Powerfully, powerfully articulated. So many strands floating around in my head, knitted together so well. I'm not sure how to boost and share this, but I will l.
Great job on this so sad yet powerful reality you hand over to us. You are on point and i love your many references and yes no question about it this all originate and continue to go back to the root cause: “Western Imperialism”. The hunger and desperate search for additional resources of energy had Europe on its toes and Gaza now is the outlet and solution no matter what the cost is: even if it’s a genocide…
The “Jewish Problem” is real and alive in the western world and continues to be to our present day.
I love your reference to the: the victims being pitted against each other. The once upon a time victim is now committing brutality and being used to get rid of more victims … in this case Israelis killing Palestinians. Brilliantly written.
Aya, you make so many brilliant points in this one article that it’s impossible to list them all. Also, your links are amazing - and shocking. We are all, sadly, accustomed to the stench of corruption from politicians now - and Sir Kid Starver will be no different, having accepted the zionist shilling. It is especially galling that so many Conservative front-benchers are brown and black and are some of the nastiest coconuts in existence. Also, it was Goebbels who first said that “is you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth”. How awful that we are seeing the correctness of this statement over and over again. As ever, thank you so much for your brilliant posts.
This brilliant essay is what the media should be reporting. Had it been the genocide in Gaza would most likely not be happening.
It puts it all into the harsh brutal perspective that it is.
It (genocide) goes even further back to Columbus discovering the New World, the Spanish conquistador in South America the Hawaiian islands and more. All for God and King (or queen). It seems that it's only western civilization that has practiced and spread genocide world wide. The difference now is that the weapons and technology are far more efficient.
You also expose the real reason for the "necessity" of a pier in Gaza for the "humanitarian aid". Oil drilling for the fossil fuel industry and Israel. It would also lead one to conclude that Oct 7 was either allowed by Israel or perpetrated by Israel and the US. As was 9/11. The pier will take at least 60 days to construct, supplies were desperately needed months ago and people are starving and dying now when aid trucks are parked and waiting in the south when it is only necessary to open the gates held closed by the IDF. It's in a word insane. It will however also establish a US military presence in Gaza.
The banning of Tik Tok is an egregious act on freedom of speech and clearly unconstitutional, based on a fallacious argument of "national security and safety". No one can convince me that Tik Tok is a threat to national security. The only threat to national security is the fact that it upsets the US propaganda machine by exposure of the truth and the genocide in Gaza is being supported by US propaganda. The internet has become the major tool for the propaganda machine for the dissemination of lies and mistruths and SUPPRESSION OF TRUTH so Tik Tok must be banned if it cannot be controlled. A picture is truly worth a thousand words.
A nation does not have the right to exist. A nation is actually composed of very few people who make the decisions. The majority of Americans do not make the decisions and have no say in what the US government does. If justice were to be served on America for war crimes in Gaza would the entire population of the US be held accountable? It wasn't so with Nazi Germany and yet the entire Palistinian population is being held accountable for Oct 7th. If a murderer is convicted and sentenced to death, his entire family is not held accountable and so it should be with nations. The UN is complicit in the genocide as well as the US,UK Israel and others supporting it by not intervening.
Great piece! Sayeeda Warsi in her new podcast chastised Kate Osamore for "bad timing" in bringing up the ongoing bloodbath in Gaza on Holocaust Remembrance Day. The WHOLE POINT of a remembrance day is to prevent something like it from happening again!
In my judgement, I think Sayeeda was sincere when she resigned from cabinet in 2014 and in her outspoken work against Islamophobia. I guess it really reinforces your point of how deeply ingrained it is to instinctively minimise and relegate the suffering of indigenous peoples, even when its happening live and exclusive in front of your eyes.
AYA says that there is no genocide occurring in Ukraine. I will suggest that there is, perpetrated by the Biden administration and NATO and the International Monetary Fund. Ukraine has been enslaved by the IMF, with the commitment (obliquely stated) going back to 2014-15 to re-conquer the Donbass for the imperialist purpose of bleeding Russia. The NATO powers, led by the United States, built up the decrepit and dysfunctional Ukrainian military for years (remember why Trump got impeached), until they were ready for the promised attack in early 2022. Ukraine, enslaved by the IMF and NATO (whose countries have voting domination at the IMF), has been turned into a zombie soldier, hemmorrhaging soldiers as service payments -- pounds and pounds of bloody flesh -- on the unpayable debt to the IMF. One could say that this is a "different" form of genocide, because the control mechanism is hidden and it appears that the Ukrainians are "doing it to themselves."
