UN: 257 Palestinian children killed in Gaza, page 6

still trolling eh???

you still deny that israel is committing genocide

and its coming froma american whos too blind to see facts ,

One can only hope Israel's genocide in Gaza makes it impossible in future for hypocritical, sadistic governments and their leaders, especially Israel's allies in North America and Europe, to defend Israel's occupation of Palestine. Those governments' sham efforts for a ceasefire have shown a clear willingness to allow Israel's leaders to murder as many Palestinians as they like. The corporate media, for once, have had little choice but to acknowledge the horror Israel has perpetrated.
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That horror overwhelms the relevance of questions about the nature and structure of protest and denunciation. But they are still worth bearing in mind. People in Europe or North America have the luxury of picking their allegiances á la carte. Despite occasional terrorist attacks there is no systematic imposition of violence on them as there has been on the Palestinians for 60 years now.

For the moment, the general progressive consensus seems to be that Hamas is entitled to fight in self-defence against Israel's genocidal violence. Before, the consensus was otherwise. What has changed over the last month is the scale of things. Even the corporate media can no longer conceal Israel crimes against the Palestinians.

If it is all right now for Hamas to act in self-defence, why was it not all right before? Most people now outraged at the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians were quiescent at Israel's low level genocide of the previous months, of the last few years, of the last decades. The destruction of the Palestinians was slower in the past but just as deliberate.

What has happened in the last couple of weeks means people can no longer continue life-as-usual without becoming accomplices to the genocide. But the current massacres will end eventually. People will drop the protests and go back to their normal routine. Unless they continue to urge justice for the Palestinians they will indeed become accomplices to the genocide that has been supported for many years now by Israel's allies, the governments of the European Union and of North America.

The current outrage will probably subside quickly. The international betrayal by Western Bloc governments of the Palestinians will almost certainly continue. People in North America and Europe may protest and lobby from time to time. But their protests, campaigns and lobbying will be futile because their anti-democratic, anti-humanitarian governments are determined to deny for ever any use for the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights except as a wall adornment. The Palestinians will fight on for self-determination and justice to the bitter end, for all practical purposes more or less alone.

That reality makes it important for other peoples, faced for the time being with less extreme forms of imperialist extortion from the governments of North America and Europe, to take stock. They are up against the total hypocrisy and absolute sadism of Western Bloc governments and leaders along with the deep complicity of the Western Bloc corporate media. And they are faced also with the complete whimsicality of international solidarity. The case of Nicaragua is categorical in this regard.

A majority of Palestinians supported Hamas since before the elections in 2006. But progressive opinion still tended to reject the right of the Palestinians led by Hamas to armed self-defence. In Nicaragua, nationally a majority of people voted for the FSLN in the recent municipal elections. But progressive opinion still gave credence to claims of fraud by the imperialist aligned opposition.
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