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Anti-war demonstrations with Palestinian flags in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Oct 2023.
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Israel Uses the Holocaust as a Cover for its Ongoing Genocide in Gaza \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Israel has institutionalized a national policy of ethnic cleansing of the native people of Palestine while progressively depopulating the land with people to establish the Jewish majority state, from its very inception in 1948.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

9 May 2024 <\/em>– Israel\u2019s Prime Minister Netanyahu will very likely be recorded in the annals of world\u2019s genocidaires as a deceitful politician who never tired of instrumentalizing the narrative and memories of the Holocaust \u2013 to commission a Lemkinian textbook genocide of his own against the native people of Palestine in general and the residents of Gaza in particular.<\/p>\n

On 6 May 2024, on the eve of Israel\u2019s invasion in Rafah City where over 1 million Gazans are trapped, the Israeli demagogue, his signature Orwellian address at the Opening Ceremony<\/a> for the Holocaust Martyrs\u2019 and Heroes\u2019 Remembrance Day.<\/p>\n

In his words, \u201c(t)omorrow, Yechiel Leiter, the bereaved father, will attend the March of the Living in Auschwitz-Birkenau. The message that he will send from there, Never Again, is also our message here today, from the hills of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n

I wish to clarify: Never again is now\u201d!<\/p>\n

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Because eighty years after the Holocaust, after the unspeakable genocide of six million Jews, a third of our people, the forces of evil rose up against us once again, driven by pure evil. They (Hamas) slaughtered, abused, raped, kidnapped.\u201d<\/p>\n

Apparently, the ICC-worthy Israeli criminal in power feels comfortable \u2013 and shameless \u2013 in making all-too-frequent references to the Nazi genocide towards his own sinister ends.<\/p>\n

There is little wonder then that the International Criminal Court<\/a> is reportedly considering the issuance of international arrest warrants to Netanyahu and his senior colleagues in the War Cabinet.<\/p>\n

So, I for one feel perfectly moral and empirically accurate to contend that Israel has institutionalized a national policy of ethnic elimination of the native people of Palestine and progressively depopulating the land with people to establish the Jewish majority state, from its very inception in 1948. <\/em><\/p>\n

Though not a victim or descendant of any genocide, as a concerned student of genocides<\/a> and other state crimes, over the last 30 years, I have visited inter alia <\/em>more than half-a-dozen Nazi death camps, purpose-built and adapted, in Poland, Germany and Austria, including 4 visits to Auschwitz. During the Covid-19 lock-down, co-produced an educational film<\/a> about Auschwitz-Birkenau for the Burmese anti-genocide campaigners.<\/p>\n

The Zionist founders of Israel, particularly David Ben-Gurion, were known to have dehumanized the Holocaust survivors as \u201chuman debris\u201d, deemed unfit for their decades-old pre-Holocaust project to \u201ccolonize\u201d Palestinian land, using their Zionist propaganda of \u201ca land without people, for a people without land\u201d.<\/p>\n

Likewise, native Palestinians were framed as \u201chuman dust\u201d.<\/p>\n

That was the genocidal framing of Israel\u2019s \u201cmost moral army\u201d in an officially declassified document from the Israeli high command in 1948. It was brought to my attention from an old video I discovered of a then young Noam Chomsky.<\/p>\n

The Forensic Architecture<\/a>, a research group based at Goldsmith College, the University of London, has offered one \u201csmall piece\u201d evidence of Israel\u2019s \u201cfreedom fighters\u201d of 1948, having turned one mass grave of their slaughtered Palestinians in a fishing village named Tantura<\/a> into a parking lot. That\u2019s one of 500+ villages erased by the leaders\u2019 order to the ground, or dust.<\/p>\n

It is one thing that post-Nazi Germany of the now defunct German Democratic Republic turned Hitler\u2019s last residence<\/a> \u2013 Reich Chancellery \u2013 into \u201ca parking lot\u201d. But it is altogether a different (immoral) matter when the Zionist state of Israel has, as a matter of policy, been \u201cburying the Nakba in various ways \u2013 in archives, by planting forests, through erasure. It\u2019s the same mechanism that reinforces the Zionist supremacy that time after time gazes upon the Nakba \u201cfrom above,\u201d as if it had nothing to do with it,\u201d as observed by the Haartz\u2019s Sheren Falah Saab<\/a> in her 25 January 2022-dated article.<\/p>\n

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The Holocaust Memorial to\u00a0 \u201cThe Murdered Jews of Nazi-occupied Europe<\/a>\u201c, representing Nazis\u2019 mass graves, Berlin, Germany, February 2018. Photo,\u00a0 Zarni<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Seven-five years on, the facts of the Nakba or the Great Catastrophe have now been well-documented and accepted around the world. That is, except in Israel where the mass atrocities committed by Israel\u2019s Zionist founders remain concealed.<\/p>\n

As the Guardian<\/a> reports, \u201capproximately 700,000 people \u2013 about half the population \u2013 were expelled or fled from their homes in the war surrounding the creation of the Israeli state, and about 500 villages destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Across the street from the International Criminal Court, two protestors stood, holding the placard; \u201cYou cannot build a holly land on the mass graves of children\u201d, during Israel\u2019s day of Public Proceedings, 12th January 2024. Photo, Zarni<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Fast forward to the days following the Hamas\u2019 attacks, which occurred in areas inside the present-day Jewish State of Israel where eleven Palestinian villages once stood but were turned into literal dust by the Zionist settlers. The retrograde notion that the native inhabitants of Palestine, are simply human dust to be swept away by 2,000 pound brooms has been with us from the beginning. Over the years the metaphorical language has shifted but the fundamental premise remains the same.<\/p>\n

Israeli Defence Minister, the Ukraine-born settler who rose through Israeli\u2019s military ranks, Yoav Gallant shocked the world with his threat to the entire Gaza\u2019s 2.3 million people of \u201ca total siege\u201d involving cutting off what he openly called \u201chuman animals\u201d, of life\u2019s essentials such as \u201cwater, food supplied and electricity\u201d. This policy of \u201ccollective punishment\u201d of Gaza\u2019s population of 2.3 million people \u2013 half of whom are children and young people \u2013 under Israel\u2019s siege of a quarter century was announced as Israel\u2019s \u201cself-defense\u201d, before the full international press corps.<\/p>\n

