by Nate Bear
Part 2 - The genocide resumes
The day before the Wiz deal, Israel resumed its genocide of Gaza with an unhinged bloodthirsty rampage, the deadliest twenty-four hours in the last nearly eighteen months of genocide. A high bar had been set, and it was cleared. They attacked at night, itself an act of utter cowardice and sadism, and slaughtered hundreds as they slept in tents. In tents. Close to one hundred babies and young children were killed. The overall death toll exceeds 400 and is rising.
As expected, there is not a flicker of condemnation from world leaders, many of whom are arming Israel with the weapons and intelligence it needs for genocide. The British air force spent the ceasefire period gathering intelligence on Palestinians and feeding it to Israel so they could restart the mass murder efficiently.
As expected, there is not a flicker of condemnation from world leaders, many of whom are arming Israel with the weapons and intelligence it needs for genocide. The British air force spent the ceasefire period gathering intelligence on Palestinians and feeding it to Israel so they could restart the mass murder efficiently.
The genocide is the end of the west. It destroys any claim to moral superiority over Russia, China, Iran or any of the officially designated bad guys. [*]
To hear western politicians screech about these appointed enemies while overseeing genocide is not just an insult to our intelligence, it is an appeal to our supremacy. To our white colonial supremacy. To our racism. They are betting that they can carry out genocide because we don’t really care about brown Muslims. They are betting we don’t care about the obvious hypocrisy of supporting Israel while demonising countries that aren’t mass murdering civilians. They think they can get away with arming a population on the one hand in the case of Ukraine and exterminating them on the other in Gaza because Ukrainians are white deserving victims and Palestinians are brown subhuman scum who deserve no sympathy.
Victim status is socially constructed by the western media all the time. We rarely hear about black or brown boys and girls who are murdered or go missing but will always hear about white boys and girls who suffer the same fate. Some victims are legitimate and ideal, some are illegitimate.
In the case of Gaza and Ukraine, western political and media elites have just extrapolated this to the population level. The baked-in assumption they are working from is that most people are basically racist and hypocrisy doesn’t move the dial. They’re betting the propaganda we’ve been fed since childhood about valiant Israel and the evils of our designated enemies has worked.
The genocide should help us shed our collective naivety about what the west is, what it stands for, what it is founded on. Which is to say slavery, white supremacy, greed, exploitation and unfathomable levels of death. Millions and millions and millions of people. From India to Africa to South America. The colonisation of South America killed so many people it changed the global climate. Having been depopulated by invaders, once thriving cities that were home to millions of people were reclaimed by trees and vegetation on a massive scale, drawing down carbon dioxide and cooling the world. And now, today, we get to see depopulated cities and mass death, livestreamed. For that is progress. We get to see the barbarity of western colonialism in glorious action.
Nothing should ever be the same again. If the genocide of Gaza hasn’t radicalised you, I don’t know if you can claim to be in touch with your basic humanity. If it hasn’t informed you about the true nature of western systems, then you simply do not want to be informed.
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