As always so clever, exhaustive and precise, Craig Mokhiber express and expose the quintaessential message behind the “smoke” of “(in)actions” by the rogue predator in the chicken house.
The world took a breath for a moment because at last the United Nations Security Council achieves -with 6 months delay and more than 32.000 innocents civilians killed in an anihilation campaign against the Gaza Strip as a whole-, a “teethless”, imprecise, and for incredible short time -2 last weeks of Ramadan- a “sustainable” Ceasefire …
BUT, the US immediatly clarified to the UNSC that they can not vote in favor because there were not included in the resolution a condemnation to Hamas (why would it be this condemnation here?), and subsquently with contempt try to confuse the resolution saying that “it is not binding” (all the UNSC resolutions -according with the UN charter- are binding, why this would not be?) … Even adding more confussion to the interpretations of the resolution, the ignominious Greenfield (closer in her aura to a Deadfield, to be honest) lie when “parafrasing” the resolution says that “the ceasefire would be conditioned to the release of “our” (their????) hostages”.
BUT but but, this words of Mrs. Deadfield show to the world were the position of the US it is, steadfast at the side of the genocidal terror state of demential Israel, how powerful they feel -and how threaten they feel their power is today.
They try to be in control, and Mokhiber exposes their game:
“The key element of the U.S.'s engagement on this was to try to keep the Security Council, and the United Nations General Assembly, at arm's length so that all the center of gravity would remain with them and their diplomatic — so-called diplomatic efforts in the Middle East, together with the Egyptians and the Qataris. Those talks have not borne fruit. Israel has repeatedly boycotted portions of those talks.”
The game is “smoke curtain and deception”, to bring confussion, stunting and distraction to do the anihilation.
Hegemony and geopolitics, cold game, a nihilist one: no meaningful life behind it.
The UN political wing, once more shows how really useless is to the palestinians and gazans now, and to all of us sooner or later, when the perpetrators are the imperialistic western axis for genocide. Chicken house: lot of noise only.
If they have some amount of lasting decency and courage to act, they, the General Assembly will convoque the Uniting for Peace and, as Mokhiber and Dr. Francis Boyle said, they can:
Suspend Israel from participation in its activities as the General Assembly did to the former criminal apartheid regime in South Africa and to the genocidal Yugoslavia
Set up an International Criminal Tribunal for Israel in order to prosecute its highest level civilian and military officials for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide
Recommend economic sanctions against Israel to UN Member States
Recommend UN Member States sever diplomatic relations with Israel
Admit Palestine as a full fledged UN Member State
the deployment of a protection force
the establishment of permanent mechanisms, as was the case within the United Nations during apartheid in South Africa
What other things to do now? What better? And yes, as Mokhiber said, the pressure from our side, on the streets, on every platform we have, through any institution we are, BDS, specially S, are imperative now.
As we feel every day, the time is ticking, and each tick of the clock means DEATH for some more innocents in Gaza at the hand of an unleashed evil army with impunity to commit any atrocity they want.
It is happening in front of our alarmed eyes. The politicians has shown their real face.
The west got rogue without brakes. Every country can (and could) do the right thing to defend life and justice, but they decide, in one way or another, to defend and bring support, being co-perpetrators with the US-backed zionist-entity, to the bloodiest crime of our century.
Double standards are the “new normal” in the governments dimension.
Some countrys did act: all of the global south. This speaks loud and clear.
It depend on us, basically.
Do you want to be another panicked helpless chicken?
Do you want to be a predator of chickens, alongside with the genocidal ones?
Or to be a predator of unjustice and criminals, to use our creativity to BUILD a world where freedom, justice, beauty, dignity and peace are meaningful again, instead of DESTROY what is already beautiful today?
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A brief comment to the Miller answer to Mr. Husseini:
The US talking is a zionist talking, a complicit talking: “a permanent ceasefire would be only achieved when Hamas is destroyed”.
Are you thinking that when they said “Hamas” they speak about the political entity governing Gaza and their wing army, part of the palestinian resistance?
This is our first asociation, of course. But perhaps it is wrong: it feels that for them, behind the words, as fascist zionist militants, when they said “Hamas” they mean all the Gaza Strip as a whole.
Crazy as it sounds, it is what every day we see and read: for them everybody is Hamas, everything is Hamas, and Hamas is everywhere.
Hamas is part of the political life of Palestine, and is the leader resistance army, not the only group, doing a defensive courageous battle against the demential occupation army commiting a genocide to their people.
Stop trying to sell us the boogey man: Israel is an Apartheid State, and armed resistance is a legal right the oppressed population has. Period.
And this is not a war: is an anihilation campaign. A G E N O C I D E.