Netanyahu's"Hail Mary"Genocide
Protesters don't need to burn flags when the barbarians of the west are so effectively self-immolating.
Genocides are nothing new. Western imperialists have been committing them for centuries and the numbers are staggering. When we take a closer look at wars and genocides the terms are more or less interchangeable. Genocide might better be defined as mass killing when the designated enemy has no means of effectively defending themselves.
NATO is a specialist in droning and bombing unguarded civilian populations.
The Gaza genocide is unique in its flagrancy, by its open and malicious contempt for human decency, the rule of law and everything else failed Western Civilization claims to stand for. It is a collective madness. The perpetrators of genocide show themselves as the actual “subhumans” as their killings become more reckless and wanton, performing as self-incriminating imbeciles.
Economic sanctions can also be seen as slow motion genocide as they deprive countries of their livelihoods driving them into poverty and despair.
The Gaza genocide must be seen in a larger context. We are seeing the dying of an empire in all its rage. Building empires is an exercise in sociopathic megalomania; the inevitable fall of empires is the other side of the coin when the loss of power and privilege— the humiliation— is unbearable and insane desperation and chaos ensue.
Like everything else empires have a mortality. Instigated by flawed human beings, they end in social degeneracy, chaos and moral and fiscal exhaustion.
It is no coincidence this genocide happens so closely after the west's loss in Ukraine. Netanyahu and his henchmen can see western power is waning as is Israel’s place in the world. It is the influential mimic of the empire, mistakenly thinking it can act with impunity as the empire has for so long—doing whatever it wants to— a behavior no longer acceptable as a new and more just world order is emerging.
The Ukraine war, the blowing up of the Nord Stream pipelines, the Israeli bombing of Iran’s consulate in Damascus, and the Crocus attack in Moscow are all terrorist attacks hopelessly attempting to forestall the collapse of empire.
Both the US and Israel suffer the “little man”(Napoleon) syndrome, where what they lack in size they compensate for with compulsive aggressive behavior. A very costly syndrome in these times.
As the new world order emerges the empire switches from terrorism intended to destroy others, to the terrorist vainly attempting to defend its declining fortunes and the inevitable loss of empire in a world of constant change.
In other words the purveyors of terrorism ultimately become the terrorists.
There is no fall from grace for empire builders, no honorifics, just the pathetic end of their inhumane tyranny.
The suffering, The Sorrows of Empire, are self-inflicted.
The end of their tyranny can't come soon enough. Most of us have had it with this horrific behaviour.
When the words and actions of the elites, people and army of a country explicitly state their purpose is to erase another group of people - its history, culture, lives - then this I think qualifies as genocide. The current assault on Gaza and resulting atrocities reminds me of accounts of when the Wehrmacht rolled through Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union in 1941. The level of destruction and dehumanization of Jews, Slavs and Roma then is the same as the level of dehumanization of Palestinians now. Remember it’s not only Netanyahu, Gallant and others who are making statements that incite genocide but that 98% of the Israeli public state say the IDF is using sufficient or not enough force in the current assault on Gaza. Only 2% oppose, think about that.