Much has been written about Israeli leaders\u2019 post-7 October usage of incendiary language \u2013 typically found in genocides, from Hitler and Himmler\u2019s speeches, diaries and writings to Pol Pot\u2019s regime and Rwanda and Serbian genocides in the 1990\u2019s. Gallant\u2019s \u201chuman animals\u201d is a variation of Adolf Hitler\u2019s Untermenschen<\/a>, a specific reference to the Slavic population in the East, where the Nazis wanted to expand German settlements for Lebensraum<\/em> or living space. Living space for the chosen race of Germans, at the expense of the natives.<\/p>\n

On 11 January 2024, before the 17-judges of the International Court of Justice in the Hague, the South African legal team<\/a> presented pages of well-documented evidence to that effect in their case against Israel. My jaws dropped as I watched the lawyers for South Africa going through a list of such genocidal phrases \u2013 as \u201chuman animals\u201d \u2013 on a giant screen set up across the street from the Palace of the Peace in the Hague, in the 1st day of the proceedings.<\/p>\n

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A Dutch protester\u2019s placards outside the entrance of the International Court of Justice, the Palace of the Peace, The Hague, 12th January 2024. Photo, Zarni<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

On her first visit to the Occupied West Bank in 1979, Ellen Cantarow<\/a>, the American musician and feminist columnist for New York\u2019s Village Voice<\/em>, whose academic husband Louis Kampf was a colleague and friend of Professor Noam Chomsky at the MIT noted similar genocidal framing of Palestinians by Israelis \u2013 whom they refer to as \u201cthe Arabs\u201d.<\/p>\n

It is instructive to quote Cantarow at length:<\/p>\n

I stayed in Kiryat Arba, thanks to a distant cousin of my husband\u2019s who got me there in an undercover fashion. One of my interviewees assured me that she believed in \u201ca great chain of being,\u201d Jews on top, all other humans below, with Arabs at the very bottom, just before animals, vegetables, and minerals<\/strong>. Her husband referred to the Talmudic injunction to \u201crise and kill first.\u201d Another settler assured me that the Arabs could stay on the West Bank only if they would \u201cbow their heads.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Quoting Christopher Browning, the author of The Path to Genocide: Essays on Launching the Final Solution\u201d (New York, 1992, p.22), the historian of Pol Pot\u2019s genocide at Yale Ben Kiernan wrote, \u201c\u2019Hitler initially envisaged \u201cthree belts of population \u2013 German, Polish and Jewish \u2013 from west to east<\/em><\/strong>.\u2019 Pragmatic considerations gave first priority to deporting rural Poles to make way for German settlers, before expelling or exterminating Jews.\u201d In the same study, Browning made a direct strategic link between land grab for the Germans and the Final Solution to the Jewish Question and the Nazis\u2019 military attacks in the East (Poland and the USSR (including the present-day Ukraine and Belarus).<\/p>\n

[See Ben Kiernan<\/a>, \u201cTwentieth-Century Genocides: Underlying Ideological Themes from Armenia to East Timor.\u201d In The Genocide Studies Reader<\/a>, Samuel Totten and Paul R. Bartrop (Eds.), NY and London, Routledge, 2009, pp.243-256.]<\/p>\n

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The Pre-Hitler Genesis of the German Genocide of the Jews<\/h3>\n
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Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum at sunset (the iconic Death Entrance immortalized by Schindler\u2019s List can be seen in the backdrop), August 2021. Photo, Zarni<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In January 1942, 15 elite Nazi officials, including Adolf Eichmann \u2013 six of whom held doctorates from German universities \u2013 hammered out the comprehensive strategy to address Germany\u2019s long-standing problem of \u201cracially un-hygienic Jews\u201d.<\/p>\n

Twenty years before, following Germany\u2019s defeat and the crushing \u201cpeace treaty\u201d at the end of the WWII, in his letter to one of his field marshals, the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II metaphorically described the German Jews as \u201cthe (parasitical) mushroom\u201d which grew on the (beautiful) \u201cGerman oak tree\u201d, just a few years before Heinz Alfred Kissinger was born in F\u00fcrth, Bavaria, Hitler\u2019s stronghold, in 1923.<\/p>\n

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This one in English reads, \u201cFor ever let this place be a cry of desire and a warning to humanity where the Nazis murdered about one and a half million men, women, and children, mainly Jews, from various countries of Europe. Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1940-1945\u201d. (photo by Zarni, August 2021)<\/p>\n

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As the Soviet Red Army closed in on from the East, the SS dynamited their purpose-built crematoriums (with built in gold-teeth melting vaults and gas chambers) at Auschwitz. To the right can been seen stone steps leading to the Memorial to the 1.5 million Nazi victims with memorial plaques written in one dozen European languages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

It wasn\u2019t simply the Nazi\u2019s desire for Lebensraum \u2013<\/em> or annexation \u2013 that pushed the Nazi leadership to switch gears from mass deportation of the Jews to mass extermination as the industrial method of depopulating the land of an un-wanted population.<\/p>\n

A genocidal vision had obviously run through the German ruling class psyche at least four decades before Himmler\u2019s SS Commandant Rudolf Hoess first operated Auschwitz\u2019s first experimental gas chamber, known as \u201cLittle Red House\u201d, located a few minutes-drive from Auschwitz-Birkenau. The SS were testing a prototype of their industrial killing technology on Polish partisans (or anti-Nazi resistance fighters) and the twenty thousand Soviet prisoners of war.<\/p>\n

A few years later, the mass-extermination of the 1.1 million Jewish people transported from all across the Nazi-occupied Europe followed at Auschwitz.<\/p>\n

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A scene of transported Nazi victims arriving by trains at Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp (1943-45). Photo, Zarni, August 2021<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

While gas chambers at Auschwitz and other concentration camps became synonymous with the Nazi genocide, they were not the only method of choice by the SS. The scientifically calibrated \u201cracial (under)feeding\u201d, as Raphael Lemkin termed the act of starving \u201cpopulations under occupation\u201d to death, at various paces, depending on the economic\/labour potentials of their victims, was another method widely used across death camps throughout the Nazi-occupied Europe.<\/p>\n

