Ethical & Moral Collapse
UNITED NATIONS, May 23 (Reuters) - United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Friday said Israel has only authorized for Gaza what "amounts to a teaspoon of aid when a flood of assistance is required" and again signaled that the U.N. won't take part in a new U.S.-backed distribution plan.
- Israel has only authorized a 'teaspoon' of aid for Gaza, UN chief says, Reuters
Gregg Wall (5-24-2025)
How many innocent babies, children, and women lie dead in Bibi Netanyahu’s Gaza concentration camp & morgue? Aljazeera says at least 61,709 dead, 17,492 of these children, with 111,588 injured, as of February 3, 2025; but Trump, attempting to rationalize a future Trump Plaza - Gaza and a real estate boom, places the body count much higher, suggesting several hundred thousand dead, perhaps closer to 500,000. That was mid-February. For Trump, the number of dead is reason to complete the job of ethnic cleansing, not halt it... paving the way for a real estate developer’s dream & profits. Gazans are starving now, in an entirely engineered and manufactured crisis.
The lies, misinformation, and bodies surrounding the West’s genocide in Gaza are piling up so fast and so high, it’s challenging to keep track. But one thing can be counted on: Western leaders continue to support mass murder, fund and support the State of Israel’s pogrom, with intelligence, logistics, material support, and military equipment. And the Western corporate media, particularly the United States press, has come down almost universally on the side of the Israeli government. Even America’s Palantir is said to be planning and organizing bombing raids and drone strikes… atrocities that would have, should have ceased long ago but for the complete ethical and moral collapse of the West.
Just this week, Monday to be precise, Messrs. Carney, Macron, and Starmer… leaders of Canada, France, and the UK, respectively… came forward with condemnation and threats to take “concrete steps” if Israel did not stop its military offensive and starvation campaign inside Gaza. The leaders also took the opportunity to express support for formal recognition of Palestine and a two-state solution. But as is often the case, the words ring hollow. Why not announce recognition of Palestine, why not announce immediate support for splitting the State of Israel and Palestine in two or along U.N. recognized borders, along with a demand at the U.N. for an international peace keeping force? The banker, Macron, has made plenty of observations about Israeli and Western barbarism before, expressed concerns, made recommendations with zero, or limited, follow through against the Israeli government (against Bibi’s reign, who is wanted for war crimes in the Hague).
This week, here in Canada, the Globe and Mail tried to put a political spin on PM Mark Carney’s & friends’ condemnation and threats. Carney, also a banker – see a pattern, was praised by the Globe and Mail (G&M) for showing independence from the United States and not toeing the Trump, Netanyahu party line. The paper went onto to note, Carney will likely have scored points with the Global South, namely Brazil and South Africa, and greased the skids for election to the UN Security Council. Who knows, G&M went onto to note: ... “it‘s possible that Mr. Carney’s decision was also based on humanitarian concerns – that he was picking a fight on behalf of children and other helpless civilians.” Gee, cast in this light… it’s as if the point of the entire exercise, from Team Carney, Macron, and Starmer, was about absolving themselves from obvious war crimes and scoring political points with the right countries and organizations. Saving children and women, that’s an afterthought.
And in the UK, a country that has been providing air and weapons support for the American/Israeli genocide all these many months, was said to have held up on condemnation for political reasons. Namely, that the Labour party had faced allegations of antisemitism during Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership (which in retrospect, now looks increasingly like a smear campaign directed at, and to remove, the lefty, Corbyn).
In response to international pressure, Israeli leadership let less than ten trucks cross the border initially, at the same time the UN reported 14,000 babies are on the verge of starvation and death. As of Friday, the Israeli government now claims about three hundred trucks have been permitted to cross into Gaza, after eleven weeks of Israeli blockade, but the UN claims only a third of those truck have actually delivered to warehouses and the trucks allowed in amount to a “teaspoon,” versus the aid that is required to turn the situation around. Meanwhile, the bombing, murder, and mayhem from the United States and Israel continues. The Israeli government and its military leadership are so unhinged that warning shots were fired at international diplomats, including Canadians, visiting the Jenin refugee camp.
Lost in all this was the thousands of Israeli citizens, and thousands of pilots, reservists, and troops protesting Bibi’s war and genocide, some refusing to serve. Lost in all this is the majority of Israelis, now, want the hostages brought home and the war… ahem, genocide… to end, many fearful that Israel is now a pariah state. There is rebellion brewing in Israeli society but one would not know this from American politicians and many of the American press, who still trot out the AIPAC/ADL party line, to wit: Israel has right to defend itself against terrorism and do you condemn Hamas. No few in number repeating some of the vitriolic rhetoric used inside the Israeli Knesset itself. Trump, of course, promised to end the war on the campaign trail but has supported Bibi’s ethnic cleansing campaign, since entering office. And the latest wrinkle, just as Carney, Macron, and Starmer raised their voice this week and the media started to criticize the Israel gov, two employees of a Jewish Museum in Washington were gunned down. Beyond a doubt a deplorable and repugnant act, but the American MSM and Netanyahu used the event, to once again conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism, as cover for America’s and Israel’s war crimes in Gaza. Netanyahu has accused Carney, Macron, and Starmer of fueling antisemitism.
So just to recap, three world leaders (members of the G7) went on the offensive this week against the Israeli government and called out the campaign in Gaza and the West Bank, simultaneously, Western media seemed increasingly willing to criticize Israel’s genocide & draw attention to the man-made famine inside Gaza… moreover, Western diplomats were shot at this week by Israeli soldiers. Israeli society also appears to have turned the corner, with the majority supporting an end to the war and bringing the hostages home. And out of the blue comes the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers and the news cycle, seemingly, turns 180 degrees on a dime.
