July 26, 2024
New York – According to Britain’s esteemed medical journal, The Lancet, 186,000 Palestinian adults and children have so far been killed or died of disease in Gaza. Nearly 600 Palestinians have been killed on the Israeli-occupied West Bank. 10,000 Palestinians languish in Israeli prisons.
The official Arab death toll to date is 39,670, including more than 15,000 children. Close to 80,000 Palestinians have been wounded.
Israel says 1,139 Israelis were killed. Half of Gaza’s homes have been destroyed by constant shelling, bombing and tank fire. Polio has just broken out in Gaza and the UN repots mass starvation there. Animals in Gaza – mainly horses and donkeys – have suffered terribly.
This is not a `war,’ as the media calls it. It’s an ongoing massacre, shooting fish in a barrel.
The two men who made possible this huge massacre, Israel’s PM Benjamin Netanyahu and outgoing US President Joe Biden, met this week in Washington to talk about their ‘success’ in Gaza. Many members of US Congress applauded Netanyahu like trained seals.
Meanwhile, the US shipped thousands more 500lb and 2,000lb bombs and 105mm tank shells to Israel in violation of America’s own arms export laws. The arrest warrant issued against Netanyahu by the International Court of Justice was ignored by the US, which refuses to recognize the world court. And for good reason. Former President George W. Bush who committed a massive war crime in the trumped-up war against Iraq would have been arrested and put on trial. Add Biden and Tony Blair to this list of malefactors.
The US atomic bomb that destroyed the Japanese city of Nagasaki killed an estimated 40,000. That puts the current death and wounded toll in Gaza within the range of Nagasaki – just at a slower pace. The number of dead and wounded at Hiroshima was around 70,000. Mass sickness and starvation ensued – as it is today in Gaza.
Many misinformed Americans and supporters of Israel still applaud Biden. They are wrong. He has blackened America’s name and disgraced the nation with its role in the Gaza massacre and made a mockery of the UN.
At least presidential candidate Kamala Harris has done the right thing by calling for the creation of a Palestinian state. She is already under fire from Israel’s extreme right-wing parties. They are obsessed by the potent Palestinian birth rate. Inside Israel, they talk about ways to slow down the Arab birth rate in the West Bank and Gaza. 2,000 bombs are an effective way.
Many Americans know nothing of this genocide. Their very biased news networks show little of the horrors of Gaza. The only network that does effective reporting from Gaza is Al-Jazeera. I expect it will soon be banned ‘for supporting terrorism.’ The next target of the far right will be social media. Young Americans who watch internet news are demonstrating across the country precisely because they have more access to real news than older Americans who watch the heavily censored biased major networks.
At the base of American politics vast sums of money remain the dominant factor. Half of the money flowing to the Biden administration has reportedly come from pro-Israel Democratic sources. Wall Street remains the giant cash cow for pro-Israel forces. Donald Trump is being given $100 million alone by the billionaire Israeli-American widow of Las Vegas gambling magnate Sheldon Adelson. That will buy an awful lot of the small-town used car salesmen who make up our corrupt Congress.
Copyright Eric S. Margolis 2024
“How long will Israel continue to behave like this?”
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As long as the US allows them to.
A question… If the Americans had not put that ‘strangle hold’ embargo on Japan, would they ever had attacked Pearl Harbor? Maybe they were prompted into joining WW2?
Yes Oct 7 was heinous. But it did leave a lot of unanswered questions as to why IDF was removed days before the attack. Irrespective does one slaughter as heinous as it was deserve an even bigger slaughter? Indeed the higher number supplied by the Lancet actually makes more sense given the level of destruction in Gaza. There are top Israeli officials who have call for mass starvation of the Gazans. That’s upward of 2 million. One can argue all they want that their deaths are justified and say Hamas hides amongst the civilian population. Not sure hide is the right word. They live there. Odds suggest that most if not all the hostages are already dead including some from Israeli bombing. Yet protests continue in Israel wanting to cut a deal that brings the hostages home. These protests are then put down by the police. Israel attacks its own people. War is not the solution. Only a negotiated peace is all that will work and a separate state for the Palestinians. Otherwise the motives of Israel are clear – the eventual ethnic cleansing of 2 million Gazans and possibly even 3 million West Bankers.
America’s corruption is so blatant right now that AIPAC openly brags about owning the politicians on Twitter.
Israel’s control is not just in America, Canada and Britain are both bought off as well. All politicians belong to The Friends of Israel.
Thank you Mr. Margolis.
As one who obtains his news from various sources, it is easier to get a clear view of the real oppressors are here.
It is shameful that USA, that supposed beacon of justice, refuses to accept the ICC or ICJ.
Israel has no right to bully the people of Palestine, harass them daily or steal their land in order to give it to immigrants from US, Ukraine or EU as settlers.
What a racist, apartheid policy.
Jimmy Carter wrote a book about this situation and was soundly attacked as anti semitic.
How long will Israel continue to behave like this?