Gaza is a desert of the dead and the dying. Let the American Super Power ride, belatedly, to the rescue.
“Genocide Joe” and the foreign agents known as the “American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), whose Israel-First focus makes them a fifth column, or Trump with Jared Kushner and his better half: These are America’s 2024 election options.
The Biden-AIPAC bloc has begun whispering sweet nothings in the ears of Israel’s Benny Gantz (National Unity Party), ostensible rival of Bibi Netanyahu (Likud). The AIPAC-run Biden bloc would like you to believe that a chasm in “Israel’s wartime leadership” has opened up. Biden’s bedroom talk with Benny is intended to impress upon the two Jewish supremacists the danger of approaching some sort of political precipice. In the end, Netanyahu and Gantz, who both officiate in their country’s War Cabinet, are philosophically one, inseparable, spherical gluteus maximus.
Or, “two flapping cheeks of the same ass,” in George Galloway’s delightfully ribald language. Galloway was describing the political amalgam arrayed against truth and justice in the United Kingdom. As I noted in 2005, Galloway is a master flyter, the ancient Scottish form of invective for which a quick mind and a masterful command of the English language are a must.
Galloway’s capacity for extemporaneous verbal swordplay is not the only thing that distinguishes this jousting member of the British Parliament. MP Gallaway and his Worker’s Party ran on foreign policy, in Rochdale, U.K., and, in particular, he secured “thumping majorities” in a protest vote for Gaza — and against our overlords, stateside and in Israel, whose new norm is to be out-and-proud about genocide.
There will be flyting words aplenty to come.
The normalization of genocide is what U.S. Airman Aaron Bushnell was protesting when he set himself alight on February 28. Airman Bushnell, of blessed memory, self-immolated to protest that upon which Galloway secured his victory in Rochdale: Israel’s war on Gaza.
Bushnell died horrifically, yet heroically, like a man — calm and rational — as he recited his reason for self-immolation: “I will no longer be complicit in genocide. This is what our ruling class has decided is the new normal.” Airman Bushnell was driven not by mental disease, but by a morally depraved society that supports de facto terrorist state Israel, with American moral imprimatur, its money, and materiel.
Wars are a rich man’s affair and a poor man’s fight. American soldiers have always served as collateral damage in the nefarious projects of Uncle Sam and its client states. Their causes and concerns, unless jingoistic and Fox-News friendly, seldom rate a mention. But, following Bushnell’s demise, many members of our military symbolically burned their uniforms in disgust, only to be mocked by Conservatism, Inc. (or ConOink, as I call them). But they are right, and “this is wrong,” inveighed Alan Shebaro. “There’s nothing more American than speaking out against what’s wrong.” Like elite soldier Alan Shebaro, “Bushnell decried U.S. complicity in the Gaza genocide.”
At its core, what Bushnell was protesting is something even more fundamental. For words are symbols. They are used as agreed-upon conventions to make sense of the world. What happens when these shared linguistic constructs no longer correspond to the things they are supposed to describe? Bushnell, who was in-the-know militarily, must have grown angrier and angrier as the symbols his society deploys clashed with the reality these symbols were supposed to signify. Particularly did he appear susceptible to the schizophrenogenic communications transmitted, on an ongoing basis, by the many Orwellian Ministries of Truth.
For how many generations of young people can you raise on Big Lies — such as that Israel and its sugar daddy are prosecuting a fair, legitimate war, rather than waging Total War against innocent civilians? Total War is a term to describe an all-out war against any and all. “What I saw was not war, but annihilation,” lamented Dr. Ifran Galaria, a volunteer in Gaza, to MSNBC’s Joy Reid.
Contrast good guys Galloway and Bushnell with Jared Kushner.
These days, “bloody Blinken, secretary of genocide” — a moniker given to him by the grand ladies of “Code Pink,” who have camped out at the Blinken mansion — has been coming and going to the Middle East. In dizzy rapture over Israel, Blinken shuttles to-and-fro on missions to smooth over Israel’s assault on Gaza; to make it more genteel, more sellable.
Sellable as Jared Kushner assesses “Gaza’s waterfront property” to be.
