar signature<\/a>. They leave behind human waste in the homes they wreck:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFeces, urine and used condoms\u2014these are just some of the things that Israeli soldiers left behind in these Palestinian homes during their 11-day assault [in March],\u201d\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0Electronic Intifada.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n That the IDF has a documented \u201ctradition\u201d of defecating and urinating in the West Bank and Gazan homes they occupy and vandalize is seconded by a 2014\u00a0account in the Guardian<\/a>: \u201cPalestinians returning home find Israeli troops left feces and venomous graffiti.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Somebody should rub IDF noses in their own mess to teach them a lesson, once and for all. Nobody has.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes, Israel makes atrocities past and present look like sandbox play. Still, puzzling even to me is this recent\u00a0account<\/a>\u00a0of used condoms left by the IDF in these West Bank homes. Why puzzling? We know that despite the feel-good official designation of some Israeli females as combat soldiers, the few women in combat roles \u201care not explicitly deployed into combat situations<\/a>.\u201d During these ostensible \u201cmilitary\u201d raids, the IDF functions, I believe, as a male-only \u201cfighting\u201d force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, why the condoms left in vandalized Palestinian homes, in the course of the IDF\u2019s Dionysian bacchanalia in the West Bank? Whose are they, exactly?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is this what Ha\u2019aretz, Israel\u2019s center-liberal paper of record, calls \u201cthe homoerotic side of Israeli army life<\/a>\u201d? Is \u201ccopulating\u201d to be added to the documented IDF \u201ctradition\u201d of male soldiers defecating and urinating in Palestinian homes?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ha\u2019aretz, I\u2019ve noticed, waters down debauchery\u2014but not because it is concealing the truth for the \u201cFatherland.\u201d They tell the truth but frame it differently. Thus, the debauchery of uniformed IDF doesn\u2019t seem to be that big of a deal in the Israeli State. Israel doesn\u2019t appear to share American sensibilities\u2014at least so it seems to me, who has closely observed this society in the Hebrew, for eighteen ugly months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n American culture is quite prudish; Israel\u2019s expressed aesthetic is more pornographic. An example is the familiar images of IDF wearing or rummaging through the sexy lingerie of Palestinian women dead or dispossessed. You and I would consider these cross-dressing displays among uniformed men as inappropriate, kinky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not Haaretz. Kinky acts of cowardice and sadism\u2014invading Palestinian homes, looting, vandalizing and manhandling private effects\u2014a writer at Ha\u2019aretz is wont to label \u201cMachismo\u201d: The \u201cMilitary machismo of Israeli soldiers in Gaza will rear its ugly head at home<\/a>,\u201d blared a January 2025 Ha\u2019aretz headline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m a subscriber. I read enough of Ha\u2019aretz to get a sense that Israel has a different, un-American aesthetic. Take this\u00a0depiction of Purim<\/a>, which used to be celebrated, largely, as a children\u2019s festival. To \u201ca brief history of Purim, the Halloween of Jewish holidays<\/a>,\u201d Ha\u2019aretz has appended an erotic image of men flirting and kissing deeply. Ha\u2019aretz appears to consider this image to be Halloween\/Purim-appropriate, wholesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An \u201coverbearing embrace,\u201d however, is how Ha\u2019aretz has euphemized the violence of conquest and the breach of Syrian borders, in March of 2025: \u201cIsrael\u2019s Overbearing Embrace Threatens Syria\u2019s Druze at a Critical Juncture<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Utter opposites, too, are Palestinians. If Palestinians are united in the yen for freedom; Israeli circuitry is wired for cruelty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Israel Katz, defense minister, stonily\u00a0threatened<\/a>\u00a0all of Gaza\u2019s civilians, on March 19, 2025<\/a>. As a\u00a0Twitter adage goes<\/a>, \u201cTranslating an Israeli tweet from the Hebrew is like finding a lost page of\u00a0Mein Kampf<\/em>.\u201d Listen to the \u201csound of impunity<\/a>\u201d\u2014and for that matter, never believe any Hebrew-English translation come to you via Israeli officialdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These are Katz\u2019\u00a0precise words translated from the Hebrew<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cResidents of Gaza, this is the last warning. The first Sinwar destroyed Gaza. The second Sinwar will ruin her completely. The assault of the air force against the Hamas terrorists is just the first step. The rest will be many times harder, and you will pay the full price. Evacuations will soon start from areas of battle. If all the Israeli hostages are not released, and Hamas is not expelled from Gaza\u2014Israel will act with the kind of force unfamiliar to you. Take the offer of the president of the US: return the hostages and expel \u2018The Hamas,\u2019 and other options will then open before you, including migration to other places across the world, for whomever wishes it. The alternative is destruction and complete ruin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Defense Minister Katz further\u00a0reiterated<\/a>, on April 16, his policy of \u201chalting the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza.\u201d \u201cThe State of Israel\u2019s policy is clear. No humanitarian aid will enter Gaza, as this is one of our main pressure tactics\u201d with Hamas. Under the current reality, nobody intends to stray from the policy, barked Katz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In an instant, Minister Katz had pacified the \u201cHostages and Missing Families Forum.\u201d While \u201cemphasizing that the release of the hostages and the continuation of the war cannot happen simultaneously,\u201d the group had nonetheless condemned the Israeli government for \u201cquietly preparing to reinstate humanitarian aid.\u201d (Ha\u2019aretz\u2019s \u201cIsrael News\u201d newsletter, Wednesday, 16.04.2025.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the whole, it has been\u00a0well-established<\/a>\u00a0that from janitor to general, from soldiers to\u00a0supreme court justices<\/a>; in words and in deeds\u2014Israeli society generally shares in the genocidal mindset. The exceptions are a few\u00a0heavily proscribed, miniscule (\u201caround 300 Israelis come to hold pictures of Gazan children\u201d), pro-peace, Arab-Jewish groups<\/a>. All told, Israelis speak of Palestinians as though they were sub-humans, untouchables, unmentionable, lacking any say in how they live or die.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I\u00a0wrote<\/a>, moreover, that \u201ccriminality is codified in Israeli law; that\u00a0genocide, snuff films, extra-judicial assassinations and rape of Palestinians are\u00a0de facto<\/em>\u00a0legal in Israel<\/a>; I was not engaging in hyperbole. Systemic, societal criminality is regularly codified by the highest court in that land. Late in March\u00a0came a ruling from the Israeli Supreme Court<\/a>, \u201cexplicitly and directly legitimizing Israel\u2019s illegal blockade of the Gaza Strip.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both asinine and depraved, the Israeli high court used, in support of its authoritative ruling for starvation, \u201cthe argument that the State of Israel is exempt from the obligations of belligerent occupation under international law in all cases pertaining to the Gaza Strip.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sure, you may\u00a0subsume<\/a>\u00a0in logic, as the Israeli supreme court indirectly does, that you are not\u00a0obligated<\/em>\u00a0to help dying human beings. But you cannot make a cogent, rational case for your right to\u00a0stop others<\/em>\u00a0from feeding and healing dying human beings. This displays a defect in the faculty of reasoning, as well as a defect of character. By default, the outcome of the Israeli high court\u2019s ruling is the death of the starved population\u2014the process of mass murder will play out to its legislated conclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The fault for inaction lies now entirely with those who won\u2019t act to save Gazans: The USA, Western European- and East European countries, East and West Asian governments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The emanations from the minds of Israel\u2019s Supreme Court are mind-numbingly boorish and banal. Most pertinent for our purposes here is that Israel does not enjoy an independent judiciary. Yet Israel regularly exploits the\u00a0principle of complementarity<\/a>\u00a0in international law, according to which the International Criminal Court (ICC) shares legal jurisdiction with the democratic nation-state under investigation, provided the latter has an independent judiciary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Beware! With chameleon alacrity, Israel typically scurries to \u201cinvestigate\u201d itself, and to exploit the principle of complementarity, when the world looks like it\u2019s had enough. Legal investigations by Israel of its own crimes are part of the Israeli superstructure of deception. Nominal prosecutions, or\u00a0ersatz investigations, by genocidal Israel<\/a>\u00a0of its crimes against Arabs must themselves be treated as part of\u00a0Hasbara<\/em>\u2019s meta-chicanery, aimed at concealing the Israeli State\u2019s transparently despotic tendencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, Donald Trump, like Joe Biden before him, has made Americans confederates in Israel\u2019s crimes. A malign conjunction of events engineered by Trump has further positioned Israeli leadership to finalize its genocidal goal, as its lobby proxies and influencers stateside successfully silence us, and sunder our Bill of Rights protections, including the First Amendment right to think and speak freely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The level of \u201cstate capture\u201d by Israel, a small, oppressive foreign regime, is unprecedented,\u00a0inveighs Craig Mokhiber<\/a>, activist and scholar of international, humanitarian law. This is \u201cstate capture\u201d at every level: foreign and domestic, federal, state, county and city. For Israel, law enforcement agencies under this and the previous government are willing to silence and disappear activists against genocide for exercising our American liberties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Absurd, of course, but Trump\u2019s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents had tweeted that their job is to stop illegal ideas at the U.S. border: \u201cPeople, money, products, ideas.\u00a0If it crosses the US border illegally, our job is to stop it<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![](\"https:\/\/www.activistpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/David-Avocado-Wolfe-Logo.png\"\/){kind=logo}
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