Another example of "do it to yourself" genocide (with the western imperialist control mechanism hidden behind the overt decisions of the tortured nation) is the "shock therapy" genocide in Russia in the early 1990s that killed off all the old people:
At the opposite end of the spectrum is the IMF genocide of the 1980s and 1990s that killed off millions and millions of starving babies in darker-skinned countries all around the world. As witnessed in the 100-page "I'm guilty of crimes against humanity" resignation letter of senior IMF official Davison Budhoo:
"Will the world be content merely to brand our institution as among the most insidious enemies of humankind? Will our fellowmen condemn us thus and let the matter rest? Or will the heirs of those whom we have dismembered in our own peculiar Holocaust clamor for another Nuremberg? I don’t mind telling you that this matter has haunted me; it has haunted me particularly over the past five years. It has haunted me because I know that if I am tried I will be found guilty, very guilty, without extenuating circumstance...."
I don't think that could be inferred at all to be honest. I was simply noting the irony of it all. I make no comment on what is happening in Russia or Ukraine and their respective allegations because I genuinely do not know what is happening.
Mass sterilization is also genocide, but where are the violent protests against China? One million Muslims are in concentration camps, working as slaves to make our phones. They are being sterilized. It is as much an outrage as what Israel is doing. Where are all those protests?
No vitriol. Objective facts. No silence. I write extensively on imperialism's human rights abuses and oppression everywhere. Palestine, however, is the most rapid and most urgent at the moment for a myriad of reasons, notably no food, no water, mass starvation and disease, and no escape - with the perpetrators confirming their genocidal intent.
None is more worthy than another; but this is factually the most urgent.
Powerfully, powerfully articulated. So many strands floating around in my head, knitted together so well. I'm not sure how to boost and share this, but I will l.
Great job on this so sad yet powerful reality you hand over to us. You are on point and i love your many references and yes no question about it this all originate and continue to go back to the root cause: “Western Imperialism”. The hunger and desperate search for additional resources of energy had Europe on its toes and Gaza now is the outlet and solution no matter what the cost is: even if it’s a genocide…
The “Jewish Problem” is real and alive in the western world and continues to be to our present day.
I love your reference to the: the victims being pitted against each other. The once upon a time victim is now committing brutality and being used to get rid of more victims … in this case Israelis killing Palestinians. Brilliantly written.
Thank you for a good read.
Aya, you make so many brilliant points in this one article that it’s impossible to list them all. Also, your links are amazing - and shocking. We are all, sadly, accustomed to the stench of corruption from politicians now - and Sir Kid Starver will be no different, having accepted the zionist shilling. It is especially galling that so many Conservative front-benchers are brown and black and are some of the nastiest coconuts in existence. Also, it was Goebbels who first said that “is you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes the truth”. How awful that we are seeing the correctness of this statement over and over again. As ever, thank you so much for your brilliant posts.
This brilliant essay is what the media should be reporting. Had it been the genocide in Gaza would most likely not be happening.
It puts it all into the harsh brutal perspective that it is.
It (genocide) goes even further back to Columbus discovering the New World, the Spanish conquistador in South America the Hawaiian islands and more. All for God and King (or queen). It seems that it's only western civilization that has practiced and spread genocide world wide. The difference now is that the weapons and technology are far more efficient.
You also expose the real reason for the "necessity" of a pier in Gaza for the "humanitarian aid". Oil drilling for the fossil fuel industry and Israel. It would also lead one to conclude that Oct 7 was either allowed by Israel or perpetrated by Israel and the US. As was 9/11. The pier will take at least 60 days to construct, supplies were desperately needed months ago and people are starving and dying now when aid trucks are parked and waiting in the south when it is only necessary to open the gates held closed by the IDF. It's in a word insane. It will however also establish a US military presence in Gaza.
The banning of Tik Tok is an egregious act on freedom of speech and clearly unconstitutional, based on a fallacious argument of "national security and safety". No one can convince me that Tik Tok is a threat to national security. The only threat to national security is the fact that it upsets the US propaganda machine by exposure of the truth and the genocide in Gaza is being supported by US propaganda. The internet has become the major tool for the propaganda machine for the dissemination of lies and mistruths and SUPPRESSION OF TRUTH so Tik Tok must be banned if it cannot be controlled. A picture is truly worth a thousand words.