With the fey charm of a state-cutter — a coroner — preparing to carve a corpse, philosopher-king Kushner shrugged a slender shoulder, as he languidly mused:
I’m sitting in Miami Beach right now, and I’m looking at the situation [in Gaza] and I’m thinking: What would I do if I was there?… I would just bulldoze something in the Negev, I would try to move people in there.… I think that’s a better option, so you can go in and finish the job.… I do think right now opening up the Negev, creating a secure area there, moving the civilians out, and then going in and finishing the job would be the right move.
This waterfront property “could be very valuable,” Kushner let slip on February 15 to an audience at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Middle East Initiative.
Kushner, you recall, had been Trump’s point person on foreign policy, the Middle East, and much else. Little Lord Fauntleroy had even been entrusted with “preparing a peace plan for the Middle East.”
That Kushner had been invited to regale an audience at an elite American university is all you need to know about the intellectual and moral tenor of discourse in the USA. In this repulsive vignette, Jared Kushner, the nepotistic scion of a dodgy New York realtor and an empty husk of a man, is coveting the waterfront property of a conquered and dying people.
For once, America’s Fourth Column (media) was in the peculiar position of covering up and finessing Kushner’s unfiltered remarks. After all, his position is that of the legacy media and their political paymasters.
Israel’s contempt for the United States is complete.
Unsatisfied with his butcher’s bill in Gaza, demiurge Netanyahu had, at first, cancelled Israel’s delegation to Washington, furious that the United States of America failed to veto a UN ceasefire proposal.
“After his first meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in 1996,” recounts Patrick Theros of “Responsible Statecraft,” “Bill Clinton vented his fury before his staff about his visitor’s apparent presumptions about the balance of power in the bilateral relationship. ‘Who the f–k does he think he is?’ Clinton reportedly bellowed. ‘Who’s the f–king superpower here?’”
Indeed.
Israel, however, is miring humanitarian aid in capriciously sadistic paperwork and protocol. An example is their “dual-purpose” doctrine: “Did you know that syringes, desperately stuck in Palestinian veins deflated by dehydration, can be dual-purpose items?” Yeah! Used for terrorism, found in the tunnels, propping-up the tunnels, the lot.
If you can believe it, our “allies” the Israelis are hindering the delivery of American aid to Gaza.
Come again?! You heard me.
It now transpires that, in thrall to Bibi Netanyahu, the “Super Power” is planning to construct a floating pier — a run-around around the Israelis, who had also, long ago, tampered with Gaza’s little port, situated as it was, once upon a time, “near the Remal district of Gaza City” of blessed memory.
Commensurate with Israel’s outrageous excesses and the crazed riffs coming out of Israeli heads, Israel has established itself as a war criminal. By letting the blood of Palestinians for six months and showing no intention of letting up, Israel has forfeited its right to protest decisive American intervention. Besides, he who pays the piper calls the tune.
Gaza is a desert of the dead and the dying. Let the American Super Power ride, belatedly, to the rescue.
Under present conditions, a president who spoke like President Clinton might have done just that and made Americans proud. For once, the American Super Power could entertain ordering Israel, convulsing in paroxysms of evil, to cease and desist. As easily, and after ordering Israel to stand down, America could commandeer Israel’s Sde Dov or Ben Gurion Airport. Or, both. This is an emergency.
Fleets of our assorted military and cargo aircraft would land like angels at an Israeli airport adjacent to Gaza.
Great big engines would be gunned.
Out would roar all the Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Trucks converted to a mission of mercy.
Into Northern Gaza would rush these life-saving American trailer trucks, carrying supplies and sustenance for the starving.
Down would go Israel’s fences and in would flow non-stop supplies, as though on a loop.
Landing in and delivering life-saving supplies from a well-appointed Israeli facility into northern Gaza, and throughout the Strip: This is the fastest and smartest way to succor a dying people.
Instead, America chooses to play footsie with Bibi NetanYahoo, his barking mad military and their berserk countrymen, 88 percent of whom “give a positive assessment of the performance of the IDF in Gaza until now.” (Tamar Hermann, “War in Gaza Survey 9,” Israel Democracy Institute, January 24, 2024), 58 percent of whom grumble that not enough force has been deployed to date, and 68 percent of whom say “they do not support the transfer of humanitarian aid to Gaza.”