I first visited Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum<\/a> \u2013 now a UNESCO World Heritage-designated Polish state institution \u2013 in late March 2017 \u2013 to make a short 2-minute video-appeal to the European Union<\/a> \u2013 European Commission External Affairs \u2013 using the New Europe\u2019s pledge of \u201cNever again!\u201d, in order to sound the warning against what I was calling the slow-burning genocide of Rohingyas in my native Myanmar. The EC was reportedly to review its \u201cCommon Position\u201d on Myanmar. It was two years after Aung San Suu Kyi had assumed State Counsellorship, in partnership with the country\u2019s military leadership. The world was celebrating Suu Kyi\u2019s \u201cMandela moment\u201d<\/a> with media hype about its \u201cdemocratic flowering\u201d.<\/p>\n

On my visit, I tagged along a tourist group whose well-trained museum tour guide spoke excellent English and sounded extremely knowledgeable about the camps.<\/p>\n

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The Death Barrack at Auschwitz-Birkenau.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Photon by Zarni, August 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The guide stopped in front of a women\u2019s barrack used by SS as the \u201cDeath Barrack\u201d, where Hitler\u2019s executioners would leave very seriously ill woman prisoners who had no more labour value for the SS\u2019s joint ventures with German corporations. The guide proceeded to talk about how SS rationed a few teaspoonfuls of water per day for their victims to sip before death. He pointed to the snow-covered ground and told us the story of an exchange between an Auschwitz survivor and someone from the audience in a public talk. Apparently, the survivor was asked what the campground was like. Was it grassy? The survivor, according to my guide, responded by saying, \u201cI would have eaten it if it was\u201d.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t help draw a parallel between Gaza\u2019s Israel-made famine today, amidst media reports of Palestinians eating animal feed (after all, Gallant called them \u201chuman animals\u201d) and the complete absence of potable water there, and the conditions for the 1.5 million Nazi prisoners at Auschwitz in 1940\u2019s, which the Nazi SS deliberately created before their final extermination.<\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s Gaza as the Zionist\u2019s Final Solution?<\/h3>\n
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The list of the 15 attendees of the Nazi genocide planners as recorded in the document that came to be widely known as The Final Solution.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland<\/em><\/a>, Photo by Zarni, August 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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When Ellen Cantarow travelled to Palestine in 1979 she noted that Israeli settlements are a \u201ccancer\u201d in the lives of the Palestinians. As Cantarow recorded, Palestinians were deemed by the Israeli settlers in Kiryat Arba as \u201cjust above the animals and vegetables\u201d and were treated accordingly.<\/p>\n

She quotes Muhammad Milhem, the mayor of Palestinian village of Halhul.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, \u2018human dust\u2019, \u2018human debris\u2019, \u2018human animals\u2019, same difference.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cantarow, who has been visiting the Occupied Territories (of Palestine), and reporting from it periodically over the last almost 25 years, offered the context of Israel\u2019s genocidal use of induced acute malnutrition in Gaza. She wrote, \u201cas lawyer Dov Weisglass, then an aide to the prime minister, said at the time, he wanted to keep Gazans just below starvation level<\/a>\u2014not enough to kill them, but not enough to fill them either.\u201d That was in 2006, after the Palestinians in Gaza voted Hamas as their local government. Israel responded to the democratic will of the Gazans with a siege designed to create human conditions \u201cjust below starvation level\u201d.<\/p>\n

In such policy-induced conditions of extreme malnutrition, curable diseases and illness claim innumerable lives, be it Auschwitz of Primo Levi in the 1940\u2019s, or Gaza of 2023\/24.<\/p>\n

Over the last 20 years since 2003, I have visited 6 major Nazi concentration camps in Hitler\u2019s Europe including the 1st camp at Dachau<\/a> on the outskirt of Hitler\u2019s base city of Munich, all women\u2019s camp Ravensbruck<\/a> tucked away in a beautiful wooded area where former German Chancellor Angela Merkel grew up with her pastor father, then the Schindler\u2019s List-<\/em>immortalized Auschwitz-Birkenau<\/a> which became coterminous with the Final Solution to the Jewish Question, Himmler\u2019s purpose-built Sachsenhausen<\/a> about 45 minutes by train from Berlin, Mauthausen<\/a> of Upper Austria, located on a hilltop with a wonderful panoramic view over the valley and River Danube, an hour train journey from Linz, where Hitler set up his Austrian Nazi headquarters, and Neuengamme<\/a> outside of industrial port city of Hamburg.<\/p>\n

While gas chambers became the best-known destroyer of human lives in the Nazi genocide, these \u201cdark sites\u201d were unique compared with other cases (such as the genocides in the Balkans and Pol Pot\u2019s Cambodia or Myanmar genocide of Rohingyas), in that the Nazi planners integrated infirmaries into the camp complexes. After all, if the perpetrators were as a matter of policy radically under-feeding their victim populations, diseases were going to become ripe among this population, something the young Italian Jewish chemist from Turin, Primo Levi<\/a>, who survived Auschwitz, constantly took notice of.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s use of \u201cstarvation\u201d as a weapon of war\u201d \u2013 has drawn global condemnation, so much so that even the child of Irish parents, Samantha Powers<\/a>, famed genocide scholar and head of the United States Agency for International Development in the Biden cabinet, was compelled to break her 6-months-long silence and admitted that starvation was taking hold in Gaza.<\/p>\n

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An English language summary of a subsection of the Final Solution to the Jewish Question. The 15-page minutes of the meeting held in Wannsee, outside of Berlin, on 20 January 1942. It spelled out the how-to of the ultimate \u201cphysical destruction\u201d of the \u201cenemy\u201d populations most of whom were the Jews of the Nazi-occupied Europe. The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw Ghetto<\/a>, Poland. Photo, Zarni, August 2021<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The day after last Christmas (on 26 December 2023), the National Public Radio (NPR)<\/a> in the United States, reported on the World Health Organization warning.<\/p>\n

The transcript reads:<\/p>\n

In Gaza, the World Health Organization warns that illness may ultimately kill more people than Israel\u2019s offensive. Infectious diseases are \u201csoaring,\u201d <\/em>says the WHO<\/em><\/a>. Over 100,000 cases of diarrhoea have been reported, with rates among childlren 25 times higher than before the war.<\/em><\/p>\n

War has shattered Gaza\u2019s health-care system, including its disease surveillance capabilities. <\/em><\/p>\n