A nation does not have the right to exist. A nation is actually composed of very few people who make the decisions. The majority of Americans do not make the decisions and have no say in what the US government does. If justice were to be served on America for war crimes in Gaza would the entire population of the US be held accountable? It wasn't so with Nazi Germany and yet the entire Palistinian population is being held accountable for Oct 7th. If a murderer is convicted and sentenced to death, his entire family is not held accountable and so it should be with nations. The UN is complicit in the genocide as well as the US,UK Israel and others supporting it by not intervening.
Great piece! Sayeeda Warsi in her new podcast chastised Kate Osamore for "bad timing" in bringing up the ongoing bloodbath in Gaza on Holocaust Remembrance Day. The WHOLE POINT of a remembrance day is to prevent something like it from happening again!
In my judgement, I think Sayeeda was sincere when she resigned from cabinet in 2014 and in her outspoken work against Islamophobia. I guess it really reinforces your point of how deeply ingrained it is to instinctively minimise and relegate the suffering of indigenous peoples, even when its happening live and exclusive in front of your eyes.
AYA says that there is no genocide occurring in Ukraine. I will suggest that there is, perpetrated by the Biden administration and NATO and the International Monetary Fund. Ukraine has been enslaved by the IMF, with the commitment (obliquely stated) going back to 2014-15 to re-conquer the Donbass for the imperialist purpose of bleeding Russia. The NATO powers, led by the United States, built up the decrepit and dysfunctional Ukrainian military for years (remember why Trump got impeached), until they were ready for the promised attack in early 2022. Ukraine, enslaved by the IMF and NATO (whose countries have voting domination at the IMF), has been turned into a zombie soldier, hemmorrhaging soldiers as service payments -- pounds and pounds of bloody flesh -- on the unpayable debt to the IMF. One could say that this is a "different" form of genocide, because the control mechanism is hidden and it appears that the Ukrainians are "doing it to themselves."
Another example of "do it to yourself" genocide (with the western imperialist control mechanism hidden behind the overt decisions of the tortured nation) is the "shock therapy" genocide in Russia in the early 1990s that killed off all the old people:
https://archive.org/details/AGenocideRussiaAndTheNewWorldOrder1999
At the opposite end of the spectrum is the IMF genocide of the 1980s and 1990s that killed off millions and millions of starving babies in darker-skinned countries all around the world. As witnessed in the 100-page "I'm guilty of crimes against humanity" resignation letter of senior IMF official Davison Budhoo:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oJzvpfFzIKu76oE1CkzZlarRiVpYIggFMFzSt6OgHx0/mobilebasic
"Will the world be content merely to brand our institution as among the most insidious enemies of humankind? Will our fellowmen condemn us thus and let the matter rest? Or will the heirs of those whom we have dismembered in our own peculiar Holocaust clamor for another Nuremberg? I don’t mind telling you that this matter has haunted me; it has haunted me particularly over the past five years. It has haunted me because I know that if I am tried I will be found guilty, very guilty, without extenuating circumstance...."
I haven't said there's no genocide in Ukraine. I've said the ICJ will investigate this
You faithfully believe that the IJC is NOT a tool of western imperialism?
And where did I say that?
You didn't, but it could be inferred from what you said, so I made sure to include a question mark.
I don't think that could be inferred at all to be honest. I was simply noting the irony of it all. I make no comment on what is happening in Russia or Ukraine and their respective allegations because I genuinely do not know what is happening.
I could not have said it better myself.
Mass sterilization is also genocide, but where are the violent protests against China? One million Muslims are in concentration camps, working as slaves to make our phones. They are being sterilized. It is as much an outrage as what Israel is doing. Where are all those protests?
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OK. I get it, and a fair point. But it has to be asked: why the vitriol against one party and silence about another?
No vitriol. Objective facts. No silence. I write extensively on imperialism's human rights abuses and oppression everywhere. Palestine, however, is the most rapid and most urgent at the moment for a myriad of reasons, notably no food, no water, mass starvation and disease, and no escape - with the perpetrators confirming their genocidal intent.
None is more worthy than another; but this is factually the most urgent.