Conveniently left out of all this by the American & much of the Western press, but widely covered in the Israeli MSM, are the events leading up to Oct 7 itself: Bibi’s fourteen years of support for Hamas; how Bibi, on trial for corruption charges and facing possible prison, had the most to gain from Oct 7; how the Hamas attack was launched from the Gaza concentration camp, under the Israeli government’s oversight, supervision, & control; how the Israeli government knew and was repeatedly warned of the pending attack for a up to a year in advance; and how Israel murdered its own under the Hannibal directive on October 7th. Arguably, the end goal of all these events was to stir up Israeli public support for destroying Palestinian homes & livelihoods, the pogrom aimed at Palestinian women & children, and annexing Gaza… and with the aim, the clearest goal of all, propping up Netanyahu on the Israeli throne. That’s right, so much of this ocean of blood is about gratifying the egos of diseased, old, white men. All this, with blind deference by the American government, from the Biden and Trump administrations.
The world is watching, the complete ethical and moral collapse of Israel, the United States, and the West. Bibi & the Western MSM uses the term, antisemitism, like a weapon to keep Western leadership in line, with the same expertise that the Israeli gov and artificial intelligence sends drones into Gaza to murder starving women and children in tents. The term, antisemitism, has been completely weaponized by the entirely corrupt American and Israeli governments and Western MSM. As for the tens of thousands of victims, including the two Israeli staffers, it’s clear that this is the natural outcome of a radical, white supremacist ideology called Zionism… a hate based belief system, not unlike America’s de facto policy of Manifest Destiny, colonialism, and hatred of indigenous peoples, globally, that goes on to this very day (but was clearly self-evident at the nation’s founding).
Antisemitism has been deliberately conflated with Zionism and anti-Zionism, especially by the American and Israeli governments, so that allegations of same issuing forth from Netanyahu’s, Trump’s, or Biden’s mouths have been rendered a mere propaganda tool, a verbal assault weapon designed, purely, to keep the public & world leaders deferential and in full support of the Israeli state. That is to say in some instances and some contexts, the word, antisemitism, has been rendered virtually meaningless. The term, antisemitism… in the context of being used by Christian charismatics & evangelicals… likewise is used to provide cover, support, and drive fear for the continuation of the mass murder that is being live streamed throughout the world for going on two years. And in American and Israeli leadership’s mind, strengthen the Zionist state. (In the case of the extremists in America’s fascist, Christian charismatic & evangelical denominations, all of this is supported with the goal of bringing about the end times, the second coming. Ideas and a genocide that are diametrically opposed to the teachings of Christ. Christ would not condone the mass murder of women and children… is America’s evangelical Christian community insane?)
Make no mistake about it, real antisemitism, like all racism and islamophobia, is disgusting and must always be condemned.
However, condemnation and protest against Zionism, itself, like American & Western barbarism and colonialism, is entirely legitimate and should be encouraged, not attacked (which is why Trump’s crackdown on 1A and the Constitution are obscene). Anti-Zionism, as the world is quickly discovering, is inevitable, given the ever-growing list of crimes and ever-rising body count of women & children inside Gaza and the West Bank and throughout the Middle East. (By the way, none of this is news. Analysts and scholars... like Max Blumenthal, Aaron Mate, Norman Finkelstein, Erin Galvin, and Rania Khalek, and many other brave souls... have been condemning Zionism for abuse and as a fascist movement. And they are one hundred percent correct.)
Antisemitism… along with Islamophobia, misogyny, & racism… must always be condemned. And no small measure of the antisemitism that afflicts the world is the outcome of the American and Israeli governments’ deliberate policies in Palestine. Arguably, the goal of antisemitic blowback is the de facto policy of the Israeli government, again to provide legitimacy or rationalization for decades of colonialism, genocide, and the Zionist project. Antisemitism, fostered and produced by the State of Israel and the United States, as a direct result of government policy, leaves some of Jewish patrimony with the belief that Israel and Zionism are all that can be counted on and is their salvation. Therefore, completing the cycle, the circle of Zionist violence. In brief, Netanyahu uses racism directed at Jewish people as a weapon, a cudgel to keep Western leadership controlled and in line and to keep the Israeli public and those of Jewish ancestry fearful and in line. But used in this capacity, dripping with misappropriation and hate, coming from both the American and Israel governments, ultimately, charges of antisemitism are no more powerful than Hitler or white supremacist ravings about Jews or “the other.”
At the end of the day, Zionism is political ideology no less virulent than white supremacy and right-wing nationalism, that uses antisemitism, Jewish people, the Holocaust, and the Jewish faith as shield for its colonial projects, extremism, & violence. As such, it is time for the American, Israeli, and Western governments to be held fully accountable by the world, so that the plague of antisemitism and racism does not spread further.
And it’s time for world leaders… like Messrs. Carney, Macron, and Starmer… to actually walk the walk and not merely, talk the talk (for purposes of political expediency and to provide a smoke screen to hide their own special brand of cowardice). Nothing less than the moral degradation & disintegration of the Western world, and any claims to moral superiority, are on full display… claims that are presently burning on the ash heap of history.
Finally, Israeli Zionists are not the only ones to claim victim status… take a look around, from White Supremacists to Conservatives and Christian evangelicals… many “leaders” are quick to sell fear & victimization as way to keep the flock frightened and in line, build up a political or religious following, and strengthen the leader's hold over their followers.
Copyright JM Hamilton Publishing 2025
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