Diarrhea was a killer in SS-run Auschwitz of Levi\u2019s days, and it continues to play that role in Israel\u2019s \u201cconcentration camp\u201d of Gaza. \u201cConcentration camp\u201d is Chomsky\u2019s characterization of the narrow strip in 2018, along the Red Sea which ex-US President Donald Trump\u2019s advisor Jared Kushner has reportedly been discussing the post-genocide beach front property for re-development.<\/p>\n

Just as its long-standing partner of my birth country Myanmar \u2013 which the late Golda Meir described as a partner in \u201clove affair\u201d with Israel in their formative decades of 1950\u2019s and 1960\u2019s \u2013 had destroyed any health care facilities for the Rohingyas on the eve of the country\u2019s final genocidal assault in 2016 and 2017, Israel has, amidst carpet-bombing and droning, destroyed all health care facilities in Gaza, killed Palestinian health-workers, cut off medical supplies and even murdered white and western aid workers from the very countries that have armed, financed or otherwise supported Israel over these decades \u2013 such as USA, UK and Australia.<\/p>\n

These acts speak volumes about Israel\u2019s genocidal policies and practices in Gaza. Like the SS and its corporate joint ventures, Israel\u2019s ongoing genocidal process has an element of corporate involvement. Many of the world\u2019s leading corporations from the United States are in partnership with Israel\u2019s security organizations, which in turn test their AI-generated surveillance and security systems in \u201cThe Palestine Laboratory\u201d.<\/p>\n

The name Dr Joseph Mengele<\/a> springs to mind. On my repeated visits, I remember staring at the barracks at Ravensbr\u00fcck and Auschwitz concentration camps where Mengele-led teams of SS doctors performed medical experiments on their victims, including young girls. Unlike the SS medical scientists, Israel is not interested in the development of life-saving medicine, but life-destroying \u201csecurity sciences\u201d.<\/p>\n

Israeli weapons and surveillance systems, as well as its human resources (experts) are highly sought after by dodgy regimes worldwide. With the help of Israeli weapons technicians and engineers, Singapore<\/a>, obsessed with its economic survivalism \u2013 survival under circumstances and by any means necessary \u2013 is reportedly developing one of the world\u2019s fastest-growing niche arms industries. Amidst the Gaza genocide, the city-state was hosting an arms expo where Israeli\u2019s weapons and security products were showcased.<\/p>\n

The Australian scholar Antony Loewenstein\u2019s brilliant book<\/a> The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World (23 May 2023) alerted the world to Israel\u2019s fifty years of live human testing of surveillance and murder systems on Palestinians.<\/p>\n

It is extraordinary that the SS doctors had only 5 years to do their inhuman experiments while Israel has been afforded more than 50 years to do similarly unethical, inhuman and illegal LIVE-testing of its human control tech on nearly 6 million Palestinians in the Occupied Territories.<\/p>\n

As early as 2000, the London-based international Jewish Anti-Zionist Network founded by the Brooklyn-born Jewish American \u00e9migr\u00e9 Selma James, a feminist labour organizer and widow of Trinidadian intellectual giant CLR James, attempted to inform the activists of Israel\u2019s nefarious arms trade with over 130 governments around the world.<\/p>\n

As a professional student of genocide<\/a>, I believe that Israel\u2019s treatment of the Gazans may be far more sadistic, sinister and genocidal than anything I have studied over the last three decades.<\/p>\n

However, Gazans are not the only population Israel has been targeting for physical destruction.<\/p>\n

In his media interview with Prospect magazine editors Alan Rusbridger and Lionel Barber<\/a> published on 18 April 2024 Gideon Levy<\/a> called attention to the fact that Gaza is not the only site where Israel is perpetrating its crimes. The Occupied West Bank of 3 million Palestinian residents are increasingly subjected to an undeclared siege of sorts. Levy who has travelled to the West Bank almost weekly for the last 30 years noted that before October 7, Israel permitted 150,000 Palestinians to come to Israel and function as labourers in Israel\u2019s \u201c1st world\u201d economy. With their wages in, each Palestinian worker could support a few families who live in the Occupied Territories.<\/p>\n

But alas, using \u201csecurity concerns\u201d as the pretext, Israel no longer allowed these breadwinners to come and serve even as labour in the Israeli economy, practically cutting the economic lifeline of a vast majority of Palestinians under occupation in West Bank. This has caused a shortage of labour in Israel that India\u2019s Hindutva government of Prime Minister Modi has promised to fix, sending Indian labourers<\/a> to help Israel meet its labour needs.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Levy told his British podcast hosts that many Palestinian olive farmers were barred from accessing their orchards during the olive cultivation season, which in turn resulted in the loss of 1\/3 of olive cultivation last autumn, that is, loss of their principal income.<\/p>\n

According to the Al Jazeera International report on 22 March 2024<\/a>, since October 7 more than 7,350 Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank have been arrested by Israel. A month later the same news agency reports on 24 April, an estimated 487 Palestinians<\/a> have also been killed by Israel security forces and settlers.<\/p>\n

With time on their hands \u2013 since 1948 \u2013 generations of largely Eastern European Jewish settlers \u2013 from the Warsaw-born David Ben-Gurion and Kyiv-born Golda Meir to the present Brooklyn born Netanyahu and his coalition government dominated by Messianic Fascists, who use Judaism as their ideological smokescreen \u2013 have been pursuing the inherently genocidal annexation of the west bank.<\/p>\n

One important thing to note is Israel did not turn genocidal only after Hamas\u2019 deadly assault in today\u2019s Israeli territories where the illegal settlements \u2013 and the settler population \u2013 have increased exponentially. According to the 1983 census, the settler population of the West Bank<\/a> was 22,800. Today the estimates are at approximately 700,000.<\/p>\n

Haim Bresheeth, the Jewish author of \u201cIntroducing the Holocaust: A Graphic Guide\u201d and a professor of film studies at SOAS recently told Al Jazeera International<\/a>, \u201cWe have people walking around with automatic weapons, and simply saying that you were afraid of a Palestinian gives you the legal justification to shoot them. SOAS academic continues, \u201cI think, right now, Israeli society is somewhere between fascism and Nazism and no one seems to have noticed.\u201d Professor Bresheeth whose parents were both killed at Auschwitz left Israel in the 1970s.<\/p>\n

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Mauthausen Death Camp, Upper Austria. Photo, Zarni, February 2024<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

