CHAMPIONS OF GENOCIDES
1. Words cannot describe the horrors befalling Gaza as a result of the Israeli genocide war. Israel claims that it was punishing the Palestinians because on the 7th October Hamas rocketed Israel killing, it is claimed, 1400 Israelis. But Israel forgets that for 70 years Israel had oppressed the Palestinians, stealing their land to create the state of Israel, expanding their country into Palestinian land, building settlements, arresting and incarcerating thousands of Palestinians without trial, torturing them, killing Palestinians every day, seizing Jerusalem and the West bank.
2. The Palestinians had tried to get back their land. They even accepted the state of Israel. But the oppression, the killing, the desecration of Al Aqsa, the arrest detention and torture, the building of settlements etc continued.
3. Is it unusual for Hamas to eventually resort to violence to retaliate against Israel. If on Oct 7th Hamas rocketed Israel, it is less than what other people would do if their land is occupied by others.
4. But the so-called punishment of the Palestinians is out of proportion to the damage done by Hamas. Already 18,000 Gazans have been killed. 70% of them were women and children. Even babies are not spared. The whole city of more than a million people has been razed to the ground. Hospitals, schools have been bombed. Electricity and water supply cut off. Food is not available. Except for a few Israelis being taken as hostages, Israel has not suffered much.
5. The whole world demand for a ceasefire. The whole world except the US – the champion of human rights and freedom from oppression. The US wants Israel to continue mass murder of the Palestinians not just in Gaza, but in the West Bank and in Lebanon. There are no Hamas in the West Bank or Lebanon. Israel is against all Palestinians.
6. It must have learnt a lot from the Nazis. For the Nazis the final solution was ridding the world of the Jews. For Israel the final solution seems to be to rid the world of Palestinians. It is not just Hamas. The only way to end the war is by killing all Palestinians in a massive genocide.
7. Netanyahu must know that ridding Israel of Hamas alone will not be the final solution. The Palestinians will breed fighters like Hamas to fight Israel. And the war will go on. Israel will never know peace.
8. The West must know this too. We have seen two world wars supposedly to end wars. But wars have not ended. It will not end because the US is forever preparing for wars, for killing people, for hegemony.
9. The veto against a ceasefire by the US is normal. This is a country founded on the genocide of the natives of North America. This we must not forget.
DR MAHATHIR BIN MOHAMAD
Dec 13, 2023