Can The World Abide Israel?

 Can The World Abide Israel?

Jim Kavanagh

https://x.com/RamAbdu/status/1926666490893201875

There is no intellectually honest denial that what Israel is doing in Gaza Is a campaign of genocidal ethnic cleansing. There is no denying that Israel has deliberately destroyed hospitals, schools, universities, civil institutions, and at least 80% of housing; has deliberately targeted and killed doctors, teachers, journalists, artists at home with their families; has deliberately targeted women and children, burning them alive in tents; and is now deliberately starving children to death.

There is no more room for denial when Israeli politicians explicitly declare: "We kill 100 residents in one night without anyone in the world caring,"  and  “We are disassembling Gaza, and leaving it as piles of rubble, with total destruction [which has] no precedent globally. And the world isn't stopping us...This is a change of the course of history—nothing less.”

All this because, as one Zionist activist put it “You need to destroy their offspring to prevent them from creating more offspring”—echoing Heinrich Himmler who said in 1943 '"I did not consider myself justified in exterminating the men and then allowing their children to grow up to wreak vengeance on our children and grandchildren. The difficult decision had to be taken to make these people disappear from the face of the earth."

Straight-up Nazi shit. Undeniable. The pictures, the videos, the testimony from the victims and their killers is all there and all definitive. Even Piers Morgan has had to acknowledge it. Anyone who tries to deny Israel is engaged in a genocidal ethnic cleansing project Is either impossibly and inexcusably ignorant, inexcusably self-deceived by ideological attitudes that make them a complicit enabler, or a self-conscious, deliberate liar.

Of particular note, and particular shame, is Israeli minister Bezalel Smotrich’s triumphal boast, quoted above, that Israel’s objective is “total destruction [which has] no precedent globally,” “nothing less” than “a change of the course of history” that “the world isn't stopping.” 

All citizens of the world, but especially those of the United States and its Western allies, need to understand the truth, and accept the challenge, of Smotrich’s words.

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Jim Kavanagh

Can we admit how completely fucked we are?

Donald Trump is destroying the American economy and the American empire. More precisely, the Trump administration is accelerating the demise of the United States, internally and externally, that's been underway for a long time.

We are truly at the end of the road. It’s a road along which we have been alternately force-marched and slow-walked for decades and we’re at the point where our toes are hanging off the edge of the cliff. The abyss beckons. No one is going to pull us back.

This is the culmination of capitalist decline, imperialist defeat, and Zionist fanaticism. It is the American answer to the question: Socialism or barbarism? It is the collapse of the post-WWII U. S.-dominated world order, of the American (and “Western,” Euro-Atlantic) project tout court, and of all pretenses regarding it.

Terms like “democracy,” “human rights,’ “international law,” or “peace and prosperity” are nothing but bad, unfunny jokes.

Donald Trump is an appropriate villain for this last act of the American tragi-comedy, which has always been plagued by a hubris based on ignorance and arrogance. But it’s a world stage, and he is just a crude personification and culmination of the domestic and global forces that have been at play. All the American and Western liberal and conservative actors have played their parts in setting the stage for the tragic dénouement we are living through.

The Trump administration is engineering the final collapse of the American economy and empire using aggressive, simplistic versions of bipartisan policy frameworks that have underlain American politics for a long time.

These have been combined with the exceptional decline in America’s economic infrastructure, the exceptionally sad state of American political consciousness, the exceptionally stubborn attachment to the atavistic Zionist colonial project, and with Trump’s exceptional narcissism, to create a perfect storm of aggressively stupid and self-destructive policies that will lead to a catastrophic collapse of America’s already fragile social economy and standing in the world, as well as all the fictions of exceptional historical and international virtue premised thereupon.