On my recent visit to Mauthausen, as I stepped out of my Austrian local train at Mauthausen station, I was greeted with the memorial plaque on which the rights of the child were engraved. The Austrian and German SS slaughtered 20,000 children, Jewish and other groups, deemed unworthy of life, between the camp\u2019s inception in 1939 till it was shut down by the United States Armed Forces in May 1945. That\u2019s 20,000 murdered children in 6 years. Israel\u2019s rate is over 15,000 in 6 months (October 2023 to April 2024), and still counting.<\/p>\n

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The recognition stone slab for the US army troops which discovered and liberated this SS Death Camp in Upper Austria. Photo, Zarni, February 2024. Watch Zarni\u2019s message from @mauthausenmemorial (liberated by the US Army in May 1945), https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C6rrDefifHY\/?igsh=MWxxNmh4ZHRoMjN0MQ%3D%3D<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u201cJudeo-Nazi\u201d Education for the Zionist Genocide<\/h3>\n

In one of her visits to the West Bank city of Hebron in the 1980\u2019s, the American Jewish writer Ellen Cantarow recalled seeing graffiti on walls that proclaimed: \u201cARABS TO THE GAS CHAMBERS\u201d. That was four decades ago. I shudder to think what Israelis demand and want today, given that even as staunch a Zionist as the famed New York Times editor Thomas Friedman is screaming foul of how far-right Israel governments of Netanyahu have moved to.<\/p>\n

The Zionist state\u2019s expansion of its \u201cliving space\u201d in its race-world where the Jews are on top, and with Palestinians at the bottom via variously genocidal methods, has remained a constant theme in the development of the \u201conly democracy\u201d in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

What has changed in Israel now is that not only IDF soldiers but also an overwhelming majority of its settler-citizens have metamorphosed into \u201cJudaeo-Nazis<\/a>\u201d, as forewarned by the renowned Israel public intellectual Yeshayahu Leibowitz<\/a>, 40 years ago. Leibowitz was prophetic in his warning to fellow Israeli that if the occupation (of Palestine) continues, Israeli Jews are going to turn into what he called, \u2018Judeo-Nazis\u2019.<\/p>\n

In his 13 December 2023 op-ed in Al Jazeera International, Rifat Audeh,<\/a> Palestinian-Canadian human rights activist, award-winning filmmaker, and freelance journalist, wrote: \u201c\u200b(i)t\u2019s not shocking to see Israeli children celebrate the Gaza genocide. Israel has long been indoctrinating its children to believe Palestinians are less than human, and thus not worthy of empathy or compassion\u201d.<\/p>\n

While in post-Holocaust (West) Germany underwent a de-Nazification educational process the Zionist Israel has adopted as a matter of its educational policy the kind of racial supremacist indoctrination. In his AJE op-ed, Audeh cited an Israeli research study of Hebrew language children\u2019s books for his AJE op-ed. \u200bIt is instructive to quote him at length here:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is myriad evidence of Israel\u2019s brainwashing of its citizens to erase the humanity of Palestinians spanning many decades.<\/p>\n

Israeli scholar Adir Cohen, for example, analyzed for his book titled \u201cAn Ugly Face in the Mirror \u2013 National Stereotypes in Hebrew Children\u2019s Literature\u201d some 1700 Hebrew-language children\u2019s books published in Israel between 1967 and 1985, and found that a whopping 520 of them contained humiliating, negative descriptions of the Palestinians.<\/p>\n

He revealed that 66 percent of these 520 books refer to Arabs as violent; 52 percent as evil; 37 percent as liars; 31 percent as greedy; 28 percent as two-faced and 27 percent as traitors.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is then to be expected that Israeli children were seen on a national TV network celebrating the country\u2019s ongoing genocide in Gaza, with lines such as \u201cWithin a year we will eliminate them all<\/a> \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

With such thoroughly \u201ceducated\u201d (Read indoctrinated) new generations of Israelis, thus \u201ceducated\u201d, and creatively genocidal leaders and the IDF, which is technologically far-more-advanced-than-the-Nazis, in charge of the officially \u201cJewish State,\u201d who needs gas chambers?!!<\/p>\n

After all, today\u2019s Judaeo-Nazi state of Israel has proven capable of carpet-bombing entire residential landscape of Gaza \u2013 irrespective of whatever building materials \u2013 into rubble and dust in 201 days.<\/p>\n

As a brief detour, 25 years ago, I completed my PhD thesis in critical studies in curriculum on the ways in which the Burmese military dictatorship used the country\u2019s education system, including curricula and pedagogy to indoctrinate the Burmese young along the lines of ethnic and faith supremacy of Burmese Burmese \u2013 I was a product of that neo-Fascist, militaristic education system. We all paid lip service to the philosophical Buddhist principles of compassion, truth and impermanence.<\/p>\n

So I see a \u201cblood-and-soil\u201d Fascist <\/a>when I hear their discourses.<\/p>\n

In June 2018, the Israeli and Myanmar ministries of education of these two genocidal states even signed the Memorandum of Understanding<\/a> \u200bto \u201cmutually verify school textbooks, particularly \u2026 passages referring to the history of the other state and, where needed, introduce corrections.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is more than coincidental that Myanmar<\/a> and Israel<\/a> have become the 1st and 2nd state parties which the United Nation\u2019s highest court of states, the International Court of Justice, have found to have plausibly breached their obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in January 2020 and January 2024 respectively.<\/p>\n

In one of his recent talks the renowned Israel historian Ilan Peppe, referred to the verified existence of an official document #4000 \u2013 written in Hebrew \u2013 according to which Ben Gurion ordered what Albert Einstein in 1948 called \u201cterrorist organizations built up from our own ranks\u201d to \u201cerase\u201d any building \u2013 wood, brick, stones, what have you, that belonged to the native Palestinians in the 11 villages which fell outside the 1947-UN-partitioned territories of Israel.<\/p>\n

As before, Gazan\u2019s are being reduced to the \u201chuman dust\u201d envisaged by the Israeli army high command in 1948 while in the West Bank 3 million people are kept in a state of complete terror. Ben-Gurion must be cheering on from his grave.<\/p>\n

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The Israeli General Staff confers during a meeting on 8 October 2023. Photo, Wikipedia Commons<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Imperialist Patronage of the United Kingdom and the United States<\/h3>\n

