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I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever heard a more sickening speech from a world leader than Biden\u2019s following Hamas\u2019s attack on Israel, the tormentor of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. His crass ignorance, prejudice and subservience to a criminal, apartheid regime, while utterly indifferent to the suffering of the Palestinian people, sets a new low among Western administrations.<\/p>\n
Biden says that the United States \u201cstands with the people of Israel in the face of these terrorist assaults. Israel has the right to defend itself and its people, full stop. There\u2019s never a justification for terrorist attacks and my administration\u2019s support for Israel\u2019s security is rock solid and unwavering.\u2019\u2019 He added that the people of Israel were \u201cunder attack, orchestrated by a terrorist organisation\u2026 The United States stands with Israel. We will not ever fail to have their back. We\u2019ll make sure that they have the help their citizens need and they can continue to defend themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
And Israel\u2019s faithful stooges in the UK and Europe are in perfect harmony:<\/p>\n
But who are the real \u201cdespicable\u201d terrorists?<\/b><\/p>\n
The US\u2019s own definition of terrorism fits Israel itself perfectly. Under Section 3 of Executive Order 13224 \u201cBlocking Property and prohibiting Transactions with Persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support Terrorism\u201d, the term \u201cterrorism\u201d means an activity that:
\n(i) involves a violent act or an act dangerous to human life, property, or infrastructure; and
\n(ii) appears to be intended:<\/p>\n
This instrument, signed on 23 September 2001 by George W. Bush, is used to outlaw and crush any organisation, individual or country the US doesn\u2019t like. And the Israeli regime\u2019s \u201camoral thugs\u201d, as one British MP branded them, have plainly been terrorising Palestinian civilians for decades. Biden is one very confused bunny.<\/p>\n
As for the other stooges, their position is demolished by Jewish Voice for Peace<\/a> (JVP), said to be the largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organisation in the world. \u201cWe\u2019re organising a grassroots, multiracial, cross-class, intergenerational movement of US Jews into solidarity with Palestinian freedom struggle,\u201d they say on their website. Here\u2019s an extract from their statement on the hostilities.<\/p>\n The Israeli government may have just declared war, but its war on Palestinians started over 75 years ago. Israeli apartheid and occupation \u2014 and United States complicity in that oppression \u2014 are the source of all this violence. Reality is shaped by when you start the clock.<\/p>\n For the past year, the most racist, fundamentalist, far-right government in Israeli history has ruthlessly escalated its military occupation over Palestinians in the name of Jewish supremacy with violent expulsions and home demolitions, mass killings, military raids on refugee camps, unrelenting siege and daily humiliation. In recent weeks, Israeli forces repeatedly stormed the holiest Muslim sites in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n For 16 years, the Israeli government has suffocated Palestinians in Gaza under a draconian air, sea and land military blockade, imprisoning and starving two million people and denying them medical aid. The Israeli government routinely massacres Palestinians in Gaza; ten-year-olds who live in Gaza have already been traumatized by seven major bombing campaigns in their short lives.<\/p>\n For 75 years, the Israeli government has maintained a military occupation over Palestinians, operating an apartheid regime. Palestinian children are dragged from their beds in pre-dawn raids by Israeli soldiers and held without charge in Israeli military prisons. Palestinians homes are torched by mobs of Israeli settlers, or destroyed by the Israeli army. Entire Palestinian villages are forced to flee, abandoning the homes and orchards and land that were in their family for generations.<\/p>\n The bloodshed of today and the past 75 years traces back directly to US complicity in the oppression and horror caused by Israel\u2019s military occupation. The US government consistently enables Israeli violence and bears blame for this moment. The unchecked military funding, diplomatic cover, and billions of dollars of private money flowing from the US enables and empowers Israel\u2019s apartheid regime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Meanwhile, Medical Aid for Palestinians<\/a> (MAP)\u2019s team on the ground in Gaza have a close-up view of the situation. They say they \u201care releasing all of our pre-positioned stocks, worth $570,000 USD (approximately \u00a3465,000), to ensure hospitals and emergency responders have the supplies they need to cope with an unprecedented influx of casualties\u201d.<\/p>\n Supplies provided by MAP include essential drugs and disposables, laboratory reagents and support for Gaza\u2019s blood bank services. Even before this latest escalation Gaza\u2019s beleaguered health system was struggling, with 48 per cent of essential medicines and 26 per cent of medical disposables unavailable or in critically short supply. Today, the Ministry of Health in Gaza is calling for\u202fblood donations for the influx of casualties. Melanie Ward, MAP\u2019s chief executive, says: \u201cWe are deeply concerned about the potential for substantial loss of civilian life in the coming days. Gaza\u2019s healthcare services are woefully under-equipped to respond to this emergency, and MAP\u2019s support is needed now more than ever. We call on the international community to take urgent steps to protect civilian life and infrastructure from attack, and to launch immediate humanitarian relief efforts to ensure that health services have the resources they need to save lives and respond to casualties.\u201d<\/p>\n MAP is also committed to bearing witness to the injustices caused by occupation, displacement and conflict. \u201cWe speak out in the UK and internationally, and ensure Palestinian voices are heard at the highest levels, to press for the political and social barriers to Palestinian health and dignity to be addressed.\u201d<\/p>\n Self-defence? Really?<\/b><\/p>\n And what about this mantra-like claim that Israel, the aggressor and illegal occupier, has a right to defend itself? The West Bank, East Jerusalem (including the Old City) and Gaza are regarded as Palestinian territory under international law and by the United Nations. So what are Israel\u2019s occupation army and armed settlers doing there?<\/p>\n The word \u201csettler\u201d is much too nice. I call these armed thugs \u201csquatters\u201d. They are transferred illegally onto Palestinian territory by the Israeli government to establish \u201cfacts on the ground\u201d in the hope of eventually annexing and acquiring the territory for itself. That\u2019s why Israel has never declared its borders \u2013 it intends to keep expanding until it has stolen all of the Holy Land.<\/p>\n This of course is a violation of occupation law and a war crime<\/a> on the part of the individuals involved. And it is a violation of Israel\u2019s legal obligation to respect the sovereignty of another state and a violation of Israel\u2019s legal obligation to respect the right of self-determination of the Palestinian people; also a violation of Israel\u2019s obligations regarding international law on the use of force. Ending these violations calls for the removal of the squatters and their squats from occupied land and an immediate end to Israel\u2019s exercise of control, including its use of military force, over the Palestinians\u2019 territory. It is nonsense to suggest that Israel has any right to defend its nationals when misbehaving and committing war crimes on somebody else\u2019s territory.<\/p>\n The UK government is complicit in these crimes, having created the problem in the first place back in 1916\/17 (Balfour\u2019s infamous declaration and promise to the Zionists) and even today refuses to sanction Israel\u2019s murderous behaviour and racist policies. As we so often see demonstrated, all our political parties have brainwashed elements within their ruling elite that are obedient to the Israel lobby.<\/p>\n Know your terrorist<\/b><\/p>\n