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While New Yorkers are obsessing over the possibility of a socialist Muslim becoming mayor of their town this autumn, I have yet to read or hear anything about the Palestinian woman doctor who is still operating on the wounded and dying while nine—yes, nine—of her children were killed after an Israeli bombing attack. I suppose if I go on I will be accused of anti-Semitism, such is the grip the neocons and the Israeli lobby have on the good old US of A. A recent know-nothing called Hammer, who works for Newsweek—I was surprised to read the rag still exists—accused The American Conservative of something along those lines, simply because TAC advised Uncle Sam not to get involved in the Middle East. A wise suggestion, and one that was the reason why Pat Buchanan, Scott McConnell, and yours truly founded the magazine 22 years ago. (The moron in the White House listened instead to the neocon cabal, with the disastrous results that we had predicted.) Now another neocon moron attacks the magazine that has yet to get anything wrong. Which brings me to the point I wish to make this week.
“Murdering children makes any normal person’s blood boil, yet right-wing newspapers in Britain and America have not printed a single word about it.”
War crimes are being committed in Gaza by the Israelis, with purposeful killing of noncombatants and the decimation of civilian property, both crimes abetted by the Biden and Trump administrations. A friend of mine who was recently in Gaza had no words to describe the horrors that are taking place as I write. The crimes against humanity and the genocide began immediately after the IDF retaliated against the Hamas massacre of Israelis in October 2023. Eight days after the war began, an Israeli scholar by the name of Raz Segal identified Israeli army shooting of Palestinian noncombatants as genocide, such was the ferocious response of the IDF against helpless civilians. (Eight hundred genocide scholars have signed a letter calling it genocide since.) The New York Times, which is Jewish-owned, called the Israeli bombardment “the most intense bombing in contemporary history.” Neutral doctors returning from Gaza stated that Israeli snipers were shooting toddlers in the head, and an American doctor, Mark Perlmutter from North Carolina, told the media that in thirty years of working in zones of conflict he had never seen children being incinerated or “shredded” the way they were in Gaza.
Murdering children makes any normal person’s blood boil, yet right-wing newspapers in Britain and America have not printed a single word about it. Not one. And as one’s heart goes out to the Texas parents who have lost so many of their children to the floods—the numbers are close to 100—imagine what Palestinian mothers are subjected to, with more than 15,000 children killed by the IDF.
As a child I remember reading warnings that for each Wehrmacht trooper found dead in Athens, ten Greeks would be picked at random and executed. Twelve hundred Israelis died in the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, and the death toll of the reprisals now stands at over 60,000. You do the math. The Israelis have outdone the Nazis by a lot.
The dead and blinded-for-life aside, the Israelis have also destroyed the fishing industry, the sewage system, all the farmland, and 90 percent of the housing, so people must live in tents or among the rubble of collapsed buildings. Furthermore, and under government orders, the IDF shoots at Palestinians waiting in line for food after Israel denied access to food suppliers. Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, a decent man and a good soldier, has called Israeli actions war crimes. In fact, the wording is not even adequate for the horrors of Gaza. And yet, pro-Israeli lobbies and Hollywood types scoff at the truth. Israeli partisans in the land of make-believe are mainly Jewish, and as Elon Musk’s AI chatbox revealed, woke, antiwhite, and anti-Palestinian biases have and will continue focusing against them in Jewish-made films.
Will Israel and the genocidal Netanyahu succeed in killing all 2 million of Gaza’s residents? No, what he will force them to do is leave for deserts unknown. What he will do is expand the West Bank illegal settlements and eventually take over the whole territory. My only question is, where is Uncle Sam? Where are the Saudis, the Gulf monarchies, and the E.U. while the genocide is taking place? And why is the war criminal Netanyahu welcomed in the White House? Shame on you, Donald! I was for you big-time.