No analysis of the institutionalized genocide in the Occupied Territories by the Judaeo-Nazi state of Israel will be complete without a mention of the role of Western imperialist powers, specifically the United Kingdom, with its Palestine Mandate in the early days of the creation of the state of Israel in \u201cthe land of Israel\u201d, and most significantly the United States over the last 75 years.<\/p>\n

Following their Declaration of Conscience and Concern<\/a> of Global Intellectuals over Gaza, Richard Falk and Ahmet Davuto\u011flu, hosted the London Emergency Meeting in January 2024, bringing together some of the signatories from around the world, as well as Palestinian opinion leaders such as the Jerusalem native Dr Mustafa Barghouti from Ramallah. There I heard first-hand Avi Shlaim<\/a>, the eminent Baghdadi-born Israeli historian and international relations scholar at Oxford University publicly denounce political Zionism and US Imperialism in the same breath. In his words, \u201c(a)s a Jew and an Israeli, I feel that I have a moral duty to denounce Zionist-settler colonialism and American imperialism and to stand by the Palestinians in the anti-colonial struggle, in the just struggle to live in peace and dignity in their own land.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is nothing really \u201ccomplex\u201d or hard to understand as to why the Jews with conscience the world over would oppose such inherently genocidal colonizing ideology and project.<\/p>\n

Why would Shlaim, a scholar of international affairs at the establishment institution of Oxford University, openly denounce the US imperialism?<\/p>\n

Here is my short answer:<\/p>\n

(political) Zionism and its colonizing project of the land with a large residential population were parasitical in both essence and strategy. For the Zionists have long attempted to grow their Jewish Supremacy nation on \u201cthe land with (other) people\u201d, with the support of external imperialist powers or \u201cmother colony (ies).\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

[ Along with 130+ Oxford scholars, Professor Shlaim also endorsed the 6th May statement On the Oxford Action for Palestine Solidarity Encampment<\/a>.]<\/p>\n

From the get-go, political Zionists starting with their ideological father Theodore Herzl, in effect, decided that for their project to succeed they needed a \u201cmother colony\u201d \u2013 to incubate, foster, assist, support and protect its execution. Because Britain was the preeminent power about the time the Zionists gathered in places like Basel, Switzerland and Baltimore, USA, Britain was to be the Zionists\u2019 adopted \u201cmother colony\u201d.<\/p>\n

In her 470-page autobiography, My Life, Golda Meir, Israel\u2019s Only Female Prime Minister<\/em> (first published in 1975, 2023 edition), the late Golda Meir made no bones about the twofold parasitical nature of Zionism and its execution, albeit in self-congratulatory and un-reflective tone and narrative. The project first needed British patronage, hence the Balfour Declaration of 1917<\/a> (as a fatal mistake in history), the British Mandate of 1922<\/a> (and British crimes during the mandate period<\/a>), and the UN Partition of 1947<\/a> (without consultations with the overwhelming majority of the native Arab Palestinians and despite strong objections from the Arab states).<\/p>\n

As a matter of fact, as early as the summer of 1921, Britain was already involved in the Zionists\u2019 formulation of the establishment of the Jewish homeland, where, despite the Zionist spin of \u201cthe land without people, [for the (Jewish) people without the land] \u2013 there was a significant population with overwhelming majority of Arabs \u2013 including those who had their distinct group identity as Palestinians.<\/p>\n

In the conference of the Federation of American Zionists<\/a> in Baltimore, Maryland, USA in 20 June 1899, the delegates declared, \u201c(We) WILL COLONIZE PALESTINE\u201d. That was 4-decades before Hitler-Goering-Himmler\u2019s Final Solution to the Jewish Question was set into motion at Wansee, an hour by train from Berlin on 20 January 1942.<\/p>\n

Words such as \u201ccolonization\u201d \u201cexploitation\u201d \u201c(overseas) possessions\u201d were perfectly in sync with the immoral sentiments of the day in the hallowed halls of the British Houses of Parliament, or US Congress. Only an era ago, the Triangular Slave Trade (Europe, Africa and the Americas) and the slavery were considered both moral and legal in God-fearing Christian nations of the West, as Eric Williams<\/a>, Oxford scholar and the founding Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, observed in his classic Capitalism and Slavery<\/em><\/a> (originally published in 1944;1994).<\/p>\n

Emphatically, the rise of colonialism, (racialized) capitalism and their inter-linked ideological European Supremacy were firmly anchored in the ignoble economic and ideological foundations of the Slave Trade.<\/p>\n

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2023. Official portrait of Israel\u2019s 9th Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Wikipedia Commons<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Fighting the wars for the colonial acquisition of other peoples\u2019 land and \u201cpacification\u201d (i.e., violent subjugation) of residential populations who resisted invading European colonizers, was presented as the White Man discharging his Burden, as Kipling<\/a>, Britain\u2019s imperial apologist par excellence, would poetically put it.<\/p>\n

Roger Adelson, professor of history at the Arizona State University and the author of London and the Invention of the Middle East: Money, Power and War, 1902-1922 <\/em>(Yale University Press, 1995), noted that in the summer of 1921, Britain was hosting the Imperial Conference in London. He writes, it was \u201cthen the world\u2019s greatest metropolis and the financial and political centre\u201d where the policy of (limited) Zionist immigration to Palestine under the British control (post the collapse of the Ottoman Empire) was approved. It was in agreement with the Zionists\u2019 expansionist objectives in land and population. According to Adelson, Winston Churchill, in his capacity as Colonial Secretary and the conference\u2019s central figure, was asked by the delegates from New Zealand and Canada, the two white settler nations, if the British conception of a Jewish homeland meant giving the settler Jews control of the government. Churchill replied, \u201cIf, in the course of many years, they become the majority of the country, they naturally would take it over (p.202).\u201d<\/p>\n

Like its policies elsewhere, Britain\u2019s colonial policies in the Middle East involved dividing and pitting populations against one another.<\/p>\n

