By James E. Pogue. NEW YORK – It’s long past the point for the international community and the U.N. when it comes to sympathizing anymore with Israel about the events that took place on its southern border on October 7. Though the White House claims it wants a ceasefire, it appears that top diplomats have given up even trying and it’s the hostages who are the pawns and victims in this vicious game that Israel’s PM and Hamas continue to play out. The merciless of it all with humanitarian aid officials describing how Israel blocks humanitarian aid – now, America’s stern letter of warning to Israel but to no avail. Israel continues to deny the obvious fact that they are not allowing any sufficient humanitarian aid into Gaza. Meanwhile, Israeli forces continue to strike non-Hamas targets to tragic consequences for the Lebanese, not just the Palestinians. Israel even targeted U.N. peacekeepers directly and earlier put a ban in place on U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres visiting Israel.
As long as the U.S. State Department continues to fund Israel’s weaponry cache, nothing will change, absolutely nothing. Forget the elite Jewish lobby, they must ask themselves where do they stand on the question of humanity and human rights as well as respect for international law. Israel has shown a blatant disregard for all of these and thensome. September’s death of Turkish American university graduate, activist and volunteer Aysenur Eygi is just the latest in the string of Israel’s targeted killings of civilians, journalists, humanitarian personnel and anyone else who Israel deems guilty of preventing its wholesale slaughter of the Palestinian people. As prominent University of Chicago Political Scientist who also happens to be Jewish has pointed out, what’s happening in Gaza “is a genocide” and he said it’s a “war crime.” Norman Finkelstein, a well known Jewish author, historian and professor in countless interviews, has reiterated Israel’s aim and echoes the same sentiment as Mearsheim when it comes to Israeli government intentions.
To be about change means to open the corridors of one’s mind and rummage around a bit to find those cobwebs that need sweeping out. We live in the digital age, the age of more advanced technology but we insist on not paying attention to the details that inform us of misinformation, disinformation and the deep malaise at the center of the hearts and minds of a majority of global society. Franklin D. Roosevelt as history points out “took significant, yet limited action, in response to the persecution of Jews in Germany. It was only after 11 million people, of those, 5 million non-Jews and 6 million Jews murdered by the Nazis that the U.S. flew in to the rescue. I ask you what kind of rescue was that to allow 11 million souls to perish when they could have been saved. Paying lip service to the dire plight of the Palestinians is no rescue, no rescue at all. The world must be outraged, there must be a total bloodcurdling outcry for the Palestinians and the hostages until world powers stop verbally reiterating “immediate ceasefire” and start acting to put a stop to Netanyahu’s well-oiled war machine.
After all, who has been greasing it anyway? America, who else, and make no mistake that if Trump becomes president, there will be no two-state solution. His most recent antisemitic tropes seem to have fallen on deaf ears for the wealthiest Jews who plan on voting for him. Is it that they too are duped by his insane remarks? It’s a puzzling set of circumstances that finds this author wondering how any Jew could stoop so low to actually believe that Trump ever had their best interests at heart. Just remember, that’s precisely what happened during the Holocaust after people realized what Hitler’s regime was really about.
