My Take | In Gaza, it’s all black and white, and very simple
- The rest of the world has been doing everything to save Palestinian lives, but the West, led by the US, has been thwarting them at every turn
You really have to wonder about the Western alliance sometimes. Is it cynicism or delusion? As Israel continues its medieval siege of Gaza with its unprecedented killings of women and children totalling about 16,000, and journalists (at least 112), medical workers (at least 326) and United Nations aid personnel (at least 146), the United States has not only provided practically all the weapons but decided to sanction ... Hong Kong. Seriously!
Washington has blacklisted two companies in the city and the United Arab Emirates for supposedly shipping Iranian commodities for the Houthi resistance movement in Yemen, which has been threatening sea lanes in the Red Sea in an attempt to stop the genocide in Gaza, and which has been bombed by the US and Britain as a result.
When Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians are written, future historians will not be able to say the world did nothing.
To be sure, much of the West has deliberately shielded Israel from accountability while the US is fully implicated in the carnage. But the rest of the world has done everything – from mass rallies, humanitarian appeals to Israel, and public criticism to UN diplomacy and armed intervention (from the Houthis). It has been trying to do its basic duty to humanity. But the West, led by the US, has been thwarting them at every turn.
Now, in a truly unfathomable move, Germany has chosen to defend Israel at the International Court of Justice where the latter is facing a charge of genocide.