Quoting Martin Gilbert, the author of Churchill and the Jews: A Lifelong Friendship<\/em> (Henry and Co,1997), the London-based International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN)\u2019s \u201cBriefing: Labour Zionism and the Histadrut\u201d (published in London, UK on 13 April 2010) reads, \u201c(Trotsky\u2019s) \u2026schemes of a world-wide communistic state under Jewish domination\u201d would be \u201cdirectly thwarted and hindered by this new ideal [Zionism]\u2026. The struggle which is now beginning between the Zionists and Bolshevik Jews is little less than a struggle for the soul of the Jewish people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The IJAN makes the link between the Balfour Declaration (issued on 2 November 1917) and the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, which took place 5 days after the declaration. The IJAN brief argues that (t)he British government was particularly anxious to weaken Jewish support for the Bolsheviks, who vowed to take Russia, a key British ally, out of the war. When the revolution took place just five days later, Britain enlisted Zionists to undermine the radical Jews it blamed for Bolshevism.\u201d<\/p>\n

On his part, Adelson explored and explained British priorities before and after the first world war, \u201cthe protection of the Suez Canal and Persian Gulf; the fear of the German drive to the East and the subjugation of the Turks; the discovery of oil; the post-war suppression of nationalist aspirations and the establishment of collaborative regimes more in tune with London than with the Middle East itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

To understand the post-WWII United States policy towards Israel and the Middle East, just copy, cut and paste the above passage as Washington has dislodged UK from the commanding heights of international affairs and reduced the former Raj into its USA-Right or -Wrong poodle.<\/p>\n

Much ink has been spilt on the foundational role of colonial Britain when Britain still ruled the waves. (On this subject of the historical role of the empire (s) in Palestine, the best analysis, offered from a Fernand Braudelian perspective of the longue dur\u00e9e or <\/em>\u201cthe long duration\u201d, is Lund University ecologist Andreas Malm\u2019s \u201cThe Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth<\/a>\u201d (Verso blog, 8 April 2024).<\/p>\n

Here it suffices to say that out of its own geopolitical and economic interests Britain has long been directly involved in the Zionist\u2019s genocidal project of creating the Jewish homeland, with the Jewish majority, at the tremendous expense of the native Palestinian majority.<\/p>\n

Just as Britain, the then pre-eminent global power on the eve of the World War I, was utterly indifferent to the Ottoman Turks\u2019 genocide of the Armenians in the early decades of the 20th century, the USA couldn\u2019t have cared less about the Zionists\u2019 land acquisition via terroristic and genocidal methodologies, or for that matter, any genocide, really.<\/p>\n

Before joining first the Obama Administration and currently the Biden cabinet, Samantha Power<\/a> wrote the Pulitzer-winning \u201cA Problem from Hell\u201d: America and the Age of Genocide (2002), a scathing indictment of half-century of the US inaction or indifference to post-Holocaust genocides in the 20th century. (Powers also kept studied silence on Rohingya genocide, which coincided with her first political appointment as the US Ambassador to the United Nations, and again, as a member of the Biden Administration, on Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza).<\/p>\n

Earlier this winter, I visited my Palestinian host and friend Nada Tarbush<\/a> and her Kashmir British husband Ousman Noor in Geneva where Nada works as a senior diplomat at the Palestinian Mission.<\/p>\n

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Geneva, Switzerland. Palestinian diplomat Nada Tarbush holding the original of the deed of her ancestral land from the late 1890\u2019s. Photo, Zarni, 2024<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

She showed me the original copy of the land deed which her late father had passed on to her. Her father (1 year old baby at the time of the Nakba) \u2013 and her grand-parents \u2013 were amongst the expelled Palestinians \u2013 or \u201ccollateral damage\u201d \u2013 in the establishment of the Jewish national homeland. She recounted a story of her taking the deed to a copy shop in downtown Geneva. Obviously oblivious to the Zionist land-theft, the shop-owner looked at the deed, and advised her to have it notarized, just in case she needed to produce, in a court of law, as evidence of her ownership. When she, as-a-matter-of-factly, told me, \u201cI didn\u2019t tell him that that land is now Israel,\u201d my heart sank.<\/p>\n

Her late father\u2019s autobiography is being published by Hause this month (see below)<\/p>\n

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After the Nakba, her father\u2019s family became refugees in the West Bank.<\/p>\n

I imagined that her ancestors were from the villages which were turned into \u201cdust\u201d, by the order of David Ben Gurion, the architect of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948.<\/p>\n

David Ben-Gurion<\/a>, a Polish Jew from Warsaw, had already settled in Palestine in 1905, to pursue the Zionist project. His junior colleague Golda Meir noted that \u201cno one felt close (emotionally) to Ben-Gurion\u201d. Ben-Gurion reportedly labelled the Holocaust survivors \u201chuman debris\u201d \u2013 weak, broken and bad. Not kind of strong Jews that the new state of Israel needed for its settler expansionist project. Accordingly, not a single survivor was given any cabinet position in the post-Holocaust governments while Israel (and its Western allies such as US President Joe Biden and German Chancellor Olaf Schof) continue, to this day, to manipulate and milk, with no shame or conscience, the Jewish sufferings and deaths during the Shoah for their own sinister ends.<\/p>\n

(For a short educational film, Vox\u2019s 12 minutes documentary \u201cHow Palestinians were expelled from their homes<\/a>\u201d (15 May 2023) explains succinctly the Nakba of 1948.)<\/p>\n

As if Ben-Gurion took a leaf off Himmler\u2019s playbook, the founder of Israel was known to have ordered his armed gangs of \u201cJewish Freedom Fighters\u201d to line up innocent and unarmed Arab civilians in certain villages and mass-execute them with machine guns \u2013 and spread the news in order to drive terror down the spines of the native people. The year was 1948. The singular purpose was to terrorise the Zionists\u2019 victims not to even think about returning to their homes and villages. Why would the state of Israel, thus founded, extend the right of return to the 7 million Palestinians in 2024.<\/p>\n

No wonder Albert Einstein<\/a>, in his public and private letters, called them \u201cterrorists\u201d and \u201cbad people\u201d as early 1948.<\/p>\n

When I visited Ravensbruck<\/a>, all women\u2019s concentration camp and now a UNESCO World Heritage site, a 2-hour drive from Berlin in former East Germany, in the summer of 2007, I remember standing at the narrow end of a dark and narrow death alley where SS officers were said to have ordered their female prisoners marked for execution in a straight line, before they shot them. A single bullet would penetrate a number of victims pressed next to one another, until it lost its velocity.<\/p>\n

