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The West's Support for Israel's Genocide Is Destroying the World as We Know It
Cook, Jonathan
http://original.antiwar.com/cook/2024/10/24/the-wests-support-for-israels-genocide-is-destroying-the-world-as-we-know-it/Date Written: 2024-10-24 Publisher: Antiwar.com Year Published: 2024 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX25212 The old world is dying once again, but the US-Israel axis is wrong to suggest it is slaying monsters. It is the monster. Abstract: - The horrifying images from Gaza last week of fire consuming a Palestinian teenager confined to his hospital bed with an intravenous drip may come to define Israel's genocide, as completely as earlier images of human depravity have defined the world. Naked, skin-and-bone corpses thrown into mass graves in the death camps of the Nazi Holocaust. Radioactive fields of rubble, interrupted only by charred, skeletal trees, after the atomic levelling of Hiroshima by the United States. A naked Vietnamese girl, her burned skin peeling off, fleeing in terror from a napalm attack. The flames that burned alive 19-year-old Shaaban al-Dalou, along with his mother and two others, in a tent on the grounds of al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah were almost certainly unleashed by US- or German-supplied missiles, fired by Israeli pilots. Dalou was in the tent recovering from an Israeli air strike a week earlier on Deir al-Balah that had killed 26 people. He was already malnourished and immunocompromised from many months of an Israeli blockade, which has denied the entry of food and aid into Gaza. Dalouâ's two sisters, father and younger brother all sustained severe burns from the fire caused by the strike. His 10-year-old brother succumbed to his wounds days later. The victims in Deir al-Balah were charred into oblivion -- and with them the "rules-based international order" the West helped establish to prevent a repeat of the horrors of the Second World War. Subject Headings |