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Apr 18, 2025 Editorial, News

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Kaieteur News-  The news keeps coming of Gaza and it is all bad. Horrible to absorb, as hospitals are bombed, Palestinians killed.  It is not the first or second time that the Israeli war machine has deliberately taken aim at a hospital with the sole objective of blowing it apart, regardless of who is in it. In a place where health facilities were limited to begin with, there is this machinelike approach to eradicating them under the flimsiest of pretexts.  Members of the hated Israeli group Hamas must be wiped out, and there will be no stopping the aggressors until the last Hamas fighter is dead.  From the Israeli perspective, if the last remaining hospital in Gaza has to be demolished, then that is what has to be.

Fusing these pieces together, that old racist saying that has its roots in early America is making a rebound in a different place.  The only good Palestinian is a dead one.  The trail of evidence is thick and long since the ill-fated Palestinian surprise attack on Israeli settlements was unleashed in October 2023, and resulted in the deaths of some 1200 Jewish settlers.  The Israeli response has been fast and furious, devastating and death dealing.  Food caravans attacked, hospitals bombed, refugee camps strafed, among other choice targets, and always with one result.  More dead, more maimed, and more left homeless, orphaned, widowed, and destitute.

This is not war in the Holy Land of Judea and Samaria, those famed names out of the Bible.  This has been one massacre after another, one instant of genocide following the other, and one holocaust on the heels of what came before.  This is not war by any convention, or disagreements fought by adversaries, civilized men forced into barbaric circumstances.  What is happening today in the Gaza, is nothing but a plan that has wipeout of the Palestinians from the face of the earth.  The next step in the not-so-disguised plan is to take possession of Palestinian land, which continues the catastrophic process that began in the 1940s.

With the benefit of hindsight, there is no question that Hamas and its backers overestimated their own strength and gave the Israelis the opening they were waiting for, and with the best of reasons in their favour.  There are those 1200 dead Israelis, and the hostages.  Worse still, Hamas underestimated both the ferocity of the Israeli response, and the all-out and out-of-control aspects of it.  All the conventions of war that serve as restraints in a contest of death have been ignored at will and discarded even quicker.  In conflicts past, when a hospital came under fire, those responsible paused.  In the Vietnam War, when the My Lai massacre was uncovered, there was the usual coverup first, but then the contrition and soul searching began.  There is none of that in this war of total extermination against the Palestinians being waged by the Israelis, who make the fullest use of their European and American arsenal of weapons.

Also, in past wars, there has been some buffer, some intangible diffusing presence, to slow the killing down, to bring the combatants to the table of discussion.  There were a few of such presences in the earlier phases of this Israeli-Palestinian War.  In recent times, they all seem to have become muted, if not absent altogether.  In this the 21st century of modern civilization, and in the Holy Land of all places, there is this one-sided war.  War without letup, while leaders from many countries in the world turn their frightened faces, and hold their tongues.  The power of the Israelis reaches far beyond the battlefields of Palestine, to the corridors of the highest decisionmakers.  Individuals are cowed into silence for fear of attracting the wrath of friends of Israel.  National leaders toe the line by uttering platitudes that they believe present them as taking principled stands.  Their double standards and hypocrisies are so odious that they spur retching. All the while, the now virtually unchallenged and unstoppable Israeli war machine rolls ruthlessly forward.  The Palestinians are prostrate, yet the bombing and killing continue indiscriminately.  This is not war in a Holy place.  It is of Israelis driven to madness by their bloodlusts.

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