So, when today\u2019s \u201cmoderate\u201d President of the Jewish State Isaac Herzog<\/a> reportedly said, \u201cIt is an entire nation out there that is responsible\u201d \u2013 never mind that half of the 2.3 million Gazans are infants, children and young people \u2013 I am reminded of David Ben-Gurion\u2019s order for indiscriminate and summary executions of civilians in villages to serve political, ideological and psychological purposes \u2013 to terrorise the population into submission. In 2023 and 2024, the Palestinians who descended from the parents and grandparents violently displaced in 1948, must vacate their native land, again.<\/p>\n

The Zionists\u2019 vision of their genocidal land grab was indeed in keeping with the glorious Western imperialist thought and policies of the United States, itself a settler colonial project. After all, the American Declaration of Independence (4 July 1776)<\/a> drafted by Thomas Jefferson, a celebrated renaissance man from Virginia, officially characterized the residential population of the native Americans to be \u201csavages\u201d.<\/p>\n

In his interview with the US National Public Radio, the American \u200b<\/a>historian Donald Grinde Jr.<\/a>, a professor at the University at Buffalo and a member of the Yamasee Nation, told the NPR host Ari Shapiro, \u200b\u201d(t)his is part of the political rhetoric to justify, you know, wars along the frontier and take land. And so this is part of the politics (and genocide) that\u2019s going on at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Jeffersonian narrative of 1776 certainly rhymed with Hitler\u2019s Hitler\u2019s Untermenschen or sub-humans<\/em> or Yoav Gallant\u2019s \u201chuman animals\u201d.<\/p>\n

So, the Zionists were not wrong in thinking that they needed \u201ca mother colony\u201d for their land grab, the one whose genocidal ideology is aligned with theirs.<\/p>\n

As a matter of fact, at the start of Israel\u2019s latest genocidal onslaught on Gaza after 7 October, a clipped videotaped speech of the then US Senator Joe Biden<\/a>, a member of the US Senate Foreign Relations committee in 1986, went viral in the social media. The freshly minted Senator from Delaware was extolling the virtues of the existence of Israel in the Middle East. In his own words, \u201cwere there not an Israel, the United States would have to go out and invent one, to protect her interests in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n

He proclaimed that the US financial support for Israel was \u201cthe best $3 billion (per year) investment\u201d that the US has ever made. Apparently, Biden sees the other side of the Zionist coin: the US needs a surrogate child in the Middle East, and Israel fits the bill.<\/p>\n

Washington\u2019s financing is just one of numerous ways the United States has enabled Zionist Israel to carry on with its genocidal settler colonial project. It will take only a cursory glance at the history of the vetoes<\/a> used by the so-called Perm-5 (5 veto-wielding member states) to see how iron-clad the United States\u2019 backing of Israel is. Against the overwhelming global consensus, the US as the preeminent imperialist power has long assured its parasite in the Middle East that \u201cwe have your back\u201d, as the self-proclaimed Catholic Zionist President has repeatedly and publicly told Netanyahu\u2019s coalition government of Messianic Fascists of various hues.<\/p>\n

Last week, the Associated Press headline reads, US vetoes widely supported resolution<\/a> backing full UN membership for Palestine . Yesterday, the United States Senate<\/a> passed with a overwhelming majority a bill that will give Israel $26.3bn additional funding ($60.8 bn for Ukraine \u2013 against Russia and $8.1 bn for Taiwan against China).<\/p>\n

The Council on Foreign Relations<\/a> published a research article \u201cU.S. Aid to Israel in Four Charts\u201d (dated 11 April 2024) which estimated at $300 billion as the total amount of US funding to Israel since the latter\u2019s founding in 1948. That didn\u2019t include the latest round of aid \u2013 $26.3 billions allocated in the newly passed bill, which the Zionist President of USA is expected to sign into law soonest.<\/p>\n

The opening paragraph of the article reads, \u201cthe United States was the first country to recognize the provisional government of the state of Israel upon its founding in 1948, and it has for many decades been a strong and steady supporter of the Jewish state. Israel has received hundreds of billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid in the post\u2013World War II era, a level of support that reflects many factors, including a U.S. commitment to Israel\u2019s security and the countries\u2019 shared foreign policy interests<\/a> in a volatile and strategically important part of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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See \u2018You have been warned\u2019: GOP senators caution ICC over Israeli arrest warrants \u2013 Live Updates \u2013 POLITICO<\/a> , 5 May 2024<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Genocide or not, popular at home or worldwide or not, the imperial mother-country of Pax Americana, both the incumbent Democratic President and the Republican minority, have fully and unconditionally backed Israel and its Zionist genocidal landgrab over 75 consecutive years.<\/p>\n

As antithetical to the Jewish values of truth, peace and love, the non-practicing Jewish forefathers of the early Zionist movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries got their strategy right: adopt a mother colony, if your biblical nation-building is envisaged as the one involving colonial genocide, crimes against humanity and land theft.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>A Buddhist humanist from Burma (Myanmar), Maung Zarni is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>, former Visiting Lecturer with Harvard Medical School, specializing in racism and violence in Burma and Sri Lanka, and Non-resident Scholar in Genocide Studies with Documentation Center \u2013 Cambodia.\u00a0Zarni s the co-founder of <\/em>FORSEA<\/a>, a grass-roots organization of Southeast Asian human rights defenders, coordinator for Strategic Affairs for <\/em>Free Rohingya Coalition, and an adviser to the <\/em>European Centre for the Study of Extremism, Cambridge. <\/strong>Zarni holds a PhD (U Wisconsin at Madison) and a MA (U California), and has held various teaching, research and visiting fellowships at the universities in Asia, Europe and USA including Oxford, LSE, UCL Institute of Education, National-Louis, Malaya, and Brunei. He is the recipient of the “Cultivation of Harmony” award from the Parliament of the World’s Religions (2015). His analyses have appeared in leading newspapers including the <\/em>New York Times, The Guardian and<\/em> the Times. Among his academic publications on Rohingya genocide are <\/em>The Slow-Burning Genocide of Myanmar\u2019s Rohingyas (Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal), <\/em>An Evolution of Rohingya Persecution in Myanmar: From Strategic Embrace to Genocide, (Middle East Institute, American University), and <\/em>Myanmar\u2019s State-directed Persecution of Rohingyas and Other Muslims (Brown World Affairs Journal). He co-authored, with Natalie Brinham, <\/em>Essays on Myanmar Genocide.<\/p>\n

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